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Find a website’s RSS feed easily with the blog-feed-finder WordPress widget

Byryan July 24, 2018July 19, 2018

Find a website’s RSS feed easily with the blog-feed-finder WordPress widget.

Source: GitHub – oeru/blog-feed-finder: A WordPress widget that helps a user enter a valid URL for their personal blog feed.
Via: http://cogdogblog.com/2018/06/better-magic-box/

I may have mentioned RSS at one time or another. It’s the glue that is still around, and used by a majority of websites available today. As a teacher, if you have your students creating websites, it is nice to be able to easily subscribe to follow the website. But, finding the link to the RSS feed can sometimes be burdensome. Enter the blog-feed-finder widget for WordPress.

Once installed on your WordPress site, you or your students can enter a website address into the widget to find the RSS feed.

If you don’t use WordPress or can’t install the widget, you can use the widhet on the website Blog Feed Finder.

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Kinopio is an online app for mind mapping and more!

Byryan November 3, 2020October 27, 2020

Source: Hello Kinopio – Kinopio Kinopio is mindmapping software that is free for up to 150 cards. What’s really nice is that with anonymous accounts, all data is stored locally and not transmitted to a server. This is also an issue with shared devices, but if your students have their own device, then they don’t…

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Use AI to create quiz questions from a text with Quillionz

Byryan November 30, 2021November 29, 2021

Source: Quillionz – Login Quillionz is a site that can create quiz questions or notes using artificial intelligence. You feed it a text, select important keywords, and let it do the rest. Although the AI isn’t going to be perfect, this would be a good starting point for creating help texts or quizzes for your…

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Power through that first draft with Write

Byryan April 25, 2019April 24, 2019

I’ve mentioned the world’s Most Dangerous Writing App, and to join it, I bring you Write. You select a time limit and start writing. Don’t stop, or you will lose everything you’ve written. When done, it will save your document to your local machine. Students will want to copy/paste their document into their word processor…

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Create timelines with Timetoast

Byryan June 15, 2021June 14, 2021

Source: Timetoast timeline maker | Timetoast timelines Here’s a pretty cool looking timeline creator app. Timetoast (the free version) allows users to create public timelines. Unfortunately, I didn’t see any mention of an educational discount for the paid tiers, which add collaboration features. Also, there is only a Facebook login, so students will have to…

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Why autofilling passwords in your browser is a bad thing

Byryan April 26, 2023April 25, 2023

“If you’re not inconvenienced, then it’s not secure” – Ryan Collins What’s all this then? All of the major browsers have a built in password manager. The password manager allows you to store your usernames and passwords for sites you use. If you want to work cross platform then there are several password managers that…

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Help your students evaluate internet resources with the Britannica Insights Chrome extension

Byryan June 8, 2018June 8, 2018

Help your students evaluate internet resources with the Britannica Insights Chrome extension. Source: Britannica Insights – Chrome Web Store The Britannica Insights extends the Google search results with an additional panel of information that links to the Encyclopedia Britannica. Google has already been doing this with Wikipedia links. The extension doesn’t show for all search results. For example,…

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