Sep

28

Elgg v 0.3

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Wow.
Many thanks for all the work that’s gone into getting the new release up and running.
I spotted the download was available first thing this morning, and took the plunge to upgrade from v0.2 here.

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Sep

27

Blogging in schools

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A few elgg related things have struck me over the last week or so, so thought I’d share them here.

The first was Jeff Flyn’s recent post about Young Learners, which resonated well with a lot of what I’ve been thinking – I was really taken with his idea of the blog as a page created for the young learner rather than necessarily by them, although it could mix the two, with a gradual move to more learner created content over time. This is a tremendously appealing way of presenting the whole personalized learning notion which is getting more attention in school policy here. The problem would be teachers finding time to add personalized content, links, ideas, whatever into the blogs of all their pupils, but something like elggs groups might provide a vehicle for this, or it could be possible to write stuff straight to the database for all the learners in a particular category. Read more

Sep

27

Our first posts

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Rushed off my feet for the last week, but I’ve been meaning to post an update on how we’ve been getting on.

A few of the pupils did come back to Elgg between the first and second lessons to add more to their profiles or check out what their friends had posted, but on the whole, fairly quiet. Following Dave’s advice, I did edit the profile categories to change some of the work related stuff to invite them to talk about music, sport, drama etc, as well as naming a favourite film and author – I’d be interested to see how these change over the year, and in the future if any of them keep using our Elgg as their blogs – not sure what we’ll do about access restrictions then… Read more

Sep

14

Elgg – the first day

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I’m giving Elgg a try as a blogging tool for Year 6 in my school, as an alternative to our usual ‘design your website’ topic for ICT lessons.
Today was the first day I let the pupils loose on the system! Read more