Our inaugural Cool Tool of the Week (CTOW) is IFTT (If This Then That). With IFTTT, you can schedule actions for your favorite web services--kind of like a macro for the web. You create "recipes" on the site by selecting an application "Channel" that will act as a "Trigger", then you select another application to perform an "Action." Pieces of data from the Trigger are regarded as "Ingredients" in the recipe. For example, one of my Recipes checks my Pocket account for recently read items. It then takes those items and adds them to my diigo account as public bookmarks, along with any tags I may have added in Pocket. It performs this action every 15 minutes. I can chain together a number of recipes to automate a good chunk of my PLN. IFTTT is, at this time, a free service, though it looks like there are plans for a premium service in the future. Give it a try!
Now I'm really starting to get annoyed. I have not been able to put my AdSense ads back on my blog. Now I know that this doesn't particularly bother the rest of you--I mean, who really wants to see the ads on my blog, anyway? It just detracts from the high quality content, right? But that's just my point! I have all of this great stuff on my blog today, but I won't get a red cent--in spite of the millions of people who are reading this blog right now! There's nothing to click. How are the people going to know that Google provides blogs through Blogger if there are no links to click? How can the economy survive if Madison Avenue can't reach the consumer hoards through my high quality blog? I'm not sure I can handle all of this stress. I need a drink.
A Principal's Reflections: A Blueprint Worth Following via Pocket http://esheninger.blogspot.ru/2012/11/a-blueprint-worth-following.html tags: IFTTT Pocket eLearning Googlassroom: Google in the classroom? | Reflections of a Passionate Educator via Pocket http://reflectionsofeducator.wordpress.com/2012/11/25/googlassroom-google-i tags: IFTTT Pocket eLearning How To Integrate Classroom Technology With No Money - Edudemic via Pocket http://edudemic.com/2012/11/how-i-integrated-classroom-technology-with-no-m tags: IFTTT Pocket eLearning Posted from Diigo . The rest of my favorite links are here .
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