I’ve developed a plugin for Elgg that incorporates a bunch of Bible capabilities into Elgg. Obviously, I’ve done it for Hschooler.net, but I’ve also made it available for other Elgg operators. It’s available here: http://lstones.com/elgg/bible.zip

Here’s the description of the plugin from the readme file:

The Bible plugin for Elgg provides access to a collection of Bible translations for use by Elgg members.

It doesn’t require storing the actual translations on your web server. Instead, it uses web services to access translations made available by Living Stones ministry (http://www.lstones.com/).

In this release, the following capabilities are provided:
- A Bible lookup and search tool (at actions/bible.php)
- A widget to make that tool launchable from the dashboard or profile (at views/default/widgets/bible)
- A menu item in the Tools menu for getting to the Bible tool (established in start.php)
- A widget for users to bookmark/share their favorite verses/passages with comments (at views/default/widgets/favpassages)
- A widget for seeing their friends favorite passages (at views/default/widgets/friendsfavs)
- A page for viewing favorite passages (all, friends, and mine) (at index.php)
- A widget for daily reading to read through the Bible in a year (provided by web services from Living Stones) with links to the Bible tool (at views/default/widgets/readingplan)

Elgg is an Open Source social network software package. I’m seeing if it might be helpful in taking the Christian Homeschool Network to the next level - Hschooler.net. So far, I’ve only been working on look and feel, but you can check it out at http://www.chomeschool.net/elgg/.

I’ve just added two new tools that will be invaluable to homeschoolers:

• A form for searching the majority of public libraries in the country (via the OCLC WorldCat system)
• Searching the Web using Google

These tools, plus the previously included Bible search are now collected together in the Tools section.

The Christian Homeschool Network has now launched at c-homeschool.net. The initial two features are a collection of headlines from across the web which are likely to be of interest to Christian homeschoolers, and an online Bible interface.

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