DISQUS

Devin · 11 months ago

Hi Jeff -

I actually work on the Marketing team at Wetpaint, and just came across your post, which I think is great. We've been trying to reach out and let all teachers know about the capabilities inherent in fusing more technologies into the education sphere. We've also seen some great use cases throughout our network and others, whether its another wiki service, or another form of social media/publishing.

Actually one really cool story was a collaboration by two teachers, one in New Zealand and one in Alabama, who assigned their students a project to work with a partner from the other class. It was amazing, seeing the students use our technology to work together, literally across the world.

I did want to ask, however, what makes you say that PBWiki is safer than Wetpaint? Really more curious than anything.

Thanks and take care!

- Devin

Jeff VanDrimmelen · 11 months ago

Thanks for the note Devin. I personally have not seen this, but the reason some of the teacher's chose PBwiki over Wetpaint is because of content. They tried doing a word search for troubling terms and found more results with Wetpaint than PBWiki. In order to use a Wiki tool they have to whitelist the whole domain it in the firewall in Elementary and Secondary schools, so they have to be as cautious as possible. I don't know if there is a way around this, but that was the reason's they cited.

Thanks for all your hard work developing an awesome tool!!