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Anyone in our around San Antonio next week (the NECC 2008 conference is being held there this year) who would like to get together an chat (about Elgg in education, or just Elgg in any context), check out this Ning group. http://www.necc2008.org/group/elgg

Jim Klein and I will be there for sure and it would be great to chat with any others.

./tim

Is there a way in which a user can do all of this essential backup stuff in one fell swoop? If so, is it in a user-friendly file format?

 Thanks, Bill

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Aulas sem professores e com formadores,como nós,o que achas???

I thought it might be useful to have a thread dedicated to reporting things we find that don't work so all the info and feedback is in one place. Probably best to keep 'wish list' type items elsewhere so as not to muddy the waters here but there is likely to be some overlap. Anyway, here's a couple to kick off with:

1. I have just discovered an area under my 'Your Network' tab for invitations received to join communities. http://eduspaces.net/terry/communities/invitations. Is this new? I found an invitation there that I did not know about. Could or should invitations issued in this way generate a notification in some way, say via email?

2. When listing 'View all posts' and selecting the 'with comments' filter you only get one screen full. If you click on the 'back' link <wishlist> which would be better as 'previous'</wishlist>  the next page produces a 'page cannot be found' message. I think this is a known problem.

No sweat. Life goes on. Just thought it would be useful to collect these things.

What should be considered blended learning?    Is there a more comprehensive way to define blended learning than Sloan C's use of "seat time?"  Should an instructor's use of technology in course design contribute to the definition of blended learning?  Click on the link below to view a short video commentary about blended learning and the discussion that I hope will develop.

CLICK HERE TO VIEW VIDEO COMMENTARY ABOUT THE DISCUSSION GROUP 

If you would like to participate in the discussion, please reply to this post or send me an email at rlillie@csusb.edu.   I hope to hear from you soon.

Rick Lillie  (California State University, San Bernardino)

Following up on the general announcement and a personal post, one of the things we will be doing is getting back the focus on the individual user and the community as a central point for shared interests and topics. This brand new Eduspaces Central community has been created to discuss issues related to the eduspaces service, but more importantly about educational issues in general. All site members are automatically member of this community and are welcome to join in the discussion. If there is a community you maintain yourself, use this spaces to link back, if you'd like.

I know many would like to see the discussion forum reinstalled we had running for some time, but I look forward seeing how this will shape up!

As some of you will have noticed today, we have been upgrading and rebranding EduSpaces. The new site is a marked improvement with many new features as well as enhancements to old favourites.

It is well worth trying all the new features out including video processing, easier embedding of content into blogs, photo galleries, bookmarks and much more.  It would be cool if you could share your thoughts in the new forum.

For those who are not sure what EduSpaces is; EduSpaces is the largest social network in the world dedicated to education and educational technology. 

Cheers, the EduSpaces team. 

Thanks the guys over at the Graz Technical Institute, EduSpaces now has bookmarking. This is a neat feature that you can access on your toolbar at the top of the page.

Shortly, we will be upgrading EduSpaces to the latest version of Elgg (v0.8) which will bring with it some cool features such as; generic comments and a recent activity river.

The eagle eyed among you will have noticed that doing a search on Edu Spaces now pulls up results from Explode - this is a very significant development!

Things are only in Alpha at the moment, but soon you will be able to friend these people and communicate with them, essentially creating your own meta-network of friends, regardless of which network they are on, from your presence here on Edu Spaces.

Watch this space.