The NewsinChinese blog grabs Chinese Xinhua News Agency‘s RSS feeds, and employs an automated script to give on-the-fly “mouse over” translation. Cool! Check it out 😉
Documents for 10th Edublog Workshop
Thanks for all the feedback given, it’s a great learning experience for me to hear from all of you 🙂
Just to recap on the things that we have done:
Part 1: Overview and hands on blogger.com
This is the part we spent quite some time on and many of us were able to follow. Blogger.com is but one of the many freely available platform to create a blog.
Part 2: RSS and bloglines.com
Bloglines.com is an online RSS reader that can assist us in monitoring updates in blogs. (Note: this is not blog creation)
Due to time constraint and the design of the authentication process, a hands-on wasnt qutie possible. Do try to follow the user guide and you should be able to setup an account.
For a start, you can try to subscribe to the blog that you have created on Friday. Post something new, and see it being ‘highlighted’ in bloglines. That should give you a feel of how it works.
Last but not least, here’s the softcopies of the presentation and documentations:
1. Presentation slides
2. Blogger.com HOWTO
3. Bloglines.com HOWTO
Hope you’ll find blogging a useful tool, cheers 🙂
10th Edublog Workshop @Qifa Primary Sch
It’s break time now, we (abt 31 of us) are all blogging away (on blogger) for the past hour 🙂
After this break, we’ll be looking at Bloglines.com, an indispensible tool for teachers 😛
Time to go for my break too! *hmm* if only i have brought my sd reader …
MS-Powerpoint slides on Overview of (Edu)blogs
Just compiled some slides for use if there is a need to present a quick overview of blogs and edublogs (blogs in education).
If you need the presentation, grab it here.
If you want to distribute it as handouts, grab the pdf file here.
Feel free to modify for your own needs 😉