Learning PLatform and Facebook ( continued)

I spend some of my time lecturing on the PGCE Course at Leicester University School of Education and was intrigued last week to spot this session on integration of Facebook with the University's VLE, Blackboard.

The widget that does the business (sync has to have been applied for by the University, I understand) is called 'CourseFeed' and it does just that ... allows you to see your Blackboard Course(s) from your Facebook account.

One of the neat things in there is an email alerter for changes in course content, announcements, course notes and wall posts. This is especially useful as Blackboard does not seem to have cracked the RSS idea yet.

It doesn't work too well for some of the links yet but it is a good start towards using a social network as the opener to other services.