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Syndication is for suckers
http://weblogs.elearning.ubc.ca/ brian/ archives/ 044813.php
So not only am I struggling to do what Stephen Downes did more than four years ago, now I can't even do what I did myself two years ago. It should be a simple problem. Assemble a list of thirty or so student weblogs, allowing them to choose their own platforms, and create a reasonably readable aggregated metablog of all their entries. Every "feed blender" type application I have tried simply collapses under that number of feeds, and collectively represents a huge time suck over the past few weeks years. I like the Grazr widgets, but the widget does not track unread entries or provide any sense of which entries are new.
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Proudly spamming OU courses
http://b2fxxx.blogspot.com/2008/03/proudly-spamming-ou-cours...Jim Groom and Tony Hirst have been building on each others tinkering. This is terrific. "There has been a bit of excitement about the possibilities for pushing the uses of RSS towards a mythical eduglu as of late. Brian posted about it here and got some great feedback, soon after D’Arcy Norman and Bill Fitzgerald ramped up their work with Drupal. Then there was David’ Wileys re-publishing of his course on WordPress.com, and Brian (again) frames the implications beautifully, and then Stephen Downes uses this example to point towards Tony Hirst’s Disaggregation of MIT OCW. In short, an amazing distributed thread to follow. So while I was looking at Tony Hirst’s work with MIT’s Open CourseWare, he must have been leaving a comment pointing to a series of feeds on the Open Learn OER site. Additionally, he suggested that there isn’t any reason why these feeds couldn’t be pulled into a blog rather neatly. And you know what, he couldn’t have been more right! I gave it a shot on a WordPress Multi-User installation I keep around for just these sorts of things. I pulled the Open University courses feeds into individual blogs using Wp-o-Matic, a tried and true spamblogging plugin. And I am pretty excited by the results. (As an aside, I find great pleasure in re-purposing the wicked tools of spammers to make re-publishing open educational resources that much easier.) [...] This was a pretty amazing experiment for me because it illustrates just how much I learn from reading blogs on a daily basis. Ideas happen in a series of relations, and I so thoroughly enjoy taking other people’s genius and testing it out. When I saw the Goya class get pulled in successfully in just over a minute, I started to realize just how powerful these open resources can be once they are freed from their repositories. What is stopping K-12s and universities from setting up WPMu installations (or Drupal, or what have you) and pulling these amazing resources in? Or even pushing them out themselves? Another question that needs to be asked is how many of the other open resources out there have the stellar RSS feeds these OpenLearn OERs do?" This is amazing stuff. The power of the net and bright people...
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OER's: Publishing is the Easy Part; Now, Let's Make Them More Usable
http://openacademic.org/news/oers-publishing-easy-partIntroductory Notes These are some thoughts in progress -- I’ve been thinking these things through for probably the last few years, but things have been getting more interesting of late. Some of the blog posts that have helped shape my thinking here include: http://bavatuesdays.com/proud-spammer-of-open-university-courses/ http://weblogs.elearning.ubc.ca/brian/archives/044998.php http://opencontent.org/blog/archives/464 http://www.chrislott.org/2008/02/17/confused-about-the-blog-uproar/ http://weblogs.elearning.ubc.ca/brian/archives/044813.php http://www.funnymonkey.com/mini-edu-rss http://www.darcynorman.net/2008/02/16/on-eduglu-part-1-background/ http://blogs.open.ac.uk/Maths/ajh59/010236.html -- this is from Tony Hirst, who has an almost overwhelming amount of great information regarding remixing content on his blog. I've also been thinking about the work Scott Wilson has been doing with FeedForward. Toward the end of this post, I fall short of the needed conversation when I talk about the Course and Learner sections. There’s more to be said here -- a lot more -- but the poor souls who actually persevere to that point in the post will probably agree that I’ve said enough by then already. An Open Content and Open Learning environment External Repository -- in this context, an external repository is a place where content is stored. In many ways, the external repository is an artificial construct that doesn’t need to exist. The single most important argument in favor of the external repository is that the external repo can provide a level of credibility that less “official” sources of information lack. For example, a piece of information coming from the MIT’s OpenCourseware will have more credibility than a YouTube video. These external repositories, however, need to expose their content via rss/atom, or web services, something that many of them do not do. With that said, it would also be nice to see the major OCW repositories use less pdf’s to allow for easier modification. On a technical note, Tony Hirst pointed to a Mediawiki plugin that exposes full Mediawiki articles as rss feeds. This extends Mediawiki’s flexibility by allowing Mediawiki content to be imported via rss feeds. Planning Repository -- the planning repos are the staging grounds of course preparation. Planning repositories will import selected courses