Category: "elgg installation"
Script - users file in csv format [ 0.25 days ]
Wrote page to create a csv file of users in a school - users are grouped by type (admin, staff, pupils) before being written to the file.
Visit to CLC, etc. [ 0.25 days ]
On my visit to the CLC I spoke to Simon Elledge about Elgg and showed him how it worked. He was very interested as it fits in very well with a project he is planning for September He is moving jobs soon taking up a position at Roehampton involving teacher training so is ideally placed to help promote it. I created an account from him in the afternoon and discovered another but in the useradd script: in perl "not equal" is "!=" for numbers but "ne" for strings so the test I had put in for adding (or not) an email address was not working. Made the change and tested - now it works as expected.
At some point I need to get these scripts into the main file tree so that they can be kept within subvsersion. Convert to php? This would make the constants more consistent but will need extra work. Not urgent.
Links about blogging and elgg [ 0.25.days ]
Below are a collection of URLs related to Elgg. As schools using a their own VLE/MLE/Learning platforms keep most of the material private. There are few public elgg hosted sites aimed at the school age group: the only one I have found is youthvoices.net but anyone can register for an account without being vetted so it really falls into the same category as other "public" social networking sites. The profile information does not seem to have restricted access either.
(1) The main elgg site http://elgg.org/
(2) There are lots of posts and podcasts on this site which are tagged with elgg. I've not listened to them all!
To find elgg related posts go to: http://teachersteachingteachers.org/?s=elgg
OR: http://teachersteachingteachers.org/?cat=34
This post is about using elgg with 9th Graders: http://teachersteachingteachers.org/?p=53
(3) Brighton Uni - one of the larger installs - heavily customised
http://community.brighton.ac.uk/private.php
(4)
http://elgg.net/vinall/weblog/145563.html
http://kairosnews.org/elgg-weblogs-and-social-networking-for-the-classroom
http://www.techlearning.com/showArticle.php?articleID=191901615
http://dcrf.berkeley.edu/?p=16
(5) Reviews of social networking software (DATE: 2005 - many improvements since then so table is not accurate)
http://www.kyoto-su.ac.jp/information/tesl-ej/ej35/m1.html
(6) Norfolk CC using Elgg with teacher.
http://elgg.learnblog.net
Some examples users:
http://elgg.learnblog.net/asavage6/
http://elgg.learnblog.net/news/ (Sabastian Gasse)
http://elgg.learnblog.net/news/weblog/99.html
http://elgg.learnblog.net/TGroves/
(7) A US site with a similar idea but registration is not controlled. Anyone can register and profile fields do not seem to have restricted viewing.
http://youthvoices.net/elgg/
Some example:
http://youthvoices.net/elgg/jackies/weblog/
http://youthvoices.net/elgg/deykab/weblog/
(8) Teacher's blog discussing experience with blogging in Moodle and Elgg:
http://budtheteacher.typepad.com/bud_the_teacher/elgg/index.html
(9) Tools for Teachers - discussion on Elgg, Moodle & Drupal.
http://www.funnymonkey.com/together-at-last
(10) Two podcasts form Bangladesh:
http://flatclassroom.podOmatic.com/entry/2006-11-11T21_02_49-08_00
http://flatclassroom.podOmatic.com/entry/2007-01-20T06_07_55-08_00
(11) http://terry-freedman.org.uk/artman/uploads/its_good_to_talk.pdf
(12) The USA school in Shaighai with some sample entries.
http://www.thethinkingstick.com/?page_id=39
http://www.saschina.org/
http://elgg.saschinaonline.org/
http://elgg.saschinaonline.org/samwu/weblog/
Young people struggle to maintain their privacy online
This links to a post I put on both my LL4Schools blog and my main Icon IS one.
Mail & new tutorials [ 0.5 days ]
- Checked mail was working - changed SMTP to mail.e2bn.net
- Completed set up of shorewall and started it. I can still log in from home and from web2. Only ports 80 and 22 are allowed to connect. All others do seem to be blocked.
- Set up a template for the training/tutorial pages. This included making a template for the wrapper page as well as the instructional page. I also set up an index.php page in the tutorial directory to list all the tutorials. Once I had done this I did three more tutorials: creating a new blog entry; uploading a file; and creating a new folder.
Ordering process [ 0.5 days ]
Did some more work on the ordering process which is now complete. Also putting together some text for the website to explain how to register a school and request user accounts to be created. Once I have this is place I'll be ready for a few pilot schools.
Ordering, etc. [ 1.0 day ]
Worked quite late on getting a basic ordering process in place. I now have a "register your school" page which adds the school to the database and create an invoice for payment. Some issues still to fix but the main elements are there.
