Thursday, 30 January 2014

Weekly Report & Reflection Post #3



As mentioned in my previous post discovering RSS feeds have been a great help.  One article that came about today that caught my eye was about the minimum wage in Ontario being increased to $11per hour.  The article dives deeper into the situation analyzing whether or not this will be beneficial for the province or detrimental.  This hike of wages is an increase of 75 cents and is the first increase to minimum pay since 2010 in Ontario.  Premier Wynne explains that Ontario will now join Nunavut to introduce an $11 per hour minimum wage.  With this wage increasing, there is speculation that the amount of unemployment may go up in teenagers and young adults.  

Having this article come straight to my Feedly account is great.  I enjoy keeping up to date with the news of Canada and the world and to have a variety of different newspapers in one location is so easy.  I don’t know how I managed my time before such an organizer.  

That being said, I believe that my reader can be considered an information organization tool in my PLE.  The reader brings in information from a variety of different sources and makes it easily accessible to the user.  What the best part is that the sources can be just about anything from news to blogs and podcasts.  It can almost act as a search engine confined to a set of selected sites.  Finding relevant information to an assignment or paper would be easily found with the use of a reader and proper sources linked to it.  Going forward I can definitely see myself using and maintaining such a tool in the future for both personal and professional purposes.

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