Thanks a lot mary. I am sure many will want to look into this.
mike
On 9/10/06, Mary K. Bryson <mary.bryson@ubc.ca> wrote:
>
> http://elgg.org/
>
> Lots of folks are raving about this open source online social software/web
> 2.0 content management system...
> Accommodates blogs, wikis, uploading files, networking, messaging plus...
> Soon, you won't even have to install it client-side, as it will all be
> fully online... And since it is aimed at institutions like schools, I am
> sure it is fully password-protectable.
>
> Mary
>
>
> On 9/5/06 3:32 PM, "Mike Cole" <lchcmike@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Tony et al--
> >
> > I wonder if anyone has a good way to solve the following problem, e.g. a
> way
> > that
> > is easy to learn and easy to use and can be password protected (we have
> yet
> > to come
> > up with anything that satisfies these criteria).
> >
> > We have kids in afterschool sites who are taking pics, making digital
> > stories, and videos. We would
> > like the kids to have a virtual space to display and discuss these
> locally
> > produced creations and engage
> > in joint activity.
> >
> > The solution is?????. (note, we MUST keep this a closed system for IRB
> > purposes).
> >
> > Mike
> >
> > PS-- I am wondering if we ought not to have a place where cartoons,
> video,
> > whatever, can be posted on xmca of the sort
> > now circulating.
> >
> > On 9/5/06, Tony Whitson <twhitson@udel.edu> wrote:
> >>
> >> That is interesting.
> >> For my class I'm using edublogs.org. With a blog there, you get a free
> >> wiki
> >> on wikispaces. edublogs.org also has blog software specially for
> college
> >> students and for k-12. It is provided exclusively for educational use,
> so
> >> I
> >> expect somebody could get kicked out for inappropriate material;
> although
> >> it's also likely that it would not be caught.
> >>
> >> My curriculum blog and curriculum wiki are public. My social studies
> wiki
> >> will be private, limited to students in faculty in the block of courses
> >> they
> >> are taking this semester. My social studies blog is public, so they
> know
> >> anything they put there is being published to the world; but I'm not
> doing
> >> the kind of "trackbacking" etc. that would draw a wider readership to
> this
> >> blog, which is mainly for my undergrads. I'm hoping many of them will
> >> start
> >> blogs of their own & post their pages there with trackbacks to the
> class
> >> blog.
> >>
> >> One of my purposes is to get them involved with professional
> communities
> >> of
> >> practice, so that even work they do for my class is not seen as
> something
> >> they are doing for me or to satisfy my requirements, but is seen rather
> as
> >> contributions they are making to the profession they are entering.
> >>
> >> -----Original Message-----
> >> From: xmca-bounces@weber.ucsd.edu [mailto:xmca-bounces@weber.ucsd.edu]
> On
> >> Behalf Of bb
> >> Sent: Tuesday, September 05, 2006 2:05 PM
> >> To: eXtended Mind, Culture, Activity
> >> Subject: Re: funny video on integrity in science teaching RE: [xmca]
> >> Funny,it hurts.
> >>
> >>
> >> -------------- Original message ----------------------
> >> From: "Tony Whitson" <twhitson@udel.edu>
> >>> thanks, bb
> >>
> >>>
> >>> If you
> >>> know of any blogs or wikis that would be of interest to my students, I
> >> would
> >>> love to hear from you -- especially if you know of blogs or wikis
> >> created
> >> by
> >>> k-8 classes that include social studies.
> >>>
> >>
> >> Interesting - Blogs have been part of the content for an "emerging
> >> technologies" course that I sometimes teach. In our program, I fly
> around
> >> the country and my classroom is usually a computer lab in a school
> >> somewhere. Here's what I've found -- almost all of school district
> >> filters
> >> ,in sites where I teach, prevent access to most blogs (and quite a few
> >> wikis).
> >>
> >> Here's what the secure computing says about why Bess blocks blogs:
> >>
> >> "Personal Pages (pp)
> >> This category includes personal home pages that share a common domain
> such
> >> as those hosted by ISPs, University/Education servers, Free Web Page
> >> hosts,
> >> etc. Blogging sites are also included. Personal home pages present a
> risk
> >> to
> >> viewers because content ranges from harmless to offensive, yet these
> pages
> >> are not highly trafficked, making them difficult to categorize and
> provide
> >> coverage for each personal page."
> >>
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