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Embedding RSS Feeds in BlackBoard

By Matthew Ragan

Feeds (RSS or Atom) are one of my favorite features of the web these days. Who, what, why? Really Simple Syndication makes it incredibly easy to share the web in real time. As a publisher it means that your audience can subscribe to see updates as they roll out – imagine a newspaper that always carried the [...]

Embedding a PowerPoint Presentation

By Matthew Ragan

Presentation slides are handy things for students, in fact for anyone, to have after a lecture or talk is long over. PowerPoint documents, especially, can contain useful information that’s valuable to look back on. In many way’s they’re great, but they also have some failings. For example, unless you’ve posted the whole file on the [...]