One of the side purposes of this project is to figure out how this tool might be useful for communication in some of my classes. What would be ideal in the content delivery is that the material finds the person rather than the person has to click on a bunch of stuff to get to it. Blackboard can do that if the students sign up to have the posts emailed to them, however you have to be part of the BB class, and once people leave Elon they lose that access.
Here's what I've figured out so far of how people can get this content directly to them:
- subscribe to it as an RSS feed. The easiest thing would be to link it in your favorite web browser and then whenever the blog gets updated a little notification comes up in your browser bar. In my Safari browser it shows up as a little number in parentheses.
underneath the posting there's a "subscribe to post comments". Clicking on this appears to subscribe you to the RSS feed for this via your web browser
- follow it via Google - I'll have to look more into this.
ok, just checked out Google reader - looks like that acts as a personalized news page/feed and the Blog showed up on there - another way to follow it
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