This is fantastic for students who get easily distracted by all the bells and whistles of your typical blog on Blogger.
Thursday, March 31, 2011
A New Way to Read Blogger Blogs! #edtech
Sometimes a new feature of a hugely popular utility can become a tool in and of itself. A new way of looking at things. One of the things I am very interested in is how information is perceived. There are now a number of sites out there who will create heatmaps for your websites showing how your page is being read. Of course these are paid services (e.g., CrazyEgg) - so I have never had my blog or other web ventures analyzed. There are also ways to visualize information as we have seen in a number of applications highlighted during this 365 project. And I am all about visual learning! Now there is a new way to read any Blog on Blogger (provided the author has not disabled them) When I logged on tonight to write my blog post, Google flashed a message about a new feature called "Dynamic Views". And while I hadn't planned on it being tonight's utility, somehow it just worked out that way. In order to read a blog with a "Dynamic View", simply type in the url and append the following text to see the different views:
Flipcard: available at [blogURL]/view/flipcard
Mosaic: available at [blogURL]/view/mosaic
Sidebar: available at [blogURL]/view/sidebar
Snapshot: available at [blogURL]/view/snapshot
Timeslide: available at [blogURL]/view/timeslide
This is fantastic for students who get easily distracted by all the bells and whistles of your typical blog on Blogger.
This is fantastic for students who get easily distracted by all the bells and whistles of your typical blog on Blogger.
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