This week I have been trying out Operator11.com with my students. Several of the students have video cameras and have managed to upload videos so I can switch between students in the meetings and they can talk or show their videos.

 It is good to be able to add pages in Elgg. That was one of the things I missed. Another thing is that it would be better if you could have a password on blog posts. The staff in my university want students to keep a learning journal documenting study visits etc. This information should be kept private but the instructors have to  view it in the end of the term.  This could also be solved be students able to send files from elgg as submissions to blackboard or moodle.

Comments

1. Why not have students create a ‘group’ with themselves and the instructor in it (under Your Network : Access Controls)? Then assign the learning journal blog post  to this group. That way, only the student plus the instructor can read it. Then at the end of the semester,  have your students put together their learning  journal blog postings into a Presentation where they and their instructor can comment upon what they’ve written. The Presentation plugin is really very powerful for this kind of reflective writing. When it’s all put together in the Presentation the learning journal can become a coherent stream rather than a loose collection of disparate files.

   This sounds like an exciting project!

   Mark Pearson on Tuesday, 18 December 2007, 16:12 UTC # | Delete