Before beginning this week’s session I did not know about
the social media platform “Feedly”. Over the week I realized that in a digital
age where there are thousands of news articles posted every hour, a platform
that organizes news in a way that feedly does is very beneficial. Well exploring feedly I worked through the
activities by adding the websites we were asked too, but I also added websites
that were tailored to my interests such as sports. By adding sport websites it
made me realize how much easier it is too see the same articles that I usually
spend 5-10 minutes finding as I half to surf from to site to find them. I found
that feedly nicely organizes all the information you are looking for in an
effort to help you be a more informed reader in whatever topic interests you.
While learning feedly one of the mandatory sites that I added to my feedly and
explored was The Brock News. While exploring the site I found an article titled
“BUSU releases student transit survey results”. I found it interesting that I
came across this article because it is something that affects me greatly. The
article is discussing the debate the Student Union is having in regards to the
transit system and if they should continue charging all students for the U
Pass. The article discussed the results of a recent survey, that I participated
and therefore I shared a special interests with the results and the article. As
well, I drive to campus and therefore have little need for the U Pass that I am
forced to pay for which is another issue this article and survey were trying to
solve. In conclusion, without using feedly I would not have found this article,
which turned out to be something that I shared a great interest in and a topic
that impacts my life in a huge way.
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| Picture of meeting held by BUSU concerning Public Transit in St. Catharines Picture can be found at: http://www.brocku.ca/brock-news/2016/01/busu-releases-student-transit-survey-results/ |
The Article discussed in my blog can be found at: http://www.brocku.ca/brock-news/2016/01/busu-releases-student-transit-survey-results/
Hello Brandon!
ReplyDeleteI am glad to see that someone else has had a similar experience when using feedly and that we share similar interests. I also use feedly as a tool to follow feeds that peak my interests such as feeds that involve sports such as hockey. I also use feedly similar to you in the sense that I also follow the Brock News feed in order to keep up with the latest updates regarding our schools activity. I look forward to reading more of your blog posts in the future. Keep it up!