Hanabury+Technology+Portfolio

Interview with a Technology User:
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Personal Use Project:
__Personal Use Reflection:__ For my Personal Use Project I set up my own RSS feed to organize and focus my web browsing. Lots of my close friends have desk jobs, and they spend tons of time browsing the internet at work finding really cool stuff that they then send to me via e-mail. I have mixed feelings about this. First of all, my inbox is always flooded with links to articles from various publications and I have a hard time wading through it all. Secondly, I never feel like I have as much time to surf around and find things so I rarely having anything interesting to fire back at my friends. I like having an RSS feed because it helps address both of these problems.

Now that I have an RSS feed I can browse websites that interest me more quickly, and decide based on headlines what I'd like to read. Plus, all of the sites I like to visit are categorized and organized into folders so that my searches are more focused based on what kind of information I'm looking for. Setting up the feed also pushed me to think about which sites I value the most, and seek out new sources for certain kinds of information like music reviews and food talk. Now I have a place to "bookmark" new sites that i find interesting and would like to add to my feed.

I'm really excited to get my e-mail happy friends acquainted with google reader. None of them are using an RSS feed right now, and I'm looking forward to being able to share items with them via the feed. It felt really good to explain something digital to my boyfriend who is always educating me on new technologies. He had never even thought to explore the "reader" tab on his google account.

Doing this project has exposed me to the benefits of RSS and I now see how easy it would be to use as a tool in my classroom next year. I'm planning to get all of my students set up with a gmail account, so using reader seems like an obvious next step. It will be such an easy way for us to all share information. I'm looking forward to further exploring the uses of this tool over the summer!

Statement on Digital Literacy:
Prezi Link for Kid'Friendly Version: http://prezi.com/77n_fzjcww5u/digital-literacy-statement/ (You may need to copy and paste this into a new window! I've had trouble getting it to go directly.)