Over at Learning Circuit Blogs, Clark Aldrich pulls out the stereotyping brush and paints large swaths of badly mixed paint in “Schools hate businesses, businesses hate schools”. I will not even dignify it with a pull quote, but please jump in on the comments and send the guy some light as he is lost. Yechhh. […]
A conversation overheard in my inbox as Thuunderbird chomped through the latest flux of meaningful email: Filters: “Smell that?… Do you smell that?” InBox: “What.” Filters: “Spam, son. Nothing else in the world smells like that… I love the smell of spam in the morning… Ya know, that gasoline smell… It smells like… victory.” Just […]
I only spent 15 minutes at FeedDigest “Making Your Feeds Fabulous” but its got a whole lot of “oompf” potential if you are trying to do more with using multiple feed sources. More or less, you create a “digest” that you can then mix in a few RSS feeds, and Feed Digest provides a whole raft of ways you can re-use the mixed up content.
Somebody up north may want to crank up their aggressiveness 😉 Inside joke.
Not feeling very creative, I whopped up a CogDogBlogest a mix of my WordPress blog feed, my del.icio.us feed, and my flickr feed. Ho hum. I get a RSS URL:
http://app.feeddigest.com/digest3/VGE7KGLMJ8.rss
But there are ways to customize the output with some pre-made and editable templates… and you can then resyndicate to your own sites using JavaScript, PHP, and some other tools.
I’m trying to give James a hand at bumping up the number of new sites at Edublogs.org by a factor of 10. I emailed a message to our distribution list for our Ocotillo Online Learning Group letting them new this was available. I’ve heard more people talk about, or actually try blogging in all of […]
The recent T.H.E. Journal article 20 Technology Skills Every Educator Should Have has already bounced around the blogs I scan, many with some strong opinions about the value or lack value in such a list. The Edtech Posse Podcast #3 gave it a thorough roundup, and I concur with their skepticism about such lists which are narrowly focused on tools rather than the craft.
I am not writing strictly about the list but cannot resist a few barks… When it first passed through my feed reader I passed up looking deeper– Come on, is it truly essential to know how to use a Zip disk? I have a whole drawer full of dusty zips. Much of the “skills” listed are going to have a shelf life of maybe another year or two.
What is more important are the skills in being able to re-skill oneself or to move away from “mastery” to knowing where to find fellow practitioners. There was a gaping hole in terms of the social networking tools, the personal creation tools, the information consumption skills that are to me much more important, much more relevant now than how to create a spreadsheet to average numbers.
As summer winds down and the school year ramps up, I’ve been trying to refine a bit of the Small Technologies Loosely Joined approach we created last year for our Ocotillo instructional technology initiatives… For those irregular readers, Ocotillo is a faculty led program that attemps to drive technology agendas here, having been around in […]
flickr foto New Toyavailable on my flickr I just got this new camera, a Canon Digital Rebel XT– going back to being a newbie learning a whole new interface. 8 MegaPixel SLR, wahoo! I’ve been saving up my spare change and with some help from sideline consulting, I bought a new digital camera, this Canon […]
It was getting tedious, even with my own multi-site bookmarklet tool, to load web sites I have scanned into both furl and del.icio.us— especially as Firefox seemed to 60% of the time lose track of the Furl content. It’s nothing wrong with Furl, I like the service, and it has most of the hooks I […]
Google is certainly sitting idly by while Yahooo ramps up its personal services. Check out the new Google personal home page, where you can select from a number of RSS sources, or connect your own: This was a quick set up with some of my own feeds, important weather selections, and a few of the […]
AS an FYI, this blog, Feed2JS, and every other thing internet originating at Maricopa will be going offline Saturday July 30, from 7:00 Am to Noon (PST). They are needing to do major electrical upgrades to the main server room, and thus not only are web servers going down, so is email, phone, and internet […]
