Apart from adding more strings to our teaching bow, the aim of this chapter is to give you an insight into some of the more complex features in Moodle. We just used a Lesson, which was an activity module. We're now going to work on a Moodle block. This particular block would have been too much to take in at the start of the book. However, with a few hours of practice under our belts, we can do this one. No worries!
You might see that some web sites have links to news items that change constantly when new events happen. You can actually choose to have these news items come straight into your computer or your email, if you wish. Some people do this to get specific news of their interest, for example, sports news or education news. We're going to get the latest geographical events and put them straight into our Moodle course by using something called RSS (Really Simple Syndication).
RSS is simply a type of web page that sends out news updates...