This post was mentioned on Twitter by TerryWassall: trying to get my head round the practicalities of open education/learning http://tinyurl.com/ycvozus Any help, suggestions gratefully recv’d…

You may find my site to be of interest. It’s called LifeWork Planning Services (LWPS). It uses the Elgg engine. It’s infrastrucutre is only 20% done, so consider it pre-beta. This post describes LWPS’s purpose and value. In that post click on “individual” to see how an indivdual can use LWPS just as a simple collection of a few blog posts, or expand it to be either a PIMS, PKMS or a PLE. In the PIMS post I suggest the creation of what I call their LifeWork Portal (an aggregator of an individual’s ePortfolio-type posts) and in item 3 I link to a simple version of an LWP and then my more detailed version.

Pete

Pete Hubbard on Friday, 30 March 2007, 20:40 UTC

2. Thanks for posting these links Terry. I think we are slowly seeing thinking coming around to what we have been saying and working on for 3 years! The presentation tool is a huge bit of the puzzle but it doesn’t end there. The next bit is to break down the silos of activity – watch out for developments later this month.
Dave Tosh on Monday, 02 April 2007, 19:08 UTC

3. I think there is a growing buzz growing around Elgg Dave. You are in a better position to know but it feels as if things have developed to a point where the project is sustainable and will continue to gain momentum.

Thnkas for the information Peter. I’ll have a good look at this when I have finsished my marking!
Terry Wassall on Monday, 02 April 2007, 19:17 UTC

From today Elgg Spaces is no more. We are concentrating our efforts on the Elgg platform and our big project, on which more will surface soon. Suffice to say it will help alleviate the problem of having too many accounts, blogs etc. – watch this space!

Cheers.

Dave Tosh on Monday, 02 April 2007, 16:19 UTC

2. Wow! The shift is shifting faster and faster. I have mixed feelings about this having ‘promoted’ Elgg Spaces enthusiastically for the last few months. I’m looking forward to the news about your big project. The only constant is change is seems.
Terry Wassall on Monday, 02 April 2007, 16:27 UTC

3. “I have mixed feelings about this having ‘promoted’ Elgg Spaces enthusiastically for the last few months.” – sorry about that and thanks for the promotion, the decision was made because, to be honest, no one was using the service and with Ning coming out, the edtech crowd have moved on to that.

“The only constant is change is seems.” – and Elgg the open source product, which is coming along in leaps and bounds.

Dave Tosh on Monday, 02 April 2007, 16:44 UTC

4. I think the main reason I was complimentary about Ning was because I am trying to attract new users to a community and when they have joined Elgg/Eduspaces they then have to work hard to move away from their personal blog which is not what they were looking for, to find the community and then go through yet another joining process. I have failed to get many members into my community because of this double hoop process.
Anne Fox on Tuesday, 24 April 2007, 08:16 UTC

Have you noticed that today the link that the top had changed from “Forums” to “Site Forum”, so hopefully it won’t be as confusing as it could have been.
Emma Duke-Williams on Thursday, 11 October 2007, 10:41 UTC

2. Hi Emma

Yes. The change may have been a response to this post as it was still ‘Forums’ when I posted. I think it does clear up any ambiguity very nicely as we have learnt to associate the term ‘forum’ with community in Edspaces. If so – quick thinking guys!

Another thing I’m not sure about but will probably get used to is that the post ‘menu’ for editing, deleting and commenting is above the post now. I suppose having it below seems more intuitive partly because comments follow a post and you would normally make or open the comments when you have read the message, i.e be at the bottom.

Terry Wassall on Thursday, 11 October 2007, 13:25 UTC