Terry’s Blog

I seem to have had so little time to read or write on Elgg for the last week or two. Things have been pretty hectic in Leeds UK recently. We have now got an Elgg installation up and running at elgg.leeds.ac.uk. This may not be the final url but I kinda like it. It is still very much a pilot exercise but we will be doing some stuff on it for real and, hopefully, open it up to all staff and students in time for the next academic year. Also at the moment guest commenting has been disabled (in theory at least - let’s hope this is robust!). This is a major restriction on how elgg can be used most powerfully but there are some technical and legalistic issues that need to be worked through.

I have just watched and listened to Brian Lamb’s videocast Beyond the Blog which I discovered curtesy of a post by Joan Vinall-Cox. This, for me at least, is inspirational stuff. How far removed this is from standard institutional VLEs! And how much more rewarding and genuinely useful.

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