Below is a button from Bloglines for my blog. However, I don't understand its purpose as it doesn't link to my feeds.
Oh well, time to move on to other things. I have added more feeds to my Google Reader aggregator. It has been fun and informative to look at recent blog postings, baseball updates with the pennant race this weekend, and business education and finance sites. I can see where my students could make great use of RSS in Financial Life Skills. Keeping current on particular companies, industries, and economic news should be highly engaging and make for great class discussions. I was amazed that students at North have a feed sidebar. I tested the feeds at school this morning, using a student log-in, and was amazed that there were no filter or blocking issues. I was pleased to see how easy it will be for my students to add feeds and then read them. I know they will love this as we start our stock market simulation.
I have been frustrated with creating my wiki so far. I tried Wikispaces first but was not happy with the way in which graphics and formatting were added and modified. Next, I tried PBWiki, knowing that we have had good results with it in our Stritch program so far. However, as I attempted to build it this evening, the site became inaccessible as Firefox claimed there is a site or server problem. I will try again tomorrow but I was all fired up to get the wiki going. I have many ideas of what to add to my NorthFLS wiki and want to try it out.
Speaking of frustrations, I also lost the last section of our research paper for this week. For some reason, Google Docs was unable to save my work. I did save what I had in a Word document but still lost the ending. I think the best approach to take for this problem is to write and save a document in Word, then copy and paste it into Google Docs. No doubt Google Docs is great for its collaboration abilities, but it still is online and may have occasional connection, server, or saving issues.
2 comments:
Hi Jim, I tried your Blogline icon and it led me to the Blogline login screenso perhaps it works after all. I, too, liked google reader better, and maybe it was that I understood the directions better. It does work nice.
In response to your question as to how much time I spent on the cake decorating sites...Too much!! I was looking for cake ideas for an upcoming cake and one site led me to a lot of pictures, as well as links to other sites. It's amazing how many cake decorating sites are out there with RSS feeds. It seems every cake decorator in the world out there has one and wants to publish on their blogs or commercial sites!!
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