from a variety of external repositories. While a limited number of people might have access to an external repository, more people can have access to a planning repository. Within the planning repository, users can edit existing courses, add links, text, images, etc. Then, users can select individual pieces of different courses, and re-organize them into a new course. By definition, planning repositories should be messy. They are workspaces, and should be viewed as a place where people go from draft versions to more polished versions of course materials. For example: a history department creates an departmental planning repository. Initially, they import a variety of courses from different external repositories. Then, instructors add content as needed. Once they have finished adding content, they select the lessons/material they want for their course. So, an instructor teaching a course on the Rise of Modernism could incorporate material from a course on WWI. Once the instructors have selected and organized their lessons, they export them into their courses. On the technical side, the planning repository could be a Drupal site built using the FeedAPI. I described how to do this here, and revisited the idea here. Alan Levine (in the comments here) and Jared Stein and Patrick Gosetti-Murrayjohn (in the comments here ) ask about how to select individual pieces of content for inclusion in a course. Once you have imported content into a Drupal site, you can use Views Bookmarks, Nodequeue, or node references (part of CCK) for doing exactly that. Once the individual lessons have been selected and organized into a course, they can be exposed via an rss feed. Mediawiki would also make an excellent planning repository by using XFeed to aggregate external content and the WikiArticle Feeds Extension (linked to above) to generate rss feeds for curriculum. However, here is another wrinkle: every school is already producing curriculum. Teachers generate curriculum for all of their classes. If a school used a planning repository to coordinate curriculum planning, they could export the polished curriculum to a web site that could become an external repository. In this way, schools generate their curriculum maps and provide open content as part of their ongoing course planning and development process.These planning repositories becoming external repositories would have one enormous advantage over existing content repositories: they would be fully open, with all content within them accessible via rss feeds. For all schools currently undergoing accreditation reviews, how much time are you spending collecting up curricular materials? If you build your curriculum as described in this post, you have all your curriculum ready to hand, and categorized via tags. It’s worth noting that the technology to do this exists now, and can be built entirely using open source tools. It’s also worth noting that, using Drupal, you can clone an entire site -- configuration, content, and even user accounts -- and move that site with minimal effort. It’s what we’ve been doing with DrupalEd for nearly a year, and with less sophisticated class sites since September of 2005. Courses -- In this context, courses are blog based tools, and could be delivered via a tool like Wordpressor Drupal. Curricular material could be imported; Jim has shown how to do this, D’Arcy has shown how to do this , and the aggregation examples I linked to earlier show how to do this. The feeds of learners taking the course could be added to a blogroll, or, in the case of Drupal, could be imported directly into the site. With OpenID becoming more prevalent, students could either be site members, or be granted access via their OpenID. This flexibility would allow learners to interact with the course using their preferred tools, and, if they wanted, using their pre-established online identity. Learners -- In this context, learners are just about anyone. You don’t need to be a student to be a learner, although, for obvious reasons, most schools probably wouldn’t allow open enrollment in their courses. For me, the interesting piece of this has to with the potential for a true PLE. While I’m not particularly enamored of the whole notion of the PLE (I see it as more of a construct than a piece of technology, and something that is better achieved via innate curiosity than lines of code, but that’s another conversation), this system of open learning solves one of the main problems inherent in most PLE implementations: how to get course content out of the course and into the PLE. In this situation, that’s not an issue, as learners use their chosen tools to contribute in their courses. As they are doing the work from their platform, they retain control of their work in a way that just isn’t possible using proprietary LMS’s, or even open source LMS’s like Moodle. Next Steps The next steps could include any/all of the following: A school, or a group of teachers, banding together to create course materials in a planning repository. Dan Meyer has called for something along these lines a while back. More teachers using a blog-based approach to delivering content. The WPMU work that Jim helped spearhead shows one way of doing this; and the folks at BYU have illustrated another way of doing this. Existing Open Content repositories could actually expose their content via rss feeds. If this happened, one of the enornous barriers to actually using the open content that has been published to date would be removed. These thoughts are incomplete -- what's missing? What needs closer examination? What else needs to be considered here?
