Classroom 2.0 Live has been sponsoring a great series of free on-line technology sessions for educators with Sue Waters. Called the Beginner Series, there’s lots of information for you even if you aren’t a beginner. I hope to have time to tune in on Wednesday night. Hope you do too!
Wed September 16, 2009 8pm–9pm (Eastern)Where: [...]
Posts Tagged ‘RSS’
Live session: RSS widgets and Personalised Home Pages – Sept 16, 2009
Google Reader : Tags have feeds
I use my Shared Items feed from Google Reader to drop odds and ends of interesting items on the sidebar of this blog. Handy, but it’s just one feed.
I wanted to be able to create other topical feeds from all the stuff I sift through in Google Reader. One way that came to mind was [...]
ticTOCs Table of Contents Service
ticToCs aggregates the tables of contents of over 11,000 scholarly journals from over 400 publishers. It’s easy to search for journals by title, subject or publisher. From there it’s simple to view the tables of contents and link to the publisher’s sites. If your campus has full text access, you’re all set. Even without full [...]
Updates to Wikispaces
Wikispaces has a fresh new look to their site and has added some new features. And they’re still giving away ad-free wikis to educators.
New:
Create user accounts on your own: If you have an educator account, you can now enter up to 100 usernames (with or without email addresses) and Wikispaces creates user accounts and passwords [...]
RSS feeds for web searches
Most of us have a few (or many!) topics that we do repeat searches on in the big search engines. This might be a research topic you’re trying to keep up to date on, your library’s name or even your own name. An RSS feed for a subject search can save you some time by [...]
