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Maricopa Learning eXchange

The PowerPoint-free, lazy way out presentation on RSS and Learning Objects

Alan Levine
Maricopa Center for Learning & Instruction (mcli)
Maricopa Community Colleges
http://www.mcli.dist.maricopa.edu/mlx/

An informal effort in parallel with D'Arcy Norman (Calgary, CAREO)

What is the MLX?

Syndication via RSS and Javascript

» newest 10 (RSS 1.0)
» newest 3 on MCLI site (PHP include)
» newest 5 (RSS 1.0 to blog)
» RSS Aggregator (NetNewsWire, etc)
» newest 10 the XML feed (RSS 1.0)

college feeds
» newest 3 for college (RSS to JavaScript)
» random 3 for college (RSS to JavaScript)
» random 3 in Mesa Community College CTL (RSS to JavaScript)

discipline feeds
» newest 5 in Economics (RSS to JavaScript)
» newest 5 in Economics (RSS 1.0)



any search result
» newest 5 with "math" in discipline field from Scottsdale Community College

RSS2JS.php PHP script

» dynamically generate RSS feeds for including via JavaScript

TrackBack in Learning Objects

» Each object in MLX has unique ID and embedded RDF tags for autodiscovery
» Tools such as MovableType bookmarklet can extract RDF and ping for new blog post

a scenario
http://jade.mcli.dist.maricopa.edu/alan/archives/000016.html
» "Lora" has a blog for learning objects in Geology with RSS feeds from MLX (keyword Geology), CAREO (keyword Geology), HUMBUL, and ITPapers.
» Lora follows RSS feed from MLX to an entry for a correlation meter (object) and blogs about how she can use it for a sedimentology lab (context).

» "Boris" has a blog for learning objects in the Humanities with RSS feeds from MLX (keyword Humanities), CAREO (keyword Humanities), and HUMBUL.
» Boris also follows RSS feed from MLX to an entry for the same a correlation meter (object) and blogs about how he can use it for his students to better understand reserch papers (context).

» The MLX entry for the a correlation meter now has a record of how the same object is used in two different contexts, by "trackback" to the blogs.

 

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Introducing the Maricopa Learning eXchange (MLX)
Maricopa Center for Learning and Instruction (mcli)
the 'net connection at MCLI is Alan Levine
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last modified: 17-Jun-02 : 9:09 AM
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