Short report from Heather on the Tasedge project

Short report from Heather on the Tasedge project

Hi folks,

How do you keep track of when changes have been made to this site or other blogs etc?

Bloglines is the answer. It is a program that you download and install on your computer that places an icon in your Windows tray that changes when updates are made to the blog. Please note: You must be connected to the internet for it to detect changes for you.

How?
Go to this website http://www.bloglines.com/ and click on "Sign up now" in the middle of the page.
You then need to enter your email address and a password to create an account.
Also change your time zone and language if necessary.
Click on "Register".

Once you have an account, you need to download the notifier for your computer. Click this link to download it http://www.bloglines.com/about/notifier.

Once you have installed the program, sign into your account.
Click on the "My Feeds" tab.
Click on the "Add" link.
Here you just type in the URL of the site you wish to monitor EG: http://tasedge.blogspot.com/
Click "Subscribe".
It will then ask which feed to monitor. Tick the second one. The address ends in "rss.xml"
Scroll down to the bottom and click "Subscribe".
The blog name will now show up in the left hand panel.
You can do the same for other members blogs if you wish.

NOTE: If the icon in your tray has an exclamation mark on it and says "User ID is empty", Right click on the icon, select "Settings" and in the first field "User email", put your email address and click "OK". This should fix this problem.

Thanks to Danielle from Parramatta LearnScopers for this 'how to'
cheers
Frankie

This is a list of our main spaces on the web

Blog – for tracking our learning in general terms and playing around with RSS, vblogging, audio etc
Wiki – in Writely for doing our workshop feedback sheets and for reporting for Elisabeth.
Bloglines - for receiving feeds and keeping track of changes in the blog and wiki and other interesting sites.
Delicious – our tag is Tasedge, this is for adding interesting websites for all to share.
Moodle – this is our old Moodle site and we’re not using it much, just to keep for playing around with features as needed

Frankie

Parramatta College Learnscope 2006

Parramatta College Learnscope 2006

Note: we've been playing around with linking to and copying and pasting in information that is useful to us, from others's blogs. This is from the parramata LearnScopers blog - thanks Danielle. With the cut and paste it didn't lift the grahic only the text.

Be Notified of Updates - Bloglines
Hi ParraScopers,Instead of receiving numerous amounts of emails from us regarding tasks and updates, we will be posting them to this blog. HOWEVER, how are you to know when we have posted? Bloglines is the answer. It is a program that you download and install on your computer that places an icon in your Windows tray that changes when updates are made to the blog. Please note: You must be connected to the internet for it to detect changes for you.

Go to this website http://www.bloglines.com/ and click on "Sign up now" in the middle of the page.
You then need to enter your email address and a password to create an account.
Also change your time zone and language if necessary.
Click on "Register".
Once you have an account, you need to download the notifier for your computer. Click this link to download it http://www.bloglines.com/about/notifier.
Once you have installed the program, sign into your account.
Click on the "My Feeds" tab.
Click on the "Add" link.
Here you just type in the URL of the site you wish to monitor EG: http://www.parralearnscope.blogspot.com/
Click "Subscribe".

It will then ask which feed to monitor. Tick the second one. The address ends in "rss.xml"
Scroll down to the bottom and click "Subscribe".
The blog name will now show up in the left hand panel.
You can do the same for other members blogs if you wish.

NOTE: If the icon in your tray has an exclamation mark on it and says "User ID is empty", Right click on the icon, select "Settings" and in the first field "User email", put your email address and click "OK". This should fix this problem. Thank you Maria for reporting this error to me.
So now every time you are connected to the internet, it will search the blog for any changes and notify you by changing the icon in your tray.

Photo session at Tasedge 2

Frankie and Jean having fun with the new video camera - photo by Janet.

Tasedge vlog session

Janice, Janet and Frankie talking about their vlogging session with trusty camera wielder, Jean Hollis on the 27th June 06