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Re: [classblogmeister] wikispaces or pbwiki?

Just wanted to express a tear.  After using wikispaces for a year and a half, it was blocked at my school.  I then switched to PB Wiki and over the summer it was also blocked.  Our filtering service claims to have unblocked the sites, but they still do not work properly.  Enjoy your time, wikis are a great tool.

Enjoy your day,

Kyle

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---------- Original Message -----------
From: "deerpark101" <deerpark101@...>
To: classblogmeister@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Fri, 14 Sep 2007 05:12:54 -0000
Subject: [classblogmeister] wikispaces or pbwiki?

> i just found pbwiki online and now i'm not sure which is better to use
> with my kids. anyone have any comments on pbwiki? do you prefer one
> over the other?
>
> they both sound very similar but which gives you the best 'bang for
> your buck?'...although i plan to use the free or educational version.
>
> thanks again for your help.
> manny
> toronto
>
>
------- End of Original Message -------


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i just found pbwiki online and now i'm not sure which is better to use with my kids. anyone have any comments on pbwiki? do you prefer one over the other? ...
deerpark101
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Sep 14, 2007
5:14 am

I prefer to use pbwiki because it is much more user friendly to students (my opinion) than wiki spaces. It truly is as easy as making a peanut butter and jelly...
Julia Osteen
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Sep 14, 2007
1:42 pm

Manny, PBWiki has a better GUI editor than Wikispaces since it can handle tables. This makes a difference if you're doing tables. However, they are a bit more...
Miguel Guhlin
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Sep 14, 2007
2:06 pm

I love PMWiki, but it isn't nearly so user friendly as PBWiki or Wikispaces. Between those to, I'm with Miguel. I like WikiSpaces better. As he said, they...
David Warlick
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Sep 14, 2007
3:23 pm

Miguel Question about setting up your own wiki.  I had our school's webmaster look at MediaWiki as a possible alternative since I cannot get PB or Wikispaces...
Kyle Stevens
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Sep 19, 2007
2:09 am

Kyle, sorry I missed this email earlier. I wouldn't recommend MediaWiki. We tried it in my school district and found ourselves overwhelmed with spam. Being who...
Miguel Guhlin
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Sep 19, 2007
4:29 pm

Kyle, is PikiWiki blocked? More here: http://pikiwiki.com/ews/index.jsp Take care, Miguel ... -- Miguel Guhlin San Antonio, Texas mguhlin@... ...
Miguel Guhlin
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Sep 19, 2007
8:42 pm

Miguel Thanks for the tips.  I will share the PmWiki with my webmaster.  It sounds exactly like what he was wanting.  I'll check PikiWiki over the...
Kyle Stevens
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Sep 22, 2007
1:43 am

I looked at both, and ultimately went with Wikispaces because it was free for teachers, and the company has been very responsive to requests from teachers. I...
Magi D. Shepley
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Sep 14, 2007
11:18 pm

pbwiki is also free for educators. I have three free wikis on their site. I like the way you can set up classes/groups and have them do a collaborative ...
Sarah Zykanov
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Sep 15, 2007
2:56 am

Hm. I though I remembered that some of the features with PBWiki weren't part of the free accounts for teachers. I could definitely be wrong about that...
Magi D. Shepley
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Sep 15, 2007
3:12 pm

Sounds neat, You guys are inspiring me to approach my district tech committee with ideas for blogging and wikis. We are using them with teachers, not students...
Sarah Zykanov
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Sep 15, 2007
3:22 pm

Sarah and folks, here's an example of PMWiki being used by a 5th grade teacher in my district. When I introduced her to it, I thought it would be too hard for...
Miguel Guhlin
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Sep 15, 2007
4:26 pm

That's really nice, Miguel. I liked the group activity set-up. I think, having seen that, for one of the projects, I am going to have my students use our...
Magi D. Shepley
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Sep 15, 2007
4:58 pm

If you want to see some the things that my students are doing or have done, let me know... I'm happy to brag about them. :) Magi...
Magi D. Shepley
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Sep 15, 2007
4:52 pm

Just wanted to express a tear.  After using wikispaces for a year and a half, it was blocked at my school.  I then switched to PB Wiki and over the summer it...
Kyle Stevens
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Sep 19, 2007
2:03 am

Kyle, this is why solutions like PmWiki are so needed. As schools block web-based wikis--they do so because it provides students with a place to store files...
Miguel Guhlin
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Sep 19, 2007
3:26 pm

I wish I knew solutions to this... I was actually just told by one of our technology folks that I'm not allowed to do what I've been doing this year with my...
Magi D. Shepley
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Sep 20, 2007
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