Emerging from the gloop of e-Learning Benchmarking, I’ve escaped to London for a couple of interesting meetings – first up, OpenID.
Q. What links all these companies & organisations?
A. They all use OpenID
Most IT systems nowadays use a form of single sign-on (SSO) authentication to remove the need for users to log into each separate [...]
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 [...]
Back in May I referred to the potential fog that surrounds all things Web 2.0. For those who equate learning software with just a few software applications, perhaps WebCT/Blackboard, QuestionMark Perception, MS Office and a good web browser, it can come as a shock that there are now so many Web 2.0 applications [...]
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 [...]
Viv Palmer has sent me a link to an excellent site produced by the OU/Sussex Learning Network that helps to explain what Web 2.0 applications actually do and how they may be useful in supporting learning. It’s stuffed with links to demos, examples and research papers and deserves a place in your Bookmarks or [...]
Some of my contacts in other universities report favourably on Elgg, a social networking platform based around choice, flexibility and openness. Basically, Elgg is software that allows users to use other Web 2.0 tools in a PLE (Personal Learning Environment) as a social networking framework. These can include blogs, RSS feeds, links to [...]
At the VLE meeting last week, David Scarfe from Bognor library was talking about editing and combining RSS feeds. I used to use RSS to keep up with the news on my computer but as I’m usually woken by Humphys, Naughtie, et al I’ve usually had my fill by the time I’m at [...]
After last week’s post on our move towards Moodle, someone stopped me and said, not quite in these words but you will get the central thrust, “Moodle, caboodle, ding dang doodle, blog, dog, Web 2, diddly doo, just got my head round Portia, or was it Porsche, aargh …. help, my head’s exploding!”
Anyone who [...]
