This week I added a Feedly account to my ever-growing list of educational resources for me to use along my path to becoming a tech-savvy learner. Feedly, an RSS feed, allows me to add/follow/subscribe to different websites or blogs in any particular area of interest (in my case, technology and education). After playing around with it for several hours and perusing articles and links from those articles, I started bookmarking pages, when I got the idea to add some of these sites to one of my Symbaloo tabs. Also, I downloaded the Feedly app to my iphone, which makes it much easier for me to browse articles and new stories in my free time throughout the day.
One of the first articles I read from my Feedly feed was about Google glass. In one of my other classes we are doing unit studies of 6 emerging technologies, and wearable technology just happens to be one of them. I thought the article was awesome, and sent my classmate who is doing her unit study on wearable technology the link. The article was a blog entry on a teacher's site as she documents her experience with Google glass, so hopefully my classmate will be able to get some good information/experience for her project.
I commented several on several articles I found on Feedly- the one about Google glass on Langwitches, an article about transforming spaces in schools to promote work flow and improve learning on MindShift, and another article on Edudemic about 5 Big EdTech Trends. I checked back a few days later, and while there were additional comments on the threads, no one had directly replied to my comments.
I look forward to building an online identity in these types of education forums, and hope to meet other students and/or teachers that are studying and exploring the same things I am in this Ed Tech world.