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Proud Spammer of Open University Courses
http://bavatuesdays.com/proud-spammer-of-open-university-cou...There has been a bit of excitement about the possibilities for pushing the uses of RSS towards a mythical eduglu as of late. Brian posted about it here and got some great feedback, soon after D’Arcy Norman and Bill Fitzgerald ramped up their work with Drupal. Then there was David’ Wileys re-publishing of his course on WordPress.com, and Brian (again) frames the implications beautifully, and then Stephen Downes uses this example to point towards Tony Hirst’s Disaggregation of MIT OCW. In short, an amazing distributed thread to follow. So while I was looking at Tony Hirst’s work with MIT’s Open CourseWare, he must have been leaving a comment pointing to a series of feeds on the Open Learn OER site. Additionally, he suggested that there isn’t any reason why these feeds couldn’t be pulled into a blog rather neatly. And you know what, he couldn’t have been more right! I gave it a shot on a WordPress Multi-User installation I keep around for just these sorts of things. I pulled the Open University courses feeds into individual blogs using Wp-o-Matic, a tried and true spamblogging plugin. And I am pretty excited by the results. (As an aside, I find great pleasure in re-purposing the wicked tools of spammers to make re-publishing open educational resources that much easier.) The first course from the OpenLearn site I republished was titled Goya. I chose this one for two reasons: a) I wanted to learn more about Goya, and b) it had a number of images and videos associated with it and I wanted to see how they would work. As a result, I now know more about Goya & the images and videos pulled into the site beautifully, very impressive XML! The first time I pulled this course the Introduction and background posts balked, this didn’t happen the second time I tested it however. Compare the re-published blog site above (click on the image to see it) with the original course in the OpenLearn OER here. Moreover, each of the course sections was in the proper logical order, meaning that the topmost post on the blog was the introduction, next the background, etc. This fortunate happenstance made reproducing the course outline on the sidebar of the blog simple. I just included the recent posts widget and re-titled it Unit Outline. After that, I had an entire course republished in my WPMu account within minutes. As for the other two courses I tested (Hume and Word and image), they work perfectly save for a few stray a tags on the Word and image site. Compare the original Hume course on the OpenLearn site with the re-published blog site here. Do the same for the original Word and image course and the republished one here. This was a pretty amazing experiment for me because it illustrates just how much I learn from reading blogs on a daily basis. Ideas happen in a series of relations, and I so thoroughly enjoy taking other people’s genius and testing it out. When I saw the Goya class get pulled in successfully in just over a minute, I started to realize just how powerful these open resources can be once they are freed from their repositories. What is stopping K-12s and universities from setting up WPMu installations (or Drupal, or what have you) and pulling these amazing resources in? Or even pushing them out themselves? Another question that needs to be asked is how many of the other open resources out there have the stellar RSS feeds these OpenLearn OERs do? I can’t answer these questions, but I will venture a hunch about the first two I asked: once teachers and students begin to realize the unparalled ease and immense utility they get from having instant access to re-purposed open educational resources, it may very well have a deep impact on current habits of publishing all their hard-earned work within a blackbox. As an afterthought, I tried this same experiment in WordPress.com, but unfortunately that service only allows you to import specific RSS feeds from other services like Moveable Type, Blogger, etc. So, in the end, a spammer shall lead the way Related posts on bavatuesdaysFebruary 11, 2008 -- Upgrading to WPMu 1.3.3 (0)November 24, 2007 -- Gladly Eating Some Drupal Crow (14)November 22, 2007 -- UMW Blogs & Middlesell Sittin’ In a Tree… (4)November 10, 2007 -- Customize the WPMu Dashboard (3)October 5, 2007 -- Creating a dynamic frontpage for WPMu (13)
