... and doubt around these tools. What do you think? Do you use blogs and/or RSS at your organization? Has it been successful? Please chime in! Also see: Blogs in Plain English RSS in Plain English Directory of Learning Tools: Blogging Tools Directory of Learning Tools: RSS Feed Tools ... Many of us techies have been using RSS for years, and you may even run your own blog. This stuff is pretty much ... hurdles to jump before we can get there. What are some of the obstacles we face in using blogs and RSS readers at ...

One of my 3 sessions at the upcoming eLearning Guild Conference in Boston is about RSS and eLearning . So, it was wonderful luck to find a great post from Alex Iskold on the Read/Write Web blog called The Future of RSS . "In short, because of RSS ubiquity it is now a very attractive delivery medium for all kinds of content. However because the basic ... look at RSS today and ask if RSS is evolving into a tool for delivering complex, semantically rich information." Read the entire post if you want a brief primer into the background of why RSS is important to Learning ...

... just don’t get it . We have fantastic tools at our disposal, like blogs, social bookmarking, wikis, RSS, etc. - and many of these tools are free. However, it feels like we’re pulling teeth when we try to make a business case to show the value and possibilities for these tools. To get around this, we’re seeing more grassroots movements take place. Instead of waiting for top-down direction, employees are installing learning 2.0 tools/technologies and ... effect. If you force people to use social bookmarking, they’ll ignore it. If you force them to blog, ...

... that you need to give in the RSS (of your blog) and off you go. There are also some extra features: comment widget (but ... My blog was not fit for mobile use, but now... The last couple of weeks I wanted to redesign my blog into a nice mobile accessible blog. So I thought I would just put in some CSS and make it W3C compatible and here , a method I mentioned in a previous blog post. The only problem was, that I just did not get around to it. But then the ever ingenious Willem Karsenberg got my attention with a post on MoFuse . MoFuse promises to get your blog mobile in 5 seconds.

... seminar that provided students with hands-on experience working with blogs, wikis, Rich Site Summary (RSS) feeds, and ... eCornell Research Blog Latest news about all things related to online learning ... : Subscribe to this blogs feed emagine eCornells Online ... In four graduate-level courses, students completed group projects using an online document creation tool in ... . Analysis illustrated significantly higher cognitive outcomes associated with online document creation and editing tools ...

As background for an upcoming presentation, I wanted to create a page that provides background resources that explain various eLearning 2.0 tools. I immediately thought of the Common Craft videos. I've embedded them below. Are there other good introductory resources? How about for blogs? Social Bookmarking Social Networking Wikis RSS ...

AideRSS looks at a variety of sources of information including comments, technorati, bloglines, icerocket and del.icio.us to determine what posts are generating the most interest. It provides a widget that allows you to show your top posts for month or year. You can see what it thinks are mine in the right column of the blog. I've been creating similar information manually for a while, so it's nice to have an automated support for it. I've not quite figured out how to take a very large list of blogs, e.g., all edublogs, and have it filter those down. It imports OPML, but the ...

... local educational blogs, for example. The use of blogs as a tool to build electronic portfolios has been already ... (sort of Stephens Edu_RSS ) and profiling tools, which help each and every teacher get in real time the information of her ... Blogging about Colombian Education A little space to ... Hello there, After six months of my last post, I finally have online my own website. So, this blog is moving to http://www.diegoleal.org . There (I hope) you will find new and interesting tools. Thanks to Blogger for ...

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Will Blogs, Wikis, RSS, Mashups be Used in Corporate eLearning? : eLearning Technology ... together blogs, wikis, mashups, rss feed together (probably because eLearning 2.0 and web 2.0 often lump them together ... being adopted at a very high rate. RSS and Blogs have much slower adoption. Wikis provide an opportunity for us to create ... ; 0 comments links to Will Blogs, Wikis, RSS, Mashups be Used in Corporate eLearning? Permalink: Will Blogs, Wikis, RSS, Mashups be Used in Corporate eLearning? Bookmark this page ...

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Coming back from my vacation, I realized that I needed to go through a clean up exercise again on my RSS feeds. It ... : Controlling RSS Overload ... Animal House Style Managing Many RSS Feeds The Myth of Keeping Up Personal Learning for Learning Professionals - Using Web 2.0 Tools to Make Reading & Research More Effective My basic ... - Aug. 2006" and "Trying Out - Nov. 2006". When I find a blog that looks promising, I put it into the the farther out Quarantine folder. In other words, right now I'm adding blogs to "Trying Out - Nov. 2006". Blogs that I've collected ...

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With the new Guild website you will find the  RSS feed for the eLearning Insider .  Learning2.0 and the Web2.0 tools that support it are for YOU, the instructional designer, as well.  While its great that you might implement blogs, wikis, and RSS for your school, company, or organization, its even more important that you start using these tools yourself as personal development tools.  Its up to YOU to investigate changing your daily habits and workflow.  How can we expect those that we support to embrace the new tools if we don't use them ourselves? It is truly a shift ...

A new version of ProProfs QuizSchool is available.  New features include: Brand new user interface, completely revamped for ease of use. Social sharing through customizable widgets which allow YouTube-style quiz embedding on any blog, e-learning system, and social networks like Facebook. Yahoo Flick r integration for a limitless image library for quizzes. Interesting aggregate analytics & trends reports, with precision down to a stored snapshot ... question types, quiz types, authentication controls, grading features, RSS feeds & more... ProProfs Quiz ...

