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/2009/02/19/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/2009/01/27/beware-of-cloud-freebies/ http://openedweb.com/blog/2009/01/27/beware-of-cloud-freebies/#comments Tue, 27 Jan 2009 16:47:31 +0000 Steve http://openedweb.com/blog/?p=1056 Sometimes I think I am becoming unpopular on some educational technology websites. I have a keen distrust of free hosted services that are touted by so may web evangelists and those that frequent such sites. Some edtech sites almost seem like clearinghouses for free Internet based services. I have often challenged the use of such [...]]]> http://openedweb.com/blog/2009/01/27/beware-of-cloud-freebies/feed/ 8