Registering on Elgg

Contact Jeremy Harmer with your ISS username, email and reasons to use the system.

Introduction

This website introduces the Leeds Elgg Learning Landscape project. This offers staff and students the opportunity to have a personal weblog (blog) and to form and join communities of staff and students with similar interests and concerns where ideas and resources of various sorts can be shared and discussed. The goals of the Elgg system are to facilitate reflective learning and aid the development of communities and networks of 'learners' (academic staff, students and researchers).

The heart of the Elgg learning landscape consists of personal and community blogs. A fuller description of blogs and how they are used, particularly in the context of education, research and learning, can be found in the What is a blog? section. Generally speaking a blog is an on-line journal owned and written by an individual. The entries in the blog can be read by others who are able to add comments to them. In recent years blogs in education have been used as learning logs, a reflective learning tool, a way sharing and developing ideas by interacting with others, a way of recording resources and materials found on the Web, a way of creating a repository of files and resources for personal use and to share with others who can also contribute materials and, by combining all or some of these things, creating a personal e-portfolio that can develop thoughout your studies at Uni and beyond into your post Uni life and career.

To have a quick preview of the blog system being piloted at Leeds take the Elgg Tour. This will give you some idea of the how easy it is to use a blog, to post entries and comment on entries.