Testing BBC RSS Feeds in Blogger

Does this work:

BBC RSS Headlines

Yahoo integrates RSS into email and alerts - RSS everywhere! | Web 2.0 Explorer | ZDNet.com

� Yahoo integrates RSS into email and alerts - RSS everywhere! | Web 2.0 Explorer | ZDNet.com

Al Weiss passed this on to me--I need to explore this.

TSMI's Trade Show Marketing Report: Are Small Bites Enough for Conferee Appetites?

TSMI's Trade Show Marketing Report: Are Small Bites Enough for Conferee Appetites?: "When I first read about Al Gore's latest project, CurrentTV, I didn't really know what to make of it. I wasn't the demographic they were trying to reach, so no big deal to me. It was an easy newsbyte to ignore."

Ties in with our current hope to preach that less is more in terms of video clips in educational contexts. Who wants a full hour and a half of a talking head when you can force the head to consider boiling things down to 2, 3, 5 minutes.

Now we will have to anticipate the ADD generation concern that would pit traditionalists against infobite concerns. That's where an old respected source like Churchill comes into play:

"I once heard, and have often told, the story of Winston Churchill's technique when he wanted to know something from a subordinate. He would contact the person responsible for the topic and say: "Pray give me, by this evening, on one sheet of paper, ..."

brevity is the soul of wit and it ain't bad for the mind either.

More Places "They" Say You Can't Blog

More Places "They" Say You Can't Blog

Ok, so lots and lots of kids are writing and working with new information technologies so let's ban their use. What does the Chinese government and this Catholic School have in common? They would both just as soon totally ban the use of blogs.

WebCT Newsletter

WebCT Newsletter

A sign that WebCT has at least heard of blogs.

Issues in Scholarly Communication: SC News for the UIUC Community

Issues in Scholarly Communication: SC News for the UIUC Community: "ISSUES IN SCHOLARLY COMMUNICATION: SC News for the UIUC Community"

Our own UIUC blog on scholarly communication, which comes out of the Library.

EDUCAUSE | Resources | Resource Center Abstract

EDUCAUSE | Resources | Resource Center Abstract: "A longitudinal extension of the 2004 ECAR study of Students and Information Technology, this 2005 study is based on quantitative data from over 18,000 freshmen and senior students at 63 higher education institutions. It focuses on what kinds of information technologies today's students are using, with what levels of skill they are using them, how information technology use contributes to the undergraduate experience, and what value the use of IT adds in terms of learning. The study also provides a review of and comparison with the 2004 ECAR study of students and IT and the 2003 ECAR study of faculty use of course management systems undertaken at the University of Wisconsin System. "

This is my first blog entry using Blogger for Word

This is my first blog entry written in Microsoft Word and then published using the new Blogger for Word plugin.  This might be a very interesting way for faculty on campus to publish information for students to the web.  Historically, faculty have relied on Word to create content and then had to convert that text into html.  Microsoft’s publish as html history has been spotty at best, typically using too many proprietary options for maintaining formatting, creating web pages that might work great for Windows users, but not for anyone else.  One thing I’ll do with Blogger for Word is test formatting and see how it carries over to Blogger.  Also, perhaps this can be a mechanism for publishing to Illinois Compass, aka WebCT Vista.

http://buzz.blogger.com/bloggerforword.html

[Let’s see if this url above to Blogger for Word actually carries over]

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Robert

Security Awareness for Ma, Pa and the Corporate Clueless

Security Awareness for Ma, Pa and the Corporate Clueless

Winn Schwartau is mad as hell and he's switching his PC for a mac. Funny, but I've been thinking the same thing for about 6 months now, along with millions of others, apparently.

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Prof. Biff

Lanny on Learning Technology

Lanny Arvan's blog on learning technology. He's my boss.

Lanny on Learning Technology

The Becker-Posner Blog

Lanny forwarded this interesting article by Richard Posner, which contrasts the blogosphere from mainstream media on economic and legal perspetives, finding that the blogoshpere should not be regulated as is mainstream media.

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Prof. Biff

The Becker-Posner Blog:
"Blogging, Spam, and the Taxation of Internet Transactions Posner The rise of the Internet has created a host of social, economic, political, and regulatory issues, a few of which we address in this week's postings. (Another, at present under consideration by the Supreme Court in the Grokster case, is copyright infringement by means of file sharing.) One that is naturally near to our heart concerns proposals to regulate blogging, either formally or through voluntary adoption of ethical standards. Many blogs are electronic counterparts of newspapers, magazines, and other advertiser-supported mainstream media, and the argument is that since the mainstream media have adopted ethical standards concerning such matters as reliance on anonymous sources and retraction of errors (with electronic media such as television stations subject to formal regulation), so should bloggers."

Podcast from Educause NLII Conference

I recently attended Educause's NLII conference in New Orleans. They were conducting podcasts, which basically means that they were interviewing attendees and presenters on various edtech topics and then "podcasting" these at the conference. Later, the interviews were made available on the web as MP3 files. In this discussion on keeping up to date with new technologies you will hear outstandingly articulate experts anwers this question!

Iranian Cleric Uses Blog to Reach Out to Citizens

Reuters presented a story today that suggests the power of the simple blog: Iranian cleric and government official Mohammad Ali Abthai uses his blog to speak openly with fellow citizens regarding the Iran's current political dynamic:

Abtahi, 45, a mid-ranking cleric who last year quit his post as vice-president, says he learns more chatting with young people on the Internet than he does in any government report.
"A lot of them criticize the (political) system and sometimes I tell them they are right. I talk to them very freely," he said in an interview at his spartan office in affluent north Tehran.

Free, Cheap, and Wonderful: Photo Story 3

It's not often that Microsoft creates a free piece of software that really shines and has few strings attached. Their new Photo Story 3 is not only free, but is pretty darn easy to use. Best of all, you can quickly take digital photos and create a Ken Burn's style documentary effect such that you begin or end on a key region of a particular image. This can be used to add drama or to focus attention on important information and features in an image, making Photo Story 3 of potential use for educators.