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Why Twitter is great in the classroom. A great article with a nice set of videos and some good tips on using Twitter in class.

From Integrating ICT into the MFL classroom

IxEdit. A nice tool for user interface/interaction design. You need to know a bit of html and css, but otherwise it’s a breeze to use. You build and check your design in your browser. It’s javascript (jQuery) based, without the need to do any js coding. Very cool.

Ommwriter is a zen writing tool. It turns off everything on you Mac that might distract you from writing, and gives you a calm space to focus your thoughts. Watch the video, then download Ommwriter.

Welcome – Ommwriter.

WiZiQ Free Online Teaching and E-Learning with Web Conferencing.

This looks awesome. I’d love to hear more about how people have used it.

Current Local Time | Local Time, Weather and Travel Information provided by LocalTi.me.

If you need to know the time somewhere else, this is a really nice online app. I’ve been using World Clock until now (which is good). But this is really nice. I think I’ll be using this from now on.

What the Internet knows about you.

Well, not much – as far as I’m concerned. This tool probes your browser history to find what information you might be sharing with other sites. Interesting.

Online Mind Mapping – MindMeister.

A great tool for mind mapping. It’s free, it’s online (works in your browser), it’s easy to use (follow the guide – the shortcuts are essential, and simple). It has some neat functions too: add graphics, share (collaborate), add links, attach files, export in a bunch of formats, etc… Here’s one I made in 5 mins as an example.

It’s great.

They have a version for iPhone too, but it’s not as flexible as the online version yet.

How to make an RSS feed for a Wordpress category? This is surprisingly easy.

Just add /feed to the end of a category’s URL. For example, here is the URL for my KM category:

http://e-wot.com/category/km/

And here is the RSS feed for my KM category:

http://e-wot.com/category/km/feed

Talking to Olivier about this over lunch. How to add a #hashtag feed into Twitter.

I asked around and here’s how to do it – [now edited for accuracy 17 Sept 09]:

1. Set up a Twitter account.
2. Set up a #hashtag at http://hashtags.org
3. Go to the page for the #hashtag you’ve just created and subscribe to the feed or copy it (each #hashtag has it’s own feed).
4. Use twitter search for the #hashtag you want (http://search.twitter.com/)
5. Subscribe to the page for that search
6. Use http://validator.w3.org/feed/ to make sure you have a working feed
7. Go to http://twitterfeed.com/ and set up an account.
8. Feed your #hashtag feed into Twitterfeed

Now each time someone #hashtags a tweet with your #hashtag, it’ll get fed (via Twitterfeed) into your Twitter.

[edit: point 3 above. If you've just created a new hashtag, it might take a while for it to load on the hashtag website. Make sure the the Twitter account you've set up is 1. following hashtag.org - 2. make sure that hashtag.org is following your Twitter account.]

[edit. hashtags.org are having financial difficulties http://hashtags.wordpress.com/2009/04/28/buying-some-time/ - this is a real shame, because the service they provided was great.]

[edit. now it appears that you're able to subscribe to feeds from twitter search results, nice.]

Click for this great list

Fantastic.

Thanks to @elizabethkoh for tweeting this (follow her, she’s great).