"You learn something every day if you pay attention"







One day you think that you know everything about the Internet (am I a media student or not?!) and the day after you discover the extent of your ignorance. I will deal in this post with several things that I recently learnt about the web.


  • RSS Feeds


I am a little ashamed of myself but I have to admit that until a few weeks ago, I didn’t know precisely how to use RSS feeds. Thanks to RSS (translated as "Really Simple Syndication"), it becomes possible to distribute up-to-date content (blog entries, audio and video, news headlines...) from one website to many other websites around the world. And it works great !


Here is a short explanation of RSS working principle by the great website www.commoncraft.com


 
  

  • RSS Feeds


      I have always tought that the famous social networking and micro-blogging service Twitter was useless and over-hyped. Though, our english teacher Bob forced us to sign up for an account. I had no choice : I had to figure out how to tweet and re-tweet correctly. So I took this opportunity to really understand what this tool was about. It's quite simple. All the webnauts know its working principle. Twitter users send and read short messages limited to 140 characters or fewer. That's the SMS of the web 2.0. Tweets are displayed on the author's profile page and delivered to the author's subscribers (his followers).



      Then, little by little, I realized how a simple micro-blogging service like Twitter can be used for educational activities. It enables real-time interaction between learners who use it to announce projects, to promote their blogs, to ask their instructor for directions, advices and so on or to discuss their ideas with the others while engaged in classroom activities. To me, this kind of digital tools can change classroom dynamics.

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