For minimal risk reasons we decided to go for a traditional blogger blog in our TESOL electronic village online workshop on collaborative blogging for language teaching and learning. We had been looking at elgg because of the obvious advantage of playing with the built-in FOAF - friends of a friend technology. But was we saw there was going to be a major upgrade, we just played safe and went classic. Yo! It worked. Rather that teaching something only one of three co-moderators were comfortable with, there was more stress on adding useful features such as the flash banner from our Frappr map, a world clock, the bloglines feed (export/import of the famous OPMLfile), the delicious tag cloud, Odeo and Podomatic voice messages, and Bubbleshare with photo and voice.
People's own blogs are linked from the mother blog at blogenough.blogspot.com
Some have also been experimenting with other blog tools, such as wordpress. But I cannot recall any elgg blogs. Well - they will find out sooner or later; we have decided to continue the collaboration. This was a example of an all online workshop that has worked quite well without too heavy burden of work for us three co-moderators,mostly because we have relied on a good teamwork with some already experienced edubloggers sharing their ideas and progression with us.
Keywords: electronicvillageonline edublogging
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as an extremely lazy passive participant of the TESOL EVO last year and even more passive viewer this year I can say hi. I'm interested in the reading process for learners prior to writing -both as a teacher of literacy teachers and as a writer. So before we plunge in and bare our electronic selves we look around. I've found elgg to be extremely helpful in this process !
Chris