{"id":371,"date":"2006-02-21T19:52:35","date_gmt":"2006-02-22T00:52:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/meredith.wolfwater.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/?p=371"},"modified":"2006-02-21T20:22:59","modified_gmt":"2006-02-22T01:22:59","slug":"well-duh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/meredith.wolfwater.com\/wordpress\/2006\/02\/21\/well-duh\/","title":{"rendered":"Well… duh!"},"content":{"rendered":"

I just started a blog at work to communicate with my distance students and faculty. For a long time people kept telling me “we have a really old version of WebCT so you can’t have blogs in it.” And realistically I knew I wouldn’t be able to get the distance learners to leave WebCT just so they could read about the latest databases or what resources we recommend. So I let it go and focused on other things like creating tutorials and redesigning the library pages in WebCT.<\/p>\n

For some reason on Saturday it occurred to me that I could syndicate the RSS feed of the blog in WebCT using JavaScript (see Feed2JS<\/a> to see how you can do the same). So now the three most recent stories on my library news blog swankily appear on the new library pages I recently redesigned. I put the news blog on all of the pages that list our databases — the library-related pages folks are most likely to use in WebCT. Yippee! I know this should have occurred to me sooner, but I can be a bit dense sometimes. Before this, I really had no way to communicate directly with students except by e-mails to individual students. Now any time I find something the students might be interested in, I can just post it on my WordPress blog and it will appear in WebCT. Woo hoo!<\/p>\n

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The great thing about where I work is that people are REALLY<\/em> impressed by stuff like this. \ud83d\ude42 And even better is that I can think about this on Saturday and have a blog up and running and in WebCT by Sunday afternoon (yes, Sunday. I really need to get a life). There’s something to be said for being able to make simple decisions like this without a committee. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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