elgg workshop

8/14/2019 Elgg Workshop

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AboutthisWorkshop

InthisWorkshopwewill

lookat

how

to

use

the

i erentsocia me iatoo s

availableinthe

Elgg socialmediaplatform

JaneHartisaSocialMediaand

LearningConsultantwhohasa25

tosupport

formalsociallearning,

informalsociallearning

andeducation

understand

how

new

technologiescanbeusedforlearning

aswellastoim rove obandbusiness

andcollaborativeworking

inanorganisation.

performance.She currentlyfocuses

onhelpingorganisations introduce

socialmedia

into

their

learning

and

performancesupportinitiatives.

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SocialmediatoolsWhatisasocialmediaplatform?

Asocialmediaplatformintegratesanumber

Blogging

Microblogging

ofkeysocialmediatools(seeright)and

provides:

1. asecurepaceforindividuals to

RSSfeeds

Socialbookmarking

aggregate,storeandsharetheir

personallearningandworking

resources

Socialnetworking

Filesharing

2. asecurespaceforgroups toworkand

learninformallyandcollaboratively

3. asecurespaceforformal socialand

Communicationtools

Collaboration tools

collaborativelearningtotakeplace

Why a social media platform?

Organisations can benefit from a wide range of social media tools with aseamless environment, in the knowledge that organisational and

personal data is private and secure, and not scattered about the Internet.

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WhatisElgg?

El www.el .or - isafree,o ensourceplatformthathasbeenaroundsince2004,

andiscurrentlyinversion1.5.

Elgg isafullycustomisable,configurable

andextensible

platform,

both

in

terms

of

functionalityandlookandfeel.

HerewewilllookatthefeaturesofElgg

thathavebeenenabledinthec4lpt.NET

SocialLearningNetworksite.

c4lpt.NETis

asocial

learning

platform

for

learningprofessionalswww.c4lpt.NET Thec4lpt.NETloginpage(shownabove)has

beencustomisedtodisplayrecentand

featuredactivityonthesite.



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Onceloggedin,thefirstpagetheuserseesistheDashboard.

beensetuptodisplaytheriver

ofrecentactivityatthesite.

announcementsbythesite

administrator.

. .

alsodisplayed.

Anduserscanmakepostings

.

Atthetopofthescreenisthe

menu

bar

for

access

to

the

site.

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Onceloggedin,youshouldcheckyour

youwantthesystemtonotifyyouof

newcontent,etc

aboutausertoothers(seeright).

Thispage(customisedasMyPagein

resourcesthat

the

user

has

created

or

storedatthesite. Itisimportantto

notethattheuserhasfinecontrol

overaccessperm ss ons,i.e.w ocan

seewhat.

Thecontent

is

displayed

in

widgets,

an t eusera so ascontro overt e

displayofthewidgetsontheirpage.



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Activity1:CheckyourSettingsandSetupyourProfilePage

PROFILE ICON Select Edit profile icon and upload fromcomputer. Use the picture cropping tool if required.

Return to our rofile a e b clickin our rofile

Log in to c4lpt.netSETTINGS

Select Settings from the main menu bar. Checkour name, assword and email settin s

icon or name in the left-hand column.

PROFILE PAGE

Your Profile page has been pre-set with a number of

Select Notifications from the left-hand bar. InPersonal notifications, select how you wish the

system to notify you of new content. Note: if you areworking without access to your email, you should

use the site.

To edit the widget settings, click EDIT and thendecide how many items to make visible (default=1),

select Site notification.

PROFILE PAGE

Select MyPage from main menu bar.

To reposition a widget: drag it into its new position

To delete a widget: click the X button in the top-right hand corner of the widget

Select Edit profile and complete the fields. Note:

You can specify who can see any piece of information,by selecting the appropriate visibility level:

Private = visible only to you

To add a widget: select Click to add a new

widget in the top right-hand corner of the screen.New widgets will first appear at the top of the right-

hand column, and can then be moved into a new

Logged in users = visible to only logged in

members of the Network (default setting)

Friends = visible only to your friends

.who are not members of the Network

(Note: This permissioning system is in use across thewhole site).


ave t e n ormat on on t e page.


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SocialNetworking

an important aspect of the platform.

