Xerte content authoring tool

Posted on August 8, 2011 by Adam Marshall

The University of Nottingham’s Xerte Project provides a full suite of open source tools for elearning developers and content authors producing interactive learning materials. Pat Lockley, worked in the Xerte team (who won the 2009 ALT Learning Technologists Team of … Continue reading →

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Embed Oxford Podcasts in your site

Posted on February 4, 2011 by Adam Marshall

We have developed a new tool (Oxford Podcasts) which now makes it very easy to embed items from the rapidly growing Oxford Podcasts collection into a WebLearn site. (The Oxford Podcasts website contains exactly the same material as Oxford’s iTunesU … Continue reading →

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New Version of WebLearn Released

Posted on February 4, 2011 by Adam Marshall

New WebLearn was upgraded on 1st February 2011 to version 2.6-ox6.1, this includes the delayed  upgrade to the surveys tool. There are more detailed release notes for those who want to know more! Improvements Survey tool improvements: one no longer … Continue reading →

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A great practical example of using WebLearn to enhance teaching

Posted on May 25, 2010 by Adam Marshall

Dr Scot Peterson, a lecturer in Politics, just gave an excellent and informative talk as part of the OUCS “make:” lunchtime sessions. Scot also teaches at Reading University where he has to use the Blackboard VLE. My ears pricked up … Continue reading →

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How do I display Journal Alerts on a site?

Posted on October 30, 2009 by Adam Marshall

Informaworld.com provides an RSS alerting service for a vast number of academic journals. Visit http://www.informaworld.com/smpp/browse~db=all~thing=title~by=title and locate the journal you want alerts for. Once you have found it, click on the [RSS] icon (Top right) and use the URL shown … Continue reading →

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Displaying a Twitter feed using the News tool?

Posted on October 22, 2009 by Adam Marshall

The following are tips to provide as the feed URL: Search term: e.g. ‘sakai’. http://search.twitter.com/search.atom?q=sakai Search term with a space: e.g. ‘web services’. http://search.twitter.com/search.atom?q=%22web+services%22 Search on a #hashtag: e.g. ‘#sakai’. http://search.twitter.com/search.atom?q=%23sakai Tweets from a specified user: e.g. lxsocon: http://search.twitter.com/search.atom?q=from%3Alxsocon (Note: … Continue reading →

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Displaying Twitter feeds in a WebLearn page

Posted on October 22, 2009 by Adam Marshall

This page was updated on 20 October 2012 To display Tweets within an HTML page do the following. At the place where you want the Tweets to appear, switch to the Source view of the HTML page (using the button … Continue reading →

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Displaying an Oxitems feed within a site

Posted on October 6, 2009 by Adam Marshall

Oxitems is Oxford’s institutional RSS / Newsfeed service and as such is available for free to every department and college. It really is quite brilliant. It is NOT possible to position a WebLearn News tool in the RHS column of … Continue reading →

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