Thanks David and David for including RSS feed links in the sidebar as well as “Radio 522” for keeping track of recent comments!
This is an asset to stay on top of site activity. I’m wondering if it might be useful to have a brief mention on the Radio 522 page (or elsewhere) informing students how RSS feeds can be used/saved/subscribed to? I had a previous class (565A) which required the use of a feed reader, and I noticed that most classmates had never used one, or didn’t know that they could find/install a feed manager. Might be useful to list some browser add-ons/extensions or even apps for this?
Took me a while to realize that I could access and subscribe to the class comments feed by clicking on the feed icon in the sidebar:
I was then able to either bookmark the comments feed using my favorite feed reader for Firefox:
Now I can get new comment notifications so I don’t miss anything, which is awesome!
PS. The nested commenting tools work great now!
Hi Bobbi. This is a good suggestion, and was in fact my first post on this terms’s ETEC 522.
See –> http://etec522m.sites.olt.ubc.ca/2014/05/11/hello-davidp-here/
Examples of RSS feed readers are linked within that post. Most feed readers allow sorting, filtering, and selective reading and flagging to let you know what is new and what you have not read as yet. And, it is how I tend to keep up on a daily basis, myself.
The URLs for RSS feed readers are:
Posts –> http://etec522m.sites.olt.ubc.ca/feed/
Comments –> http://etec522m.sites.olt.ubc.ca/comments/feed/
Ha, sorry David! I didn’t see that you had already posted it, as I lost it in the stream of newly dated posts. Having it static on a page so it doesn’t disappear would be great! At any rate, thanks very much for including it in this iteration, it is super helpful. : )
No problem, Bobbi.
Using the feed reader and RSS links above brought in 124 posts and 78 comments when I set it up on another computer a few minutes ago. So it’s not too late for everyone to get a whole set of static posts to reference, that will also grow as more is added to the posts and comments on the site.
dp