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Hi Clare (and Stephen, and list),

At the University of Bolton we're just about to start a short JISC-funded project to develop a tool along very similar lines to Stephen's RSS Writr in terms of the source->scan->select->combine->comment->share workflow (we're calling it "feedforward"; take a spin with RSS Writr and you'll see why), though developed as a desktop application similar to NetNewsWire or iTunes rather than as an online service.

The main 'educational' things we'll be adding to the mix are incorporating research and library-style sources from the Information Environment (via OAI-PMH and SRU) into the same process, and including a wider range of output sources - so as well as social bookmarking, playlists, and blogs, we can also turn collected items into packages uploaded into JORUM, or into BibTex citation lists (similar to Zotero), if that's what you're into.

We'll be looking for people to help inform the design and provide feedback on what we develop; let me know off-list if you'd be interested in getting involved.

-S

On 26 Mar 2007, at 17:31, Stephen Downes ✮ wrote:

Hiya,

I have been working on this for some time now. You might be interested in a couple of things:

EduRSS 0.2
http://www.downes.ca/edurss02.htm

This is my main website software. It's a bit broken because I was required to move my website from the NRC servers to a privately hosted server; I took the opportunity to rewrite the code. I expect to release it under GPL reasonably soon.

RSS Writr
http://www.downes.ca/editor/writr.htm
http://www.downes.ca/cgi-bin/page.cgi?post=33281

This is a demonstration of the concept you just described. The links feeding into it are a bit broken (see above) though it would work with any RSS feed.


-- Stephen




Clare Lindley wrote:
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Apologies if this has already been discussed.

I was wondering if anyone is familiar with this presentation from 2003(!) on Learning Objects and RSS? http://www.slideshare.net/cogdog/connecting-learning-objects-with-rsstrackback-and-weblogs

The last slide suggests that work is needed in creating "Intuitive authoring tools to transfer LOs from collections to instructional environments".

I'm really interested in the creation/use of tools that would allow teaching staff to easily subscribe to RSS updates from different repositories, and then browse, select, annotate and combine all the Learning Objects they had found, all from within a single authoring environment.

I was just wondering if anyone knew of any work or research in this area?



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