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EducationGuardian.co.uk | E-learning | A space on the web that we control "Elgg is all about a learner-centred, learner-controlled space in which you choose the connections, the resources and the communities you want to participate in," says David Tosh, one of its creators. Elgg encourages students "to develop an online presence" and writing for and commenting on blogs "requires a style of writing that is reflective, clear and concise. Berry has used Elgg, for example, for a discussion about the day's drama lesson, what it is like to be back at school after the holidays and the responsibility of being a house captain. education.guardian.co.uk /elearning/story/0,,1724614,00.html   (838 words)

Elgg and Drupal: Benefits to competition? | Zacker.org But for Elgg the cost sunk into developing the application so far are minimal compared to the costs over time building and mantaining it. As long as Elgg developers are looking closely at Drupal in their work, it'll be a little easier for them to pitch in a Drupal module here or there, or even just communicate with Drupal developers in creating similar functionality. I haven't used Elgg, so I can't comment on whether they should redevelop on a Drupal platform, but I'd suggest that the "sell" in that argument is convincing Elgg developers and maintainers that Drupal is flexible enough to move exactly in the directions they want to move, without compromising Elgg's emphases. www.zacker.org /elgg-vs-drupal-floss-competition   (2184 words)

Elgg -- a personal learning landscape Use of Elgg in combination with classroom study of grammar, vocabulary, and syntax gives students a chance to regularly record their progress as they put what they are learning to immediate use in self-directed, authentic, and possibly enjoyable ways. Elgg also offers a file repository, which allows users to upload and share learning objects in a variety of formats such as text, photos, audio, video, screen presentations, and so on and use them in conjunction with the weblog. Perhaps the biggest advantage of using Elgg over Moodle is that students are far more likely to continue using the tools because they own them, and to engage with others in conversation after the semester is finished because they have built their own personal learning communities. tesl-ej.org /ej34/m1.html   (3549 words)

Elgg, Drupal, and Moodle -- the components of an online learning environment | FunnyMonkey - Tools for Teachers Elgg, Drupal, and Moodle all have a role to play in providing tools for learning communities. Using Elgg, students will be able to create and maintain learning portfolios, maintain feedbooks, store files, and get updates on schoolwide and course-specific events. Within Elgg, these sections are called communities, and these communities can be set up as private (users can only join with an invitation) or public (the user joins at their discretion). www.funnymonkey.com /together-at-last   (1402 words)

Dave Tosh :: Blog   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24) Elgg started out, back in early 2004, as an alternative eportfolio system to the institutionally controlled, top-down approaches that were gaining attention. As Elgg has grown and the climate around ePortfolios/personal learning space has developed, it is beginning to feel that the time is coming for this type of personal learning landscape. If you are using Elgg and find it useful, could you consider spending a few minutes to nominate Elgg, our roadmap is looking very exciting and we have big plans for the future - any assistance we receive will help achieve these goals and produce a better system for all Elgg users. elgg.net /dtosh/weblog   (2737 words)

elgg: weblogs and social networking for the classroom | Kairosnews   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24) Been having fun lately experimenting with Elgg: the learning landscape, a social networking tool created for use in education. Or, it is open source software that is fairly easy to install for anyone that wanted to setup an elgg site in their department or institution. Elgg is about as different from Drupal as each of them are different (in their increased feature set) from regular blog software such as WordPress or MT. Definitely worth a look see before setting up those old boring individual weblogs for your class. kairosnews.org /node/4569   (409 words)

elgg | D'Arcy Norman dot net   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24) Just saw a tip about creating "feed books" in Elgg - subscribing to a bunch of RSS feeds that will be used to populate a blog. Elgg has improved a heck of a lot in the year since I quietly rolled out weblogs.ucalgary.ca (powered by Drupal at the moment). Elgg and WPMU are better as individual spaces, with varying degrees of built-in aggregativeness (Elgg has some cool Friends features, WPMU would rely on external aggregation). www.darcynorman.net /tag/elgg   (452 words)

EdTechPost: ELGG vs. Moodle - defusing a false dichotomy   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24) I've had a few people come up to me at conferences recently and ask me to compare ELGG and Moodle, and choose between them as if they were somehow mutually exclusive. Thus they are using ELGG as one of the ways to build community "between" the space of courses, community that is formed not because of one's membership in a pre-ordained group or cohort but out of your interests. But what I love about ELGG is that it is built from the groud up around the user and their connections as they key focus, rather than on 'courses' or 'content' (I'm not trying to levy a criticism at Moodle here as I like it very much as well). www.edtechpost.ca /mt/archive/000725.html   (537 words)

Drupal to Elgg Migration? | D'Arcy Norman dot net   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24) I haven't yet done a Drupal to Elgg migration, but I just took a look at the table structure of Elgg, and (famous last words here) it might not be that hard. In the migration, the ident fielg in Elgg's "users" table corresponds to the uid in Drupal's "users" table, and migrating the basic user data would be pretty straighforward. Zack Rosen had a post on his blog where he was advocating combining Drupal and Elgg -- you are right on when you identify that Drupal is not a personal environment. www.darcynorman.net /2006/02/18/drupal-to-elgg-migration   (1203 words)

