http://openedweb.com/blog Education and Technology Fri, 02 Jan 2009 21:44:28 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7 en hourly 1 http://openedweb.com/blog/2009/01/02/some-elgg-community-site-functions-resumed/ http://openedweb.com/blog/2009/01/02/some-elgg-community-site-functions-resumed/#comments Fri, 02 Jan 2009 21:44:28 +0000 Steve http://openedweb.com/blog/?p=972 In the past few days, Curverider has reopened access to many features of their community site. Some functionality has been restored. Group owners have the option of turning their forums back on. It also appears that comments are now available for plugins and templates. In addition, Dave Tosh has opened a discussion pertaining to the Elgg [...]]]> http://openedweb.com/blog/2009/01/02/some-elgg-community-site-functions-resumed/feed/ http://openedweb.com/blog/2009/01/01/elgg-calendar-plugin-arrives/ http://openedweb.com/blog/2009/01/01/elgg-calendar-plugin-arrives/#comments Thu, 01 Jan 2009 16:49:16 +0000 Steve http://openedweb.com/blog/?p=961 A long sought after calendar plugin for Elgg has been created by Kevin Jardine. This add-on, commissioned by the Royal Society of Architects, provides an event calendar for each group created in the Elgg installation. Event Calendar requires Elgg 1.1 or higher. The only departure for a standard installation is that the plugin’s directory should be [...]]]> http://openedweb.com/blog/2009/01/01/elgg-calendar-plugin-arrives/feed/ http://openedweb.com/blog/2008/12/31/elgg-moves-forward/ http://openedweb.com/blog/2008/12/31/elgg-moves-forward/#comments Wed, 31 Dec 2008 16:20:17 +0000 Steve http://openedweb.com/blog/?p=958 Elgg’s development continues and appears to be progressing toward its next release—version 1.5. The svn revisions “odometer” has begun moving again this week after a brief break following the release of version 1.2. Elgg’s roadmap states that Curverrider plans to make major relases every six months with Version 1.5 due in February. Several target enhancements due [...]]]> http://openedweb.com/blog/2008/12/31/elgg-moves-forward/feed/ http://openedweb.com/blog/2008/12/30/mediawiki-embed-in-wordpress/ http://openedweb.com/blog/2008/12/30/mediawiki-embed-in-wordpress/#comments Tue, 30 Dec 2008 16:57:31 +0000 Steve http://openedweb.com/blog/?p=915 Matt Leifer commented on my post about the advent of BuddyPress wondering if there was some sort of integration with a wiki and WordPress. His question aroused my curiousity as I use WordPress and MediaWiki. Indeed there is a very interesting WordPress plugin that works MediaWiki. Append Wiki Page by Enej Bajgoric at the University of [...]]]> http://openedweb.com/blog/2008/12/30/mediawiki-embed-in-wordpress/feed/ http://openedweb.com/blog/2008/12/29/buddypress-user-test-drive-part-1/ http://openedweb.com/blog/2008/12/29/buddypress-user-test-drive-part-1/#comments Mon, 29 Dec 2008 17:19:10 +0000 Steve http://openedweb.com/blog/?p=885 BuddyPress has a trial site in which you can sign up for an account and give it a test run, much like the folks at Curverider did many months ago. It gives everyone an opportunity to experience the user interface. I signed up for an account and gave it a quick test drive. I will [...]]]> http://openedweb.com/blog/2008/12/29/buddypress-user-test-drive-part-1/feed/ http://openedweb.com/blog/2008/12/28/buddypress-release-imminent/ http://openedweb.com/blog/2008/12/28/buddypress-release-imminent/#comments Mon, 29 Dec 2008 00:57:18 +0000 Steve http://openedweb.com/blog/?p=876 BuddyPress, a social networking platform based upon WordPressMu, originally scheduled for release by the end of this year is in beta release. Developers have frozen new features are are now trying to iron out bugs before the version 1.0 release. BuddyPress is not an application on its own, rather it is a collection of WordPressMu plugins [...]]]> http://openedweb.com/blog/2008/12/28/buddypress-release-imminent/feed/ http://openedweb.com/blog/2008/12/27/zotero/ http://openedweb.com/blog/2008/12/27/zotero/#comments Sat, 27 Dec 2008 18:42:08 +0000 Steve http://openedweb.com/blog/?p=867 Zotero is a Firefox plugin and a powerful open source research tool. This great utility makes it much easier to do online research by helping you gather, organize, and cite your information. Rather than reiterating the features, here is a video tour of Zotero. A higher resolution version can be seen here. As mentioned in the video, [...]]]> http://openedweb.com/blog/2008/12/27/zotero/feed/ http://openedweb.com/blog/2008/12/24/content-access-plugins-updated/ http://openedweb.com/blog/2008/12/24/content-access-plugins-updated/#comments Wed, 24 Dec 2008 20:00:28 +0000 Steve http://openedweb.com/blog/?p=865 My plugins for controlling content access needed updating because Elgg 1.2 changed views/default/input/access.php; therefore, they no longer worked. I have made the appropriate changes to: nopublic nopublicwithfeeds allpublic In the near future I will also update higherwalls. The real news here may be how the plugins will be housed and supported. I uploaded the plugins to a wiki that also [...]]]> http://openedweb.com/blog/2008/12/24/content-access-plugins-updated/feed/ 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 access. [...]]]> http://openedweb.com/blog/2008/12/17/elgg-community-content-open/feed/ http://openedweb.com/blog/2008/12/12/creative-commons-licensing/ http://openedweb.com/blog/2008/12/12/creative-commons-licensing/#comments Fri, 12 Dec 2008 22:15:32 +0000 Steve http://openedweb.com/blog/?p=781 You may have noticed the new symbols on my sidebar. That’s because I finally woke up and decided to start thinking about copyright issues for my blog and other content that I put on the Internet. I was moved by the NYSCATE conference to consider Creative Commons Licensing. Creative Commons licenses allows creators  to share content [...]]]> http://openedweb.com/blog/2008/12/12/creative-commons-licensing/feed/ http://openedweb.com/blog/2008/12/10/elgg/ http://openedweb.com/blog/2008/12/10/elgg/#comments Thu, 11 Dec 2008 00:01:16 +0000 Steve http://openedweb.com/blog/?p=798 My post on the Elgg developers closing components of their community site certainly drew plenty of attention. The flurry of comments has become somewhat overwhelming. While my original intent was to report some facts and perhaps spur a little discussion on the state of Elgg. It evolved into what I considered a largely measured, temperate [...]]]> http://openedweb.com/blog/2008/12/10/elgg/feed/ http://openedweb.com/blog/2008/12/10/elgg-12-released/ http://openedweb.com/blog/2008/12/10/elgg-12-released/#comments Wed, 10 Dec 2008 14:16:39 +0000 Steve http://openedweb.com/blog/?p=795 The Curverider team has quietly released Elgg version 1.2 as a package today. It appears to be the same revision as the current trunk in their Subversion repository. I haven’t seen anything ticked off as completed on their roadmap page, so I assume this release mainly consists of bug fixes and performance enhancements. I will [...]]]> http://openedweb.com/blog/2008/12/10/elgg-12-released/feed/