Rotating Content Tool Workshop

Using The Rotating Content Tool: Merlot International Conference, 2005

The following slideshow presents an overview of the Rotating Content Tool developed by Laura Gibbs and Randy Hoyt.

The table provides a list of the topics covered in the slideshow, and you can also find examples of Rotating Content displayed at the bottom of this page. The handout for the workshop is also available online.

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Slide 1. Introductions.
Slide 2. What is Rotating Content?
Slide 3. Calendar Content: The Roman Calendar
Slide 4. Calendar or Random Content: Latin Proverbs
Slide 5. Roman Calendar and Latin Proverbs Webpages
Slide 6. Aesop's Fables
Slide 7. Andrew Lang's Fairy Tales
Slide 8. New Testament Images
Slide 9. Douglas Adams: Quotes and Images
Slide 10. News Headlines

Slide 11. Rotating Content in a CMS (Desire2Learn, Blackboard)
Slide 12. Five Reasons for Rotating Content
Slide 13. Reason #1: Fresh Content
Slide 14. Reason #2: Content Chunks
Slide 15. Reason #3: HTML Content
Slide 16. Reason #4: Reusable Content
Slide 17. Reason #5: Shareable Content
Slide 18. Hands-On: Rotating Content in Blackboard
Slide 19. Hands-On: Creating a Webpage with Rotating Content
Slide 20. Create Your Own Rotating Content

Slide 21. Rotating Content Tool Website: Overview
Slide 22. Tool: Randomized Content
Slide 23. Tool: Fixed-Date Calendar Content
Slide 24. Tool: Perpetual Calendar Content
Slide 25. Tool: Progress Meter
Slide 26. Hands-On: Create Random Content Table
Slide 27. Hands-On: Add Content to Table
Slide 28. Hands-On: Convert Table to Script and Save
Slide 29. Hands-On: Add Script to Webpage
Slide 30. Conclusions

Fables, Stories and Proverbs:

Random English Proverb:

Random Aesop's Fable:

Random Tale from Arabian Nights:

Random Fairy Tale:

Roman Calendar:

Here is the Roman Calendar for :

Using The Rotating Content Tool: Merlot International Conference, 2005

Fables, Stories and Proverbs:

Roman Calendar:

New Testament Image:

Mathematician Biographies:

Greek and Roman Myth Image: