PS RSS (and wikis, too!)

I'm finding better RSS sites all the time: my favorites now include the Telegraph, for its witty book reviews and opinions, that aforementioned "New Urban Legends" feed, and something called "Educational Technology Headlines," which appears to be a blog, but a fairly up-to-date and informative one. I found out about concept mapping there, which is not particularly new, apparently, but which was still new to me. As a new acquisitor of Inspiration, I'm happy to find additional ways to deploy my new software. (If only my students had it, too!)

Meanwhile, my wiki page has become popular with my students. I created a special wiki just for the Shakespeare students (it started as an all-purpose wiki, but rapidly got too big for its britches), where they can add little reports for extra-credit points. There are some rules as to what kind of work counts for a point (plagiarism doesn't count, for example; neither does a cut-and-paste), but students seem enthusiastic about trying the page out and fascinated by what they can do with it.

I decided to go with Seedwiki rather than PB Wiki, as Seedwiki has a really nice editing interface that makes uploading pictures and links just so easy. PB Wiki has that password option, but seemed so primitive by comparison--anything more sophisticated than plain text requires special code. Plus, I want visitors--any visitors--to be edit that page. Seedwiki has recently announced that it has implemented a variety of strategies for combatting the spambots, and so far I haven't had any problems. I keep a backup copy of my three main pages on my hard drive just in case, and I update them regularly. But so far, so good.