It has been great to see a number of individuals and schools in the K-12 / Primary school sector start to use Elgg. This is a quote from an article which will be published by the National Literacy Association and released Jan 11th 2006:

"Elgg provides the tools necessary to set up ‘personal learning landscapes’. It includes tools for online journals (blogs), an e-portfolio in which pupils can store and showcase their work in a range of formats, and software to support resource tagging and social networks. It works well at a school level, again installed on our webserver, encouraging our pupils to write for pleasure and for one another, as well as reflecting on their experiences inside and outside school. It would work even better within a group of schools where communities of shared interests could be established, and work could be shared with an even wider audience. We’ve found that it works best when pupils have a focus to their writing, such as a book review, or an evaluation of a unit of work. It’s still in the early stages of development, but it’s got huge potential and is well worth exploring."

Miles Berry, St Ives School - Winner of the 2006 Becta ICT in Practice Award for primary teaching

Elgg 0.31 has been released this evening. This is purely a bug-fix release that solves a number of issues and makes Elgg run more smoothly.

You can download it from our Eduforge project page.

We've upgraded our MP3 support - you can embed sound in your weblog posts and play it straight off the page, in addition to our existing podcasting support.

Ben Werdmuller talks about it here.

We are pleased to announce that CHN University in the Netherlands recently completed their successful pilot of Elgg and are now expanding Elgg as a production level, institution wide implementation. Watch out for a more detailed report in our upcoming 'featured site of the month' segment.

We are delighted to announce that Elgg is collaborating with the NZOSVLE Project Team - Catalyst IT - to develop integration between Elgg and Moodle.



This has been a frequent request and we are excited that this is going ahead and as always we welcome your input so feel to get involved by going over to on the development community.

You can read more over on this development blog post.

We at Elgg would like to extend a big thank you to all those who helped us out during the past year. 2005 has seen Elgg grow from a two person project to having contributors from around the world as well as numerous, promising pilots underway.

2006 is shaping up to be an exciting year for Elgg and we are hopeful that, with your help, we will be able to reach v1.0 and in the process build a system that many people will find useful.

Many thanks and best wishes for 2006!