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Entries from October 2008

Task 7: Wikis

October 14th, 2008 · 2 Comments

So Dave Fegemann told me about the pisci wiki when I first started talking to him.  He gave me the idea of taking my normal lab reports and making them wiki-labs.  I’ve used them once so far, and they are awesome.  There have been some small hiccups, but not only does it allow me to avoid [...]

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Task 6: Web-apps

October 14th, 2008 · 1 Comment

Well, I’ve tried a few of the apps on the list and a few more.  There are so many possibilities out there, but there are seldom ones that are exactly what I am looking for.  I found Webspiration, which provides an interesting option for collaboratively grouping things or creating links between things.  If I taught [...]

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Task 5: More Feeds

October 10th, 2008 · No Comments

I normally scour the following feeds: Next-Gin.biz, Penny-Arcade [Explicit!], and Ultimate Coaching and Strategy.  I also found the cool feature where I add the feeds that my friends decide to share.  It is a pretty cool system for sending useful tid-bits without using email.

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Task 4: RSS Feeds and Google Reader

October 10th, 2008 · 5 Comments

So . . . does this remind anyone of old newsgroups.  I guess we call them RSS feeds now.  
 
I’ve dabbles with RSS feeds before.  My class blog even had an RSS feed, but it was never really worth it.  In they end I think they are potentially very useful for being able to aggregate [...]

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