Tag Archives: rss

Cultivate your Personal Learning Network

Posted on May 23, 2011 by Ted Curran

    This post discusses how to build your own Personal (or Professional) Learning Network. Instead of starting by telling you which tools to use, I want to talk about why you would do this in the first place…. This … Continue reading →

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Lost Your Job? Stay Active! Blogging for Professional Development

Posted on January 23, 2010 by Ted Curran

Lost your job? Put down that remote and listen here! Burrowing a groove in your couch is not getting you any closer to that dream job you want. Why not use your unemployed hours to build your resume? I recently … Continue reading →

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Jobseekers! Easy Job Multi-Searching with RSS Magic!

Posted on November 19, 2009 by Ted Curran

When you’re looking for work, keeping up with the online job listings is a job in itself. This tutorial will teach you how to automate your job search so you can quickly scan through lots of fresh, relevant job ads … Continue reading →

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GRUML: Google Reader on your Desktop

Posted on November 19, 2009 by Ted Curran

Image by Sue Waters via Flickr As you may have gathered from my defense of desktop email clients, I prefer desktop apps to webapps any day of the week. Even if the app is powered by a web data service … Continue reading →

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Smart Dumb Phones: Cool Uses for Low Tech Cell Phones (NO iPhone REQUIRED!)

Posted on October 26, 2009 by Ted Curran

There’s no denying that the iPhone has become an amazing tool for taking your internet connected life mobile. However, many of its functions are available to even the lowest tech "dumb phones" on the market. This post will show you … Continue reading →

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Over-Extending your Firefox with Extensions? Use Different Firefox-Powered Browsers for Different Tasks!

Posted on September 3, 2009 by Ted Curran

Everyone loves Firefox because there are so many great user-created Add-Ons that make your web browser into much, much more. Add-ons allow you to customize your browser to make tasks easier. This extra performance comes at a slight cost; the … Continue reading →

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Turn student blogs into an online class community

Posted on August 5, 2009 by Ted Curran

Image by eyesplash Mikul via Flickr I have been interested in using blogging software to create online learning communities for a while now. This last year, I had students start Blogger.com, Tumblr.com, and Posterous.com blogs, then subscribed to all of … Continue reading →

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Offline is the New Online

Posted on June 7, 2009 by Ted Curran

Image via CrunchBase Web 2.0 has beguiled us to forsake our old offline apps and turn to the online cloud for more and more of our data needs. CNET’s Buzz Out Loud podcast proclaimed that “Offline is the New Online” … Continue reading →

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Personalize your homepage with everything you need to see in one place!

Posted on May 7, 2008 by Ted Curran

I use iGoogle (formerly known as Google personalized home) as a way of seeing all of my important information in one place. I have little widgets for my email, to do list, docs, calendar, RSS reader, and my favorite blog … Continue reading →

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