Month: October 2005

Team Elgg: David Tosh, Misja Hoebe, Ben Werdmuller (l-r). I’d say this was a productive conference, all things considered. It was great to meet Misja and have a face-to-face discussion between the three of us; it was also nice to meet all these other people who for the most part have been disembodied names and […]

(This entry was live-blogged during Dave’s talk at ePortfolio 2005 in Cambridge.) Most people running eportfolio systems seemed to think they were social software – an interesting development! I’m not sure this would have been true this time last year, but as more people actually implement these systems and learn the problems and discover what […]

Did anyone else see the Newsnight story on Web 2.0 just now? It’s interesting to see the mainstream media frame these technologies in a way that the unaccustomed can easily understand. It might be worth discovering more of these in the future – you can build the coolest tool in the world, but it’s no […]

Today has been interesting to say the least. Lots of people (a capacity audience) talking about all kinds of different issues surrounding e-learning and e-portfolios. I’m very interested in topic maps, which have come up several times; the trick is going to be creating a friendly user interface for them. This kind of thing – […]