On Wednesday 11th July at the University of Brighton I attended ElggJam07, the first ‘conference’ on Elgg – an open source social networking platform which offers blogs, networking, community, feeds and file sharing features. See previous postings for further information on Elgg.
The conference was held in the recently constructed ‘Creativity Room’ at the [...]
Whilst researching Helga – a derivative of Elgg, a social networking platform, information provided by John Scriven ‘Social networking – Elgg’ posted on the CLT Blog on Wednesday, May 30th, 2007 – I came across this interesting post/ article: ‘Elgg, Drupal, and Moodle — the components of an online learning environment’, which can be accessed [...]
Terry Hanson has suggested this link. It’s a comparison of the two VLEs we’re looking at and includes survey stats from 4 universities – some interesting reading!
http://www.humboldt.edu/~jdv1/moodle/all.htm
As you may be aware, the university has been looking for ways to extend the functionality of Portia. We seem to have reached the limits of what we can do with the links from My Courses and need something similar to WebCT, which we used here briefly in 2001-2002 (ie before Portia).
In addition to [...]
