{"id":100,"date":"2008-07-13T05:46:37","date_gmt":"2008-07-13T05:46:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lisahistory.net\/wordpress\/?p=100"},"modified":"2008-07-13T05:46:37","modified_gmt":"2008-07-13T05:46:37","slug":"watcha-using-redux","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lisahistory.net\/wordpress\/2008\/07\/watcha-using-redux\/","title":{"rendered":"Whatcha using?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For the first time, I was called (by one of my favorite Twitter buds <a href=\"http:\/\/college2.ning.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Eduardo Peirano<\/a>) an <a href=\"http:\/\/lisahistory.tumblr.com\/post\/39813700\/edupunk\" target=\"_blank\">edupunk<\/a>. In keeping with that, here&#8217;s a list of free web technologies and accounts I&#8217;ve cobbled together into my own peculiar learning and organizational environment:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<strong>Zoho<\/strong> &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/writer.zoho.com\" target=\"_blank\">Writer<\/a> for making notes and to-do lists for myself that I can access from anywhere, <a href=\"http:\/\/show.zoho.com\" target=\"_blank\">Show<\/a> for quick slideshows on the fly<\/p>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/lisahistory.tumblr.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Tumblr<\/strong><\/a> &#8211; for storing quick things I find just for myself, without organizational format\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/10123995@N04\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Flickr<\/strong><\/a> &#8211; for creating the occasional annotated image for teaching, storing other people&#8217;s images I may want to use later\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/llane\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Del.icio.us<\/strong><\/a> &#8211; for storing bookmarks easily with the Firefox plug-in; it also helps me learn how to tag effectively for later retrieval\n<li><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/wordpress.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">WordPress<\/a><\/strong> &#8211; for this blog, and now the professional development blog too &#8211; it&#8217;s so wonderfully stable (till you upgrade, of course)\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/gmail.com\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Gmail<\/strong><\/a> &#8211; to combine my various email accounts, and I&#8217;m enjoying the chat feature (though I really wish I could download my mail and save it &#8212; I&#8217;m using Thunderbird too, just to archive!)\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/moodle.org\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Moodle<\/strong><\/a> &#8211; my course management system of choice (obviously!)\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/feedraider.com\/u\/llane\/p\/29oe9\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Feedraider<\/strong><\/a> &#8211; for reading my RSS feeds from other people&#8217;s blogs etc, though I&#8217;m hating how difficult it is to move things around and I&#8217;m shopping for something better\n<li><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/nucleuscms.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">Nucleus<\/a><\/strong> &#8211; for my <a href=\"http:\/\/lisahistory.net\/nucleus2\" target=\"_blank\">history blog<\/a>\n<li><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Twitter<\/a><\/strong> &#8211; for my daily contact with wonderful IT folks\n<p>And which have proven disappointing:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Facebook<\/strong><\/a> &#8211; yeah, I know I said it before, but honestly I&#8217;m not seeing its use, and I do resent that you can never, ever leave (only deactivate temporarily)\n<li><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/friendfeed.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">FriendFeed<\/a><\/strong> &#8211; without access to Feedraider and the other programs I used, aggregating what was left wasn&#8217;t worth it<\/ul>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For the first time, I was called (by one of my favorite Twitter buds Eduardo Peirano) an edupunk. In keeping with that, here&#8217;s a list of free web technologies and accounts I&#8217;ve cobbled together into my own peculiar learning and organizational environment: Zoho &#8211; Writer for making notes and to-do lists for myself that I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-100","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-web-20"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lisahistory.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lisahistory.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lisahistory.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lisahistory.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lisahistory.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=100"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lisahistory.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lisahistory.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=100"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lisahistory.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=100"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lisahistory.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=100"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}