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QuickStart Guide: RSS and RSS Feed Readers

Posted on March 11, 2009 by Angel Brady

This QuickStart Guide discusses the web 2.0 feature of RSS and RSS feed readers. RSS (Really Simple Syndication) is a family of web feed formats used to publish frequently updated work. It’s a great way to get the latest headlines … Continue reading →

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QuickStart Guide: Local File Management with Mendeley

Posted on March 11, 2009 by Angel Brady

Mendeley is a free cross-platform tool that helps you organize, manage, and share your research papers (in PDF format) on your computer and via a web interface. This tool allows for you to index your PDFs from your computer in … Continue reading →

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QuickStart Guide: Social Bookmarking

Posted on March 11, 2009 by Angel Brady

This QuickStart Guide will discuss the web 2.0 idea of social bookmarking. Social bookmarking is a way for internet users to save, store, organize, and share webpages  and internet resources with others. You can use meta data (tags, labels) to … Continue reading →

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QuickStart Guide: Annotation on the Web with co-ment

Posted on March 11, 2009 by Angel Brady

co-ment is a web service that allows for you to write or upload text to the site, allow others to comment on the text, then the users can review the comments and edit the text according to the feedback. It … Continue reading →

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QuickStart Guide: Creating Clips of Real Video Files

Posted on March 11, 2009 by Angel Brady

This QuickStart Guide guide will go over how to create clips of RealPlayer Videos in your Blackboard course. This is a nice feature in case you would like to highlight a certain part of a film while in class or … Continue reading →

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