Elgg : Social Learning System
elgg.org :: the learning landscape — this looks very interesting.
Martin Langhoff and compatriots in New Zealand are working on integrating Elgg with Moodle . Here’s how it could appeal:
“Immediately appealing are the ideas of being able to set journal / assignment type activites in Moodle to be accomplished in Elgg, so that learners can share their reflections with their peers rather than just their teachers, and to bring Elgg’s social tagging tools to Moodle resources and activities.”
Elgg Information
Elgg Development Archives
To Do — download and install on Macarius
Feature List
- Weblog: Elgg comes with a personal and friends weblogging system. This weblog is a central piece and can link to items in the repository. Each weblog post can be shared with who ever the learner wants.
- Social networking: Elgg is all about the creation of a learning landscape therefore it is necessary to link to, and find, others with similar interests. Elgg uses social networking as a means of finding and sharing knowledge with others.
- File repository: Elgg has a file repository which can be used to house many different file types.
- Access control: This is one of the strongest features in Elgg, a powerful access system allows fine-grained privacy to all aspects of an individuals Elgg.
- Tagging: This is now a popular way to search and find other objects and people of similar interest.
- Community building: using the communities function learners can create their own communities around shared interests. This is also proving popular for research collaboration.
- Wiki: Thanks to UBC for hosting the wiki part of Elgg. Each community create comes with a ready to use wiki.
- Profile data: link to other learners and resources through your profile data.
- Syndication: RSS - there are RSS feeds for learners, weblogs, communities, tags, files and FOAF.
- Podcasting: Elgg is an extremely effective podcasting platform.
Quotes and Testimonials - Elgg Information
“I use Elgg in both corporate and academic environments. I selected Elgg because it matches my focus of learning as a connection-forming process. Most technology learning tools I’ve encountered assume that learning happens through content consumption. I believe learning happens through the formation of connections, with social interactions playing a critical enabling process. Through the use of Elgg, I hope to create learning environments for my learners that are reflective of the types of challenges they will face in real life - where learning is often ‘fuzzy’ and nebulous, not static and structured.”
Posted by markp at February 28, 2006 12:22 PM