TOP TOOLS
Elgg

Elgg is open source software that combines a number of tools - eportfolios, personal spaces, file storage blogging, etc - all on one platform.  Eduspaces is the community built on Elgg for educationalists. 

Comments from those who selected Elgg or Eduspaces as one of their Top 10 Tools in 2007

• "This is my blogging community, filled with my peers. I started blogging there when it was Elgg, and have created Community Blogs there for classes because even early on my students could add audio files as well as discuss readings there."  Joan Vinall-Cox

• "Elgg - Everything you need to build your own, open-source, open-standards Facebook competitor, and getting better all the time"  Scott Wilson

• "blog platforms I use for blogging"  Eduardo Peirano

• La red social que más me está sirviendo. (The social network that is serving to me more.)  Eraser Cabeza Borredora

• "My main blog is at eduspaces and I work on two projects that are powered by elgg - another great piece of OSS."  Frances Bell

• "My main tool to develop social networks and informal learning communities. It is a good foundation to build your own Personal Learning Environment (PLE), and also an e-portfolio. It provides a blog, file sharing and a feed reader (rss/atom). It is good also to develop e-learning 2.0 strategies. I have 2 blogs on Elgg (English and Spanish ones). EduSpaces is a good international social network on education built on Elgg I am involved with."  David Delgado