Week #5 – Catch Up Week

Per the suggestion of Justa Person Pondering, let’s play catch up this week.  We’ve all been very busy.  But this gives me time to catch up on other projects, view or comment on your completed activities, and work on our topics for later weeks.  Now is the perfect opportunity for you to complete activities for [...]

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Week #4 – Flickr

Flickr is an online photo sharing site that allows users to tag, upload, and share pictures.  As you will remember from our previous lesson, a tag is a keyword.  Tagging is the process of assigning tags to content, for retrieval at a later date.  You can also browse collections of photographs submitted by others.  The [...]

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Week #3 – Social Bookmarking

When you organized your office files or DVD collection, you probably assigned one or more keywords to them, to allow you to easily locate items when you needed them in the future.  Guess what?  In the online world, that systematic process is called tagging.
A tag is a keyword.  Tagging is the process of assigning tags [...]

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Display RSS Feeds On Your Blog

In Blogger:

Log in to your account.
Click layout.
Click add a gadget.
Scroll down to Feed.
Click the plus sign.
Enter the feed URL.
Click continue.
Indicate the number of items to display and any additional options.
Notice the preview of how the RSS feed will appear.
Click Save.
Notice the RSS feed now appears under the list of gadgets.
Click view blog.

In WordPress:

Log in to [...]

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RSS Feeds for Local News

For local news, you might want to add the following RSS feeds:
Monticello Live
http://www.monticellolive.com/feed/
Advance Monticellonian
http://www.mymonticellonews.net/?rss=news/local_news

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Week #2 – RSS

Have you ever noticed that orange icon [  ] with squiggly lines when you were reading a website, blog, or journal article?  Guess what?  That icon is an RSS feed that allows you to subscribe to content.  Why would you want to subscribe to a blog?  For folks like me who read and monitor [...]

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Participant Blogs

Wow!  Two participants jumped right in and completed the activities for week #1.  Your blog can be included in this list too.  So, what are you waiting on?
Participant Blogs:

Notes From Paula
Training Blog For Web 2.0
Kay’s Krafts/Hints
Number 1 Book Reader
Justa Person Pondering
Book Model
Brandi’s Reflections
Vincent’s Visions

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