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/