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>Date: Fri, 29 Jun 2007 06:57:49 -0400
>Subject: Re: #8578 best wikis for teaching?
>To: Language Learning and Technology International Information Forum
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>From: "Margo Burns" <[log in to unmask]>
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"Scott Windham" <[log in to unmask]> writes:
>I'm looking for a good wiki where my students can post their web-essays
>in German. Up to now, students have been writing their essays in
>Dreamweaver and turning them in to me, and I publish them to a website
>(http://org.elon.edu/german/germanyproject/), but that process is
>becoming far too time-consuming as my enrollments grow.
>
>I'd like to use a wiki with lots of design flexibility. Any suggestions?

You might want to ask if your university would create an custon
installation of MediaWiki in the German directory you already have
(http://www.mediawiki.org), and even have them set the language to DE
(German), so that the wiki itself operates in the target language.  The
version that they install will have to be based on what version of PHP (4
or 5) is available on the university's webserver -- version 1.6.10 if they
are still using PHP 4, but 1.9 or 1.10 if they are using PHP 5.  Even if
you're using only version 1.6 of MediaWiki, it's really powerful and
flexible.

Cheers,
Margo


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