If you haven't seen it yet, the latest issue of Leading and Learning magazine (ISTE's quarterly magazine) has a great article on using Elgg (the some open source social networking platform that Commun-IT is built upon) with K-12 students. Well worth the read and good inspiration to how we can embrace these type of tools rather than deny they exist by shutting them out of classroom practices.
Full article text is available online here.
(disclaimer - I'm one of the contributors to the Elgg project, so I am a bit biased about what a great tool it is :-)
Keywords: elgg, social networks
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Tim, is there a facility to create our own wikis within Elgg? Is that desirable?
Ross
This is what I wanted for Christmas!! There should be a picture of me sitting beside the kids.
To create a safe, on-line community for students AND teachers, using Web 2.0 tools to accelerate learning, in my opinion, is the goal. This initiative makes total sense to me. If you build it, simply, elegantly, safely, they will come.
So can we get Scrabulous?
Ross,
This instance of Elgg has an integrated wiki (mediawiki). The best way to setup a distinct area is to create a wiki category and then create a link to that category on the front page.
The documentation on this is here: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Help:Category
For an example, see the LeadingLearning category...
http://www.commun-it.org/wiki/index.php/Category:LeadingLearning