I've enjoyed the brief time spent so far researching blogs and the specifying of specific details/updates using RSS. While blogs may sometimes contain author opinion, this is usually based on the author's research and/or personal experiences and have a level of trusted data/information at their core that can be helpful and useful to blog subscribers.
Visiting my Reader page has turned up a couple sources of new information that I believe will be helpful as I am working on future project plans and scope at MSU. I will be spending additional time on filtering current subscription sites, and better searching for sites that are of interest and use to me. By identifying useful sites up front, this can provide timely articles and information and lessen my need to perform large search efforts through the Web.
My Blog comment/response is listed below, on the need to take the time to consider all factors that impact the ability to accurately perform software testing and instruct end users on how to best interact and use the software:
I have reviewed my RSS feeds over the past ten days.
ReplyDeleteFor the RSS feeds added as part of the assignment, I've placed them in two categories: (a) Those sites that have relevance to Education Technology, but the amount of entries/current postings are low (e.g., EduTech Today, NCTE, Weblogged) and those that have less of an educational focus (NPR site), but have many posts on varying topics.
Which category do I prefer? Neither of them. I prefer RSS sites that are both relevant to the subject area I desire, and have frequent postings for me to review.
As noted in the instructions for this assignment, users need to carefully search for RSS feeds that meet their needs. Otherwise too much time may be required to search and find applicable articles/postings.
I added a few technical RSS sites, including a blog and RSS related to software testing (which is a major part of my current job), and have found the blog is regularly updated with helpful and insightful posts. The RSS feed has a couple of nice articles, but I had to search articles that were posted over several months in order to find ones with interesting/useful information. A couple of RSS contained some suggestions that I may pursue with my upper management team.
"Ask The Guru" is my Radio Show RSS
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