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I don't know what my RSS or Atom info is, or how to find out.
Yes, I could figure out how to find out, but I'd rather somebody who already knows the answer just tell me what it is.
This is my problem with 21st century skills (one of my problems): I see no reason to spend my time inquiring about things everyone else already knows.
I especially see no reason for 5 year olds to inquire into the nature of the alphabetic code, (pdf file) as 21st century 5 year olds are currently doing in their 21st century Kindergartens.
In conclusion: I don't know what my RSS or Atom info is, and if somebody out there does know, please tell me.
Thank you.
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I've been chatting with a couple of Contributors about visibility, influence, readership, etc., and it seems to me the time has come to raise the profile of ktm, if possible. Hence: the posting of the Studio City photo along with a thumbnail description of the blog & contact info for me. Performancing (thank you, Mathew) says one needs photos and emails on the front page, which I've always felt was true. A blog needs a real author or authors & a mailing address.
Do we need contact info for Contributors, too?
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By virtue of using Blogger, KTM already makes these feeds available...
ATOM
http://kitchentablemath.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default
RSS
http://kitchentablemath.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default?alt=rss
So no action is required if readers want to use a NewsReader to read the posts on your site but you can make it eaiser. If you go add the Subscription Links gadget to your site via Blogger (under Basics), this will allow readers to quickly subscribe to your site.
If you go add the Subscription Links gadget to your site via Blogger (under Basics), this will allow readers to quickly subscribe to your site.
good grief
I thought I'd already done that.
Do we need contact info for Contributors, too?
Such option exists in the blogger "profiles". I.e., when you click on the blogger's name, a profile comes up. Each of us blogger-members of KTM2 can edit these profiles and add our emails to them as we wish. So I think that should be left up to the individual.
Are they teaching about blogger profiles in kindergarten yet? Isn't blogging a 21st century skill?
I meant to say, each of us can edit our own blogger profiles; we cannot edit anyone else's.
21st century skills
consist most of not noticing
that every time they "improve"
something, it gets worse.
i've been running like hell
for the exit (forward!
into the past!) but 19th C
skills like loving a well-crafted
sentence don't seem to pay ...
let's see: some substance?
naw. just: what barry said.
everybody edits their own;
anarchy rules.
I believe it is valuable for contributors to use full names and list contact info, not merely in a Blogger profile (for one, because i don't want to deal with using blogger and that info everywhere) but actually on the site.
It will increase the potential for harrassment, but it will increase the credibility of the site. When one has attached one's real name to something, and can be quoted, one is generally more exacting, less likely to rant, and more likely to not overstate one's case.
There are a lot of venues for raising this blog's profile, as well as a lot of needs for raising the profile of the issues we can articulate. Imagine if each of us attended just one conference on homeschooling or technology in classrooms or DI, and did so while saying our connection to KTM--we'd be getting the word out, we'd be establishing KTM as a primary place to educate oneself, etc.
Are they teaching about blogger profiles in kindergarten yet? Isn't blogging a 21st century skill?
Strangely, no one in my district has touted the virtues of blogging as a means to acquire 21st century skills as of yet.
No mention of Yahoo lists, either.
Or Facebook.
When one has attached one's real name to something, and can be quoted, one is generally more exacting, less likely to rant, and more likely to not overstate one's case.
These were the reasons Carolyn & I used our real names from the get-go.
Also, because we used our real names, others could remain anonymous with the implicit assurance that either Carolyn or I knew generally who the regulars were.
Imagine if each of us attended just one conference on homeschooling or technology in classrooms or DI, and did so while saying our connection to KTM--we'd be getting the word out, we'd be establishing KTM as a primary place to educate oneself, etc.
oh, gosh
that's a great idea
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