Just before I began this ReadWriteWeb course I began learning a bit about RSS Feeds and using them to keep track of a few different sites because our new school website enabled me to subscribe to changes made to it. Then I started following a Wikispaces page that my 8th Graders were working on for a class project so that I could keep an eye on the work that they were doing out in cyberspace where anyone can see what is posted. It seemed like a cool new toy. Now, being required to monitor different blogs for class I can see enormous value in the fact that I don't have to reach out to view numerous different pages that I may or may not have saved in my bookmarks. I love the fact that I can get it all in one place.
Now comes another example of the blurring line between phone and computer... Google Reader on my Samsung smart phone. I love my phone, and I tried to follow feeds with another reader app on it this fall, but it was clumsy. I just installed this app, and it works great. It syncs with my Google account so I don't have to mark items as read twice, and I can easily star items on my phone and come back to them easily later. Now I have one more thing I can do without being planted behind my desk at home, and one more thing I can use to get around our school's blocking of blogs on the network.
A side note... I love the Barcode Scanner too.
Interesting, my QR code reader says the Not Found, Error 404? What was the QR Code suppose to link to?
ReplyDeleteIt's a link to the Google Reader app on the Android Market. I scanned it from the linked blog with ZXing's barcode scanner.
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