David Shenk is using a blog to help him research and write a book on genius . Read his INTRO post. You definitely want this RSS feed . I've annoyed a few people in the past with my rantings on World of Warcraft and other game experiences as tools for learning. And while, perhaps, being a skilled fisherman, leather craftsman, and warrior trained in the art of swords, axes, and bows, in the wonderful World of Warcraft may NOT transfer in the real world... ...it gives me hope that the technology behind WoW can one day be used to help us BE any other professional we may want ...

... writing blogs, using an RSS reader (like bloglines), and/or use social bookmarking tools to support their personal ... that the room was too short. At ASTD TechKnowledge , I did three sessions around Blogging and Social Bookmarking. One was an overview session and the other two were hands-on sessions to learn to use the tools. If you attended one of ... about blogs. Many people were very concerned about issues of regulating the quality of content and security. I'll try ... . Part of the reason that I wanted to do these sessions is that I truly think that these tools are immediately applicable ...

... feeds and concept/tools for RSS aggregation, and THAT is what made the light go on for her. It seems to be different with ... get to the article I will point out a blog that appeared in the same search, Living in a connected world .  They discuss this post as well, however the title of their post caught my attention:  blogging Myself out of a job? Finally, someone else blogging my thoughts: Where do we add value if our potential students can look up almost anything in ... clearly embraced blogging, podcasting and e-learning, so we're trying to change these threats to our traditional ...

We will add your blog and RSS to the Guild Start page and to the Pagecast. Do you like to take pictures? Start a ... Live Blogging is a great way to learn and get more out of your event experience. Tracy Hamilton and Cammy Bean ... presenters (Ignatia/Inge de Waard) has already planned her live blogging schedule . This is fabulous! Scroll down and check ... web2.0 sites. Very cool! At AG|08 this month we are making the live blogging experience a truly LIVE blearning experience for anyone interested in giving it a try. We have selected a few of the most popular Web2.0 tools and some ...

... apcampbell under the influence of epoche Interview with Bee My good buddy, Bee , was just interviewed by Julian Wing of the British Council in Brazil . After talking a bit about her own history with computers and the internet, she had a lot to say about the use of blogs and social networking tools in educational settings. When asked about the future of blogging, she had this to say: Based on what I ... RSS Feeds Comments to this post All posts All ...

Full Circle Online Interaction Blog A place to capture and share ideas and ... multiple web sites, typically via RSS. Aggregation lets web sites remix the information from multiple web sites, for ... . For example, Blogger offers blog software and hosting. This is useful when you dont have your own server or want to ... , structured pace study and self-paced study, tutorial and coaching.â?? - Wikipedia Blog or Weblog - "A weblog, also known as a *blog, is a frequently updated website consisting of dated entries arranged in reverse chronological order so ...

RSS, RSS Reader, Wikipedia, delicious, del.icio.us, blogs. ... thought and a few surprises. More coming on this. The charts below show use of different tools, sites, etc. The key is for the charts is: Darkest blue - daily Medium blue - weekly Light blue - monthly Gray - never Tool Use in Corporations Some things that jumped out at me: Much more blog reading that I expected. 62% read at least weekly. Interestingly RSS readership for "weekly" only adds up to 41%. There's clearly a gap here around the use of RSS ...

... instantaneously, while a slew of new web tools assist us with managing and participating in learning. Let’s take a look at one of those tools: RSS . With RSS I can narrow my focus to an area I want to learn about, track the key ... /magazines articles, blogs, forums, and more. RSS allows me to tap into a live, global, non-stop, river of conversation on my topics of interest, all delivered to my browser, through my RSS reader. This is big stuff (though it is going ... , tagging, social bookmarking, blog search, instant messaging, as well as podcasts, video, and other tools all serve ...

... students with blogs, social networks, and all sorts of other great tools. What I see lacking is the innovative use of ... RSS Feeds Registering For Our Blog Licensing Recent Posts Systems for Supportive Open ... Campus Blog is proudly powered by WordPress RSS and Comments (RSS) . ... Terra Incognita - A Penn State World Campus Blog Weblog for Penn State ... : Wednesday, October 3rd, 2007 at 6:31 am Filed under: OSS and OER in Education Series RSS 2.0 ...

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... chance I get because it's so easy to use and always works. Blogger: I didn't choose my blogging tool, I just took the ... Jane Hart asked me to come up with a list of my top ten tools. Jane has already persuaded Jay Cross to do his (and ... new interface and wouldn't swap it for any cheaper alternative. I particularly like the RSS feeds facility in Outlook. I'm going to include IE7 under this heading, which is probably the tool I use the most after Outlook - the ... from Photoshop Elements. Adobe Illustrator: Still learning this tool, but I'm determined to make it my first ...

MOST POPULAR | RSS | SAVED ARTICLES | REPRINT Tech Connects: Mentoring Tools September ... eCommunity tool, says Ron Ateshian, senior principal learning consultant, worldwide learning systems and infrastructure. This ... threading, wikis, blogs, and the ability to make use of aggregated Web content (a collection of Web feeds available in one ... support for its mentoring program through a Web-based tool that helps with backend organization, such as administration, online forms, and calendar appointments, and even matching mentors and mentees. The company accesses this tool ...