" /> Office of Educational Technology News: September 2006 Archives

« August 2006 | Main | October 2006 »

September 11, 2006

A podcast on Emerging Technologies for Teaching

Faculty Tech Studio is a podcast from Elon's Center for Teaching and Learning. The creators, Tony Crider and Megan Conklin, are CATL scholars at Elon who produce this cast monthly to discuss emerging technologies used for teaching at the college. It is only 2 episodes old but worth a listen.

September 05, 2006

Live Bookmarks, Stay Informed using Firefox

Browsers have always allowed you to bookmark your favorite web sites. Now browsers like Firefox allow you to create a live bookmark of site feeds so that you can quickly go to the newest content of the sites that you care most about.

A site feed is a text file that allows a webmaster to share new content with an audience. Site feeds can take many formats including xml, rdf, atom and rss. Site feeds are often referred to as a newsfeed, feed, blog feed, rss or atom.

No matter the format or the name they all do the same thing allow you to get web-based content without having to visit a site.

Learn more about making a Live Bookmark using a new tutorial on the subject.