Posted by: ashleytan on: August 27, 2009
I’ve had a Netvibes account ever since Netvibes promised new ways of pulling and pooling content. But I abandoned it a while back when it did not deliver as much as I wished. I have renewed my interest in it because of a helpful comment from a visitor to my blog recently.
As a result of [...]
Posted by: ashleytan on: August 26, 2009
Ever wonder what the RSS feeds of my classes looks like?
I use Google Reader to follow the entries and comments in group blogs maintained by my teacher trainees. I also use Vienna on my Mac to track the total counts or to archive good postings (click image below to view larger version).
I opted to rename [...]
Posted by: ashleytan on: November 12, 2008
The lines between email and other forms of communication are blurring.
Google has added voice and video to Gmail. It has also enabled RSS feeds to be translated into the (popular) language of your choice.
See Google Press release.
Posted by: ashleytan on: October 8, 2008
Bloglines and Edublogs, you let me down! I think you let some of my preservice teachers down too!
I love that Edublogs was set up with educators and students in mind. The fact that it has a WordPress engine was a plus too. This gave it RSS feeds for comments and other conveniences. But Edublogs is [...]
Posted by: ashleytan on: August 7, 2008
I do not know anyone who is obsessive-compulsive enough to read a newspaper from cover to cover. We only read what we are interested in. Likewise, we only visit Web sites that are of interest to us. Wouldn’t it be great if, instead of having to visit these sites for updates, there was a way [...]