In this tutorial, I’m going to tech you embed am RSS feed in to your Wikispace using the embed RSS tool.
All right. To get started, first let me show you one that I did. This is for RSS feed for the District Website for the district that I teach in and I set it up to where it displays the last 10 posts. So, here I have 10 post and the I dressed it up quite a bit the CSS to make it look nice. So yeah, it’s a great way to include information automatically from another website or blog that you like and you think maybe the post will be useful for others to read and for people that visit your Wikispace. So, let me show you how to do this.
We first need to grab the RSS Feed URL. So, I found a blog that I thought that I thought would be cool to include as an RSS feed on my Wikispace. It’s called “Beth’s Thoughts on Technology in the Classroom”. Here is the little RSS icon right here. it says, “Subscribe”. We actually don’t need to click on it. all we have to do is hover over it and as you can see, in the lower left corner, it gives us the RSS Feed URL. So, instead of clicking on it, we’re going to right click on it if you’re on a PC. Or if you’re on a Mac, go ahead and hit Ctrl and then click with your mouse. We’re going to click on Copy Link Location and we’re going to go back to or Wikispace and embed it using the RSS widget tool.
All right. So, I’m going to go ahead and go into Tex Editor Mode just so I can make sure that this RSS feed that I’m embedding falls beneath this other one. now if you look at this, the previous RSS feed that I’ve embedded, you can kind of take a look at the code but there’s the RSS and there’s the URL of the RSS feed. The post that come in are links so the Link=“True” description=“true”, yes there is a description. I've set Length=“100” number=“10” and the date will also be posted as well. So, I’ll show you how to do that.
We’re going to go up to the little TV icon, the embed widget tool. Click on that and we’re going to click on RSS Feed. Okay. I’m going to go ahead and paste this in by pressing Ctrl+V if you’re on a PC or Command+V, and there it is. Now, you can set the number of entries anywhere from 1 to 20 unless you just really wanted to show a lot of entries that would put it in a lower number. I decided to put 10. Let’s just go ahead and put 5 for this one. You can choose to show the description. I did in the other one just so that people can kind have get in a short quick idea of what the post is about. So I’m going to go ahead and do that and I’m going to go ahead and make the length of the description to 150 characters. I’m going to show the link and I would like to show the date so that people can get an idea of when the post was put on their blog and I don’t really need to out the author although I think I will on this one just so that people can get an idea right of about on whose blog it is and I’m going to leave this one unchecked. But, if you do link to a blog, if you want to embed an RSS Feed, and at the blog, they post a lot of videos or podcasts, then you’ll probably want to check that one as well.
So let’s go ahead and click on Embed RSS Feed and there’s the code that we can see and then we’re going to click on Save again. All right, let me scroll down and there it is. And there’s only three for some reason. It may have something to do with maybe, oh, I think there are certain categories actually that she may have specified that she didn’t want to be included in her RSS feed so that maybe why it’s only showing three. But that’s okay. When she does post more entries with the categories that she specifies to be included in the RSS Feed, then they’ll show up. That’s five but that’s how you include an RSS feed. And the great thing about it again is that you don’t really have to do anything. It will be updated by the person that’s managing and posting to the blog so you can. as an educator, it’s just a great way to bring in lots of information in to your Wikispace automatically without you having to do much work.
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