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My mother recently started a distance learning course using WebCT, and immediately asked if this was "one of Elgg's competitors". "No," came my answer, "but I'm interested in how you're finding it." She was neither impressed nor unimpressed,
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Team Elgg: David Tosh, Misja Hoebe, Ben Werdmuller (l-r). I'd say this was a productive conference, all things considered. It was great to meet Misja and have a face-to-face discussion between the three of us; it was also nice to meet all these other people
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(This entry was live-blogged during Dave's talk at ePortfolio 2005 in Cambridge.) Most people running eportfolio systems seemed to think they were social software - an interesting development! I'm not sure this would have been true this time last year, but as more people actually implement
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Did anyone else see the Newsnight story on Web 2.0 just now? It's interesting to see the mainstream media frame these technologies in a way that the unaccustomed can easily understand. It might be worth discovering more of these in the future - you can build the coolest
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Today has been interesting to say the least. Lots of people (a capacity audience) talking about all kinds of different issues surrounding e-learning and e-portfolios. I'm very interested in topic maps, which have come up several times; the trick is going to be creating a friendly
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The ePortfolio 2005 conference starts in earnest tomorrow - today we were all talking about how different e-portfolio systems can interoperate, and in theory demonstrating working implementations. The instructions we were sent months in advance dictated no PowerPoint presentations; I knew exactly how the day would pan out after the
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{{file:1717}} Interesting mention of deriving test systems from UML - first time I've heard that standard discussed at an e-learning conference. "Driven by the needs of users", "Give priority to methods currently in use" - absolutely!
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{{file:1716}} There was some talk of alternative RDF bindings as opposed to IMS - it's worth mentioning that FOAF is one such binding, which Elgg supports today.
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I'm not the first person on Elgg.net to be blogging this - check back through the day to see our reflections. Tea and coffee at the reception: {{file:1714}} Fabrizio Giorgini's Giunti Labs presentation in progress: {{file:1715}}
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I'm going to keep this short, because it's late and I'm tired - however, there are several things of note: * I'm in Cambridge, ready for the ePlugfest tomorrow - exciting stuff! * I'm posting this using a generic Windows blogging client (Zempt, if
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Vaguely related to my post about training, Bill Thompson @ BBC News points out a new web safety campaign starting this week. Get Safe Online is "a joint government and private sector initiative aimed at helping consumers and small businesses to use the internet safely." Unfortunately the website isn&
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Indicating HTML and RDF authorship with FOAF Drupal FOAF module