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A new service launched today called TweetNewz which allows you to bring your news, rss feeds, and even your google reader subscriptions to your desktop as a news ticker, share with others, and find out what others are saying.

What are feeds? I see "RSS", "XML", and "Atom" out there, but I don't know how I might use these links when I find them.

Feed 101

In our new world of news on the internet, we're going to need lots of smart ways of discovering and making sense of the good stuff without the junk. Why? Because it's a sewer out there. And because there are troves of treasure too. Filters-they're our first job. We're bringing lots of different filters to the news. Visualizations-they're our second job. We're bringing lots of different visualizations to our filters.

This case study describes the design and implementation of a foundations of educational technology course with the support of a web-based application known as Drupal. Drupal is a powerful free and open source web application framework in which one can use wikis, blogs, groups, and other tools to support the classroom learning experiences of students. In this course, distance masters students used these tools to build their own wiki-based knowledge base about the field of educational technology.

Students embrace online learning virtual classroom - Natasha Robinson, Rocky Mount Telegram