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Proud Spammer of Open University Courses
http://jimgroom.umwblogs.org/2008/02/17/proud-spammer-of-ope...There has been a bit of excitement about the possibilities for pushing the uses of RSS towards a mythical eduglu as of late. Brian posted about it here and got some great feedback, soon after D’Arcy Norman and Bill Fitzgerald ramped up their work with Drupal. Then there was David’ Wileys re-publishing of his course on WordPress.com, and Brian (again) frames the implications beautifully, and then Stephen Downes uses this example to point towards Tony Hirst’s Disaggregation of MIT OCW. In short, an amazing distributed thread to follow. So while I was looking at Tony Hirst’s work with MIT’s Open CourseWare, he must have have been leaving a comment pointing to a series of feeds on the Open Learn OER site. Additionally, he suggested that there isn’t any reason why these feeds couldn’t be pulled into a blog rather neatly. And you know what, he couldn’t have been more right! I gave it a shot on a WordPress Multi-User installation I keep around for just these sorts of things. I pulled the Open University courses feeds into individual blogs using Wp-o-Matic</a, a tried and true spamblogging plugin. And I am pretty excited by the results. (As an aside, I find great pleasure in re-purposing the wicked tools of spammers to make re-publishing open educational resources that much easier.) The first course from the OpenLearn site I republished was titled Goya. I chose this one for two reasons: a) I wanted to learn more about Goya, and b) it had a number of images and videos associated with it and I wanted to see how they would work. As a result, I now know more about Goya & the images and videos pulled into the site beautifully, very impressive XML! The first time I pulled this course the Introduction and background posts balked, this didn’t happen the second time I tested it however. Compare the re-published blog site above (click on the image to see it) with the original course in the OpenLearn OER here. Moreover, each of the course sections was in the proper logical order, meaning that the topmost post on the blog was the introduction, next the background, etc. This fortunate happenstance made reproducing the course outline on the sidebar of the blog simple. I just included the recent posts widget and re-titled it Unit Outline. After that, I had an entire course republished in my WPMu account within minutes. As for the other two courses I tested (Hume and Word and image), they work perfectly save for a few stray a tags on the Word and image site. Compare the original Hume course on the OpenLearn site with the re-published blog site here. Do the same for the original Word and image course and the republished one here. This was a pretty amazing experiment for me because it goes to suggest how much I get from reading blogs on a daily basis. Ideas happen in a series of relations, and I so thoroughly enjoy taking other people’s genius and testing it out. When I saw the Goya class get pulled in successfully with all of about five minutes work, I started to realize just how powerful these open resources can be once they are freed from their repositories. What is stopping K-12s and universities from setting up WPMu installations (or Drupal, or what have you) and pulling these amazing resources in? Or even pushing them out themselves? Another question that needs to be asked is how many of the other open resources out there have the stellar RSS feeds these OpenLearn OERs do? I can’t answer these questions, but I will venture a hunch about the first two I asked: once teachers and students begin to realize the unparalled ease and immense utility they get from having instant access to re-purposed open educational resources, it may very well have a deep impact on current habits of publishing all their hard-earned work within a blackbox. As an afterthought, I tried this same experiment in WordPress.com, but unfortunately that service only allows you to import specific RSS feeds from toerh services like Moveable Type, Blogger, etc. So, in the end, a spammer shall lead the way Related posts on bavatuesdays November 24, 2007 — Gladly Eating Some Drupal Crow (14) November 22, 2007 — UMW Blogs & Middlesell Sittin’ In a Tree… (4) November 10, 2007 — Customize the WPMu Dashboard (3) October 5, 2007 — Creating a dynamic frontpage for WPMu (13) September 6, 2007 — UMW Lablogs: Aggregating Online Laboratory Experiments (0)
