Drupal, Wikispaces, and Stuff
I see that Tim Lauer is moving his school to Drupal as a web platform. He says:
Besides using Drupal for internal and external web communication, I am really excited about using Drupal as a basis for web based student and teacher interaction.
I’ve looked at Drupal, Moodle, Elgg, Wordpress and several other CMS, LMS, and blogs over the last year or so. Unfortunately, my school is not ready to support any of these tools at this time. The tech support people are stretched as it is and can’t support one more thing. This may change in time but for now I’ve got a few teachers that are going out on their own and using Wikispaces. A few use PBWiki. It would be nice to have a school-wide system and in time we will but for now teachers are happy to have something they can use easily to communicate with students and parents.
Rob,
We’re finding that a number of schools have adopted our Private Label Wikispaces service as a “school-wide” system. It looks, feels and behaves just as if it was installed on your own servers and is almost certainly as cost effective as installing and maintaining software on your own. Especially when, as you say, techsupport is stretched thin already.
We’d be happy to get your feedback on whether this is a good solution for the kind of thing you have in mind. Like all our services, Private Label is free for the first month so people can try it out easily.
Cheers,
Adam
Hi Adam,
Wikispaces is fitting the bill for those of us that want to communicate with our students and their parents easily and effectively. In the future we want to look at getting everyone using RSS and discussions to further build our community.
I know our IT director and admin staff are looking at a broad management system that can tie together content management, communication, records, reporting etc. The timeline for that keeps getting lengthened. When it is fully implemented I’m not sure how Wikispaces will fit into things.
In the meantime, the great thing about Wikispaces is that it gives us, as teachers, what we want now and makes it easy to do it. Right now there are three of us using it, two more teachers that want to get started, and several more that are watching with interest.
I’ll explore the details of your Private Label service.
Rob