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I decided to encourage a bit more posting over the last week, and I’m pleased to see most have risen to the challenge.

Bearing in mind that our whole blogging project has been slipped in under the guise of ‘designing a website’, I thought we ought to have a go at images today. Read more

A few technical gliches getting the standard themes working properly in our installation, but we’re there now (Thanks, Dave), and the personalization idea has really captured my pupils imagination, and has won a few converts to the ‘Elgg’s better than Moodle’ contingent.

The actual blogging is going well, too. About half of the cohort are using it for themselves, rather than waiting for the lessons, which is pretty good I reckon. These extra posts are not, on the whole, centred on school subjects, but it’ll be interesting to see if that changes over time. Read more

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