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L&D Trends, Time Estimates: ID and eLearning Links 3/2/2021

Experiencing eLearning

In this post, I share links on L&D trends, training development time, spaced repetition, RSS feeds, and an overview of instructional design. How to Use RSS Feeds. Helen Blunden explains how to use RSS to subscribe to specific feeds, including filtering for specific topics on a blog or subscribing to a YouTube channel.

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Filtered RSS Feed

Experiencing eLearning

Partly due to a request from Tony Karrer for eLearning Learning and partly because others have asked in the past, I did a little research on how to filter an RSS feed so I can provide a feed without the daily bookmarks posts. Tags: Blogging Tools eLearning Learning Feed Rinse PostRank rss Tony Karrer. Posted in Blogging, Tools.

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Friday Find Finds — Return on Attention, RSS, Content Curation 101

Mike Taylor

Long Live RSS! If you’ve been around here very long, you may know that I’m a big fan of RSS. This post from Zapier shares some ways you can use RSS that you may not have thought of. Content curation 101: Everything you need to know.

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Writing Scenarios + Free Tools: ID Links 4/12/22

Experiencing eLearning

RSS Generator – FetchRSS. Generate an RSS feed for any website, even if it doesn’t have its own. This is really useful for keeping everything in your RSS reader rather than checking a much of separate sites. Use Google Forms but customize the look and feel so it’s more modern, plus additional features.

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Reinventing RSS and How it Can Benefit Your Business

OpenSesame

The shutdown of Google Reader is far from the end of RSS. In fact, it has become a catalyst for innovation in news aggregation and has driven attention towards the value of RSS in social reach and brand development. At OpenSesame, we’ve been looking at ways to make sure our blog is up-to-speed and ready to go.

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Reinventing RSS and How it Can Benefit Your Business

OpenSesame

The shutdown of Google Reader is far from the end of RSS. In fact, it has become a catalyst for innovation in news aggregation and has driven attention towards the value of RSS in social reach and brand development. Moving forward it is important to consider the different RSS readers people are using to replace Google Reader.

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The Why and How of Scenario-Based Learning

Experiencing eLearning

If you’re reading this in an RSS reader or email and the video doesn’t appear above, watch it on YouTube instead. Why scenarios? What are the benefits of scenarios? Real-life decision making: Scenarios can give learners an opportunity to practice real-life decisions in a relevant context.

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How I Create My Weekly Newsletter (and personal curation tips you should steal)

Mike Taylor

RSS is the magic that enables us to consolidate so many information sources into a single “inbox” (Feedly). It automatically detects the RSS feed of the site/blog you are browsing and gives you the option to open it in Feedly, and add it to your feeds. This is where the RSS Subscription Extension comes in handy.

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Managing your RSS Feeds

Tony Karrer

Coming back from my vacation, I realized that I needed to go through a clean up exercise again on my RSS feeds. It turned out to work pretty well for me this time around because I have been following the advice I've seen a couple of places: Controlling RSS Overload. The same is true of RSS feeds.

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Better Feedback for Scenario-Based eLearning Presentation

Experiencing eLearning

If you’re reading this in email or RSS and the video doesn’t appear above, try watching it directly on YouTube. This recording is from a virtual version of the same presentation which I gave to the Online Network of Independent Learning Professionals on March 1 to prepare for the conference. Interested in more on this topic?

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iSpring Dialog Simulation

Experiencing eLearning

Email and RSS readers, if the scenario doesn’t appear below, you can view it here.). The tool has some limitations, but it’s very efficient for creating branching scenarios with conversations. Try the branching scenario. Try the dialog simulation yourself to see the finished result. Efficiency.

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Introduction to Wikis, Blogs, Social Bookmarking, Social Networking and RSS

Tony Karrer

Social Bookmarking Social Networking Wikis RSS I immediately thought of the Common Craft videos. I've embedded them below. Are there other good introductory resources? How about for blogs?

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Experiencing E-Learning » Blogging & RSS: My Learning about Learning

Experiencing eLearning

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Blogs and RSS as Learning Tools

eLearning Weekly

Many of us techies have been using RSS for years, and you may even run your own blog. I think there’s a ton of potential related to RSS in terms of learning and I don’t think many people are harnessing it well (yet). RSS provides an excellent framework for distributing information to groups of people in settings like this.

