Saturday, September 13, 2003
Page design over time. Randy Brown (CarvingCode) thinks ahead as he displays more than one blog on a page in order to share resources in a course and to keep those resource links alive when the students take the next course in the sequence -- smart move. He says:
Notice that I am incorporating feeds from three separate weblogs on a single page. One feed is from a blog specifically for the one course, while the other two are shared weblogs. I use the "Announcements" weblogs to push messages across all of the course I teach online. The "Web resources" weblog is pushed to four online courses that share a degree program.
Students who take the first course in the sequence online will typically take the others. So they see a consistent look and feel, but more importantly can continue to make use of resources made available to them early on in their program. #
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Notice that I am incorporating feeds from three separate weblogs on a single page. One feed is from a blog specifically for the one course, while the other two are shared weblogs. I use the "Announcements" weblogs to push messages across all of the course I teach online. The "Web resources" weblog is pushed to four online courses that share a degree program.
Students who take the first course in the sequence online will typically take the others. So they see a consistent look and feel, but more importantly can continue to make use of resources made available to them early on in their program. #
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Course-linked Bloglines. By sharing an aggregator site with students, a teacher can create a custom news feed aimed at the topic of a course that becomes part of the course content. Bloglines, for example, allows users to open a subscription list to others as one of the options on the profile page.
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