Bblog: The Blackboard Weblog: "Did we forget to post about this yesterday? It definitely deserves it's own post.
During his Product Roadmap speech, Matthew mentioned the RSS Building Block under development by Matt Hartman of the University of Cincinnatti. Matt's got a few more tweaks to make before he's ready to release it, but the demo he gave in the Building Block booth today was sweet.
Basically, the RSS Building Block defines RSS as a content type in the Blackboard Learning System. The instructor can now grab an RSS or Atom feed, insert it into the course content, decide whether students will view headlines or the full item, and set caching on the feed. When the student views the course, it will automatically go out and grab the RSS feed (depending on the caching parameters) and display the updated content inside the course. Great way for instructors to include weblog content, news feeds, etc. in their course.
Kudos to Matt Hartman and his collaborators on the bb-opensource mailing list for their work on this cool Building Block."
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