Week 7
Monday * * * Oct. 5
READ Beckett (entire book); see Books
DUE WRR&DQ 5 (see Required Work)
Presentation (by TK).
Wednesday * * * Oct. 7
Discussion of Beckett.
Tips about your book review (see Required Work).
Presentation: Online searching tips, RSS readers, Delicious bookmarks.
Links * * *
We will look at these three sites/tools in class. You do not need to open these links in advance.
1 > Google Reader RSS feed reader
- An introduction to RSS
- How to be an Authority Maven: 21 Tips for Keeping Up to Date in Your Niche
- New York Times RSS Feeds (index page)
2 > Delicious social bookmarks
3 > Twitter "microblogging"
- The Several Habits of Wildly Successful Twitter Users
- 1,000 Followers on Twitter
- The New York Times on Twitter
4 > The 2009 elections in Iran demonstrated how savvy Internet users use/d Twitter, Flickr, YouTube and other social media sites to follow the news -- on a day when CNN was apparently out to lunch!
Notes * * *
What should you be doing now? Read the book that I approved for your book review! The book review is due Monday, Oct. 19.
DO NOT change the book. You must review the book that you submitted and I approved.