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links for 2008-02-13
http://techy-feely.net/2008/02/12/links-for-2008-02-13/Profilactic.com - preventing an online identity crisis Bad name..but interesting idea. Social media aggregator that pulls in what you and your friends create. (tags: aggregator social) 20 Ways To Aggregate Your Social Networking Profiles trying to find a way to mix about 30 RSS feeds together and not really finding what I want. But some of this stuff could come in handy later. (tags: aggregator socialnetworking web2.0 socialnetworks blogging rss) Abject Learning: Syndication is for suckers Lots of good ideas about RSS syndication of an entire class (tags: elearning feeds mashup rss aggregator)
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2008年2月8日:EduSpace,SciVee,开放大学,虚拟援救,教授尝试Web2.0
http://www.edu2do.com/oldaily/february-8-2008/2008年2月8日:EduSpace,SciVee,开放大学,虚拟援救,教授尝试Web2.0 | 发布时间:February 9th, 2008 | No Comments » 可怜的EduSpace圣歌在继续 “除了域名变更一事,现在人们又对未来平台产生怀疑。我们大多数人都以为EduSpace会继续在elgg开源平台上主持。但是TakingITGlobal(让IT全球化)之前的网络化活动都使用的是私有平台。缺乏沟通势必导致人们猜疑他们实际不使用elgg,而是将帐户转到他们自己的平台上。”哦,没错,在你看清楚或者做任何事之前,你需要先选择一种形式来同意他们所做的任何变更。Graham Attwell, Pontydysgu February 8, 2008 [原文链接] [Tags: Networks, Domain Names] [参与评论] 先在Web2.0中尝试一下 根据这篇短文,教授们逐渐第一次尝试使用Web2.0技术。或者,至少是杂志上所说的Web2.0技术。哦,嗯。至少他们在尝试。转自Liberal Education Today. Trent Batson, Campus Technology February 8, 2008 [原文链接] [Tags: Web 2.0] [参与评论] SciVee 这是纯粹分发方式的交流,与TeacherTube类似,但是SciVee 这一举措值得鼓掌,因为它把科学实践免费放到了观看者的手中。内容由创作共享授权。Jane Hart, Jane’s E-Learning Pick of the Day February 8, 2008 [原文链接] [Tags: none] [参与评论] 开放大学是否在开放学习中开放了合适的内容? 引用最近的批评,Seb Schmoller 指出“你会觉得OU(开放大学)在决定开放什么内容时很谨慎,用陈旧的内容作这个备受称赞的实验。”Seb Schmoller, Fortnightly Mailing February 8, 2008 [原文链接] [Tags: none] [参与评论] Desire2Learn对Blackboard--谁是赢家? 大审周一开始。Barry Dahl表示担忧,“该案将由根本不知道自己在做什么的人来判决。”可能吧。但是想想最初的专利得到专家通过,而专家律师和立法者大军已经上我们处于目前这样的情况,而且继续作出不良决策,我很难说坏决策完全是由对自己所作所为一无所知的人做的。[原文链接] [Tags: Desire2Learn, Patents, Copyrights, Blackboard Inc., Patents] [参与评论] 摘要只适合婴儿 Brian Lamb在思索如何为学生建立简单阅读馈赠时,与聚合相抗争。我深表同情——我用Edu_RSS所做的工作都与缓存和优化RSS聚合器--你可以写某个聚合器代码,让别人读,然后分析不定数量的RSS Feed,看起来巧妙,但却是错误的。Brian写道,“也许Stephen Downes即将发布的Edu_RSS能做到”--正如你所知,我在尽自己最大努力,但是官僚机构行动迟缓。别错过这篇帖子的众多精彩回复。Brian Lamb, abject learning February 8, 2008 [原文连接] [Tags: RSS, Edu_RSS] [参与评论] Miller的《杀了所有校董》——仅仅是个煽情标题而已? 上周我链接了Matt Miller在《大西洋》上发表的文章,s article in The Atlantic, 《首先,杀了所有校董》。这篇开放教育 网志上的帖子争论道,教育衰退的原因是中央集权控制,而非地方控制。Thomas J. Hanson, Open Education February 8, 2008 [原文链接] [Tags: Schools, Web Logs] [参与评论] 学生计划虚拟援救 真实学习的又一例:学生们到该岛旅游,模拟蒙特塞拉特岛火山生还者援救计划。“随着学生们适应了自己的角色,我注意到因为他们彼此依靠,而不是依赖大人,他们中间有相当多的合作,”她说。“他们如此投入,对那些人非常担心, 当他们知道自己安全撤离的人数时,他们是那么开心。”Josh Duke, Indianapolis Star February 8, 2008 [Link] [Tags: Adult Learning] [Comment] Paula译 « Previous Entries 本站搜索 450个教育Blog搜索 订阅本站 收藏本站 译者说 最新文章
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RSS Redux
http://openacademic.org/news/mini-edu-rssRSS Redux Submitted by billfitzgerald on Fri, 02/08/2008 - 09:13. 9:30 -- Re-read Brian Lamb's blog post. 9:33 -- Poked around Stephen Downes' site, reading over some of the documentation on Edu_Rss. Really, I'm hoping to find an OPML file. Bingo. 9:40 -- Create a database on educon20.org. 9:42 -- Go to Drupal.org -- grap a copy of the 5.7 codebase, and the following modules: FeedAPI, FeedElement Mapper, Views, Views Bonus, Tagadelic, and CCK. At a later point, if nothing blows up, I'll probably add in Similar Content. 