Lamenting DekiWiki?s lack of Shared Hosting capabilities

I wish DekiWiki had support for shared hosting customers.

I have heard it said that a blog is by nature a representation of one’s own life and personal interests. That said, you all probably know how interested I am in wikis. One of my more useful posts (judging by the ongoing interest) was my original post on wikis. It still seems to generate traffic. A recent comment by Aaron F of MindTouch recommends I take a look at DekiWiki. The comment reads like this…

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Educon 2.0 Sunday morning panel - live

I’m sitting in front of the room in front of a growing  audience at Educon 2.0. Will Richardson is sitting next to me setting up a live blog.

To kick off day two, David Jakes, Joyce Valenza, Gary Stager, Will Richardson and I are going to do an opening panel called, “The Future of Learning.” Heady stuff, but I think I really saw the future of learning yesterday at a session run by the first year teachers from the Science Learning Academy.

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Blogger “Next Blog” Solution?

So I’ve been bumming since the Blogger Beta went live and the old hack that would get rid of that potentially dangerous (at least for classroom teachers) “Next Blog” button from your blog stopped working. But yesterday in one of my presentations here at NCCE, Glenn Malone offered up a solution. Problem is, I can’t get it to work on my MAC, but I think it might be user error on my part.

Here is the work around that Glenn offered (and Glenn, if you read this, please follow up in the comments if I get any of it wrong.)

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The new social-networking sites for faculty

The Chronicle of Higher Education’s news brief on The Wired Campus has a report today titled Social Networks Let Scholars Remix Their Articles. The article mentions 3 networks, including Pronetos Professor’s Network, which describes itself as follows:

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