So Portfolio 1 is just a distant memory, but now its time to start the second. Have you been reading lost of Technology articles? No, feeling a little lazy and jaded. Well instead of rushing around trying to find articles let some of the Technology you have been trying out do the work for you. Some its time to put some of that RSS feed aggregator know how into action using Bloglines. You now have two choices the old version here or the new BETA version here. If you have forgotten how to use Bloglines, shame on you but do not worry here is a weblog article to jog your memory - How to Keep Track of Hundreds of Weblogs And News Articles Each Day. One Other Tip is to check out Yahoo News RSS Search Feeds as they are very flexible and can relate to your topic chosen specifically. (UPDATE - Google News also now allows you to use feeds from searches on their site - go and look here,and go to Google news here, to search and then copy the RSS feed into your bloglines account.)

You will need to publish your public feed account, and once every two weeks write a brief post about the Technology article that you think is most interesting and its relation to the ITGS triangle.

The Bloglines account will also help you as remember you now have a free choice of which Area of Impact you would like to find an article for, and also which area but it must fulfill the criteria of a ITGS article as well. What are the criteria - check your Portfolio Guide for the details. These following areas of Impact have many different facets, and many more than I have listed but will give you an idea into which area you can study and research:-

3.2 Education

• Telelearning: isolated and remote areas; use in hospitals, prisons, retirement homes
• Modification of hardware and software for special needs: voice recognition software, text-to-speech, special input and output devices, Internet resources
• Software in the classroom: science experiments, social studies modelling and simulation, instructional tools and media, computer-aided instruction, computer-aided learning
• School library systems: catalogues, security systems, online research
• Training, tutorials, simulators

• Hardware in the classroom: laptops, notebooks, teleconferencing
• Software in school administration: record keeping, scheduling, Intranets, public information

3.3 Health

• Telemedicine: service delivery to isolated and remote areas
• Electronic health records: privacy, data analysis, public health
• Diagnostic and therapeutic tools: robotic surgery, prosthetic devices, diagnostic software, drug development and marketing
• Medical advice on the Internet or a CD-ROMMonitoring patients
  
• IT solutions for disabled people

3.4 Arts, entertainment and leisure

• Digital art: electronic music, interactive visual art, desktop publishing
• Film: digital actor simulations, characters and animation
• Live arts: digital effects, choreography, lighting, marketing
• New media: DVD, CD, VR, stereolithography
• Broadcast media: digital radio and television, electronic news, magazines and books
• Toys and games: CD or online games, online gambling

3.5 Science and the environment

• Modelling and simulation: digital experimentation, demographic and environmental simulation
• Visualization: mapping
• Data search, collection, processing and analysis
• Forecasting
• Data logging

3.6 Politics and government

• Political process: voting and elections, lobbying, open government and free movement of information
• Government administration: record keeping, tax collection, policy implementation
• Legislation: policy development, enactment, enforcement and analysis
• Police: DNA data collection, video surveillance
• Military: cyberwarfare, smart weapons development, espionage
• Rebel and terrorist use of IT

Don't forget articles from Newspapers - Technology Guardian on Thursdays or Wired are often less biased and give better ITGS articles than those from the Internet. I will need an article choice before the Easter holidays, so you can begin preparing your next portfolio assignment. We will be comtinuing databases and there theory and practice as well over the next few weeks.