9:50 -- untar code. Realize I'm curious how long this will actually take, and resign myself to getting less sleep than I originally hoped. So it goes. 9:59 -- upload code to the server. Crack a beer. A good one. 10:04 -- bring site live. 10:08 -- in the process of installing the modules, realize I have forgotten to download the SimplePie parser. Oy. 10:16 -- create settings for the imported feeds, and create taxonomy categories the individual posts. 10:23 -- test import with a test feed. It looks good. 10:30 -- import opml file 10:35 -- first attempt at opml import bombs. Time to increase the memory allotted to php scripts in the settings.php file. Bumping it up to 40M ought to do it. If that doesn't work, I'll break up the opml file into multiple parts. At this point, I congratulate myself on the wise choice made at 9:59. A lesser beer would offer less solace during these times of peril. 10:42 -- second attempt bombs again. Time to try a third attempt, and see if it bombs in the same place. Don't know if I'm running into a php timeout, or a malformed xml file. 10:45 -- third attempt. Fingers crossed. 10:46 -- bombs out at close to the same place. In all likelihood, a php timeout issue. Small curses. 10:57 -- finished editing the original opml file into 4 smaller opml files. The first one imports with no issues -- 100 feeds down. Now trying the second opml file, which is larger than the first. Note: I'm doing all this via a wireless connection, which is rather silly. When I am uploading files, I prefer to use a wired connection, as there is less chance of a transfer getting munged. 11:06 -- the second opml file bombed -- edited it into two smaller opml files. Trying again now. 11:13 -- the first two opml files have imported cleanly. The third is importing now. After this, two more to go. 11:22 -- opml import complete. Now, to begin the process of importing the feeds. 11:23 -- first cron run begun. In Drupal, there are many wonderful things that occur during a cron run. It is a sign of my general disintegration that I now have an active interest in things that occur during a cron run. During the first cron run, nearly 1000 posts were imported from the various feeds. 11:26 -- second cron run begun. An additional 2000 posts imported 11:30 -- third cron run begun. 11:37 -- fourth cron run begun. 11:45 -- create default views for imported feeds, and keyword directory. 12:06 -- install Similar Terms module -- this is a lightweight content recommendation engine. 12:25 -- for the last 20 minutes or so, I've been lost reading content. 12:40 -- set up a cron job to run automatically. This will serve two main purposes: import new posts, and index the site so that the search actually works. It will probably take about half a day for the site to get fully indexed; after that point, the full text search will work pretty well. 1:00 -- clean up this post. Wonder why I didn't go to bed earlier. As of this writing, a little over 3.5 hours from when I started, there are nearly 7500 posts imported from around 500 different feeds. Topics: RSS | aggregation | edu_rss | Stephen Downes | Brian Lamb | Drupal | feedapi » billfitzgerald's blog
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RSS Redux
http://www.funnymonkey.com/mini-edu-rss9:30 -- Re-read Brian Lamb's blog post. 9:33 -- Poked around Stephen Downes' site, reading over some of the documentation on Edu_Rss. Really, I'm hoping to find an OPML file. Bingo. 9:40 -- Create a database on educon20.org. 9:42 -- Go to Drupal.org -- grap a copy of the 5.7 codebase, and the following modules: FeedAPI, FeedElement Mapper, Views, Views Bonus, Tagadelic, and CCK. At a later point, if nothing blows up, I'll probably add in Similar Content.
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RSS Redux
http://www.funnymonkey.com/mini-edu-rssRSS Redux Submitted by Bill on Fri, 02/08/2008 - 02:05. 9:30 -- Re-read Brian Lamb's blog post. 9:33 -- Poked around Stephen Downes' site, reading over some of the documentation on Edu_Rss. Really, I'm hoping to find an OPML file. Bingo. 9:40 -- Create a database on educon20.org. 9:42 -- Go to Drupal.org -- grap a copy of the 5.7 codebase, and the following modules: FeedAPI, FeedElement Mapper, Views, Views Bonus, Tagadelic, and CCK. At a later point, if nothing blows up, I'll probably add in Similar Content. Bill's blog | login or register
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