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News & Announcements

CMS7 News is both RSS and XML compliant. With an aggregator you can subscribe to our news page by using either of the links listed below. Two very good aggregators are: NetNewsWire [Mac OS X] and SharpReader [Windows] both are relatively inexpensive!

RSS News Readers please link to - http://feeds.feedburner.com/bluejaysblog
ATOM News Readers please link to - http://paulcolombo.blogspot.com/atom.xml

You can listen to an audio file that describes changes to our News page by clicking on the toolbar below. Then scroll down the page as I explain what we have changed here and follow along with the new features. If the file does not play (toolbar not displayed) then you need QuickTime player. This is available for both PC and Mac by clicking here ...

Recorded: March 12, 2006
paul.mp3 [5.2mb 05:43 64kbps]

Blue Jay's Blog - will now be supplying our News & Announcements page via a live RSS (Really Simple Syndication) feed that has been established from a blog that I set up over on Blogger.Com

I have set the feed to upload the last few announcements that are posted to the blog. You can go directly to the blog to view older news or you can click on this news archive link to access that here on this site.

I have chosen to use this method as it is much easier for me to post news to our site from my classroom computer using this protocol. Postings can be made directly to the BlueJay Blog via regular email and then they are echoed back here via RSS. You can click on any of the message titles in the RSS feed below to access the posting on the blog or any boldfaced text in the messages as those are direct links to web pages that are mentioned in the messages!

I hope you enjoy this new feature of the web site. If you have any questions about this please feel free to email me with those. Thanks for stopping by to see what is happening and as always, thank you for helping me in the education of your child.

-pdc

Podcasting

The blog is also audio capable. I set up the site today to accept audio files which you can call in from any telephone/cell phone. These are then posted to the site and echoed back here as well. This feature may come in handy but we'll need to work on this a bit before it's placed into use here. There is a "test" file below that I posted via my office speakerphone. I wanted to see how it recorded and sounded on the web. This is not podcasting but it is a step towards that direction!

Please Note: I am still working on different .css files to display the announcements below in the style/format that I want for this page. I will be tweaking this as we go along with this new feature ... thanks for your patience!