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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).
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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
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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
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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.
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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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TheCentreforLearning&Performance
Technologiesprovidesarangeof
www.c4lpt.co.uk/ElggConsultancy.html
aswellasgeneral
SocialLearningConsultancyServices
www.c4l t.co.uk/socialmedia/
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