yeah the control is the only reason, and inside the protected intranet<br>allows access by ONLY staff and students from this school.<br>apart from that I don't see any problems with the educational ones.<br>I just sort of did it as a experiment and it grew that's all.
<br><br>Paul<br><br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 11/7/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Baird, Anne P</b> <<a href="mailto:baird.anne.p@edumail.vic.gov.au">baird.anne.p@edumail.vic.gov.au</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
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<p><font color="navy" face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: navy;">I'm interested in why you have
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<b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Sent:</span></b> Wednesday, 7 November 2007
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<b><span style="font-weight: bold;">To:</span></b> <a href="mailto:elearning@edulists.com.au" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">elearning@edulists.com.au</a><br>
<b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Subject:</span></b> [elearning]
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<p><span><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">cross post from Year 12 IT Apps</span></font></span><br>
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I have built a PHP based wiki/blog/profile system here at narre warren south
p-12,<br>
a few classes are using the blogs as a 'journal'.. nobody has used the wiki
yet, but hopefully soon. <br>
and because we have it 'onsite' we have full control over the content, <br>
as in we can delete an entry then and there if it is innapropriate.<br>
the 'profile' section is perhaps a little questionable, but better than the
kids using the real myspace from school.<br>
the newest feature is being able to include 'mp3' files in your blogposts, AKA
podcasts. <br>
maybe you could use something like this as part of your new IT course, and even
non IT subjects.<br>
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anyways, there's a few screenshots at <a href="http://web.nwsc.vic.edu.au/narrespace" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">http://web.nwsc.vic.edu.au/narrespace</a><br>
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I would love it if a few other schools were 'beta testing' it for me too
though... hint, hint... <br>
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Paul Gorton,<br>
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