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The News Tool allows a Sakai/Isaak courses to display an RSS feed. RSS is a data format that allows users to view continuously updated content from another site. In addition to news, some websites use the RSS format for information that is updated often, such as blogs, events listings, or the revision history of a book. Instructors can customize their News feature by putting in a web address for any RSS feed.

1 Viewing a news feed
2 Video
3 Example of use
4 Sites with RSS feeds that might spark ideas for your course

[edit] Viewing a news feed

If your site has a link to a news feed, you will find it in the site's menubar. To view news, simply click the title of the news feed from the menubar. The title will vary, depending on what the site owner has chosen for your site's news feed. You may see News in the menubar, or something more descriptive, e.g., New York Times, CNN, or Yahoo! News. The News tool in a course or project site is an RSS "news aggregator" (or newsreader) that reads and displays continuously updated online content from RSS news feeds. RSS is an application of XML, a markup language for creating web documents. In addition to news, some websites use the RSS format for information that is updated often, such as blogs (web logs that serve as publicly accessible personal journals), events listings, or the revision history of a book. You can usually identify an RSS feed URL by the .xml or .RSS in the URL (e.g., http://www.nytimes.com/services/xml/RSS/nyt/Movies.xml or http://RSS.cnn.com/RSS/cnn_topstories.RSS). If you have the necessary permissions, you can customize your course or project site's News feature by adding a web address for any RSS news feed. You can find many feeds by searching Google for RSS feeds in your area of interest or for a particular online publication or news source.

[edit] Video

YouTube/Podcast - News


Find more videos for instructors at the Welcome To Sakai Webinar article, or look in the Video Category

[edit] Example of use

Spanish language BBC service being added to a undergraduate Spanish classes in order to have new Spanish language content for students to work with always being added to the course space.

[edit] Sites with RSS feeds that might spark ideas for your course

[edit] Journals

Canadian Journal of Chemistry: http://pubs.nrc-cnrc.gc.ca/rss/cjc_ad_e.xml

Canadian Journal of Communication: http://www.cjc-online.ca/index.php/journal/gateway/plugin/AnnouncementFeedGatewayPlugin/atom

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[Canadian Journal of Communication: Announcements]

Canadian Journal of School Psychology: http://cjs.sagepub.com/rss/recent.xml

Assessment and Accommodation of Students With Learning Disabilities at the Postsecondary Level in Canada: A Special Issue for Psychologists in Education

2012-04-20 10:53:15 UTC [Canadian Journal of School Psychology recent issues]

[edit] Stock information

Google Finance: http://finance.google.com/finance?morenews=10&rating=1&q=NYSE:RHT&output=rss

Red Hat Celebrates 10 Years of Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Reaffirms Strategic ...

2012-05-16 19:23:34 UTC [News for Red Hat, Inc. - Google Finance]

Red Hat Celebrates 10 Years of Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Reaffirms Strategic ...
PR Urgent (press release) - 5 hours ago

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates - May 16, 2012 - Red Hat, Inc. (NYSE: RHT), the world's leading provider of open source solutions, today celebrates the 10th anniversary of its flagship solution, Red Hat Enterprise Linux, which has transformed the ...

Red Hat OpenShift PaaS: Will Cloud Developers Climb Aboard? - TalkinCloud (blog)

[edit] News sources

Top stories from the CBC: http://rss.cbc.ca/lineup/topstories.xml

Tories tout safeguards in Chinese firm's telecom deals

2012-05-16 23:18:22 UTC [CBC | Top Stories News]

Prime Minister Stephen Harper and Public Safety Minister Vic Toews say security concerns raised about a Chinese firm operating in Canada were taken care of, but opposition MPs want proof and more transparency.

Deutsche Welle's Germany news in German: http://rss.dw-world.de/rdf/rss-de-news

[edit] Brock Information

Brock University News: http://www.brocku.ca/news/rss/rss.xml

Want to participate in a study looking at Sport drinks and exercise?

2012-05-16 20:36:21 UTC [Brock University: The Brock News]

Sport Drink and Exercise Study

If you do NOT exercise regularly, and do NOT have any food allergies, then you qualify.

So what's invovled with the testing?

The study involves 12 weeks of endurance exercise, pre - and post-testing (with tissue sampling, exercise capacity testing) and best of all there is monetary compensation upon completion of the study.

Participation is available for both summer and fall semesters in 2012.

If you are interested, please contact broy@brocku.ca

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Basic: Build Your Course in Isaak the Sakai-based LMS

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WHO: Instructors new to Isaak the Brock University's Sakai-based Learning Management System

WHAT: This workshop is designed to be a hands-on orientation to Isaak, Brock University's Sakai-Based Learning Management System (LMS) and is intended for instructors who are new to Isaak. The format consists of a one hour overview of the tools in Isaak and how to use them, followed by hands-on work with your course materials. Instructors are encouraged to bring their working WiFi ready laptop and course materials. Desktop computers will be available as well.

WHEN: Friday August 17th, 1:00 pm - 3:00 pm, Classroom A (ST228)

This event will be taking place in: James A Gibson Library Learning Commons Classroom A (228)

James A. Gibson Library: http://www.brocku.ca/taxonomy/term/8/all/feed

Two History Databases Upgraded with Full Text

2012-05-11 15:35:26 UTC [James A. Gibson Library]

The Library is pleased to announce that America: History and Life and Historical Abstracts have both been upgraded with the inclusion of new full text resources.

Encompassing world history from the 15th century to present day, Historical Abstracts with Full-Text covers all significant events affecting all geographic and demographic segments of the world, including world exploration and conquest, wars, political and spiritual movements, and the individuals whose accomplishments have stood the test of time. The database has the full text of nearly 300 history journals, 130 books, and additional articles from more than 1,800 journals in 40 languages.

America: History & Life with Full-Text offers resources on the history of the United States and Canada dating from the pre-colonial period to today, with the full texts of 200 journals, 100 books, and additional articles from more than 1,700 journals. In addition to English-language articles, the database contains resources that offer perspectives from overseas observers in more than 40 languages.

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