http://openedweb.com/blog Education and Technology Sun, 22 Aug 2010 23:40:01 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 http://openedweb.com/blog/2009/02/08/elgg-devs-crack-open-door-on-wiki/ http://openedweb.com/blog/2009/02/08/elgg-devs-crack-open-door-on-wiki/#comments Sun, 08 Feb 2009 20:03:14 +0000 Steve http://openedweb.com/blog/?p=1087 I browsed to the Elgg documentation wiki today and discovered that they have begun to let individuals other than the four core developers contribute. Names other than Ben, Dave, Marcus, and Pete are appearing on the recent changes page. On the front page of the wiki, developers wrote: If you are using Elgg and would [...]]]> http://openedweb.com/blog/2009/02/08/elgg-devs-crack-open-door-on-wiki/feed/ 0 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 [...]]]> http://openedweb.com/blog/2008/12/24/content-access-plugins-updated/feed/ 8 http://openedweb.com/blog/2008/04/30/mediawiki-for-elementary-students/ http://openedweb.com/blog/2008/04/30/mediawiki-for-elementary-students/#comments Wed, 30 Apr 2008 16:20:52 +0000 Steve http://openedweb.com/blog/?p=37 I was considering a number of wiki engines for my classroom. Having a strong bias as state in this article, I was looking for a self hosted wiki. I put a call out for suggestions on Classroom20.com. PmWiki and Docuwiki were suggested as well as MediaWiki. Ultimately I chose MediaWiki for a number of reasons. [...]]]> http://openedweb.com/blog/2008/04/30/mediawiki-for-elementary-students/feed/ 0 http://openedweb.com/blog/2008/02/19/distance-collaboration/ http://openedweb.com/blog/2008/02/19/distance-collaboration/#comments Tue, 19 Feb 2008 13:06:55 +0000 Steve http://openedweb.com/blog/2008/02/19/distance-collaboration/ I teach in a remote Adirondack school in which elementary classes typically have 10-12 students. While this may seem ideal, there are benefits to having larger groups with which to collaborate. With such small groups relations can become static. The same students have the same classmates year after year. Hopefully on-line interaction will lead to [...]]]> http://openedweb.com/blog/2008/02/19/distance-collaboration/feed/ 0