Today I started using Bloglines for the first time and I must confess it is an amazing tool. As usual, I was little bit sceptical at the beginning and on Wednesday I kept on asking myself and my peers about the real effectiveness of a Feeds Aggregator but then I understood that this website could turn into a very useful and irreplaceable instrument for us. In fact, thanks to it we do not waste time on typing in the Urls of our peers’ blogs: we just enter Bloglines and in a couple of seconds we can see if there are any new posts and comments and I really think this is great! Moreover I had no difficulties in subscribing and blogs and playlists are quite easy to insert (I said “quite” because in the lab we work together, in small groups, so it often happens that we help each other and on this occasion, if it wasn’t for my peers’ support I would probably be still there trying to understand what I was supposed to do with Bloglines). Anyway we discussed a bit about the utility of Feeds and Feeds Aggregators and the main point was that we had generally two or three blogs to add so it seemed to be nonsense to throw away two hours in the lab to register in bloglines: wouldn’t it be easier to put those blogs as links in our personal blogs? However we realized that we could made different playlists, give them different names and put in also the blogs we use to read constantly or websites we like to visit and that are daily updated. I guess I will immediately start using this new tool and get familiar with it and see what it offers.
Let me know what you think about it and what were your initial impressions in the lab: I’m looking forward to reading your comments!
Let me know what you think about it and what were your initial impressions in the lab: I’m looking forward to reading your comments!
5 commenti:
Hi Giada,
I totally agree with you that Feed aggregators help us not to waste our time on typing in the Urls of our peers' blog: we can see what they write and when at the same time on the same page on our computers! It's a wonderful thing because time is precious!!!
I managed to suscribe blogs and playlist with the help of Sarah and other peers, too. I think that the work together in the lab is an important help to facilitate doing our e-tivities.
See you soon!
Bye bye,
Letizia
Hi Giada,
I think that all our posts about feeds and feeds aggregators will be quite the same because we all agree that aggregators are a useful tool for our task! As you said in your post, the best advantage of Bloglines is that it is really time-saving! I was a little bit skeptical too at the beginning but then I realized that Bloglines can be very helpful not only for our English course but also for our personal interests, for example if we are used to read newspapers on-line...
See you tomorrow!
Elena
Hi Giada,
When I started the very first two lines of your post, I laughed! Can you imagine the reason?
Well, it’s because you used the word “sceptical”! I mean, you are always sceptical about technology but this time you changed your mind!:-)
Joking apart, your comment mirrors my opinion about Bloglines. As Elena wrote, everybody should recognize the advantages of RSS. By the way, I can’t really understand the functionality of playlists, can you help me? Thanks!
Stefania
Hi girls!
Giada I completely understand you!Like you at first I was a little bit doubtful about feeds and feed aggregators, but thanks to Sarah’s and my peers’ help I realized that it can be a very useful tool in order to save time in looking if there are updates both in your peers’ blogs and in your favourite websites! Moreover, I agree with you that it was easier for me as well to do the e-tivity in class because otherwise I wouldn’t have been able to understand how to create feeds on my own, as I feel a little bit clumsy in having to do with technology!
By the way, thank you Giada for telling me that you couldn’t open the websites I put on my last post! I actually noticed that I couldn’t open them and it is not a problem of your computer! ;-) Maybe I did something wrong in copying the urls..sorry! Don’t worry I’ll give you the websites:
-this is the one about the dictionary of special words: http://dictionary.reference.com/wordoftheday/
-and this is the one concerning the quotes of the day:
http://www.quotationspage.com/qotd.html
have fun!:-)
Bye!
Hi Giada!
I agree with you and I'm happy that your scepticism on technology is leaving your attitudes.
However if you're not fond of technology tools like bloglines help you to finish your e-ctivities quickly!
See you soon!
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