http://openedweb.com/blog Education and Technology Tue, 27 Dec 2011 22:47:04 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 http://openedweb.com/blog/2009/10/07/fbla-presentations/ http://openedweb.com/blog/2009/10/07/fbla-presentations/#comments Wed, 07 Oct 2009 19:40:31 +0000 Steve http://openedweb.com/blog/?p=1338 I had the privilege of presenting at our school’s Future Business Leaders of America’s District Meeting in Greenwich, NY today. I had a great time presenting and meeting students and faculty. I hope to participate again. As promised, I am uploading and displaying the contents of my presentations here. There there is a lot of [...]]]> http://openedweb.com/blog/2009/10/07/fbla-presentations/feed/ 2 http://openedweb.com/blog/2009/05/02/creative-commons-advocate-lessig-hit-with-dmca-take-down/ http://openedweb.com/blog/2009/05/02/creative-commons-advocate-lessig-hit-with-dmca-take-down/#comments Sat, 02 May 2009 14:40:19 +0000 Steve http://openedweb.com/blog/?p=1293 Lawrence Lessig, legal scholar and Creative Commons founder was hit with a Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DCMA) take down notice on a recent presentation on copyright law in the digital age. Lessig writes on his blog: Received a notice that Warner Music had objected to its being posted on copyright grounds. Apparently, YouTube’s content-ID algorithm [...]]]> http://openedweb.com/blog/2009/05/02/creative-commons-advocate-lessig-hit-with-dmca-take-down/feed/ 0 http://openedweb.com/blog/2008/12/17/elgg-community-content-open/ http://openedweb.com/blog/2008/12/17/elgg-community-content-open/#comments Thu, 18 Dec 2008 01:02:37 +0000 Steve http://openedweb.com/blog/?p=861 Much of the content from the Elgg community site is now open to the public. Access to groups and pages may be read. Further posts are not enabled. If you log in to your account, you will have access to any groups that you had joined earlier, as well as pages to which you had [...]]]> http://openedweb.com/blog/2008/12/17/elgg-community-content-open/feed/ 1 http://openedweb.com/blog/2008/12/05/elgg-devs-close-groups-and-comments/ http://openedweb.com/blog/2008/12/05/elgg-devs-close-groups-and-comments/#comments Fri, 05 Dec 2008 23:16:09 +0000 Steve http://openedweb.com/blog/?p=783 After a blistering attack resulting from user problems with the newly uploaded Wire plugin, it appears that the Elgg developers have shut down several functions on the Elgg community site. Groups and the ability to comment on uploaded content are not currently available. Dave Tosh uploaded a new version of The Wire to the site [...]]]> http://openedweb.com/blog/2008/12/05/elgg-devs-close-groups-and-comments/feed/ 84 http://openedweb.com/blog/2008/10/25/pete-harris-releases-flurry-of-themes/ http://openedweb.com/blog/2008/10/25/pete-harris-releases-flurry-of-themes/#comments Sat, 25 Oct 2008 23:37:43 +0000 Steve http://openedweb.com/blog/?p=562 Elgg designer Pete Harris, has released several new themes. Now there are several options other than the core theme. Note that all the new themes require Elgg version 1.09+ which is only available in Elgg’s Subversion repository. Pete’s first offering was his SimpleBlackBlueTech Theme. This theme introduced techniques for applying the theme to plugins as [...]]]> http://openedweb.com/blog/2008/10/25/pete-harris-releases-flurry-of-themes/feed/ 2 http://openedweb.com/blog/2008/10/21/new-elgg-release-dates/ http://openedweb.com/blog/2008/10/21/new-elgg-release-dates/#comments Tue, 21 Oct 2008 23:10:21 +0000 Steve http://openedweb.com/blog/?p=528 Tentative release dates have revealed for Elgg versions 1.1 and 1.5. Version 1.1 has a target date of November 3, 2008. Version 1.5 is due next February. Bear in mind these time frames are not set in stone. Pete Harris, the Elgg dev team’s designer, has released a number of great themes requiring Elgg version [...]]]