Tag Archives: RSS

Mar 22 2010

Testing Syndicated Posts

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I’m experimenting with syndication and if it is working then this post, originally written on Reluctant Technologist, will also be published on CLT@LSE.  The syndication feature is an add-on called FeedWordPress.  It’s available in the version of WordPress that we … Continue reading

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Jul 10 2009

Symposium at York University: lecture capture, content production & Second Life

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Jane and I participated in a one day in-house symposium at the University of York this week. The audience were made up of both academic and support staff interested in learning from other universities about lecture capture, audio and video … Continue reading

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Dec 6 2007

LSE shortlisted for the Institute of IT Training 2008 Awards

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LSE’s training website, which aggregates RSS feeds from multiple training providers across the school, has been nominated for an award. Luis Martinez in the Library, Jeni Brown in IT Training, and Jane Secker and I in CLT developed the system, … Continue reading

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Sep 5 2007

Careers Service Social Software Projects

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I’m just back from the Association of Graduate Careers Advisory Services (AGCAS) Biennial conference, where I presented a session with Kezia Richmond, the LSE Careers Information Manager, titled “Blog it, tag it, share it: learn the language of the Google … Continue reading

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Jun 1 2007

Universes & Pagecasts

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I’m not sure who dreams up these names CrimsonConnect was developed by two students at Harvard as an alternative to the institutional student portal: “my.harvard.edu”. The Chronicle of Higher Education reports that they were asked to remove the course material … Continue reading

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May 3 2007

Explaining RSS

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This is something I’ve been thinking about for a while as it seems to be a topic that workshop participants don’t always get straight away. A ‘blog trail’ just took me from Open as to… to We Ignore RSS at … Continue reading

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May 1 2007

Collaborative Software and Web 2.0

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The University of Edinburgh Information Systems working group has recently produced a report with the above title. Quoting from its conclusion “Collaborative technology such as IM, Wikis and blogs are fast becoming ubiquitous, and it is quite clear that the … Continue reading

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Mar 21 2007

Eduspaces

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The external hosted version of elgg has been relaunched as eduspaces.  And I think elgg is defintely worth revisiting… I’ll certainly be having a more detailed look soon.  Just need a project  / interested academic…  Since I last looked at … Continue reading

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Feb 22 2007

Yahoo Pipes

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Has anyone come across Pipes yet? According to their overview: Pipes is a free online service that lets you remix popular feed types and create data mashups using a visual editor What does that actually mean… well the first pipe … Continue reading

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Nov 23 2006

PageFlakes

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Pageflakes is another personalised portal-type page. Read more on Webblogg-ed about it. The Darfur Resources Page that’s highlighted is a good example for our workshops. Update: One thing I like about PageFlakes compared to say Netvibes (which I use as … Continue reading

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