I have noticed than many of you have utilize "Pages" in blogger to post your assignments and utilize the page link toolbar. Though this works just fine, it does however eliminate one often forgotten feature, RSS feeds.
As information on the internet grows exponentially every day, many people resort to using an aggregator to retrieve new information in an organized fashion. A great example is Google Reader. The down side of Blogger Pages is that newly created pages are not included in the RSS feed that your blog automatically produces and therefore not typically included in aggregator services. Thus, people are not directed to look at your blog for new content.
This translates into relying upon a different mechanism for letting someone know you have added or update a page on your blog. Luckily, Dr. Stoner has required a fail safe in the class by using Twitter to serve as an ongoing "go look at my/their blog" tool.
So keep using Twitter to announce new pages or comments for us to read. Another alternative to using pages is to use the post method and copy and paste the url of each post that is an assignment in a customized toolbar.
Just an opinion. Everyone is doing so great and I need to catch up!
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