Moore Stuff: Bloglining all over the place

Scott Moore has discovered the joy of blogging. Happily, posts and comments on this blog seem to have helped.

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Moore Stuff: Bloglining all over the place:

This tool is very easy to use. I put the Bloglines Subscribe Bookmarklet in my toolbar (right next to the bookmarklet for quick posting from MovableType.

To get started, I mostly just went down Bloglines list of most popular feeds. I then inserted the code into the template for my blog to share my blogroll with anyone who visits. I haven't yet changed the CSS to make this look right, but that'll be fixed soon.

All in all, a very nice setup. I'll post more later about how I'm thinking of using this in my class.

We used a similar setup to what Scott is describing in a distributed learning blogosphere we set up last term. Some pointers on how we used bookmarklets and other tools in our class can be found here. An important issue is that anytime you use bookmarklets (a sort of permanent javascript application that looks like a bookmark and allows you to interact with external websites while you browse other websites) or any other “installed” software is that you can run into coverage issues. Has every student installed the bookmarklet on their own compuer? Is the bookmarklet available everywhere the student might choose to compute?

Bud posted this on January 30, 2005

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