MIS 4700 - Dr. Garrett's Feed

New Feed Parameters

nagarrett@eiu.edu — Fri, 24 Oct 2008 11:45:12 -0500

I have modified our class feed in several ways:

1. The arstechnica feed has been discontinued

2. Items older than the last collaborative grade check have been filtered out

IT Professional Day

nagarrett@eiu.edu — Mon, 24 Sep 2007 12:03:31 -0500

Don't forget that tomorrow is IT Professional Day, sponsored by AITP. You are invited to participate in a picnic with IT recruiters at the Pavilion Pond from 4:30-5:45 and also a panel discussion on "The Globalization of Information Technology Services" from 7-8 pm in Roberson Auditorium.

Don't forget to sign your RSS feed items

nagarrett@eiu.edu — Mon, 3 Sep 2007 11:00:04 -0500

Several RSS feed items have come through without attribution, i.e. we don't know who contributed them. When you create an item for your RSS feed, we will all see it and it needs to be signed by you. An RSS feed item must be original. The text you write has to be your own. Please don't provide links without any explanation of what they are, their purpose, or their relationship to the course. Also, please don't just connect your feed to another RSS feed so that items posted on that feed automatically come through yours. While that might work fine for a personal feed, it doesn't work so well for our class feeds.

Thanks,

Dr. Garrett

Project 1 Error

nagarrett@eiu.edu — Tue, 28 Aug 2007 09:58:20 -0500

Yesterday I accidentally linked to an old project instead of the real Project 1. Please visit the web page again via this link to obtain the correct project.

Sorry for the confusion.

NG

Important Information Regarding Your Class Feed

nagarrett@eiu.edu — Thu, 23 Aug 2007 13:25:12 -0500

Here is some important information regarding RSS feeds for the class:

1. I will be aggregating all student feeds into a single feed that you will need to subscribe to. So in addition to subscribing to my feed for the class and the class blog feed, you will need to subscribe to the class student feed. The link I am providing here is the link to your class student feed. If you are using a browser like Firefox or IE7, click on this link and it will take you directly to the page containing the feed , where you can click on the subscribe button (or right click on it, select "copy shortcut", and paste it into your reader. If you are using SharpReader, just right click on the link and paste it into address box. Alternatively, you can use the regular web page, click on RSS Feeds, find your course, and find Select student feed for this course you only need right click on the link provided, select "copy shortcut," and paste the url into your reader.
2. All of the feeds you create will be aggregated into that single feed.
3. When your feed is set up, be sure to email me the feed url (in WebCT) and I will add to the aggregated student feed.

Note that because your feeds are all being aggregated together (which makes it a lot less trouble to subscribe ... a single feed instead of one feed for each other individual in the class), you will not be readily identifiable when you post. Be sure to put your name at the bottom of each of the items you post so that the rest of us will know who contributed the item. That is safe, since this feed is not available to the general public.

Thanks,

Dr. Garrett

Demo Item

Wed, 22 Aug 2007 08:32:24 -0500

This is a demo item for our feed

Welcome!

nagarrett@eiu.edu — Sun, 19 Aug 2007 16:07:23 -0500

Welcome to Fall 2007 students. I will post course-related information via this feed (such as extra credit assignments) here so please subscribe to this feed with your RSS reader and check it daily.

Cool Utility for Troubleshooting

nagarrett@eiu.edu — Thu, 22 Feb 2007 21:43:14 -0500

Here's a utility that can tell you everything you ever wanted to know about a system from the current temperature of the hard drives to the open ports. This is highly recommended for your troubleshooting toolbox and the best news is that it doesn't need to be installed and will run, therefore, from a memory stick.

Forum Registration

nagarrett@eiu.edu — Thu, 18 Jan 2007 21:04:53 -0500

After you register for the forum, you should log in and make sure you edit your account personal information and include the following:

1. Your real first and last name
2. Make sure the box is checked that says it's OK to reveal your real name to other users

Check the forum often and try to help anyone with questions.

Naming Your Feed

nagarrett@eiu.edu — Fri, 12 Jan 2007 11:24:18 -0500

Make sure your feed has your name in it, i.e. "Joe Smith's Feed." That is done in the title of your feed in FeedForAll. Just putting something like "Feed" doesn't let us see what the feed is.

If you get a feed and you want to change the name of it in your reader, SharpReader lets you rename a feed yourself. After subscribing to the feed, just right click on the feed subscription and select "rename."

My Feed on IT Careers

nagarrett@eiu.edu — Mon, 18 Sep 2006 11:35:57 -0500

From time to time I come across articles having to do with career information in the IT field. Here is the link to the feed for that site if you are interested in subscribing.

Download Squad - One of my favorite RSS feeds

nagarrett@eiu.edu — Wed, 23 Aug 2006 15:17:48 -0500

The Download Squad site keeps you apprised of a variety of websites with cool downloads and other things to do or look at. A highly recommended feed for the tech minded. The link here is the link to the feed, not to the site, so copy it and paste it into SharpReader if you want to check it out.

Interesting Sites

nagarrett@eiu.edu — Wed, 7 Sep 2005 17:53:48 -0500

Find an interesting site? Let the rest of us know about it by sharing it with us as a feed item. Just add a feed item, describe the site briefly and give us the link.

Links about RSS

nagarrett@eiu.edu — Thu, 25 Aug 2005 22:20:02 -0500

Link to my web page regarding RSS. There are links here to software and general information about RSS. If you want to subscribe to the page as a feed, subscribe to:

http://ux1.eiu.edu/~nagarrett/RSSResearch/rss.xml

RSS Reader for PocketPC

nagarrett@eiu.edu — Thu, 25 Aug 2005 21:11:09 -0500

If you have a PocketPC (Ipaq, etc.), this is a good reader that will do podcasts as well as the normal RSS feeds.