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/2009/04/03/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/2009/03/01/lesson-learned-from-magnolia/ http://openedweb.com/blog/2009/03/01/lesson-learned-from-magnolia/#comments Sun, 01 Mar 2009 18:17:29 +0000 Steve http://openedweb.com/blog/?p=1217 Social Bookmarking site Ma.gnolia experienced a disastrous database corruption which has brought the site down. On February 17, Ma.gnolia owner Larry Halff announced that the data could not be recovered. He answered some interesting questions about Ma.gnolia and cloud computing services in general in this interview. It is long, but I really think the video [...]]]> http://openedweb.com/blog/2009/03/01/lesson-learned-from-magnolia/feed/ 0 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/2008/10/20/new-bill-mandates-social-networking-safety-instruction/ http://openedweb.com/blog/2008/10/20/new-bill-mandates-social-networking-safety-instruction/#comments Mon, 20 Oct 2008 20:52:58 +0000 Steve http://openedweb.com/blog/?p=518 New legislation passed unanimously by the US Senate and headed for the President’s desk mandates schools to provide instruction about safety on social networking sites. The language was appended to S.1492 bill Broadband Data Improvement. While the thrust of the bill is improving broadband Internet access to Americans, SubTitle A: Promoting a Safe Internet for [...]]]> http://openedweb.com/blog/2008/10/20/new-bill-mandates-social-networking-safety-instruction/feed/ 2 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/2008/07/13/elgg-10-screencaps-2-navigation/ http://openedweb.com/blog/2008/07/13/elgg-10-screencaps-2-navigation/#comments Sun, 13 Jul 2008 17:37:05 +0000 Steve http://openedweb.com/blog/?p=57 Elgg 1.0 features a great set of navigation features. They are both practical and elegant. First, elgg has an attractive navigation bar across the top of each page similar to that of the admin side of WordPress 2.5.(Click to enlarge) It features links to the user’s profile, dashboard, message and settings. It also has a [...]]]> http://openedweb.com/blog/2008/07/13/elgg-10-screencaps-2-navigation/feed/ 2 http://openedweb.com/blog/2008/07/12/elgg-10-user-interface-screenshots-1/ http://openedweb.com/blog/2008/07/12/elgg-10-user-interface-screenshots-1/#comments Sat, 12 Jul 2008 20:36:20 +0000 Steve http://openedweb.com/blog/?p=53 Developer Dave Tosh just contacted me to let me know that I could start publishing screen shots of the Elgg 1.0 user interface. Pete Harris, the Elgg design guru has done a great job! While it is still a work in progress, I’ve seen an evolution of design in the past week as the Elgg [...]]]> http://openedweb.com/blog/2008/07/12/elgg-10-user-interface-screenshots-1/feed/ 0 http://openedweb.com/blog/2008/07/06/elgg-10-user-widgets/ http://openedweb.com/blog/2008/07/06/elgg-10-user-widgets/#comments Sun, 06 Jul 2008 15:22:49 +0000 Steve http://openedweb.com/blog/?p=48 One of the new user features in Elgg 1.0 is greater flexibility with widgets. They can be accessed from either a user’s dashboard or profile page by clicking the “Customize Layout” link on either. Each widget has a link to a small pop-up that briefly describes the function. They work similarly to WordPress Widgets. Users [...]]]> http://openedweb.com/blog/2008/07/06/elgg-10-user-widgets/feed/ 0 http://openedweb.com/blog/2008/07/05/elgg-10-user-perspective/ http://openedweb.com/blog/2008/07/05/elgg-10-user-perspective/#comments Sat, 05 Jul 2008 18:52:00 +0000 Steve http://openedweb.com/blog/?p=47 Several months ago, I installed and played around with elgg verion 0.9.1. I kicked it around a bit and liked what I saw. Once I discovered that a new drastically changed version was in the works as elgg 1.0, I decided to pursue other interests until it came out. While it is not quite out [...]]]> http://openedweb.com/blog/2008/07/05/elgg-10-user-perspective/feed/ 1 http://openedweb.com/blog/2007/12/23/elgg-installation-and-first-impressions/ http://openedweb.com/blog/2007/12/23/elgg-installation-and-first-impressions/#comments Sun, 23 Dec 2007 19:26:23 +0000 Steve http://openedweb.com/blog/2007/12/23/elgg-installation-and-first-impressions/ I just installed Elgg, the open source social networking platform, on our school’s shared server space. I really cannot speak to the feature set as of yet. This pertains to the nuts and bolts of installing, configuring, and customizing the site. To begin with, automatic installation is not available through cpanel/fantastico, so a manual installation [...]]]> http://openedweb.com/blog/2007/12/23/elgg-installation-and-first-impressions/feed/ 0