Comments on: Eduglu reloaded http://www.darcynorman.net/2006/12/02/eduglu-reloaded/ just a lowly edtech geek, mumble mumble university of calgary Mon, 22 Mar 2010 11:51:33 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: dnorman http://www.darcynorman.net/2006/12/02/eduglu-reloaded/#comment-82581 dnorman Wed, 31 Dec 1969 17:00:00 +0000 677915815#comment-82581 Bill, thanks for the tips! I've been playing with aggregator2, but it's not working nearly as well as it did several months ago (i.e., it's not sucking items in at all now). I'll check out leech and feedparser ASAP. Thanks! Bill, thanks for the tips! I’ve been playing with aggregator2, but it’s not working nearly as well as it did several months ago (i.e., it’s not sucking items in at all now). I’ll check out leech and feedparser ASAP. Thanks!

]]> By: dnorman http://www.darcynorman.net/2006/12/02/eduglu-reloaded/#comment-82679 dnorman Wed, 31 Dec 1969 17:00:00 +0000 677915815#comment-82679 maybe I've just been overthinking this (too, again, etc...). Maybe we don't need a central aggregator that is aware of the concepts of Class, Cohort, Group, etc... Maybe it's more along the lines of showing people how to assemble feeds however they want. Maybe what's really needed is a way for people to list the various feeds that represent their online activities, and let people do what they want with them. Ideally, it'd let you enter a list of all feeds (my blog, my Flickr, my del.icio.us, my other blog, my Facebook, my MySpace, etc...), perhaps listing multiple feeds per source (a feed of items tagged with "BIO686" from my blog, etc... so people could subscribe to stuff relating to a particular course... Hmm.... maybe I’ve just been overthinking this (too, again, etc…).

Maybe we don’t need a central aggregator that is aware of the concepts of Class, Cohort, Group, etc… Maybe it’s more along the lines of showing people how to assemble feeds however they want. Maybe what’s really needed is a way for people to list the various feeds that represent their online activities, and let people do what they want with them.

Ideally, it’d let you enter a list of all feeds (my blog, my Flickr, my del.icio.us, my other blog, my Facebook, my MySpace, etc…), perhaps listing multiple feeds per source (a feed of items tagged with “BIO686″ from my blog, etc… so people could subscribe to stuff relating to a particular course…

Hmm….

]]> By: Bill Fitzgerald http://www.darcynorman.net/2006/12/02/eduglu-reloaded/#comment-82718 Bill Fitzgerald Wed, 31 Dec 1969 17:00:00 +0000 677915815#comment-82718 Hello, D'Arcy, For a Drupal-based solution, you also might want to check out the leech module or the feedparser module -- they are both improvements on agg2 -- http://drupal.org/project/feedparser http://drupal.org/project/leech Cheers, Bill Hello, D’Arcy,

For a Drupal-based solution, you also might want to check out the leech module or the feedparser module — they are both improvements on agg2 —

http://drupal.org/project/feedparser
http://drupal.org/project/leech

Cheers,

Bill

]]> By: Brian http://www.darcynorman.net/2006/12/02/eduglu-reloaded/#comment-82728 Brian Wed, 31 Dec 1969 17:00:00 +0000 677915815#comment-82728 About time you got off yer lazy butt... Great to hear about avtivity, and if we can help here, let us know. We've been flogging away at aggrssive 2, but ran into performance issues with 20+ sites... Have you been following Tony Hirst's blog? He's been pulling out a couple angles that might be useful: one is delivering content in chunks via RSS: http://blogs.open.ac.uk/Maths/ajh59/008866.html And this tool Grazr (and Stringle): http://blogs.open.ac.uk/Maths/ajh59/008208.html Maybe just muddies the water, but this strikes me as creative stuff. About time you got off yer lazy butt…

Great to hear about avtivity, and if we can help here, let us know. We’ve been flogging away at aggrssive 2, but ran into performance issues with 20+ sites…

Have you been following Tony Hirst’s blog? He’s been pulling out a couple angles that might be useful: one is delivering content in chunks via RSS:

http://blogs.open.ac.uk/Maths/ajh59/008866.html

And this tool Grazr (and Stringle):

http://blogs.open.ac.uk/Maths/ajh59/008208.html

Maybe just muddies the water, but this strikes me as creative stuff.

]]> By: dnorman http://www.darcynorman.net/2006/12/02/eduglu-reloaded/#comment-82746 dnorman Wed, 31 Dec 1969 17:00:00 +0000 677915815#comment-82746 I just mocked up basic functionality using Leech.module. Wow. That's close. It tries to tie into Organic Groups, so you can associate a feed (and its items-as-nodes) with any Organic Group(s) you belong to. That would be PERFECT, if it worked. I'll try to put some time into making Leech work a bit better, and Eduglu is basically done. Cool. I just mocked up basic functionality using Leech.module. Wow. That’s close. It tries to tie into Organic Groups, so you can associate a feed (and its items-as-nodes) with any Organic Group(s) you belong to. That would be PERFECT, if it worked. I’ll try to put some time into making Leech work a bit better, and Eduglu is basically done. Cool.

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