ELGG, developing a community on the web (e-portfolio)
What is ELGG?
Elgg is an open source social platform based around choice, flexibility and openness: a system that firmly places individuals at the centre of their activities.
Your users have the freedom to incorporate all their favorite tools within one environment and showcase their content with as many or as few people as they choose, all within a social networking site that you control.
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Features:
Blogging
Social networking
File repositories for individuals and communities
Podcast support
Full access controls
Supports tagging
User profiles
Full RSS support
RSS aggregator
Create communities
Collaborative community blogs
Create 'friends' networks
Import content
Publish to blog
Multilingual
Branding/customisation
OpenID support
An Example user - The University of brighton
Install size: 36,000 users
"We have Elgg running campus-wide with 36000 users registered. The flexibility of the Elgg model made it easy to integrate with our institutional VLE and MIS systems so we can use the same automated procedures to register students and course communities for all our systems. Our students took to using Elgg immediately and within two weeks we had a thriving and interesting blogging community. What's more rewarding is the manner of use rather than simply the scale of use - students and staff are using it both as an online social community and for shared academic interest. Elgg is now being used formally within course and modules and less formally to bring together people with similar interests - enabling people to share information, reflections and comment across course boundaries and develop something very different to anything we've had before. I firmly believe we're taking the first steps from a Virtual Learning Environment to a Shared Learning Environment."
ICTbasis.eu can help you build your own community on the web. Please contact:
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Elgg is an open source social platform based around choice, flexibility and openness: a system that firmly places individuals at the centre of their activities.
"We have Elgg running campus-wide with 36000 users registered. The flexibility of the Elgg model made it easy to integrate with our institutional VLE and MIS systems so we can use the same automated procedures to register students and course communities for all our systems. Our students took to using Elgg immediately and within two weeks we had a thriving and interesting blogging community. What's more rewarding is the manner of use rather than simply the scale of use - students and staff are using it both as an online social community and for shared academic interest. Elgg is now being used formally within course and modules and less formally to bring together people with similar interests - enabling people to share information, reflections and comment across course boundaries and develop something very different to anything we've had before. I firmly believe we're taking the first steps from a Virtual Learning Environment to a Shared Learning Environment."