Tools, Tips and Tricks

Software, References and Links to Web 2.0

Feel free to add your own via comment.

Coffeecup
- Inexpensive RSS/web software packages
feed2js.org/
- Add an RSS feed to your page.
www.feedforall.com/
- Create an RSS feed from your content.
glassr.wordpress.com/2006/10/05/do-i-have-to-bookmark-add-to-favorites-this-site/
- Add an RSS feed to your Optimum OnLine Homepage.
feeddemon
- An inexpensive, windows-based feed reader
Omea Reader
- Free newsreader and bookmark manager
Google Reader
- A good newsreader, but you must sign up for a free Google email (gmail) account to use it.

WordPress.com
- Currently the host site for this the course blogs
Blogger.com
- Googles’s Blog.
Bloglines.com
- Nice site in that it is both a blog site and an RSS aggregator. You can have public (share the feeds you subscribe to) and private RSS feeds. It also allows commenting on the feed articles.

technorati : http://technorati.com. A website that searches for blogs by keywords.

del.icio.us http://del.icio.us/ A social bookmarking website. See what others are tagging; keep track of your own

flikr: http://flikr.com A site to store, search and share images.

digg: http://digg.comA user-driven social website. Content is submitted and voted on by the user community.

blinkbits: http://blinkbits.com Share, locate links, pieces of information, images, blogs, etc.

magnolia: http://ma.gnolia.com Tag, share, organize bookmarks with others.

Williams, Jeremy B, and Joann Jacobs. “Exploring the Use of Blogs as Learning Spaces in the Higher Education Sector” Australian Journal of Educational Technology 2004. 15 May 2007. <http–www.jeremybwilliams.net-AJETpaper.pdf>