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RSS Discovery Exercise

What do I like about the idea of RSS?

I like receiving up-to-date selected content without the advertisements. Also having selected content coming to me instead of me chasing it.

How do you think you might be able to use this technology in your personal life?

RSS feeds from professional groups would keep me aware of events and trends within my profession. I can view hobby sites when there's new information.

How can libraries use RSS or take advantage of this technology?

RSS can inform libraries of new online courses offered by educational organisations. IT support can be informed of updated software and hardware.

Referencing according to the Online Reference Generator

 

French, J 2002, Natural Control of Garden Pests, 2nd edn, Aird Books, Flemington, Victoria.                 

Slideshare

My experience of uploading the "Big 6" powerpoint presentation was smooth enough but I forgot to view it before sending it out into the world. Oops. I forgot to set the attribution details.  Downloading was harder. At first I couldn't find my powerpoint among 33,000+ other slideshares.  Even after filtering there were too many to find mine. Finally I tried searching Users by my Flickr username and there it was. So here is my presentation.

The information in this powerpoint slide show was contained in webcast "Information Literacy" by Dr Mike Eisenberg". http://uweoconnect.extn.washington.edu/publicmbeinfolit

Big6 from apricot1725

One slideshow I liked was the following. There are many design ideas which we can use in our blogs. I hope you can find something useful here. Some are cartoon images, some text displays, one looked like a photo album, another had beautiful colours. Josie

How to Create Original Blog Post Images to Stand Out and Drive Traffic from Ana Hoffman


Another slideshow reminded me to keep slide information simple and visually attractive. This is because we loose interest when there is too much text on the page/screen. Sometimes a visual can communicate better than text. Josie



 

The Power of Visuals and How to Create the Perfect Infographic from Emma Nemtin