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Chris replied on June 29, 2009 11:09 to the question "Save cliotech" in Twitter:

No reason for Jen's suspension!

Chris started following the question "Save cliotech" in Twitter.

Chris replied on January 22, 2009 10:26 to the question "Can a wiki owner email all of the registered users?" in PBwiki:

I would very much like to be notified. I imagine you'd limit it, so as to prevent spam, but since I already have the email addresses.

Heck, I'd even settle for a way to export all the email addresses in some standard format.

Thanks..

Chris

Chris asked a question in PBwiki on January 20, 2009 19:41:

Can a wiki owner email all of the registered users?

Is it possible for a wiki owner to email all of the registered users of the wiki? Or export the list of emails?

Chris replied on December 21, 2008 17:09 to the problem "Can't log in or add device" in Tapulous:

Ok so I am having the same problem.

I am absolutely going nuts. I had to send my iPod Touch back for service and got a replacement touch. I synced it from a backup and everything works fine, except Twinkle.

I claimed the user ID crafty184 with my other device. When I enter my credentials I get the dialogue box asking to add the device. I touch it and then I get a web browser screen telling me the email doesn't match. I've tried everything I know of and it never lets me past that screen. There's no way to get an email sent with the right information, either.

How in the heck can I figure out which email address I used? I suspect there's a typo in the original one or something. I went back and searched all archived mail and didn't find a confirmation email from the original claim.

Help!

Ed, you could remove the original device, too, if you like.

Thanks..

Chris

crafty184 reported a problem in I want Sandy on July 10, 2008 17:09:

Texts and email reminders being sent late.

Sandy's text messages are showing up after the reminder time. It didn't used to be this way. If Sandy was going to remind me at 8:15 the text shows up at 8:32. It's not a problem with my mobile phone, I get texts immediately. The email reminder shows up at the same (late) time as the text. Help?

crafty184 started following the discussion "Educators - weigh in on login systems!" in PBwiki.

crafty184 replied on March 31, 2008 21:11 to the discussion "Educators - weigh in on login systems!" in PBwiki:

You are turning this into a nightmare for teachers. I teach over 400 students per year and will not ever have the time to add users, etc.

I need it to be simple. I need a radio button that says, "anyone can edit this wiki" that I simply can turn off and on.

That way, when I go to the computer lab, or for a determined period of time, I can allow anonymous edits (perhaps with the ability to add the name as an option) and then I can turn that back off again to require an invite key.

The options discussed work in ideal situations, and yes, my students have ID numbers but I don't have the time to upload all of them. Nor do I have time to look up the kid who always forgets theirs. Or the kid who gets home and forgets how to login to the wiki.

I need turnkey and easy. Students are tech savvy but mine are young, and I can't be 24/7 on call with tech support.

Please, I implore you, make it simple. If other teachers want to use this with students year-round and have the time for a more complex, name-based setup that's good for them. I don't.

crafty184 replied on March 11, 2008 14:15 to the problem "Is there a non-secure wiki creation page?" in PBwiki:

Ping! No response...

crafty184 replied on February 24, 2008 21:59 to the problem "Is there a non-secure wiki creation page?" in PBwiki:

Well, no, I can't be sure it's because it's an SSL connection, but here's my thinking on that..

I can't access anything via FTP, so port 21 is clearly blocked.

When I try to access my shared hosting using Putty, it returns denied. So, port 22 is clearly blocked.

I can access most every page in pbwiki except this one. I had them unblock the creation page. It doesn't actually return blocked, just that the browser cannot connect. If it were truly blocked, if it were a nasty site or something, I'd get a blocked error message. The message I get is "Firefox cannot connect to the web page." IE returns a similar error.

Chris

crafty184 reported a problem in PBwiki on February 21, 2008 15:01:

Is there a non-secure wiki creation page?

My district blocks certain connections and I cannot connect to

https://secure.pbwiki.com/signup.wiki

from within our network. Is it possible to create a wiki from a normal http: connection as opposed to a https:?

crafty184 replied on February 19, 2008 23:03 to the problem "Is it possible to allow anonymous users to edit without logging in?" in PBwiki:

Of course, but can you imagine having to answer those questions to a classroom full of 11 year-olds? That's reasonable for us as adults, but remember you're dealing with children who sometimes can't figure out a basic email address. I cam promise you you'd have a kid put

some user + joey @ gmail.com

and that would mess it all up. Remember how many of us deal with very young children and not all of my students have even touched a computer much before coming to me.

Chris

crafty184 replied on February 19, 2008 22:44 to the problem "Is it possible to allow anonymous users to edit without logging in?" in PBwiki:

I blogged about this at http://tinyurl.com/3ae9f8

My response to you would be require a first name (and I think it's important to note first name only needed) and make the email address not required. I think if kids are not doing this appropriately then it's more of a classroom management issue and one not necessarily designed to be handled by software.

Or, make it where the user can decide? In some setting somewhere, make it where I can say, "I do not want my contributors to have to share their email address", etc.

This issue made me turn to Wikispaces, and that's unusual for me but with kids so young I can't handle asking them to use an email address.

Chris

crafty184 reported a problem in PBwiki on February 19, 2008 17:45:

Is it possible to allow anonymous users to edit without logging in?

It used to be anyone could edit as long as they had the wiki password. It looks as though that's changed, and now my students are presented with a login page when they try to edit a page. They cannot log in (too young) and I don't want to create dummy logins.

I am using the free version.