http://openedweb.com/blog Education and Technology Tue, 27 Dec 2011 22:47:04 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://openedweb.com/blog/2009/04/03/site-touts-buddypress-for-k12/ http://openedweb.com/blog/2009/04/03/site-touts-buddypress-for-k12/#comments Fri, 03 Apr 2009 21:16:03 +0000 Steve http://openedweb.com/blog/?p=1271 While visiting the BuddyPress site for fresh news, I encountered a blog post entitled BuddyPress in K12 Education. It appears that BuddyPress is being piloted by the Dearborn, Michigan school district. It’s always great to hear about Open Source adoptions by public K12 ! I could see deploying components of BuddyPress in our school’s existing [...]]]> http://openedweb.com/blog/2009/04/03/site-touts-buddypress-for-k12/feed/ 4 http://openedweb.com/blog/2009/02/19/private-buddypress-communities/ http://openedweb.com/blog/2009/02/19/private-buddypress-communities/#comments Thu, 19 Feb 2009 16:10:17 +0000 Steve http://openedweb.com/blog/?p=1161 I’ve been examining both Elgg and BuddyPress for use as a social networking platform in the K12 setting. One of things necessary for our school (and probably many others) is that unmoderated content be private. About three months ago, BuddyPress developer, Andy Peatling, responded on the BuddyPress forum that the initial release of the software [...]]]> http://openedweb.com/blog/2009/02/19/private-buddypress-communities/feed/ 8 http://openedweb.com/blog/2009/02/16/mods-make-swcms-suitable-for-k12/ http://openedweb.com/blog/2009/02/16/mods-make-swcms-suitable-for-k12/#comments Mon, 16 Feb 2009 20:37:17 +0000 Steve http://openedweb.com/blog/?p=1143 I have been experimenting with the open source social bookmarking application Social Web CMS for a little over a week. SWCMS is a Pligg fork. Last year, I had worked with Pligg trying to modify it for K12 use. In order to make a social bookmarking application suitable for many in the k12 environment, content [...]]]> http://openedweb.com/blog/2009/02/16/mods-make-swcms-suitable-for-k12/feed/ 2 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 [...]]]> http://openedweb.com/blog/2008/12/31/elgg-moves-forward/feed/ 5 http://openedweb.com/blog/2008/11/28/social-bookmarking-in-education/ http://openedweb.com/blog/2008/11/28/social-bookmarking-in-education/#comments Fri, 28 Nov 2008 21:52:15 +0000 Steve http://openedweb.com/blog/?p=742 Social bookmarking tools allow users to store and share bookmarks on the Internet so that they are accessible from any computer connected to the net. There are a number of popular free commercial social bookmarking sites including del.icio.us, Furl, Digg, Stumbleupon, and others. Of course, my emphasis has been upon open source alternatives to these [...]]]> http://openedweb.com/blog/2008/11/28/social-bookmarking-in-education/feed/ 0 http://openedweb.com/blog/2008/11/02/higher-walls-plugin-for-elgg/ http://openedweb.com/blog/2008/11/02/higher-walls-plugin-for-elgg/#comments Sun, 02 Nov 2008 21:38:12 +0000 Steve http://openedweb.com/blog/?p=666 I plan on using Elgg in a K12 environment, particularly my fifth graders. In order to do this in a manner that complies with our school policies and culture, I had to make some changes. Since the Elgg environment is unmoderated, I had to remove all public access to content. Elgg’s “Walled Garden” does part [...]]]> http://openedweb.com/blog/2008/11/02/higher-walls-plugin-for-elgg/feed/ 11 http://openedweb.com/blog/2008/10/19/k12-elgg-security/ http://openedweb.com/blog/2008/10/19/k12-elgg-security/#comments Sun, 19 Oct 2008 18:11:54 +0000 Steve http://openedweb.com/blog/?p=503 Elgg 1.1 is arriving soon. The project is maturing with more plugins and themes becoming available. It’s time to plan for deployment in the K12 environment. I have been mulling over several special issues in deploying Elgg in a K12 public school setting. I invite you to join the K12 Elgg group on the Elgg [...]]]> http://openedweb.com/blog/2008/10/19/k12-elgg-security/feed/ 6 http://openedweb.com/blog/2008/08/11/posh-admin-controls-appropriate-for-k12-use-2/ http://openedweb.com/blog/2008/08/11/posh-admin-controls-appropriate-for-k12-use-2/#comments Mon, 11 Aug 2008 16:50:55 +0000 Steve http://openedweb.com/blog/?p=154 Out of the box, the open source portal Posh has administrative controls that make it appropriate for use in a K-12 school setting. An administrator can set the portal so that one must be logged in to view content. In addition, it may be set up so that any feeds must be moderated. By default, [...]]]> http://openedweb.com/blog/2008/08/11/posh-admin-controls-appropriate-for-k12-use-2/feed/ 0