Best Free RSS Reader-Aggregator In a Hurry? Go straight to the Quick Selection Guide Introduction There are many ways to aggregate and read feeds. Desktop readers: [Wikipedia] Many users prefer these desktop programs, which couple an integral browser (usually the IE engine) with feed management. The result is a complete, reader-centric workspace, which can be quite powerful. The "best" feed reader is a matter of individual preference, or even personal taste. No matter which reader you choose, it should give you some way to back up your feeds, preferably as an OPML file. Discussion QuiteRSS is a relatively-new, open-source, cross-platform RSS/Atom news reader. QuiteRSS is versatile, and offers a full set of options. It is is hard to discover some of the QuiteRSS options. Menu bar hint: click the tiny icon at the left end of the tabs bar to see and select the "Show Menu Bar" option. QuiteRSS has a rich set of social sharing options (Email/Twitter/Facebook/... RSSOwl: Compares very favorably with FeedDemon. Web-based readers
Block search indexing with 'noindex' - Search Console Help You can prevent a page from appearing in Google Search by including a noindex meta tag in the page's HTML code, or by returning a 'noindex' header in the HTTP request. When Googlebot next crawls that page and see the tag or header, Googlebot will drop that page entirely from Google Search results, regardless of whether other sites link to it. Important! For the noindex directive to be effective, the page must not be blocked by a robots.txt file. Using noindex is useful if you don't have root access to your server, as it allows you to control access to your site on a page-by-page basis. There are two ways to implement noindex: as a meta tag and as an HTTP response header. <meta> tag To prevent most search engine web crawlers from indexing a page on your site, place the following meta tag into the <head> section of your page: To prevent only Google web crawlers from indexing a page: You should be aware that some search engine web crawlers might interpret the noindex directive differently.
Effective Social Media Practices and Good Online Teaching | Technology and Learning I have this theory that if you are effective on social media then you stand a good chance of being effective in online teaching. How do these two activities go together? Two words: presence and community. The people who seem to get the most out of social media are those who dedicate themselves to being present on their platform of choice. On Twitter, being present means actively (on a daily basis), committing to interact with the platform. The goal to invest in presence and achieve community are also the two hallmarks of effective online teaching. Does investing in presence and community, the two aspects key for both social media and online teaching success, translate to success in residential teaching? How does this argument about the importance of presence and community for social media and online teaching success apply to blended learning? How do you think about the relationship between how we use social media and how we think about our teaching?
Google Reader Link Extractor by Peter Shafer I recently converted from using Bloglines to Google Reader, and one of the problems that I was running into was that my starred item list was growing far too large. I needed to find a way to archive the articles to my delicious account. This link extractor allows me to do just that and more. How it works Just visit the section with the stories that you wish to archive. This can be your starred items list, your shared items list, or any section in google reader with a list of articles. Save the source code to your harddrive and then import it into delicious or your browsers bookmarks. Note, the tag GoogleReader is added to any links you import into delicious. Install it! This bookmarklet only works in firefox. Bugs & Contact Check back here if the bookmarklet is no longer working. License Google Reader Link Extractor was written by Peter Shafer, student developer, in May 2007. This software is licensed under the CC-GNU GPL.
How To Make Boring Content Interesting: 3 Tips From Psychologists Follow this line of reasoning: Students learn what they think about and students think about what they're interested in. It makes sense, right? The question now becomes, what makes something interesting? Think to yourself: what are you interested in? It seems that interest is subjective. I know what your thinking: if all of my students are interested in different things, then getting them to think and learn about the SAME thing will be impossible. You're correct to assume that your students have subjective interests that differ. Why? Because cognitive psychologists have determined the common characteristics of something that is interesting. This article is about how you can make your content interesting.There are three characteristics that make something interesting: 1. If you make your content emotional, then your students will have greater interest in it. Further, if you are emotional when teaching, mirror neurons will make your students emotional and interest will increase. 2. 3.
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Firefox Is Back. It’s Time to Give It a Try. Do you ever feel that the web is breaking? When shopping online for a toaster oven, you can expect an ad for that oven to stalk you from site to site. If you have just a few web browser tabs open, your laptop battery drains rapidly. And don’t get me started on those videos that automatically play when you’re scrolling through a webpage. The web has reached a new low. It has become an annoying, often toxic and occasionally unsafe place to hang out. That’s why it may be time to try a different browser. Mozilla recently hit the reset button on Firefox. “If they don’t trust the web, they won’t use the web,” Mark Mayo, Mozilla’s chief product officer, said in an interview. Now Firefox is back. Most notably, Firefox now offers privacy tools, like a built-in feature for blocking ad trackers and a “container” that can be installed to prevent Facebook from monitoring your activities across the web. Here’s why you should consider it, too. In fact, both Chrome and Firefox have tough security.
50 Ways to Use Twitter in the Classroom Many critics of Twitter believe that the 140-character microblog offered by the ubiquitous social network can do little for the education industry. They are wrong. K-12 teachers have taken advantage of Twitter’s format to keep their classes engaged and up-to-date on the latest technologies. The following projects provide you and your students with 50 ways to Twitter in the classroom to create important and lasting lessons. 1. One of the simplest ways that teachers can use Twitter in the classroom involves setting up a feed dedicated exclusively to due dates, tests or quizzes. 2. Subscribe to different mainstream and independent news feeds with different biases as a way to compare and contrast how different perspectives interpret current events and issues. 3. Set up an interesting assignment requesting that students set up Twitter for education lists following feeds relevant to their career goals and keep a daily journal on any trends that crop up along the way. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11.
How To Export Google Reader Feeds And Import Starred & Liked Items Google is retiring Google Reader, and we just don’t know what to do with our lives – well, our RSS feeds actually – anymore. Fortunately, the grace period before Google Reader goes the way of the dinosaurs gives us ample time to back up our feeds in order to jump ship to an alternative, and Google has provided a simple way to do so. This post details how to export and save your current Google Reader subscriptions so that they can later be imported to any RSS service or app. In addition, we’ll also show you how you can back up the items you’ve ‘starred’ in Google Reader for later access. Export Your Google Subscriptions Head over to Google Takeout’s Reader section. Wait for Takeout to estimate just how much data you have that needs to be exported. Import Google Reader Feed To An RSS Reader With Google Reader gone, you will have to move on and find either a desktop RSS reader or another online service to fill the gap. Extract the archive that you downloaded from Takeout. starred?
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