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Lessons from Three Months of RSS Feeds

Learning Developments

find people with similar backgrounds as me I have also learned more about how learners (employees) might use RSS in the workplace and I've learned the dangers of information overload. Tags: RSS. Following blogs in the eLearning industry is useful.to get up to date on new technologies.to learn how technologies are applied.to

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Lessons from Three Months of RSS Feeds

Learning Developments

find people with similar backgrounds as me I have also learned more about how learners (employees) might use RSS in the workplace and I've learned the dangers of information overload. Following blogs in the eLearning industry is useful.to get up to date on new technologies.to learn how technologies are applied.to learn industry terminology.to

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Friday Finds: The Best of Learning, Design & Technology | January 15, 2020

Mike Taylor

How to use RSS to boost your Productivity. This article is a nice look at what RSS and a variety of of the ways you can use it to make yourself more efficient and productive. If you’ve missed any of the others in this series (they’re all awesome!) you can browse them all in this playlist.

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Will Blogs, Wikis, RSS, Mashups be Used in Corporate eLearning?

Tony Karrer

In this post, Dave unfortunately lumps together blogs, wikis, mashups, rss feed together (probably because eLearning 2.0 RSS and Blogs have much slower adoption. often lump them together).

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Friday Finds: The Best Of Learning, Design & Technology | March 18, 2022

Mike Taylor

What using RSS feeds feels like (It feels good). If you already use RSS, this post is not for you. This is for people who don’t already use RSS. A great way to improve your personal and professional learning is to use RSS / Feed Readers (I prefer Feedly). You know this already.

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Aide RSS Filtering Tool

Tony Karrer

AideRSS looks at a variety of sources of information including comments, technorati, bloglines, icerocket and del.icio.us to determine what posts are generating the most interest. It provides a widget that allows you to show your top posts for month or year. You can see what it thinks are mine in the right column of the blog.

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2022 Top Tools for Learning

Mike Taylor

If you’re not using an RSS reader, I really believe you’re missing out on an opportunity to better manage your information diet. Addins/Extras: Buffer – share what you learn via social media Kill the Newsletter – get your email newsletters via RSS/Feedly FetchRSS – create an RSS Feed for sites that don’t provide one.

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Change Your RSS Feed?

Tony Karrer

A while ago, I created a feedburner feed for this blog so I could add lots of stuff to the feed - most importantly I publish a daily summary of my new del.icio.us It appears that most people still point to my Blogspot feed.

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Writing Conversations for eLearning

Experiencing eLearning

Email or RSS readers, if no video appears below, you can watch it on YouTube.). He struggles to coach one of his employees on how to handle a difficult client. You can see the moment of need, and hopefully learners can identify with the struggle. Don’t Make the Learner Dumb.

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Mobile forces you to rethink how you’re trying to help your learners

Sponge UK

Subscribe using the RSS feed. Download the mp3 file using this direct link: SpongeUKPodcastEpisode017-GeoffStead.mp3 (30:30, 17.4MB). Subscribe to the Sponge UK elearning podcast to get the latest episodes automatically. Subscribe in iTunes. Join us in two weeks for the next episode of the Sponge UK elearning podcast.

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7 Tips To Stay Ahead Of eLearning Trends And Adapt To Changes

Infopro Learning

Sign Up For Alerts And RSS Feeds. Thankfully, RSS feeds and news alerts give you the power to still learn about noteworthy eLearning trends. Another option is to peruse your RSS feeds periodically to see what’s trending at the moment. You can’t always be logged into social media groups and online discussions.

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#C2Xmas Day 2: Samuel Pepys Diary

Jane Hart

You can receive daily diary entries by email, RSS and/or follow it on Twitter. From January 2013 the diary entries again appeared on the front page at the end of the day (London time), starting with 1 January 1660. You don’t have to read it all in one go! Is there some content you might provide in this format?

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How I Caught Up on my RSS Feeds

Learning Developments

After about three months of active blog reading I've finally caught up on my RSS feeds. When I first started subscribing to blogs I found so many interesting topics that I wanted to read everything. Time quickly became a frustrating factor.

