Tag Archives: WWW

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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A Hack to Give Back: Hack Firefox to Donate to your Favorite Charity's Amazon Store!

Posted on December 3, 2009 by Ted Curran

Image by kevindooley via Flickr Amazon.com‘s AStore Affiliate program pays charities if you search Amazon via a referrer link. In the spirit of giving, here’s how you can replace your Amazon Firefox Search Bar button with the AStore search link … 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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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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Zemanta: Add more information to your blogs automatically!

Posted on February 11, 2009 by Ted Curran

Image via CrunchBase Zemanta is a Firefox plugin that scans your blog posts for keywords, then suggests links, images, and tags to complement your blog. It’s super easy and free. Check it out! Related articles by Zemanta Zemanta, using shared … Continue reading →

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