When visiting another members

profile page, a user can easily add,

which is the term used in c4lpt.NET)and also set up a collection offriends (which can be used as

Messaging

Thereisaninternalmessaging

systemthatallowsuserstosend

messagesto,

and

receive

messages

from,theircontactsaswellasothers

onthenetwork.



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Groups

Anyonecan

set

up

agroup.

Groups

canbeopen (anyonecanjoin)or

closed (onlyinviteduserscanjoin).

Groupsmight

be

set

up

for

collaborative

project

work,informalstudygroups,orforformal,social,

collaborativelearningpurposes.

Groups canincludediscussions,files,pages,and


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Activity2:JointheWorkshopGroupandMeettheMembers

GROUP NOTIFICATIONNow you have joined a group, you will want to keepup to date with new content in the group by setting

your group notifications.

JOIN THE WORKSHOP GROUP Select Groups from the main menu bar

Select the Workshop group from the group listings.As this is a closed rou , ou will need to re uest

Go to Settings. In Group notifications select

the notification method for the group(s) you havejoined.

GROUP DISCUSSION

membership.

When your membership has been approved you will

be notified by the group owner (either by email orinternal message, depending on your Notification

In the Latest discussion area are the mostrecent discussion topics.

Select Group discussion from the left-hand menu

Settings). Follow the link in the email/message to jointhe group.

MEET THE GROUP MEMBERS

Select Introductions and post a comment inreply to this discussion topic to introduce yourself tothe group

.

youd like to add them as a Contact, select Add as aContact on their Profile Page.

SEND A MESSAGE

ee ree o a your own scuss on op cs

LEAVE A GROUP

You can leave a group at any time, but if you wish to

re-join a closed group you will need to request

ou can sen a message o a con ac us ng einternal messaging system. Click the envelope iconon the menu bar. Select Send a message. Thenselect their name from the pull-down list in the To: box

membership again.

contact. Select Members from the menu bar to listthe of members, and/or search for a name using theMember search box. Once you have found themembers Profile page, select Send a message on


t e r ro e page


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Files

Everyuser

can

upload

and

store

filesatthesite eitherintoa

groupspacetowhichtheybelong

workspace.

Files

could

be

documents,

presentations,audiofiles,photos,

etc. Thesearedisplayedonthe

filelisttogetherwithan

appropriateicon.

eachtype

of

file.

In

the

case

of

audiofiles(i.e.podcasts),these

canbeplayedinthesite(seeleft).

Aswithallotherresources,access

toeveryfilecanbespecified,i.e.

whethertobekeptprivateor

viewableby

contacts

or

all

users.

Uploadingafileintoagroupisone

wayforthetutortopresent

contenttothemembers.



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PagesEveryusercancreatewebpages eitherintheirownpersonalspaceorinagroupspace

.

posting, likevideos,slideshows,etc. Pagescanalsobesetuptobeeditablebyothers,i.e.theyactaswiki

pages,andthereforesupportcollaborativeworking. Thepagehistorykeepstrackofversions. Pagescan

includeanumberofsubpages,showninthepagenavigationarea.



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Tagging

Whenausercreatesanycontentthey

canassignatagtoit. A tagisa

keywordthatdescribesthatcontent.

Normallyauser

decides

for

themselves

,

keywordsarethekeytobringing

related personalandgroupresources

together. Soe.g.ifauserusesthe

,

onthat

keyword

or

search

for

the

keyword,everypieceofcontent

taggedwiththatkeywordcanbe

.

Youcanusemultipletags,separated

withcommas.

(seelater)souserscan keepupto

speedwithnewtaggedcontent.



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Activity3:GroupCollaboration

CREATING FILES & PAGES

Try your hand at creating files and pages. You cando this EITHER in the group space OR in your own

personal workspace.

GROUP FILES & PAGES

Take a look at some of the examples of files andpages in the Workshop Group and comment on

them if you wish

If you want to store them in the group space,

select Group Files or Group Pages (from the left-hand menu of the Group home page).

If you want to store them in your personal space,

In Files

PDF file this page provides you with access

to a PDF file to download

select Files or Pages from the Tools pull-downmenu

Remember:

to or download an example podcast

In Pages

Social Learning slideshow this embeds a

read, and in the case of Pages, to edit/write to yourcontent.

to use the Workshop tag

Slideshare presentation into a page

YouTube video this page embeds a

YouTube video

Wiki a e this a e is editable, i.e. it acts

Any user can set up a group. You just need todecide whether it is to be open or closed, and want

functionality you want it to have discussion, files,

like a wiki page so feel free to edit it (although

note that real-time editing of multiple userswont be handled that well, as Elgg doesnt lock

the system for editing) .

