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| Source: NY Times (Ben Wiseman) |
Today, I want to share an interesting post from Study Successful that talks about a "7 Minute Workout" for the busy student. This post really caught my eye because it relates to my interests. This is because I am a busy student and I also enjoy working out. After reading the article, I learned a set exercises that I can do within 7 minutes (rest time included!). How great is that! A simple diagram to the right illustrates what these exercises are. I will find these exercises extremely useful on days when I do not have time to go to the gym. What makes this even better is that all you really need is gym clothes and a chair!
Thanks to RSS feeds and Feedly, I have now added another great tool that will not only enhance my learning but also my physical health. RSS Feed Readers have really contributed to my digital literacy because it has helped explore websites and blogs that I would not have found or done so myself. For example, Feedly lead me to a great article in the Study Successful blog and through the blog I was lead to a more detailed article in the NY Times. So what RSS Feed Readers does for me is that it helps me navigate the digital world in directions that connect to my interests. In a way, it can also be said that RSS Feeds contribute positively to my Digital Health & Wellness. How is this possible you might ask? Well, if you think about it, RSS Feeds save me the time of going through numerous websites and spending hours in front of a computer browsing content in order to find ones that interest me. This negatively impacts me in a physical manner (spending too much time on the computer) as it can affects me ergonomically and may lead to me building up stress. But as I learned to use RSS Feeds, my search for content relevant to me was made much easier. Now I can just log in to one website (Feedly) and content that might interest me are all displayed on one page in a summarized fashion.
As you may remember, last week I discussed PLEs. My PLE diagram consisted of four sections: Organizing Content, Collaborating and Socializing, Synthesizing and Creating and Practicing Digital Responsibility. I believe RSS Feeds fit very well into the Organizing Content section. As tools like Feedly do exactly that! They extract and organize RSS Feeds into one location. This helps me avoid going into dozens of websites to find content that interests me.
As always, thanks for reading and I hope you will join me next week as I continue to explore tools in the digital world!
Billy
Hey Billy, it's funny that you posted about the seven minute work out article. I actually had the same article come across my Feedly reader. I book marked it and was considering giving it a try after midterms. I also enjoy working out but I find that going to the gym for an hour or so a day (especially during co-op terms on tax season) is just to much for me to handle on top of 10 hour days, especially after commute time, If you do give this a try let me know how it works out for you!
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