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Nice…. “Blogs and RSS- Tools for Creating, Collecting, and Sharing Ideas Online” , presented as a WebQuest:
“Learn about tools that will forever change the way you gather information online and separate the online publishing from the technical hurdles typically associated with running a web site”
This has your basic components of a webquest, a task, [...]

Joe Moxley, English faculty at the University of South Florida created Teaching Wiki, rolling with a good set of examples and specific ideas of how teachers and students might (and are) using wikis:
Teaching Wiki aspires to be a community for college-level faculty. We imagine our primary audience to be faculty who are interested in [...]

Spreading to a blog near you:
1. Grab the nearest book.
2. Open the book to page 23.
3. Find the fifth sentence.
4. Post the text of the sentence in your journal along with these instructions.

Okay, here goes. I have a copy of Clifford Stoll’s Silicon Snake Oil that I picked up for $1 at a thrift store [...]

Maybe people tire of blogging not because of lack of things to write about, but Interface Fatigue?? Back and forth from the MovableType editing screens, wating for those CGIs to pop, makes one s-l-e-e-p-y…
Another stumbling along the blog roads came up with a link to a new desktop editor for MT bloggers- Zempt. I can [...]

And now for something completely irrelevant, but dear our heart (see our blog top tagline):

Found at Red Ferret’s Dog Blog by way of Smartmobs.
But what serendipity again. The Red Ferret Journal is rich with images and cool toys. Better furl it now.
The Ferret is a weblog which looks at gadgets, software, web sites and [...]

May will be “MLX” month. Or “Mad Mad Mad” month. We will be madly tinkering to try and ready an open source version of the Maricopa Learning eXchange (MLX).
It has not been of lack of interest that has kept this from happening, but shortage of time, staff (we are a team of 1.5 developers [...]

“Scissors, Scotch Tape, Post-its, Magic Markers and Colorforms: “LO-Tec” Tools (and Toys) for Creating Learning Objects” has been getting some blog echos [here, here, there...] but once again, I take on the role of Clara Peller and ask, “Where’s the Beef?” When we will stop the endless harping on creating metadata and do something with [...]

We crave feedback, right? That is the tickle bloggers get when there is email notification that someone has posted a comment. That is the reason why we build commenting features into system. It is what we look for in our online courses. It is what sends the blood boiling when spammers use this channel to [...]

Actually, my weekend adventure was not influenced at all by Dan Gillmor’s post One Reason Bloggers Need to Get Out More , but I thought I would not give him credit anyhow
Getting out is good for the mind, soul, and body, so Sunday morning, from our escape hideaway on Strawberry Arizona, I mounted my [...]

Just like wildflowers or weeds, springing up across the net are more services to help you use RSS in your web sites. FeedSweep just came on the scene, in time to help Amy sweep her “webfeeds”:
Anyone that wants to syndicate RSS and Atom feeds on their web sites would be well-served to take a look [...]