Thing 5 - Reflective practice

There is so much within CPD23 that I realise I am not going to keep up. For me it is more beneficial to spend time looking properly at things and getting familiar with them than to finish by a particular date. For instance “Thing 4”, actually had three things to look at and it took me a while to get used to them and to decide how I could use them and whether it is worth my time. 

Thing 4

Thing 4

I’m now catching up with CPD23 having had a busy summer.

Having signed up to Twitter and given it a try for a while I have found that many of the tweets are actually links to blogs – so although the tweets may be short there could be a lot of reading involved. It is a good way of keeping abreast with what is going on but at the moment I find that reading the e-mail lists I subscribes to occupies enough of my time and fulfils my current awareness needs. I like the idea of the live chats and am glad to have experienced Twitter, I shall certainly keep my Twitter account but for now will not use it regularly.  

RSS feeds are something I have been aware of for a long time but have never used. Following the advice on the CPD23 blog I signed up for them using my Google account. There was the choice of Google homepage or Google reader. I found the layout on Google homepage clearer (iGoogle), though I may change my mind when I have more feeds on there. Although RSS feeds mean more things to look at, it is great  having them all on one page and I am enjoying being able to glance at them and follow any links that look interesting.