If you make a link in your WordPress blog to another blog at WordPress, the other blogger is automatically notified on their blog. So when Mme Windsor wrote her News Flash post and made a link to my blog, it showed up on my blog that she had! Spiffy, eh?
Read the info at WordPress about Pingbacks.
AtomicLearning, an on-line video tutorial service, has some great help for using WordPress. It does require a subscription to see more than the first video, but the “Web 2.0 Workshop” videos are all free. It’s done by Vicki Davis, a teacher in the USA who cofounded the Flat Classroom Project with Julie Lindsay, currently teaching in Bangladesh. They are also involved in the Horizon Project, “a collaborative global project between classrooms in diverse geographical locations.”
How to keep track of new posts on blogs: You can find a transcript in English of what is said in this video at http://www.commoncraft.com/rss-video-transcript . You can also view this video with subtitles in a variety of langauges, including French and Arabic at http://www.dotsub.com/films/inplainenglish/index.php
