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/2010/06/19/buddypress-installation-for-the-masses-2/ http://openedweb.com/blog/2010/06/19/buddypress-installation-for-the-masses-2/#comments Sat, 19 Jun 2010 18:48:26 +0000 Steve http://openedweb.com/blog/?p=1436 I recently created another BuddyPress test site and I am pleased with how much the procedure has been simplified. I blogged about the difficulty in the past, so it is only fair that I note vast improvements. I never fully succeeded installing BP the first time I tried. It involved a long process of manually uploading a [...]]]> http://openedweb.com/blog/2010/06/19/buddypress-installation-for-the-masses-2/feed/ 5 http://openedweb.com/blog/2009/01/19/elgg-and-buddypress-compared-part-1/ http://openedweb.com/blog/2009/01/19/elgg-and-buddypress-compared-part-1/#comments Mon, 19 Jan 2009 16:06:37 +0000 Steve http://openedweb.com/blog/?p=993 There are two major open source social networking platforms that are garnering much attention of late: BuddyPress and Elgg. Elgg 1.0 was released in August 2008. BuddyPress is currently in beta. Regular visitors to this blog have probably read many of my posts on Elgg. Recently, I posted some first impressions of BuddyPress as a [...]]]> http://openedweb.com/blog/2009/01/19/elgg-and-buddypress-compared-part-1/feed/ 18 http://openedweb.com/blog/2008/12/03/open-content-and-tie-dye/ http://openedweb.com/blog/2008/12/03/open-content-and-tie-dye/#comments Wed, 03 Dec 2008 22:36:15 +0000 Steve http://openedweb.com/blog/?p=775 I have been on the Internet for many years now and I have noticed many changes. As a teacher I have watched resources that were once free become for pay. Now when I search for resources that are specifically geared to education, as often as not, I click on a link to find that the [...]]]> http://openedweb.com/blog/2008/12/03/open-content-and-tie-dye/feed/ 2 http://openedweb.com/blog/2008/12/02/is-open-source-too-difficult/ http://openedweb.com/blog/2008/12/02/is-open-source-too-difficult/#comments Tue, 02 Dec 2008 21:58:52 +0000 Steve http://openedweb.com/blog/?p=771 I recently joined Steve Hargadon’s K-12 Open Source Community Ning site. After clicking through resources, related pages, and links, I made the following post on the site: Okay. We have an open source community on Ning. I go to to the wiki and it is Wikispaces. I click on resources and I am delivered to [...]]]> http://openedweb.com/blog/2008/12/02/is-open-source-too-difficult/feed/ 2 http://openedweb.com/blog/2008/11/11/edublogs-inserts-content-link-ads-in-free-blogs/ http://openedweb.com/blog/2008/11/11/edublogs-inserts-content-link-ads-in-free-blogs/#comments Tue, 11 Nov 2008 20:17:09 +0000 Steve http://openedweb.com/blog/?p=705 The popular “free” educational blogging site Edublogs has begun inserting inline content link ads in the posts of their free blogs. Once users are logged in, they no longer appear, but anyone view the blog sees the ads. To disable the ads, one must become an Edublogs supporter costing $25 per year. There are other [...]]]> http://openedweb.com/blog/2008/11/11/edublogs-inserts-content-link-ads-in-free-blogs/feed/ 6 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/commercialization-of-web-20-in-education/ http://openedweb.com/blog/2008/10/05/commercialization-of-web-20-in-education/#comments Sun, 05 Oct 2008 18:21:30 +0000 Steve http://openedweb.com/blog/?p=395 Commercial interests have insinuated themselves into schools in many ways over the past several years: news programs aimed at students with advertising, sweetheart soft drink deals offering kickbacks to school districts. The list is endless. The newest manifestation of this trend is the offer of free web 2.0 tools for students and educators by a [...]]]> http://openedweb.com/blog/2008/10/05/commercialization-of-web-20-in-education/feed/ 0 http://openedweb.com/blog/2008/08/08/elgg-10-test-installation-updated/ http://openedweb.com/blog/2008/08/08/elgg-10-test-installation-updated/#comments Fri, 08 Aug 2008 14:16:16 +0000 Steve http://openedweb.com/blog/?p=172 Elgg developers recently rolled out a new test installation of Elgg 1.0 with the new Friends features. Yesterday, they added the Groups. Between these features much has been added to controls over access to content. Now friends includes the ability to create collections of friends from your list of friends. This allows you incredible flexibility [...]]]> http://openedweb.com/blog/2008/08/08/elgg-10-test-installation-updated/feed/ 0 http://openedweb.com/blog/2008/08/01/elgg-10-release-date/ http://openedweb.com/blog/2008/08/01/elgg-10-release-date/#comments Fri, 01 Aug 2008 23:00:32 +0000 Steve http://openedweb.com/blog/?p=157 Elgg just posted an August 18 release date for Elgg 1.0. Elgg core developers have been beleaguered by requests for releases and release dates for several days. I know some of the developers that have worked with Elgg in the past have had the code about a week and are making progress squashing bugs. Hopefully [...]]]> http://openedweb.com/blog/2008/08/01/elgg-10-release-date/feed/ 0 http://openedweb.com/blog/2008/07/30/open-source-server-side-word-processor-the-missing-app/ http://openedweb.com/blog/2008/07/30/open-source-server-side-word-processor-the-missing-app/#comments Wed, 30 Jul 2008 21:27:13 +0000 Steve http://openedweb.com/blog/?p=145 How many times have we heard the excuses and problems? My printer is out of ink. I couldn’t find my flash drive. The software at home/school are not compatible. All are common problems sharing work between home and school, and word processing is probably the bulk of work that is ferried between the two. Wouldn’t [...]]]> http://openedweb.com/blog/2008/07/30/open-source-server-side-word-processor-the-missing-app/feed/ 0 http://openedweb.com/blog/2008/07/26/making-more-posh-widgets/ http://openedweb.com/blog/2008/07/26/making-more-posh-widgets/#comments Sat, 26 Jul 2008 21:39:05 +0000 Steve http://openedweb.com/blog/?p=122 Posh, the open source portal page resembling PageFlakes, comes with a few widgets in its default installation. A handful of other widgets can be found on the Portaneo website. In order to make this software as appealing and as functional as PageFlakes for student, class, or school use, it would be great to have more [...]]]> http://openedweb.com/blog/2008/07/26/making-more-posh-widgets/feed/ 0 http://openedweb.com/blog/2008/07/16/elgg-10-shares/ http://openedweb.com/blog/2008/07/16/elgg-10-shares/#comments Wed, 16 Jul 2008 20:30:46 +0000 Steve http://openedweb.com/blog/?p=65 One important element in Elgg 1.0′s core is Sharing Bookmarks. Shares are Elgg’s social bookmarks. We’ll examine these features along with some screen shots, and discuss features not yet implemented. Shares, or social bookmarks, is a way to share web resources with with individuals or groups within elgg. When you click on “Sharing” “Bookmarks”on the [...]]]> http://openedweb.com/blog/2008/07/16/elgg-10-shares/feed/ 0