Blazing trails with RSS. What do content syndication, Vannevar Bush's Memex trails, RSS feeds and Radio UserLand have in common? Read this to find out! [David Davies' Weblog]
2:19:58 PM    
  
Learning Objects in Motion. This short piece in the latest Syllabus magazine contains a useful introduction to syndicating learning objects using RSS. Typically though it misses some of the crucial prior art in this area. Given that this working example I put together to not only syndicate multiple choice questions using RSS 0.91 but also to perform cross-institutional search for RLOs was 2 years ago I guess they can be excused for missing it? [David Davies' Weblog]
2:13:58 PM    
  
Reusable learning objects and RSS autodiscovery. I had an idea that if RSS is such an obvious format to use for reusable learning object (RLO) syndication then why not use RSS autodiscovery? Put simply, if a web page that contains RLOs has an RSS autodiscovery header item then all of the objects on that page become discoverable by automated systems such as RSS news readers, auto-subscribe bookmarklets and more importantly, RLO aggregators. So I made a demonstration page. Pages such as this backed by a content management system would make the insertion of the RSS link automatic thereby making resource discovery and the reuse of learning objects fairly painless. [David Davies' Weblog]
2:12:07 PM    
  
We're all off to Sebastian Fiedler's place to talk about custom-built RSS feeds. Hope to meet you there, there's an interesting discussion forming. [David Davies' Weblog]
2:11:14 PM