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RSS feeds for English Learners
by Timothy Takemoto - Wednesday, 12 October 2005, 09:10 AM
I am experimenting with the great newish Moodle RSS feeds block (actually it has been around for about a year).
The Voice of America News Feeds
http://www./english/rss.cfm
Rotten Tomatoes
http://www./pages/syndication_rss
BBC Learning English
http://www./worldservice/learningenglish/rss/leweekly.xml
World Wide Words is an explanation of the etymology of difficult words
http://www.
http://www./rss/newsletter.xml
The Livejournal (Japanese blogger) English community
http://www./community/english/
has an rss feed
http://www./community/english/data/rss
About.com‘s English as a Second Language
http://esl./
Has XML feeds
http://esl./gi/pages/stay.htm
Quote of the day
http://www./useourquotes.php
Word a day
http://www./awad/rss.html
Brainy Quote
http://www./link/index.html
Daily Word Quiz
http://www./rss/
particularly
http://www./rss/word.rss
Word of the day
http://dictionary./wordoftheday/
my nihonbunka
http://nihonbunka./atom.xml
ESL Listening Podcasts, many with RSS feeds
http:///links/ESL/Listening/Podcasts/
Does anyone know any others?
It would be good if East of the Web (now ) had RSS
http://www./
Julian Ridden explains how to send and recieve RSS feeds here.
http:///mod/forum/discuss.php?d=32372#150600
TIm
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Re: RSS feeds for English Learners
by Mark Stevens - Wednesday, 12 October 2005, 07:43 PM
Tim,
As usual, you have a great list. (I have added them to the Links Glossary )
Here are some that I use:
Yahoo word of the day
http://xml.education.yahoo.com/rss/wotd/
Brainy Dictionary Daily Word
http://rss./link/wordoftheday.rss
Wordsmith A.Word.A.Day
http://www./awad/rss1.xml
http://www./awad/rss2.xml
Other feeds:
ESLMonkeys have a bunch of RSS feeds at:
http://www./free_content_esl/free_content_esl_webmaster.php
I recently started using RSS feeds in a Business English class where I asked the students to pick one article a week from the RSS feeds and write a summary or discuss the article. I used these sites:
Business Week
http://www./rss/bwdaily.rss
CBS Business News
http://www./feeds/rss/business.rss
CNN Money
http://rss./rss/money_latest.rss
Time: Business
http://rss./web/time/rss/business/index.xml
BBC News
http://news./rss/newsonline_world_edition/front_page/rss.xml
Audiobooks on iTunes
http://ax.phobos.apple.com./WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wpa/MRSS/topsongs/sf=143441/genre=0000018/explicit=false/limit=10/rss.xml
Apple dot Slashdot
http://apple./apple.rss
IBM News
http://www.ibm.com/news/us/en/index.rss
Time News
http://rss./web/time/rss/top/index.xml
CISCO
http://newsroom./data/syndication/rss1/newsReleases_20.xml
[Apple Computer related RSS]
Apple Hot News
http://www.apple.com/main/rss/hotnews/hotnews.rss
Apple dot Slashdot
http://apple./apple.rss
AppleInsider
http://www./appleinsider.rss
MacSlash
http:///rss/macslash.xml
BBC has a large collection of RSS feeds for various languages.
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Re: RSS feeds for English Learners
by Francisco Gómez - Sunday, 16 October 2005, 02:37 AM
That sound Wonderful but Can anyone explain me how to add the bbc RSS or other RSS feeds to my Moodle site?
Thank you
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Re: RSS feeds for English Learners
by Mark Stevens - Sunday, 16 October 2005, 03:27 AM
If you have Moodle 1.5 or higher, it‘s a block. To activate it,
1. click: turn editing on
2. In the blocks menu, click "Add..."
3. Select: Remote RSS Feeds
4. Click on the edit button for the Remote RSS Feeds block and add your sites.
More help, as Tim mentioned above, is here:
http:///mod/forum/discuss.php?d=32372#150600
If you have Moodle 1.4+ your Moodle administrator needs to upgrade to 1.5.2+ or add the block manually.
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Re: RSS feeds for English Learners
by Francisco Gómez - Sunday, 16 October 2005, 03:33 AM
Thank you,
I works perfectly.
Cheers,
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Re: RSS feeds for English Learners
by Mark Stevens - Monday, 14 November 2005, 03:41 PM
I know you sorted yours out, but for anyone interested I have a step-by-step how-to for adding RSS feeds to Moodle at:
http://moodle./mod/resource/view.php?id=1142
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