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Installing JS-Kit Echo on Web Teacher

When I tried out Zemanta a few days ago, I also added another new item to the blog. That is JS-Kit Echo, a commenting plugin. Echo is a JavaScript kit. The Echo Core version is available free at this time. There are paid versions with more functionality.  I tried out the free version on Web [...]

Product Reviews on Web Teacher

My policy on paid reviews. More. . .

My Wordle and TweetStats

Thanks to Laura Scott from rare pattern for telling me about Wordle. Here’s what I’ve been talking about lately on this blog. Laura also mentioned TweetStats, which I tried out, too. Here’s a vision of what I’m Tweeting about (or to). Two interesting examples of helpful online tools that are free and highly useful. WEB [...]

Greatest hits

The most popular pages on Web Teacher. More . . .

What’s Hot?

What’s popular here and what’s popular right now at eHow? Here’s the lucky seven top links from both sites.

Feeds switch

I’m going to try using summaries in my feeds for a while. I plan to track the stats and see if it matters in my traffic count.

I sort of resent it when I have to click through from my RSS reader to get the rest of a post. But I’m doing it to you anyway. It’s an act of desperation.

Organizing topics for blog posts

I post here, I create a daily writing prompt at First 50 Words, I post twice a week at BlogHer I write a number of how-to articles each month for eHow, I come up with a weekly writing prompt for a group at Elderwoman Space and I just agreed to do a twice monthly stint [...]

What’s hot here and at eHow

Here are my most popular articles at eHow right now: How to Speed Up Uploading to Flickr How to Use OpenDNS for Safe and Reliable Web Surfing How to Make a Computer Safe for Kids How to Create a Hanging Indent With CSS How to Use Spry Effects in Dreamweaver CS3 How to Left, Right, [...]

Giveaway: Adobe Dreamweaver CS4 Classroom in a Book

Get a copy of Adobe Dreamweaver CS4 Classroom in a Book absolutely free. Leave a comment with a good email address (in case you win) and tell me how this book could help you. I’ll pick a winner in a few days. The process will be random. If your comment gets picked, I’ll contact you [...]

Useful Links: History of HTML, end of life for print?, social media and recorded history, slowblogging, and Useful Links in general

HTML History on the ESW Wiki at the w3.org site may be useful to teachers. I can’t find any explanation of what ESW means, but the wiki purpose is for connecting the people who make the specs with the people who build on them. Pages here have no formal status but may have WikiConsensus. Questions [...]