Dave’s Educational Blog » Elgg - an intro or A teacher, A techie, A flower making bask(i)et   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24) As Harold Jarche said on the brainstorm on Thursday night “elgg is the first program to really invert the paradigm, to allow the user to create their environment, to choose to create their own groups etc…(pardon the pitiful paraphrase harold)” So… Elgg is, in the words of its founders, a personal learning landscape. Last i heard, the elgg guys were offering elggs for people to try out. davecormier.com /edblog/?p=24   (1048 words)

Elgg - open source personal learning landscape Elgg makes use of everyday web technologies to produce a powerful, easy to use personal system. This means you are free to download it, use it and modify it under the terms of the GPL General Public License. Elgg is a "learning landscape" system developed for LAMP (Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP) which encompasses weblogging, file storage, personal profiles, FOAF functionality and more. apcala.com /development/index.php   (95 words)

Instructional Technology: Elgg : Social Learning System Social networking: Elgg is all about the creation of a learning landscape therefore it is necessary to link to, and find, others with similar interests. Elgg uses social networking as a means of finding and sharing knowledge with others. File repository: Elgg has a file repository which can be used to house many different file types. www.earlham.edu /~markp/it/archives/006027.html   (425 words)

elgg.org :: the learning landscape   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24) Elgg is perhaps the most promising open source social networking application out there. "The weblog functionality of ELGG could mature into an attractive solution for institutions or organisations seeking to set up their open-source hosted weblog solution but by giving users the ability to self define who are their 'friends' and 'groups' and eventually 'communities' makes ELGG much more than a weblog... Elgg does appear to be the exception with no structured focus on achievements, instead providing a tool that can support learners in their reflections, can support social constructivism through group and community interactions and then, through social networking, support social constructivism at its broadest." elgg.org /feedback.php   (1440 words)

DrupalED | Drupal distributions for education This is an open source project designed to integrate Elgg, Drupal, Moodle, and Mediawiki. The project is a collaborative venture between the Elgg team and FunnyMonkey. In the next few weeks, we’ll be building out the infrastructure to support the project, including a development site to centralize the integration discussions and coding, as well as a svn repository for the codebase. drupaled.org   (1352 words)

elgg & moodle vs. Drupal using organic groups | drupal.org   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24) I just discovered elgg, when I was trying to figure out how to make organic groups work properly. Elgg has many terrific features of the type show-this-post-only-to-my-friends built-in, that work pretty much at the click of a button. Elgg also allows individual users to have their own collection of rss feeds. drupal.org /node/51166   (1512 words)

[Elgg-dev] nzvle merge + Elgg will then look for that user and validate the hash, and optionally the ip address of the lms client, and send a pingback to the confirm address if there is one, and then offer a 'signup/login' form that makes a new alias. Moodle then sends a 'incoming files intention' to elgg, with some information like filesize etc. Elgg sends back a fully qualified path to save the file to (will work with both scp and cp). Once the file sending is complete, moodle sends a 'files sent' ping to elgg, which unzips the file, parses the manifest and attaches the files (default access to private) to the requested user. lists.elgg.org /pipermail/development/2006-February/000171.html   (773 words)

elgg.net :: the learning landscape   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24) See how others are using Elgg, and try it yourself. Elgg combines elements of an electronic portfolio, weblog and social networking with the goal of connecting learners and creating communities of learning. Elgg can now be installed in a subdirectory as well as in the root of a server (something a lot of people have been asking for), and this release collates all of the improvements you've been seeing on Elgg.net over the past two months and a few extras. eradc.org /elgg_new   (322 words)

Elgg :: the learning landscape - SWiK Elgg is a community building platform written in PHP for Apache and MySQL. The contents of elgg page and all pages directly attached to elgg will be erased. elgg.org :: the learning landscape ELGG is a new breed of learning environment based around choice, flexibility and openness: a Personal Learning Landscape that firmly places individuals at the centre of their learnin swik.net /elgg   (542 words)

Moodle, Elgg, CivicSpace, CiviCRM and Drupal should join forces | Zacker.org Also, the file upload system is different and a more usable design than having only attachments as/with nodes, and the ability to set privacy levels for individuals (friends) is something Drupal does not have (unless this is a recent additional that I have missed it). While some distance educators on the web have talked about this mix and match philosophy of being able to use multiple apps as the best method, most teachers are looking for the easiest setup to use with the minimal learning curve to achieve their goals. We're working on Elgg to allow all kinds of different blogging systems to be plugged in, for example, instead of / in addition to the one that comes out of the box. www.zacker.org /moodle-elgg-civicspace-civicrm-drupal-join-forces   (1872 words)

