Displaying RSS (& Twitter) feeds on HTML pages in WebLearn

WebLearn has a built-in tool, News, for displaying RSS feeds; it is even possible to display feeds from Oxford Podcasts – these will feature an in-page media player for audio and audio-visual podcast display. Sometimes it is desirable to insert … Continue reading

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WLUG MT2010 Presentations now available

We are pleased to announce that the recorded presentations from the WLUG meeting of Michaelmas Term 2010 are now available as an RSS feed in the WebLearn User Group site in WebLearn. You can either click on the link entitled … Continue reading

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Embed Oxford Podcasts in your site

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

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

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?

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?

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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