• RSS in Plain English - by Common Craft
• RSSday.org/ - the official RSS Day site

Apparently, May 1st is RSS Awareness Day! I had no idea such a day existed, but it has it’s own site at RSSday.org . Thanks to the nice folks at dailyblogtips.com for making our RSS in Plain English video part of the site - and day for that matter.

I agree that RSS is one of those special technologies. It has the potential to positively impact virtually every Internet user at no cost. A big problem is awareness - it’s hard for people to see how it could impact them until they give it a try. Hopefully we’ve been able to turn some people on - but there are still about 94% of Internet users that haven’t seen the light. The challenge continues.

Here’s the improved version of the original video from the Common Craft Store:

How does Blackle save energy? Blackle saves energy because the screen is predominantly black. “Image displayed is primarily a function of the user’s color settings and desktop graphics, as well as the color and size of open application windows; a given monitor requires more power to display a white (or light) screen than a black (or dark) screen.” Roberson et al, 2002

Check it out and consider making Blackle your homepage.

Blackle.com - Saving energy one search at a time

Here’s the info you will need to access the practice quiz:

Password: imamathwiz

Name: Please just use your own name. If you are not one of my math students and want to take the quiz just for fun (and let’s face it, who wouldn’t?), just enter “guest”.

ID: not necessary

If you are a student in my Advanced Algebra class and wish to retake Quiz 7.1-7.4, you must take this practice quiz and score at least 80% before you can schedule your retake. You are able to take this practice quiz multiple times (it’ll change the numbers in the problems each time you open it). When you are finished, please print your results when you finish the practice quiz and bring it to me along with your original quiz corrections.

The first shows how to add markers within a Camtasia project.

The second movie shows how to produce your Camtasia project as a Flash movie with a table of contents.

These tutorials can be found at Mathematics with Mrs. O’Flynn on our Mathcasts page under Technology.

by VROG in Bristol

For those who want to learn more about mathcasts, I’m pleased to announce that Tim Fahlberg along with a wonderful team of partners (including yours truly  ) will be conducting a session at NECC entitled Mathcast Spaces: Thinking, Doing, and Sharing Mathematics Out Loud.

Click here to learn more about mathcasts and to view mathcasts created by me and my students. You can also learn more about mathcasts by visiting Tim’s mathcast wiki at http://math247.pbwiki.com/.