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Shayne started following the idea "Renaming page, also change links to this page?" in PBwiki.

Shayne shared an idea in PBwiki on December 16, 2008 15:58:

Remove link option

Sometimes I would like to remove a link on my pbwiki page. There doesn't seem to be a way to do this short of erasing the area or going into the source code. It would be nice to have an option under the link icon that would remove a link.

Shayne marked one of Clif's replies in PBwiki as useful. Clif replied to the question "How do I Know My Wiki is a Premium one?".

Shayne replied on December 16, 2008 14:29 to the question "SurveyMonkey Back to School Challenge wouldn't accept Province" in PBwiki:

Thanks, Clif.

Shayne marked one of Clif's replies in PBwiki as useful. Clif replied to the question "SurveyMonkey Back to School Challenge wouldn't accept Province".

Shayne asked a question in PBwiki on December 14, 2008 16:09:

SurveyMonkey Back to School Challenge wouldn't accept Province

The survey for the Back to School Challenge was only for U.S. There was no option to add the appropriate province, although I did add Canada. I tried writing to pbwiki on Dec. 3, when I took the survey and haven't heard back whether or not my entry was lost in cyberspace. Thanks.

Shayne asked a question in PBwiki on December 14, 2008 04:17:

What happends when Premium status expires?

When my premium status expires at the end of the year, will I be able to keep the security settings that are already in place? Other than being limited by upload size, what else changes?

Shayne asked a question in PBwiki on December 14, 2008 04:07:

How do I Know My Wiki is a Premium one?

How can I tell which wikis are premium? I received one from the summer camp, which I remember, but also one from the back to school challenge, and I don't remember which one I used. How can I tell?

Shayne replied on December 04, 2008 00:44 to the question "How to add multiple users to a page's "custom security" settings?" in PBwiki:

It would be useful to be able to create groups of users in general, like you can do in an e-mail program. Then you could easily have different classes that could have different permissions.

Shayne replied on September 23, 2008 12:52 to the idea "Selective Notifications Desired" in PBwiki:

Since my students each have their own pages, it would be nice to receive notifications at the page level (like on GS, where you can follow a specific discussion).

Also, t seems in the settings that it's all or nothing if you want to receive e-mail notifications. I have a number of wikis and I'd like to receive the notification of changes for just one or two.

Shayne started following the idea "Selective Notifications Desired" in PBwiki.

Shayne started following the idea "Suggestion: Feature good Pbwiki page examples on homepage." in PBwiki.

Shayne started following the idea "Can we have a way to "save and continue editing" pages, so that we aren't forced to leave editing mode every time we want to save our work?" in PBwiki.

Shayne replied on September 23, 2008 12:41 to the question "How to add tabs, make tabs from my pages" in PBwiki:

Hi B Law. I created a simple navigation bar using links that I put at the top of pages, eg. Home | Class Directory | Lessons | Contact

It's not tabs but it is better than nothing... ;-)

Shayne shared an idea in PBwiki on September 21, 2008 16:20:

PBwiki should return user back to page after setting security.

In settings, after I make a page public and click save, it would be better to go back to the page I was working on instead of just staying on the page and either having to use the sidebar or going back to the frontpage and navigating back to the page.

Interestingly enough, if you change the custom security setting, it does go back to the page after you save.

It might be good to at least make the page name in the title (beside "Page Security") clickable.

Shayne replied on August 27, 2008 14:19 to the question "Valign not working - Text at bottom of cell" in PBwiki:

OK, got a terrific answer from support by e-mail. Use this in your Source Code. NOTE: delete the asterisk (*) before 'td'. Putting it there was the only way I could get this code to display.

<*td align="top" style="margin: 0px; vertical-align: top;">

and it should work!

Shayne replied on August 21, 2008 22:12 to the question "Valign not working - Text at bottom of cell" in PBwiki:

I'm just wondering why it is an option from the table menu if it is not supported?

A comment on the question "What information on your wiki should be cited using Footnotes?" in PBwiki:

Looking forward to the forum! – Shayne, on August 21, 2008 19:48

Shayne replied on August 21, 2008 14:21 to the question "What information on your wiki should be cited using Footnotes?" in PBwiki:

Some other 'food for thought' about citation... When I went back to teaching four years ago, I gave my students a boring but traditional task to research and write four pages about an artist from the period we were studying. More than 3/4s of the students plagiarized directly from the internet and handed in 'their' work with a pretty cover page. I reminded them that I was also the school's computer teacher and that this was unacceptable. One student hadn't even bothered removing hyperlinks! I could tell quite easily that they had copied and pasted because the language was waaaay too sophisticated for this bunch and I quickly found all the pages that they had copied by googling phrases.

This led me to completely change the way that I gave assignments. Now my projects and reports require a personal opinion component, for example, the feelings elicited by a work of art, a painting in the style of an artist, etc. Some of my students don't actually want to be in art (long story - I'm opposite chemistry or physics) so I try to differentiate my assignments so they have a choice of written or studio work.

There are many sources that give advice on structuring assignments to avoid plagiarism. Here is one example: Helping Students Avoid Plagiarism - a .pdf from Sonoma State University's Writing Center. Other handouts are available at http://www.sonoma.edu/programs/writin....

~ Shayne

Shayne replied on August 21, 2008 13:57 to the question "What information on your wiki should be cited using Footnotes?" in PBwiki:

In trying to add pages about citation to our summer camp wiki Citation Resources, I found that trying to give credit to YOU, the summer camp participants, is quite awkward. First of all, I would only use the displayed username and does the fact that you've posted ideas on a public wiki imply that you give permission for your ideas and wiki links (for public wikis) to be 'republished' on another page? What do you think?

Since Kristine mentioned on the webinar that she may eventually lock the summer camp pages, I've been trying to recreate, organize and expand the resources from week 2 at TBYResources which will be a public wiki. I invite everyone to contribute to and use this wiki. Note: (I'm still copying over information...)