Lane Lester schreef: > Here's my first post as a PmWiki user. I'm the sole science teacher at a
Hello Lane, I am also a science teacher at a private school in the Netherlands, giving Computer lessons. I installed Edubuntu as a server, and the students are working on laptops in a LTSP network. It is a very stable system. Costs are minimal, because the laptops are all over-aged second-hand. I installed pmWiki, because of its groups-structure. There is an open group called 'Student', where the kids can write their projects; a group called 'Book', where teachers write abstracts about their lessons, which is read only (and write permission for teachers). This group is developing into a tiny 'wikipedia' for the students. And there is a closed group (teachers only) for daily reports (WikiCalendar Cookbook), called 'Staff'; and a semi-closed group where the progress of the scholars are noted (no grades are given in this school, just individual progress-reports) . I am running this for about a year now, and the succes is overwhelming. First it was *very* hard to convince the teachers to stop producing huge amounts of office-documents but to put everything in the wiki, but now they are slowly understanding the concepts of a wiki and hyperlinks, everything is now entered in the pmWiki. The student part is open, and at first much of the the work of students was damaged by others (by inserting dirty words, and deleting stuff). By daily checking of AllRecentChanges, and then the history of the vandalised page, by IP-number is was easy to trace the vandal in question, and restore the original work. Vandalism soon stopped, and now the students are aware of the concepts of collectivism and cooperation. A big issue is security. Adequate protection from the internet, and regular backups are essential. My conclusion: I worked (and am working) with many wiki brands, but pmWiki is really ideal as a general school-wiki. I am happy to provide more information about the project... -- Daniel Kropveld http://www.kropveld.net (also pmWiki :) ) _______________________________________________ pmwiki-users mailing list [email protected] http://www.pmichaud.com/mailman/listinfo/pmwiki-users
