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Discussion: Wikis & Accessibility
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 Starchild20 |
Wikis & Accessibility
Jan 22 2008, 4:05 PM EST I work within education in the UK in a high school and wikis are a great tool for me as I manage the school library and I also co-ordinate e-learning across the whole school. There are so many ways I can use wikis. The only problem I currently have is the fact that wikis are blocked from the PC's in school. Staff and students are blocked from accessing them - due to filtering. I find this annoying because they are another learning tool for our students - but due to safety and limiting what our students can access during school hours, it is a problem. I was just wondering if anyone else experiences this and if there are ways of combating it in the future, particularly as we are preventing students from using a tool for learning with the current state of the situation. 5 out of 6 found this valuable. Do you? |
 elptuxman |
RE: Wikis & Accessibility
Feb 14 2008, 12:28 AM EST I work for Technology Services in West Texas (El Paso ISD) and by law we have to provide content filtering. What ends up happening is that a lot of good material gets filtered because there are a few abusers - the usual story. Since I am also an open source software advocate, what I oftentimes suggest teachers to do is to obtain a copy of HTTRack (http://www.httrack.com/) which is an offline browser/website copier that can place a directory of "must have" urls in a thumb drive/CDw so that the good content can be shared with the student. Inform your superiors that you have "wacked" a site, seen the content and deem it appropriate for your students BEFORE you use it. Offer to leave the thumb drive for their perusal - after a while they will learn to trust your choices. ALWAYS CHECK the content before you turn it in - sometimes other files are "hidden" in a site's content. Since any URL content is just text, editing lines can easily be done - I use "<!-- content to be excluded -->" without the quotes. Good luck 2 out of 2 found this valuable. Do you? |
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ricardoo3 ricardoo3 |
RE: Wikis & Accessibility
Mar 17 2008, 3:53 PM EDT I have quite a lot on this on my blog section www.googleearthireland.com, which is a wetpaint. I had to go through the whole un bolocking process in Ireland. The site tells you all about it. 1 out of 1 found this valuable. Do you? |
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matthewmaude matthewmaude |
RE: Wikis & Accessibility
Apr 18 2008, 5:13 PM EDT Loads of sites and categories are blocked at my school, however, we are able to unblock individual sites. I started by unblocking scienceclicks.wetpaint.com and noticed that students could see it, but it wasn't formatted correctly. I looked at the source, found the css files which are at static.wetpaint.com so unblocked that too. Now the students can see the site properly, and become new members. However, when they try and log in it says username not found, if I use my school internet user and password and they sign into wetpaint, it works fine. So my question is, where does wetpaint look to sign users in so that I can unnblock that too? 1 out of 1 found this valuable. Do you? |
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ArtsAtTheEdge ArtsAtTheEdge |
RE: Wikis & Accessibility
May 1 2008, 1:37 PM EDT Hi I am a UK teacher in Birmingham & have had similar problems with signing in to my wiki due to filtering. I was wondering whether you have found a solution yet? My problem is that When I sign in I am returned straight back to the sign-in page. I have discovered that hitting refresh gets me into the site, but this is not ideal, and I think it will put off new users. 1 out of 1 found this valuable. Do you? |