> http://openedweb.com/blog/2008/10/21/new-elgg-release-dates/feed/ 1 http://openedweb.com/blog/2008/10/05/tinymce-with-tinybrowser-for-elgg-10/ http://openedweb.com/blog/2008/10/05/tinymce-with-tinybrowser-for-elgg-10/#comments Sun, 05 Oct 2008 23:14:34 +0000 Steve http://openedweb.com/blog/?p=410 Various people have worked to extend the wysiwyg editor Tinymce for Elgg. First Lee Teague made Tinymce_adv adding many features to the default Tinymce text editor. Then Joey One Time  fixed some bugs with embedding media displaying in IE. The only thing left on my wishlist was a file browser/uploader allowing users to upload files [...]]]> http://openedweb.com/blog/2008/10/05/tinymce-with-tinybrowser-for-elgg-10/feed/ 39 http://openedweb.com/blog/2008/10/03/new-elgg-support-community-coming-soon/ http://openedweb.com/blog/2008/10/03/new-elgg-support-community-coming-soon/#comments Fri, 03 Oct 2008 20:40:32 +0000 Steve http://openedweb.com/blog/?p=387 Tweets and shouts reveal that the core Elgg developers are on the cusp of introducing a new Elgg support community. They are responding to user requests for something better suited than Google Groups. Dave Tosh tweeted that he was working on a new Elgg community site, while Marcus Povey mentioned working on the 1.1 release [...]]]> http://openedweb.com/blog/2008/10/03/new-elgg-support-community-coming-soon/feed/ 6 http://openedweb.com/blog/2008/09/05/great-elgg-10-plugins-trickling-in/ http://openedweb.com/blog/2008/09/05/great-elgg-10-plugins-trickling-in/#comments Sat, 06 Sep 2008 00:29:14 +0000 Steve http://openedweb.com/blog/?p=292 Some early users were disappointed by the lack of features upon Elgg 1.0′s release. What they didn’t realize is that the new Elgg was designed as an extensible core engine to drive plugins and interact with other social platforms. Elgg 1.0 developers are starting to release plugins that extend the basic Elgg 1.0. What has [...]]]> http://openedweb.com/blog/2008/09/05/great-elgg-10-plugins-trickling-in/feed/ 19 http://openedweb.com/blog/2008/07/02/pligg-an-overview/ http://openedweb.com/blog/2008/07/02/pligg-an-overview/#comments Wed, 02 Jul 2008 22:28:09 +0000 Steve http://openedweb.com/blog/?p=45 Having installed Pligg, I’ve had an opportunity to give it a trial run as a user. Pligg is an open source social bookmarking application that imitates Digg. Users are able to submit stories or links to share with others with tags and descriptions. Submissions are approved by an admin, then users can vote or comment [...]]]> http://openedweb.com/blog/2008/07/02/pligg-an-overview/feed/ 1 http://openedweb.com/blog/2008/04/27/svn-and-ssh-for-installing-and-updating-sites/ http://openedweb.com/blog/2008/04/27/svn-and-ssh-for-installing-and-updating-sites/#comments Sun, 27 Apr 2008 16:49:09 +0000 Steve http://openedweb.com/blog/?p=35 One problem with administering multiple programs on several websites is keeping all the software up to date. Sometimes there seems to be an endless string of security updates and it can add up to quite a chore. It is easy to fall behind and leave scripts outdated and vulnerable. This site is a case in [...]]]> http://openedweb.com/blog/2008/04/27/svn-and-ssh-for-installing-and-updating-sites/feed/ 0 http://openedweb.com/blog/2008/01/16/blogging-shift-from-technology-to-pedagogy/ http://openedweb.com/blog/2008/01/16/blogging-shift-from-technology-to-pedagogy/#comments Wed, 16 Jan 2008 17:38:56 +0000 Steve http://openedweb.com/blog/2008/01/16/blogging-shift-from-technology-to-pedagogy/ My students and I are finding our way through WordPressMU (WPMU). I have worked through security, configuration, and administrative work flow. The kids post and comment. Now we focus more on learning. Students customized their sites using themes, widgets, and blogroll. I set them to contributor so the posts would be moderated before appearing. Comments [...]]]> http://openedweb.com/blog/2008/01/16/blogging-shift-from-technology-to-pedagogy/feed/ 0