Terry’s Blog

It feels a little presumptuous to go around nicking other people’s friends but I find this a really useful aspect of Elgg. So, whether they like it or not, quite a lot of people are going to find they are friends of mine!
I have become very interested in e-portfolios since I have been wandering about [...]

A few days ago I posted to Pedagogical Impacts http://elgg.net/pedagogy/weblog/2410.html to try to get some ideas on specifying a VLE purely on the grounds of pedagogical considerations (i.e not technical, admin, managerial, etc.). And I got some really useful feedback.
One intriguing comment from Graham Attwell was that “Long term I am convinced the VLE is [...]

A survey of British taxi drivers, pub landlords and hairdressers — often seen as barometers of popular trends — found that nearly 90 percent had no idea what a podcast is and more than 70 percent had never heard of blogging.
http://blogs.guardian.co.uk/technology/archives/2005/09/28/walking_the_blog.html
Is there a way fof getting the url above to simply be shown as a [...]

http://elgg.net/dtosh/weblog/1731.html David Tosh’s post on ‘What is Elgg’.
http://elgg.net/tour_1.php Tour of Elgg (features and how to sign up, posting, access control, forming communities of shared interests, file store and access contol to it, etc).
http://elgg.net/tutorials.php Elgg demonstration tutorials.
http://eradc.org/index.php e-portfolio research and development
http://eradc.org/papers.php papers on learning landscape and e-portfolios
http://eradc.org/description.php terminology and definitions, e.g. blogs, wikis, etc.]]>

George Siemens’ ideas on connectivism as the process that underpins a particular pedagogy and model of learning that fits well with the potentiality of certain internet social technologies has given me a very useful platform for thinking about educational design. On broadly constructivist lines, students already have an internal network of knowledge with which new [...]