Elgg is here!
At last we have a copy of Elgg installed on a trial server. After encountering it at an e-Learning Benchmarking meeting and observing it being enthusiastically adopted by students at Brighton and Leeds, we’ve set it up to see how useful it might be in supporting learning.
As a piece of social networking software, Elgg bears some resemblance to My Space and FaceBook. It allows users to set up their own spaces and communities and provides a means of sharing information, ideas and interests in a searchable form that can be as public or as private as you like. It’s also easy to embed a range of file types including mp3s, Youtube videos, etc. This first installation will allow us to set up a small pilot to evaluate its potential use. One area of posible interest would be in using it as a base for PDPs or e-portfolios.
CHI-INFO – our version of Elgg can be found at http://chiuni.info/elgg-0.8/ and you are welcome to explore the public areas. Contact me if you want to investigate further.
John
