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The Critical Advocate at Learning Rocks has a rather nice couple of posts on Elgg: see part one and part two.
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Teacher abuse
From BBC News Online: The teacher targeted by the obscene messages is not a member of the National Union of Teachers. However, the union said the incident showed that teachers now needed to be protected not merely from physical or verbal abuse, but also from new forms which developments in
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Facebook penetration
According to TechCrunch today, 85% of students at supported colleges are members of Facebook. That's massive - 882 US colleges support Facebook, with more to come. Very shortly the vast majority of students will be familiar with social networking software - but more than that, 60% of users log in
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It's not just teenagers
According to this BBC News Online article: It also said they were much more likely than adults to read and have a weblog. Important fact to note: 52% of teenagers online keep a weblog, of their own volition, in order to reflect on their lives. These will be your higher
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Fear and loathing in academia
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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ePortfolio 2005
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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Dave Tosh on the learning landscape
(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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Newsnight story on Web 2.0
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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ePortfolio 2005
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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ePlugfest 2005 closing thoughts - uncut
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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Darren Cambridge on UKLeaP
{{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.