BLOGS Bookmarks

BLOGS Bookmarks

BLOGS Bookmarks

BLOGS Bookmarks

Software based. Most are free. eg Feedreader Some deliver content to your email eg NewsGator Web based – Personalised Start Pages on your internet browser eg iGoogle, Netvibes, Pageflakes, My Yahoo

Either Use iGoogle without a google account (machine specific) Use a Google account to sign in to iGoogle (can be viewed on any machine)

(25000 gadgets available!) Useful Weather Bookmarks Dictionary/thesaurus (Ask a word ) Wikipedia

Education Lesson Plans Quotes Word of the Day Wikipedia Youtube Promethean

Tabs

Moving your gadgets Grab handle and drag

Editing your gadgets Drop down Menu

Editing your gadgets Options

News Magazines Blogs Del.ico.us Youtube TV Guide School Newsletters Picasa Web Albums

Many sites contain RSS content you just need to know what it looks like.

In my blog the RSS feed looks like this!

In Internet Explorer 7 the RSS button changes colour to indicate that there is a feed on the page

In Mozilla Firefox the RSS button pops up in the address bar

Open a second browser Google :Discover Magazine Click on the RSS tab Left click on the feed

Locate the RSS icon or the word RSS on the page Click on the feed want and you will get a page that looks like this…

Copy (Ctrl C) the URL in the address bar Cut and paste the address in the browser.

Paste (Ctrl V) the URL in the feed box. Cut and paste the address in the browser.

News www. theaustralian.news.com.au/ Naked Scientist www.thenakedscientists.com/ Magazines www. newscientist.com Blogs www.cyberspaced.blogspot.com School Newsletters eg Unley High School

Podcasts published to the web also generate XML RSS feeds. Podcatching software downloads the latest podcast episode automatically.

Most popular free cross platform software iTunes (very commercial) Juice - formally iPodder (open source)

Equivalent to an on-demand radio or TV show. Can be listened to on portable devices. Can be copied, shared or archived. Can be used in the classroom.

The Naked Scientist 60 Second Psych Scientific American - 60 Second Science

Dr Carlson’s Science Theater (physics) Ecogeeks (biology) NOVA vodcast (science) eg atoms ABC Catalyst

Most popular free cross platform software iTunes (very commercial) Juice - formally iPodder (open source)

START  All Programs  Media  Juice

Example : ABC

Vodcasts.tv

podcastdirectory.com findpodcasts.com Many search sites !

Use the google search function Specify “filetype:xml” Eg: to search for the gruen transfer…

Depends on your internet speed.