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The 12 Best RSS Reader Apps to Follow Your Favorite Blogs, Sites, and Feeds

When you want to follow specific writers, publications, and channels—to see every piece of content they publish—nothing beats an RSS reader app. RSS apps access web feeds published by websites, letting you aggregate and curate content you care about. Instead of visiting multiple sites, just open your favorite RSS app to see all new content in a central source. How RSS feeds can boost your productivity If you're still looking for a replacement for Google Reader, or you're just ready to start experiencing the web chronologically, check out the following five free RSS reader apps that keep you up to date. Want to look at posts from your favorite social sharers in your RSS app alongside the blogs and channels you follow? What makes a great RSS reader app? For over a decade, Google Reader was the gold standard for RSS apps—at least until July 2013, when Google abruptly stopped supporting the tool. But it's not all bad news. The 5 best RSS reader apps Best all-around free feed RSS reader

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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.

A Guidebook for Social Media in the Classroom Is Social Media Relevant? Take the Quiz Before we talk social media, let's talk about the relevance of social media by taking a quiz. Which of the following is most likely to be true? ☐ Should we teach letter-writing in the classroom? Kids need to write letters and mail them. 1.1. Python scientific computing ecosystem — Scipy lecture notes 1.1.2. The Scientific Python ecosystem Unlike Matlab, or R, Python does not come with a pre-bundled set of modules for scientific computing. Effective Social Media Practices and Good Online Teaching 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.

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. Scientific Computing Tools for Python — SciPy.org SciPy refers to several related but distinct entities: The SciPy Stack, a collection of open source software for scientific computing in Python, and particularly a specified set of core packages.The community of people who use and develop this stack.Several conferences dedicated to scientific computing in Python - SciPy, EuroSciPy and SciPy.in.The SciPy library, one component of the SciPy stack, providing many numerical routines. Core Packages Python, a general purpose programming language. It is interpreted and dynamically typed and is very suited for interactive work and quick prototyping, while being powerful enough to write large applications in.NumPy, the fundamental package for numerical computation. Other packages

The Role of Social Media in Education Social media has gained credibility over the years as a trusted source of information and platform where organisations can interact with audiences. We are seeing education institutions adapting these developments into their systems and relying on group resources and mechanisms to improve the student life. The use of social media in education provides students with the ability to get more useful information, to connect with learning groups and other educational systems that make education convenient. Social network tools afford students and institutions with multiple opportunities to improve learning methods. Through these networks, you can incorporate social media plugins that enable sharing and interaction.

TIOBE - The Software Quality Company TIOBE Index for February 2020 February Headline: Objective-C on its way out Objective-C lost this month another 7 positions in the TIOBE index, thus being on the brink of slipping out of the top 20. Actually this drop took much longer than expected. 25 Awesome Social Media Tools for Education Connecting with each other comes to us more easily now that we can just tap away on a keyboard and chat with a person who lives over 3000 miles away. Finding information knows no boundaries with Google on every computer in the world. As educators, this means access to more, faster, which is thrilling and mindboggling. However, it can also be frustrating and confusing with so much to choose from.

The future is looking bright for Python – Thomas Stringer – Medium Stack Overflow recently released a cool new tool called Trends. This tool allows you to compare Stack Overflow question tags over the course of years. I think the idea behind this tool is the correlation that “the more people ask questions about ThingX, the more that ThingX is being used”, where “ThingX” is anything from a language, OS, framework… whatever. Conveniently enough, Stack Overflow also gives a few “preset” graphs in case you’re lacking creativity at that moment. Check out the Most Popular Languages trend chart. Wow, that’s… noisy?

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