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How to Publish a Newsletter Directly in Your WordPress LMS Website with Newsletter Glue

LifterLMS

What’s the difference between an RSS campaign and a newsletter and why should someone prefer sending a newsletter over RSS? RSS is an older technology and it really doesn’t give you the scope of testing the campaign or content before sending it to all of your readers. I just didn’t really use that RSS reader idea.

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Friday Finds: The Best of Learning, Design & Technology | May 14, 2020

Mike Taylor

How to use RSS feeds to boost your productivity. There are two types of internet users – those who use RSS and those who don’t. RSS is an important part of my workflow that helps me stay up to date with news, discover new ideas, and keep my inbox clean.

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I Need an LMS. Where Do I Start?

Experiencing eLearning

As before, email and RSS readers may want to view this on Slideshare.). You can run into a surprising amount of resistance to an LMS; it can mean big changes in how people work and learn. I gave a presentation on “Why an LMS” for one client as part of their change management plan. (As Why an LMS from Christy Tucker.

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7 Tips To Stay Ahead Of eLearning Trends And Adapt To Changes

Infopro Learning

Sign Up For Alerts And RSS Feeds. Thankfully, RSS feeds and news alerts give you the power to still learn about noteworthy eLearning trends. Another option is to peruse your RSS feeds periodically to see what’s trending at the moment. You can’t always be logged into social media groups and online discussions.

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RSS in Plain English

Corporate eLearning Strategies and Development

Send this little to all of your friends and colleagues that haven't started using RSS yet. This is a great little primer is from the common craft show: RSS in Plain English Good stuff! and check out the new USTREAM.tv block in the right column of my blog.

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Top Ten Tools for Learning 2014

Experiencing eLearning

Feedly is my RSS reader of choice since the demise of Google Reader. I haven’t done my list in a few years, but you can see my past lists from 2011 , 2009 , 2008 , and 2007. My list is divided into personal learning and course design/development. Personal Learning. Diigo is my social bookmarking option.

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Friday Finds: The Best of Learning, Design & Technology | June 4, 2021

Mike Taylor

is a quick, easy and free option for compressing your image files CCmixter is a good source for free music you can use for commercial projects This RSS discovery bookmarklet is super helpful for finding the RSS feed of a website (So you can subscribe in Feedly or whatever RSS reader you use.). Where You Can Find Me.

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Blog Guides and Managing Your RSS Feeds

The Learning Circuits

On a similar subject, I recently posted how I Manage My RSS Feeds. From an IA or ISD perspective, likely most of us would agree that the usual set-up of blogs (recent blog posts + archive by month) is not very helpful when you are a first time visitor trying to evaluate what the blog is all about.

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Introduction to RSS

Corporate eLearning Strategies and Development

I've got my brain tuned into RSS these days and so I'll point out several good RSS posts as i find them. marshall kirkpatrick has a good post titled Introduction to RSS syndication. This is a short simple read, but very insightful.

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2009 Review

Experiencing eLearning

Figuring out how many RSS subscribers you have on a WordPress blog can be challenging, but adding everything up from my multiple feeds looks like I have over 1000 subscribers. Tags: Blogging Careers & Work Change Instructional Design LMS Patterns Wikis online portfolios rss Sakai statistics TCC09. But not bad.

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RSS Primer from the Read/Write Web

Corporate eLearning Strategies and Development

One of my 3 sessions at the upcoming eLearning Guild Conference in Boston is about RSS and eLearning. So, it was wonderful luck to find a great post from Alex Iskold on the Read/Write Web blog called The Future of RSS. "In In short, because of RSS ubiquity it is now a very attractive delivery medium for all kinds of content.

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Daily Bookmarks 07/18/2009

Experiencing eLearning

tags : google , rss , tools. You just have to manually rewrite the search URL, adding “ &output=rss “. I was just trying to figure out how to get a news feed from Google today and was stumped. Google changed the interface and no longer provides a direct link, but you can manually create the feed. tags : google , tools , firefox.

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eLearning Insider available via RSS

Corporate eLearning Strategies and Development

With the new Guild website you will find the RSS feed for the eLearning Insider.  While its great that you might implement blogs, wikis, and RSS for your school, company, or organization, its even more important that you start using these tools yourself as personal development tools. and the Web2.0

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