Easy Classroom Web Presence

Ran across this article and it makes some great points about the distributed content creation model for school Websites and the potential headaches that go along with it. But what I found even more interesting was the premise that the way to give teachers the power to create and post content on the site is to use a course management package like Blackboard or webCT. Now I know that CMS give you a lot more bang in general, but it costs a lot more buck. I think I heard somewhere that the full install of Blackboard can run upwards of $50,000. And correct me if I’m wrong, but don’t you have to shell out some money for a staff person to run the thing, too? I’m not knocking what Blackboard or webCT can do…it’s great. But I can’t imagine a school disctrict looking to be able to create a web presence for their teachers and students not picking a powerful, $299 a year, content management capable system like Manila every day of the week…if only they knew it was out there.

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Podcast Episode 17 - Wikis

This is the third in the series of sessions I presented back in March at the SC ETV Teachers Technology event, the actual name escapes me now. I just wanted to drop this on you if it might interest you.

To save you some time, I end up supporting Wikispaces the most, although PbWiki has really been making some strides lately. If I could combine the two services, I would be one happy teacher!

It’s a bit long, be warned, and still bears the old name (Open Source Classroom).

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Scholarly Electronic Publishing Bibliography

I found this interesting link via Research Buzz.

New Scholarly Electronic Publishing Bibliography Available

Woohoo! The Scholarly Electronic Publishing Bibliography is

up to version 48! The latest version of the bibliography

presents over 1,850 articles, books, and other sources

concerning scholarly electronic publishing efforts on the

Internet. You can get it in PDF and HTML flavors:

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