![]() ![]() Novafeed – multiple feeds, slightly fiddly to set up but offers quite a bit of flexibility.Blastcasta – 1 feed, very quick and easy to set up but limited style options.Clean and simple but not as flashy as others Webrss – 1 feed if you don’t register, multiple feeds if you register (which is free).Standard design looks very sleek but without paying, it’s very limited Feederninja – requires registration, 1 feed with little customisation options.Feedzilla – multiple feeds but from a pre-set list, limited design options.Feedgrabbr – 3 feeds, requires registration, nice display based on templates with scrolling options but most of the better templates require purchase.Tint – 2 feeds, requires registration, excellent visual impact.RSS Feed Widget – 1 feed, no registration with a simple output.FeedWind – multiple feeds, no registration, scrolling display and plenty of customisation options. ![]() I would happily recommend either of these for your feed needs. Tint looks much slicker but the free version only allows 2 feeds. FeedWind is the more robust and allows for lots of feeds in one place. If you’ve got no time to read the review of each app, I’d go directly to FeedWind or Tint. As this post is related to Blackboard, the final part of the testing was uploading the widget into a content item and trying it on different browsers (Internet Explorer, Mozilla Firefox and Google Chrome). I’ve tested each widget with the same RSS feeds to ensure that this review is comparable. I looked at 10 free, web-based widget solutions and compared them with each other. This is something that you can put into Blackboard as a content item, making it look like there’s dynamic information. Now that you’ve got an RSS feed, you can make a widget. However, if you copy that link into what’s known as an RSS Reader it will display a summary of the contents of the website in a clear format. If you click on this RSS link in your browser you’ll most likely get a page of code. From my experience this tends to be around the bottom of the page. ![]() If you look at some of your favourite websites, you might notice the words RSS in a link somewhere. This means you can have dynamic content changing on a regular basis in your module without having to do anything! Of course, if the website doesn’t change then there will be no new information but if you choose sites that have regular updates then the content will change frequently, making your module look a lot more alive. With a little bit of effort, you can use an RSS feed in your Blackboard module. It allows you to get updates from various websites delivered directly to you without the need of visiting those websites. RSS stands for either Rich Site Summary or Really Simple Syndication. In this blog post we’re going to take a quick look at 10 RSS widgets that you can embed directly into your Blackboard module. ![]()
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