The New Web has brought with it some amazing tools for creating online subject guides. These tools offer the addition of multimedia and multi-format elements such as photos, videos, social bookmarks, RSS feeds, and widgets to traditional resource guides, as well as an interactive dimension which makes them particularly 2.0. Here are a few tools for creating your own 2.0 guides. Got any other ideas for subject guides? Please share them in the comments!
Coming of Age is a free booklet that describes the use of some of the newer emerging web technologies such as blogs, podcasts, wikis, RSS and social tagging in Education. It features case studies and how-to articles by leading practitioners in the world of education
Instantly create an interactive timeline from your Atom, RDF or RSS Feed! Then cut and paste your timeline into virtually any blog or webpage!
Made by the same guy as the "Social Networking in Plain English" video that I found, this tutorial is about RSS
The latest addition to the EDUCAUSE briefing documents about new technologies for educators is finally about RSS.
Where traditional media has printed matter distributed in physical form, television has different channels, and websites have browsers, RSS is distributed through feedreaders. There are a variety of options available - some more popular than others. The following is a rundown of the current most popular feedreaders that are used to peruse Modern Life's own feed.
While this is written for the law audience, it's highly applicable to libraries, schools, and other professional organizations
Webnote is a tool for taking notes on your computer. It allows you to quickly write something down during a meeting, class, or any other time that you have a web browser available.
It's probably best to enter a bunch of the ed tech blogs into a feed aggregator like bloglines or google reader to skim, pick and choose.
This help page is designed to help you set up and use the course iSite's RSS news tool. The RSS tool allows you to enter the address of your favorite website (with XML/RSS functionality) and view the most current articles right on your course iSite
RSS for user "aseldow: rss"
The New Web has brought with it some amazing tools for creating online subject guides. These tools offer the addition of multimedia and multi-format elements such as photos, videos, social bookmarks, RSS feeds, and widgets to traditional resource guides, as well as an interactive dimension which makes them particularly 2.0. Here are a few tools for creating your own 2.0 guides. Got any other ideas for subject guides? Please share them in the comments!
Made by the same guy as the "Social Networking in Plain English" video that I found, this tutorial is about RSS
The latest addition to the EDUCAUSE briefing documents about new technologies for educators is finally about RSS.
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