Thing 4: Current Awareness, RSS feeds and Storify
Right, this is my teabreak - it'll have to be a quick Thing! (My wifi is down at home, so it's now or never. A whole blog on the android would be a footer, to say the least. "Foo-ter": Scottish for "fiddly".)
Twitter. Ah yes, Twitter. I've got a couple of hundred followers, so I'm fairly au-fait with Twitter, but you're never too old to learn, so I learned about lists, and following other people's. If I follow you - watch out. I now know where to find your LISTS! (I'm @Karenmca, by the way. Yes, I was gratified to get there early enough to snaffle it!)
RSS feeds. Now, I must confess I get a bit confused with RSS feeds. However, I've made a policy decision: from now on, I'll only use the Google one. It's far too confusing using more than one of them! I did set up a couple of feeds to fulfil the Thing requirements, though.
And then we come to Storify. I wrote a story in my lunchbreak, and here it is:-
Musings on Creativity It's a book-review of a book we recently acquired, The Fiddletree, by Otis A. Tomas. But I won't tell you about it here - you'll have to visit my Storify story. It's quite easy to use, and I can see myself using it again. It's rather like blogging one-off blogs, I suppose. Fun.
Your use of Storify to write a book review is a really great idea - I loved how you tied in related material and used your own research work as well.
ReplyDeleteThank you! Although it's not the same as writing a 'scholarly' review for a journal, it certainly facilitates bringing in other kinds of media, and is probably more user-friendly AND more likely to be read by people other than researchers!
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