A review of this week's sessions

photo by Antelope View

In this week's sessions I learned so many amazing things that make my life so much easier and maybe even more interesting.

On Thursday we had a look at Google News and Google Reader. Well, I am using Google News since a couple of months now and I just love it. What I did not know was that I can personalize my page. Jim showed me a tool that will be incredibly helpful for me in the future as I am using Google News at least four times a week for my small writing and editing job.

The website I did not know was Google Reader. But this again makes my life so much easier. No more random search for various topics I want to read about. Now I have everything on one website. Reviews about Google Reader and Google News will come soon after I will have worked with them for a while.

But also the research tools such as Technorati , journalism.co.uk and Blog Search are fantastic. I did not know that there is so much out there. This will not only improve my knowledge for this module, but help me to do all my other assigments in all theory and practical classes. It will also be useful later when I have to do research for my articles.

Furthermore I realized how amazing blogs are when we had a look at some of them. First I thought, blogs are either online diaries for people who obviously don't have any friends or media and informatic geeks. But there are really professional blogs out there, such as Green Daily, a blog that found a niche market and is now covering green consumerism. Not only the commercial blogs fascinate me, but also some private ones, for example Random Acts of Reality, a blog about a guy's job at the London Ambulance Service.

I enjoy this module so much that I was actually quite sad that I got the afternoon free. What about writing reviews online? Looking at YouTube? Writing comments? Networking? I do not want to miss out information on this one. And no, I do not think that I will get a better mark by only saying the whole module is great. But the only negative thing I have to say about it, is that we do not get taught everything that is listed on the schedule.

This is my third post today and after pressing the "Publish Post" button, I will start writing my opinion piece on busking. This is the first module where we are encouraged to write and write and write. In the other practical modules we wrote not more than five articles - within twelve weeks. I think this is post number ten after three weeks of doing the module. And there are much more to come. I am looking forward to it.