To set up a group, go to Groups, and then Createa new group

ACTIVITY3DISCUSSION


GotoActivity3DiscussionTopicandaddyourcomments


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PersonalTools:Bookmarks

Everyusercanbookmarkbothinternaland

externalweb

pages,

and

save

them

for

their

ownpersona useors are emw o ersa

thesite,includinganyspecifiedcontacts.

Bookmarkstaggedwiththesamekeyword

meanthatagroupcancreatealibrary


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PersonalTools:Blogs

Everyusercancreateablog. Eachblogposting

canbeassigneddifferentaccesspermissions,as

desired,sothatitcanbetargetedatspecific

users.Draftpostingscanbe savedandpublished

whenready. Commentsonpostingscanbe

turnedoff,ifpreferred.

chronologicalfocusforagroup,orbyindividuals

forpersonalreflectionorknowledgesharing. A

blogcouldalsobesetuptokeepothersupto

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MostpagesatthesitehaveanRSSfeed markedwithSubscribetofeed

(seeexampletotheleft) sothatotherscankeepupwithnewpostings. RSS

feedscaneitherbereadinanexternalfeedreader,orinthesitesfeed

reader,whereenabled,(seeexamplebelow).

Hereausercanaddbothinternalandexternalfeedstotheir

personalfeedlist aswellasviewallsitefeeds.



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Activity4:UsingPersonalTools

BLOGS

To write a blog posting

Go to Blogs in Tools pull-down menu. Then

BOOKMARKS

To view a groups bookmarks

Search using the group tag, by clicking on the tag inselect Write a blog post from left-hand menu

Enter title, blog text and tag(s). Decide who canaccess it.

the group, or by using the search box.

To bookmark an internal site

Wherever you see on a page, just

Select relevant link from left-hand menu in Blogs

RSS FEEDS

page. Provide title, description (if desired), tag(s), and

decide who you want to share it with, and who canaccess it.

To bookmark an external site

To read an RSS feed in the internal Feed reader

Go to Feeds in Tools pull-down menu

Select Add feed from left-hand menu and enter

First of all you need to get the bookmarklet. Go toBookmarks in Tools pull-down menu, then Getbookmarklet. Add the bookmarklet to your browseras described.

.the site feed list

You can view Your feeds separately or togetherwith All site feeds

Now you can bookmark an external page by clicking

on the bookmarklet in your browser. This will thentake you to the Bookmark this page.

ACTIVITY4DISCUSSION


GotoActivity4DiscussionTopicandaddyourcomments


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Personal

Tools:The

wire

Thisisamicroblogging

service,likeTwitter.

In140charactersausercan

telleveryoneelseonthesite

whatthey

are

doing.

Otheruserscanreplytowire

postingsand,inTwitterstyle,

theirusernameisaddedtothe

ostin .

Userscan

also

send

their

publicwirepostingsdirectlyto

Twitter,viatheirToolsSettings



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ersona oo s:

OntheWeb

Userscan

use

this

page

to

track

acrossTwitter,GoogleNewsand

GoogleBlogSearch.



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Activity5:OtherPersonalTools

ON THE WEB

To track whats happening on the web

-

THE WIRE

To post to the wire

-

To track search terms, click edit list. This will takeyou to your Tools settings, where you can enter the

terms you want to track, separated by commas.Save our settin s

.will see a list of all the recent postings

Make your posting in the box at the top. Remember

you can only use 140 characters (which will countdown as ou start t in

Click Visit your tracking page to go back to Onthe Web and view the tracking.

Click Refresh at any time to update the page

Save your posting to send it to the wire

Note: you can also make postings via the Dashboard

To reply to a posting on the wire

Click on the reply button to the right of any posting

and add your posting after their @username.

To send your public postings to Twitter

Go to Settings, then Configure your tools

Add your Twitter username and password andselect Yes (to posting to Twitter). Save your settings.

Now o to Chan e our settin s in left-hand menuand change your default access level to public.Note, by doing this that the permission level of all newcontent that you create will default to public, althoughof course you can always change any item to any

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