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Widget of Recent Student KidBlog Posts with Yahoo Pipes and RSS Dog
This evening I used the free web service RSS Dog to add right sidebar widgets to a new page of “KidBlog Links” (classroom interactive writing websites) on our school website for Independence Elementary in Yukon, Oklahoma. by Wesley Fryer Several months ago I used Yahoo Pipes (also free) to create an “aggregated feed river” of posts from…
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Using Yahoo Pipes to Create a Single-User Contribution Feed from a Team Blog
The title of this post may suggest these procedures might not be something you’ll discuss over the dinner table tonight, unless your family is a LOT geekier than mine. None the less, it’s possible you might find a wonderful use for Yahoo Pipes in the weeks ahead as I’ve done recently, and this post could…
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Combining RSS feeds with Yahoo Pipes
I’ve known about Yahoo Pipes for many months, but finally found a good reason to use it today. I created a combined RSS feed from the presentations and critiques RSS feeds of the notk12onlineconference.org website, and then created a javascript badge (again using Yahoo Pipes) which I embedded on the left side of the K-12…
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Feedburner Feed and Yahoo Pipe Updated (no longer frozen on Feb 18th post)
A few weeks ago I noticed the Feedburner feed for my blog was not updating. Since changes to my WordPress blog can take awhile, and are “not to be taken lightly” since a mess-up can render my blog inaccessible, I delayed an investigation of the problems creating this situation at the time. Recently my mom…
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Full Text RSS Feeds from Mastodon
Prepare for a “geekier than normal” post: I want to share about a custom GPT I’m trying to build that will extract article link titles, website sources, article dates, and article hyperlinks from a Mastodon account’s RSS feed, and specifically an RSS feed which includes a particular hashtag. I’ve titled my latest iteration, “EdTechSR Podcast…
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Digital Literacy Challenge: Create an Information Filter Bot
Two of the most important digital literacy skills we need to develop and practice today are the ability to effectively filter information and the ability to create algorithms (code) which cause digital pixels to do our bidding. In this post, I’ll describe the steps I followed to create an “information filter bot” over the Christmas holidays…
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Playing with FeedWordPress: Planning for the Classroom Newspaper of Now
Clay Shirky contends what many people perceive as “information overload” in their lives today is actually “filter failure.” Immense quantities of information criss-cross our planet at the speed of light 24/7, so our abilities to effectively filter and purposefully direct flows of information have become important literacy skills. In this post, I’m going to share…
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Quickblogging Options: Comparing tumblr and posterous
One of the most important things we can do as learners, and specifically as educational leaders in our communities, is to SHARE OUR IDEAS. “Quick blogs” are a category of website which is “kind of” a hybrid between a blog, a microblog, and an email service. As far as I know, tumblr and posterous are the two…
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If you like Moving at the Speed of Creativity…
I added the following text to my WordPress header file this evening, so these links now show up at the top of my blog each time it’s displayed in a browser. (This does not show up if you’re subscribed to my blog’s feed, however.) Also check out these blogs: Learning Signs – Eyes Right –…