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How I Use RSS To Make My Life Easier

So I’ve tried my best to explain what is RSS and why it’s important to learn how to use. And as I said I find it hard to explain probably because the power of RSS is really something you need to experience first hand.
I’m really into RSS — a RSS power user may be [...]

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Are You Making Your Life Easier By Using RSS?

There’s the easy way or the hard way. RSS makes your life easy but for people new to RSS it’s easy to overlook it’s importance. And educating, those new to the concept of RSS, how to use it effectively should be a priority.
What is RSS
Spend any time on the Internet, and you [...]

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Embedding Videos From Video Sharing Web Sites

Our last post showed how to upload videos directly into your blog plus linked to tutorials on creating your own videos.
I love teaching people how to create digital stories and videos because it’s a skill that most learners, regardless of age, enjoy learning, experimenting with and are more likely to spend time perfecting their skills [...]

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Embedding Videos Directly Into Your Blog Posts

Let’s be honest video’s are cool. Fun to create and enjoyable to watch. Unfortunately video sharing websites such as Google Video and YouTube are often blocked by schools which causes problems if you want to embed videos from these sites into blog posts.
The good news is you don’t have to upload your and/or [...]

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Embedding Flash Into Posts

UPDATE: Embed Flash swf button and Embed media button don’t exist since Edublogs has been upgraded to the latest version of Wordpress.  You need to use the HTML tab for embedding videos and Flash Objects.
Now that Edublogs have given us new freedom and allows us to embed javascript, iframes and object code directly into our [...]

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Edublogs Gives Us New Freedom; Most ‘Embedding’ Code Can Now Be Pasted Directly into Our Blogs

It’s official! Edublogs has decided to allow javascript, iframes and object code.
So what does this mean? Besides the fact that I now have to make changes to several previous Edublogger posts, our life has just become considerably easier because we can just copy and paste pretty much most ‘embedding’ code we pick up [...]

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Redirecting Your Blog Feed To Feedburner

Besides making it easier for readers to subscribe to your blog using RSS or email, using a Feedburner feed means you can analyse your subscribers e.g. number of subscribers, and which feed reader they use.
Trouble is unless you redirect all your blog feed to Feedburner you won’t get an accurate picture of the number of [...]

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What’s The Difference Between Tags and Categories, You Ask?

When I first started blogging with Edublogs we only had categories; which most of us used like tags. But then came Christmas — and Edublogs gave us tags for every post and a tag clouds for our sidebars. Now all we had to work out was “What’s the difference between tags and categories, [...]

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