elgg
Get flash to fully experience Pearltrees
I will keep this short and sweet. This is the last night of the Emerge project and its Elgg site as has been .18 January 2007 we pitched the bid to the JISC. 26 Months later, I am saying farewell to a beautiful project. As ever it is the people who have made it what it has been. This ... True to the dogfood principle, we now have a case study on the development of the Planet platform.
JISC Emerge
Using Elgg as a Social Learning platform
This is the 2nd of two presentations that look at social learning; in this case how the free, open source Elgg software can be used as a social learning platform. More...This server could not verify that you are authorized to access the document requested. Either you supplied the wrong credentials (e.g., bad password), or your browser doesn't understand how to supply the credentials required.
About Elgg - All things Elgg
What is Elgg? Elgg is a social networking framework. It provides the necessary functionality to allow you to run your own social networking site, whether publicly (like Facebook) or internally on a networked intranet (like Microsoft Sharepoint). To run Elgg, you need to have your own web server and a certain amount of technical knowledge - or access to someone who does, like a system administrator. (There are more detailed requirements over here .) Elgg comes with advanced user management and administration, social networking, cross-site tagging, powerful access control lists, internationalisation support, multiple view support (eg cell phones, iPhone), an advanced templating engine, a widget framework and more.
What is Elgg? - Elgg Documentation
Who owns my learning space? Me! I should be the one in control of my learning, of the space where I document and experience that learning, and I should be free to roam as my interest takes me ensconced with my learning environment. In this article on PLEs Scott Wilson touches on concerns I have encountered just this week. (Also quoted in tallblogs on JISC based Isthmus project). I have been pushing the use of Elgg in course work, seeking to expand it to a cohort community, then a course/cohort/alumnae community - in essence to become the learning space of the learner - and to extend the life of institutional learning and connections into a student's future above and beyond the course/institution/formal learning environment.