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Hello, 505. Today in our Blackboard session, to start off our course, I asked for your RSS feed and I mentioned that some of you already have a blog from a previous course, for instance, 504. But to get it to work in our aggregator, so I'll just show our aggregator really quickly, I've set up a site, OLTD505CA, which I'm hoping will aggregate and display all of the blog posts from all student blogs related to this course. To make this work, what I need is a distinct RSS feed from each of your blogs. Now, some of you have already have a blog and set that up for me as well for this course. But of course you have ones from others. Most of you are using Weebly, and I just wanted to go through the process. So I've logged into Weebly. And so, for instance, if you wanted to set up an additional blog, the thing that you do is go to Pages, and then you can actually click on Add page, choose Blog Page, and then you can go 505blog. Once you hit Save Settings, that actually creates a separate blog site. To find out what your feed is for that particular blog, what you can do is you can go down at the bottom of that page, do a right click. Now, I've got, I think I'm working in Safari right now, and it says Copy Link. And so there's a number of different, depending on the browser that you're working on. Chrome and Firefox and IE all have it slightly different, but it's something that will basically say, copy the link that link to me. You'll notice. I'll actually paste it up here just to see, just to let you know. So in this case, it's weebly.com forward/feed. And that's a distinct feed for that RSS for that particular blog, distinct RSS feed. So I'll just kind of give you the background of what I do. So I've got a WordPress blog, as I mentioned, it's OLTD 505 CA. And when I log into my dashboard, I've installed a plugin called a plugin called Feed WordPress. And what that does is actually creates a little menu down here called Syndication. And basically all I need to do, and I've already got one installed here, but if I wanted to install it, basically I just go over here, drop in that feed that I've copied from my own blog, and click on Add, takes me through another menu to check it. And in this case I'll just use this feed. Now, nothing's going to show up unless you've actually blogged already. But for instance, here's a couple of other blogs from the class. If I notice here with jeans, she's already got one set up and so if I wanted to take hers, all I'd have to do is right click and copy the link and then go back to syndicating here. So I'll go back and add another link here and go to add and then confirm this use this feed. So once Jean blogs, it's going to show up here on this particular page. I'll try it one more. I think I've got Jane's open here as well. So if I look at Jane's blogs, she, she happens to have one for 505. I'm going to click on right click on that RSS feed, copy the link and then I'll add that as well. So I'm hoping that you can email me your links. That would be really great. I could do this to pick them all up. But I want to make sure absolutely that I've got the right one. And plus I want to make sure that you have a sense of how to do this as well. So I think I did that right there to see what it actually looks like when it's done. I've done this for several blogs for my undergraduate class. For instance, I have a domain ecmp355ca. And you'll notice basically what happens is once you put a proper theme on it, you can see all of these different posts actually come from different people if you click on them. For instance, if I click right there, it'll take me to one particular student's blog. And if I do the same thing, each one of these posts comes from a different blog. So it allows kind of like a mega blog of all different students in one class. So I really like it and I'm hoping it's useful for our course. So if you can send me those RSS feeds via email, I'll add them to the site and we'll be all ready to go. Thanks.