Educators and Designers

Re: RSS feed tool for 9.1?

Roger Gardner — Fri, 01 Jul 2011 14:45:28 GMT

I have heard back from Richard now. They are hoping to put the code for the building block on OSCELOT at some point , but are very busy with an upgrade at the moment!

Re: RSS feed tool for 9.1?

Roger Gardner — Fri, 01 Jul 2011 14:35:48 GMT

Hi Mike

I believe the person to contact is Richard Glover. (R.Glover@tees.ac.uk ). I have emailed Richard about it but haven't heard anything yet.

Best wishes

Roger

Re: RSS feed tool for 9.1?

Michael Zimmerman — Fri, 01 Jul 2011 14:09:55 GMT

Thanks for the update, Roger! I know Teesside has done some very interesting Blackboard development in the past. Do you happen to know where this RSS building block is available?

Mike

Re: RSS feed tool for 9.1?

Roger Gardner — Fri, 01 Jul 2011 13:54:11 GMT

Thanks, Mike. I've also now been told of a building block developed by Teeside University here in the UK (e@t RSS Feeds) http://eat.tees.ac.uk/ which works on 9.1

Re: RSS feed tool for 9.1?

Michael Zimmerman — Fri, 01 Jul 2011 03:24:54 GMT

Hi Roger,

Yes, we were also using the U Cincinnati RSS feed building block on our BB8 server, but it seems to be very old and not very well maintained. I'm a bit surprised, but unfortunately, I haven't been able to find any other building blocks to include RSS feeds as content items.

One approach might be to embed a javascript or flash widget to display RSS into your content item. There are instructions for using Google gadgets for creating a js RSS widget at http://www.labnol.org/internet/tools/embed-rss-feeds-add-html-websites-javascript/2515/ that might be worth a try, but I really haven't experimented with them at all.

Mike

RSS feed tool for 9.1?

Roger Gardner — Thu, 30 Jun 2011 10:40:01 GMT

Can anyone recommend a simple way to add RSS feeds as content items in 9.1. In 9.0 we have used the RSS Content building block developed by the University of Cincinnati, but this doesn't seem to work in 9.1.

Thanks

Roger