Informaticopia: Elgg, social software, e-learning and health informatics Elgg (see elgg.net) is 'an open source learning lanscape' and provides a set of tools for exploring the development of online education and e-learning from a social networking perspective. The idea is to 'connect learners, instructors and resources creating communities of learning' and provides a hybrid of weblogging, e-portfolios and social networking. There is a short explanation of this at http://www.edtechpost.ca/mt/archive/000725.html and a link to a longer paper on social networking and distance education. rodspace.co.uk /blog/2005/12/elgg-social-software-e-learning-and.html   (325 words)

elearnspace: ELGG   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24) In a conversation today with Elgg creators David and Ben, I revisited the platform. Elgg is described as "a personal learning landscape with the goal of connecting learners, instructors and resources creating communities of learning." Simply: If you are an educator looking at new ways to enlarge the learning opportunities of your learners...or if you're a corporate trainer looking for ways to extend learning beyond courses, have a look at Elgg. www.elearnspace.org /blog/archives/002147.html   (102 words)

UBCWiki: elgg/support Elgg uses a feature of the Apache web server called mod_rewrite to create the virtual folders /username/, /username/weblog/, /username/files/ etc. It also prevents access to some folders. It has been pointed out to us that if you downloaded Elgg to an OS X Mac and since OS X is Unix based, it hides any files that start with a period. If you have installed Elgg in a sub-directory it has been noted that the Automatic tag suggestion function does not work properly. careo.elearning.ubc.ca /cgi-bin/wiki.pl?elgg/support   (527 words)

Leeds Elgg   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24) This will be used to e-mail you about pending upgrades and issues etc. It is not a discussion forum (after all, why do that when you have Elgg!) and will be used infrequently. Leeds Elgg is a fully featured electronic portfolio, weblog and social networking system, connecting learners and creating online communities. It is based on technology developed within the higher education community http://elgg.net/ and is hosted at Leeds by ISS web services. elgg.leeds.ac.uk   (472 words)

elgg.net :: the learning landscape   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24) Elgg Spaces: a learning community in a box Working as part of a team on the Elgg add-in for wiki-like pages, I've been using a SVN repository. As long as learning is connected with earning, as long as certain jobs can only be reached through exams, so long must we take this examination system seriously. www.blogger.com /r?http://www.elgg.net   (199 words)

Technorati Tag: Elgg One of my dabbles over the summer that I've spent mostly offline was to join an Elgg community set up by the folks over at Worldbridges... Elgg.net and Elgg Spaces Regular users of our Elgg.net service will have noticed the site has been given a face lift this week. We have received a few emailing asking what DOPA will mean for those using Elgg in a K-12 setting. technorati.com /tag/elgg   (310 words)

Interview with Ben Werdmuller on "learning landscapes" and the Elgg-project — Knowledge Lab The Elgg “Learning Landscape” is based on the core idea of distributed weblogs with added support for search ability, social networking, file sharing and “tagging” of content. Elgg builds on a lot of research as well as frustration and student feedback on existing e-portfolios (clip 4). Finally we asked “Will Elgg work?” (clip 7) - Werdmuller is optimistic about the technology - but the key is if institutions are going to accept the open and user centered approach of Elgg. www.knowledgelab.dk /now/e-portfolio/ben_werdmuller   (416 words)

Stephen's Web ~ by Stephen Downes ~ From an Elgg prospective it has been great to see the fruition of an idea Ben and I initially discussed 2 years ago, progress and build into something that many now see as a worthwhile enhancement to current learning environments. Elgg has been an effective podcasting platform for the past six months. Miles has been using Elgg for a while with his primary school students, here is a quote from the article: "Elgg provides the tools necessary to set up 'personal learning landscapes'. www.downes.ca /cgi-bin/page.cgi?feed=774   (1185 words)

RodeWorks » Elgg E-portfolio news   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24) Here is an interesting article on Elgg, which I am seeing mentioned more and more lately. I did a quick look at it a long while ago, but I think it may be time to give it a fresh evaluation. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons License. rodeworks.com /archives/187   (216 words)

Elgg and Apcala - The Social Software Weblog   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24) So here's where I really blow my own trumpet: Elgg has been up since November as a closed alpha, where we've been adding new features and fiddling around with it for a core usergroup of academics. On Friday we released Apcala, which is open to the public and runs on exactly the same software, which we will later make freely available. We've been written up a lot, and the underlying Elgg software is about to be released as open source. socialsoftware.weblogsinc.com /2005/03/03/elgg-and-apcala   (795 words)

e-Portfolios: New Features Planned for Elgg Dave Tosh and Ben Werdmuller are planning some great new developments for Elgg. Elgg users will be able to create presentations by extracting content based on keywords (similar to Gmail where you can create things called labels - you use these to house certain emails) And, will further secure Elgg's position as a truly learner-centric tool. weblogs.elearning.ubc.ca /e-portfolios/archives/019767.php   (167 words)

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