Category: blogs
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RSS-Mix
The concept of RSS feeds is an essential topic for every educator. Will Richardson has a great 11 page “RSS QuickStart for Educators” (downloadable PDF) that can be used as a workshop resource, along with a great list of helpful RSS links: www.weblogg-ed.com/rss_links The RSS Mix website (www.rssmix.com) looks like a super resource for combining…
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Blogsieve: Creating a feed river
I have been thinking about wanting/needing this tool for several months, and apparently an innovative team of programmers have now created it: Blogsieve (www.blogsieve.com). The concept is simple: you have multiple RSS feed sources that you want to monitor, but you want to receive / read / download them as a single stream. This could…
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Who wants to own content?
Jeff Jarvis’s post on “Who wants to own content?” is Web 2.0 poetry. Consider this quotation: Content is transient, its value perishable, its chance of success slight. You think your article or book or movie or song or show is worth a fortune and in a blockbuster economy, if you were insanely lucky, you could…
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Really impressive teenager blog
Jake Jarvis maintains the most impressive blog I have ever seen entirely created by a 13 year old (www.jakejarvis.com). His dad maintains the well known blog buzz machine (www.buzzmachine.com) and undoubtedly has done a lot to help Jake develop his own digital literacy skills. Jake evidently plays a major role in The Ultimate Learning Center…
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Free WordPress blogs for educators
Are you an educator and looking for a free place to host a WordPress blog? Check out http://edublogs.org. WordPress blogs have many advantages over other blogging services like Blogger, although Blogger is continually improving. As an example, Blogger now supports uploading photos directly to your blogger account without using another service like Flickr. This is…
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Legal Guide for Bloggers
EFF’s “Legal Guide for Bloggers” is an excellent, free resource anyone involved in blogging should read and be aware of. Bloggers seem to make it in the news most often by getting into trouble. Some of these cases seem to involve a lack of basic common sense, like people bad-mouthing their employer on company time…
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Blogs will change your classroom
The May 2nd cover story of BusinessWeek magazine was titled, “Blogs Will Change Your Business.” The end of the tagline is particularly eye catching: “Catch up…or catch you later.” This article could easily be retitled, “Blogs will change your classroom.” And subtitled, “Podcasts will change your classroom.” Think I’m exaggerating? Check out the New York…
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RSS and Blogs are here to stay
Lots of technologies and fads seem to come and go. I wouldn’t put RSS and blogging in those categories, however. The article “RSS feeds future revealed” is right on target, in my opinion. The term “RSS” is still relatively unknown, but you just have to look at what heavyweights like Yahoo and MSN are doing…
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What is RSS anyway?
Lots of people seem to know about spam and blogs these days, but many do not know about RSS. KBCafe has posted a good explanatory page about RSS/XML links that may be helpful to share with others. As a related aside, kbcafe.com is a “meta RSS search engine.” If you are familiar with a meta-search…
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Elgg: an integrated open-source CMS / LMS
Elgg (http://elgg.net) is a cool, open-source content management system (CMS) / learning management system (LMS) environment that offers an integration of many read/write web technologies. These include blogs, social boorkmarks, and wikis. The main limitation I see is that this community would be limited by those using Elgg– the community using del.icio.us for example, is…