On a gray day in Januarypaulrallison8 min 40 sec - Jan 9, 2007The semester is winding down. Students are focused on final projects in their core courses, and preparing for state examinations. Blogging is feels harder and harder to care about. Still these young people seem to have enough sense of personal commitment to YouthVoices.net and their personal blog to put forward some effort.

Kevin Jardine: The Mystery of the Missing PasswordCurverider Ltd14 min 4 sec - Sep 4, 2006Kevin Jardine discusses OpenID and distributed content models in Elgg. From The revolution will not be televised: it is being podcast, Edinburgh, September 4 2006.

Curverider status report, December 8 2006Curverider Ltd5 min 12 sec - Dec 8, 2006Ben and Dave discuss recent goings on with Elgg and Curverider Ltd.

Miles Berry Talking at the Open University Milton Keynes MoodleMoot July 2006Leon Cych, Learn 4 Life Productions37 min 53 sec - Sep 6, 2006This talk covers an outline for CPD for e-learning - Moodle, Elgg, Learning Journeys. This video is issued under a Creative Commons share all licence.

Miles Berry: Personalisation, social learning and the e-strategyCurverider Ltd22 min 36 sec - Sep 4, 2006Miles Berry talks about how systems like Elgg can be used in K-12 education. From The revolution will not be televised: it is being podcast, Edinburgh, September 4 2006.

Freewriting, Editing, and Bloggingpaulrallison6 min 34 sec - Sep 23, 20066th, 7th, and 8th Graders at East Side Community High School. A few "snapshots" from my classroom on September 22, 2006. The students are working to post to their blog in an elgg, "PersonalLearningSpace.com" Here's the routine that I introduced to them. The hope is that this will become routine as soon as possible. 1. In Writely, freewrite for 10 minutes about anything from your life, not school. 2. Focused Sentence -- one se

10 Self, 10 World Questionspaulrallison14 min 9 sec - Sep 26, 2006I asked students to make two lists, one a list of questions about "self," the other a list of questions about the "world." Then they were to come up with a tag or keyword for each of these 20 questions. These keywords were then spell-checked before they were added to each of the student's profiles in an elgg. They were to put their keywords in the "Interests" box. If anybody matches their interests, this causes that word to become hyperlinked

Accountability, Design, and Rolloutpaulrallison16 min 11 sec - Oct 8, 2006Join me on a Saturday afternoon on a long Columbus Day weekend. This is my preliminary thinking about what I need to do next to track what my students have been doing (accountability), set up communities within an elgg to make it easy to check their work and tinker with the overall design of my classes, and finally to think about what to introduce next to my students. I want them to begin to be readers of blogs using Google Reader.

Ben Werdmuller: Elgg.net personal blog post for 30 Oct 20063 min 56 sec - Oct 30, 2006A more personal video blog post about Edinburgh and a little bit about the origin of the Elgg project.