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Hey all,

We've come up with a few options to fix the login problem and we'd like to get your feedback.

We are setting up short presentations on June 11, 2008 between 3:00 - 6:00 PDT. If you are interested in joining us to see our ideas on educator logins (for students without email address), please sign up here - http://tinyurl.com/6bxc7w

You will need to have access to a phone and an internet connection.

Thanks!
Kristine

Hey all,

We've come up with a few options to fix the login problem and we'd like to get your feedback.

We are setting up presentations on June 11, 2008 between 3:00 - 6:00 PDT. If you are interested in joining us, please sign up here - http://tinyurl.com/6bxc7w

You will need to have access to a phone and an internet connection.

Thanks!
Kristine

Hey all,

We've come up with a few options to fix the login problem and we'd like to get your feedback.

We are setting up presentations on June 11, 2008 between 3:00 - 6:00 PDT. If you are interested in joining us, please sign up here- http://tinyurl.com/6bxc7w

You will need to have access to a phone and an internet connection.

Thanks!
Kristine

Hi Sara,

It sounds like you have a bunch of questions and I'm happy to answer them for you.

You're right, our front page does not have a list of features. We are currently working on a redesign and I will take this as good feedback for what you want to see on our site.

If you want more information on our features, or how to use them, we offer weekly beginner webinars to introduce you to all of the PBwiki features. You can sign up or listen to a recording here: http://pbwiki.com/content/webinars

PBwiki's limitations. We're always looking for user feedback and making improvements based on your suggestions. If you would like a full screen calendar or you want it to print - please let us know! If you want to get rid of the sidebar - tell us.

(It sounds like you're working on a PBwiki 2.0 - while you can't get rid of the sidebar, you can minimize it by clicking the small arrow on the top right of your wiki page. You can edit the sidebar by clicking the edit button on the sidebar.)

We have a free service because believe that people need a quick and easy place to collaborate with others. I love that we can help the recovery effort in china (http://earthquakerelief.pbwiki.com/) or just make it easier to plan a party.

Finally, Guy Fawkes wasn't banned because he was critical of PBwiki or the PBwiki staff. We have an open forum where you can discuss, criticize or praise PBwiki as openly as you like. If you want more details of Guys departure, you can check out the get satisfaction blog post here: http://tinyurl.com/5npxy2

I agree -- Guy provided some great technical answers. So do Vu, Tim, Clif and a bunch of other people on this site. I hope you'll continue to find the answers you're looking for - if not from Guy than from one of the many other people here.

Best,
Kristine

Hey Neil,

Check out our cafepress store: http://www.cafepress.com/pbwikihq

Kristine

Hi Mobius -

Unfortunately I don't know of an easy way to integrate all of your content from multiple wikis into one single wiki.

If the issue is keeping track of multiple wikis - I suggest creating a PBwiki account. This allows you to consolidate all your wikis into one place - and log into all of your wikis with just one password. This makes logging in to multiple wikis much easier.

If the problem is that your students are working on too many different sites and you're having a hard time locating information across wikis, I recommend investing the time pasting your wiki content into a PBwiki 2.0.

The folders function of PBwiki 2.0 allows you to group your pages and manage information.

Kristine

Maverick,

Business wikis are usually private. They're often used to store internal company data, work on projects between teams, collaborate on documents, etc - which means they're not open to the broader web.

You can check out some business case studies here: http://tinyurl.com/6xvsgn

Kris

Hey Maverick,

You can check out this list of public educator wikis here:http://educators.pbwiki.com/Example+Wikis

Kristine

Hi Kathy,

Right now the color schemes for free PBwiki 2.0's last only a few hours - BUT this is changing.

We're working to make sure that all free users have their choice between several color schemes and that your color choices are permanent.

Kristine

Klmot2ltdf.

Wow! Here are some suggestions:

1) Take him/her to the PBwiki homepage show him around.
2) Print out some of our educator handouts and given them to him/her.
3) Take him/her to the educator site (educators.pbwiki.com) and show him what online collaboration on a wiki looks like - have him edit a page to see how easy it is!

Good luck, it looks like you have your work cut out for you!

Kristine

Hi Sparkguitar05,

When you click "steak lock" you are able to edit a page the other person was editing. This causes them to lose their latest edits.

On our office wiki we always ask the person who is currently editing before we steal their lock.

Here are some other threads on edit locks:

http://getsatisfaction.com/pbwiki/top...

http://getsatisfaction.com/pbwiki/top...

Kristine

Hey Joe,

I spoke with Dr. Cavner who is using her wiki as a text book. Here is how she suggested people set up a wiki textbook.

First assign research projects to student and ask them to teach the class that subject, using the wiki page as class material.

When the students cover that information in class, you as the teacher should point out success and potential problems - adding correcting and insight on the wiki page. The following class can build off of that work, add content, delete incorrect information, etc.

I'll forward this post to her so she can add her own comments.

Kristine

Hey sparrow,

You may want to check out our educator site to see how educators are using wikis. There are a bunch of examples and user stories available - educators.pbwiki.com

Kristine

Hi Jerrybrito,

On the wiki it says that the wiki password is tweety. Let me know if this works for you.

Kristine

Nancy,

We don't have a feature that allows you to approve edits before they go live.

We chose not to develop this feature because it has the potential to create conflicts with your wiki content. One example of this could be when the content on a wiki page was edited and awaiting approval and a different person edited the page. The second set of edits would not reflect the first set of edits to the page and would then be difficult to reconcile.

Kristine

Hi Kevin,

If you're working on a PBwiki 2.0 this is possible.

To do this you would create group folders and set custom folder security settings, inviting just the students in your group to edit/view the pages in this folder.

You can create as many folders as you want and at the end of the class, change the folder settings so that the entire class can see the group work.

We covered this in our cybersafety webinar located here: http://educators.pbwiki.com/newstuff

There is some information on folder and page level security settings here: http://tinyurl.com/5mk7z8

You may also want to join us for our webinar on new PBwiki 2.0 features - you can find a list of our webinars here: http://pbwiki.com/content/webinars

Kristine

Hi Mrs K Verona,

We have a few resources to help you out. First you can check out our educator portal where others have posted their wikis and tips to getting started. (you can find that at educators.pbwiki.com)

You can also attend a webinar (a live conversation with someone at PBwiki) where we talk about getting set up and using your wiki.

Finally, just yesterday we had a webinar on creating online classrooms using wikis. The archive of that webinar will be available on the educator site today.

-Kristine

Hey bab,

A few weeks back Yack Pack went down. They're working to fix the service and until they do we decided to take it down from our list of plugins.

I'll post back here when I know more.

Kristine