If schools want e-rate money they must: "as part of its Internet safety policy is educating minors about appropriate online behavior, including interacting with other individuals on social networking websites and in chat rooms and cyberbullying awareness and response." What better way to do thi...

I'm in the midst of drawing up a draft of our school's web publishing policy and I'm not finding much guidance when it comes to web 2.0 tools. I need something that addresses student and teacher blogs, wikis, rss, and social networking tools (elgg). Down the road, I will be looking for policies...

This article talks about the importance of group sizes, and how social networking can be affected by this natural limitation. http://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2009/07/security_group.html Of course, Elgg has already thought about this, and implements the idea of multiple sites. So based on ...

It is pretty clear for Elgg developers, and anyone in the Education area, that there is a huge demand for Education and Social Networking platforms to come together. I have been administrator of a moodle university for about two years, and have completely migrated my community site to Elgg for a...