Blogs vs. Blackboard
| September 2, 2004 @ 9:21 am | Filed under Education |
RSS feeds! As a person who uses a news aggregator to subscribe to RSS and Atom feeds I must say that the benefit of a class website having an RSS feed is awesome! In Blackboard I have to log in to check what the latest announcements are and due dates (if the teacher posts them). With my 462 class all I have to do is subscribe to the RSS feed and I get the updated announcements with the rest of my news. I can also subscribe to the calendar so I know when changes have been to the assignment due dates. Will Blackboard eventually provide feeds for students using Blackboard?
Before I give all hail to RSS feeds in this field, I must add that this may only be something that people who are tech savvy will enjoy. I know many people that prefer to just log in when they need information.
However, it wouldn’t hurt to have an RSS feed for those of us who prefer to subscribe to a feed to get updates with all their other updates in their aggregator.