Re: [school-discuss] Website admin for students

["Gordon J. Holtslander" <holtslander@sask.usask.ca>]

A webserver (like apache) running webdav and the students using a webdav 
compatible browser (like amaya)  would be able to construct web sites, within 
the browser.  

What is WebDAV? 
Briefly: WebDAV stands for "Web-based Distributed Authoring and Versioning". 
It is a set of extensions to the HTTP protocol which allows users to 
collaboratively edit and manage files on remote web servers. 

See:
http://www.webdav.org/

and
http://www.webdav.org/mod_dav/

and
http://www.webdav.org/projects/


Amaya

Amaya is a Web editor, i.e. a tool used to create and update documents 
directly on the Web. Browsing features are seamlessly integrated with the 
editing and remote access features in a uniform environment. This follows the 
original vision of the Web as a space for collaboration and not just a 
one-way publishing medium.

Amaya supports annotations. Annotations are external comments, notes, remarks 
that can be attached to any Web document or a selected part of the document.

This could allow some interesting collaborative work. letting students comment 
on other people work online - could do online debating of some sort.

amaya also supports mathml

http://www.w3.org/Amaya/Amaya.html
http://www.w3.org/Amaya/

On March 16, 2004 3:58 am, Yishay Mor wrote:
> plone.
>
> Read all about it: http://plone.org
> A school in Israel I helped set up a system for: http://zds.objectis.net/
> Hosted for free on http://www.objectis.net
>
> A variant with some added (and some subtracted) features we've developed
> for our project: http://www.weblabs.org.uk/wlplone/
>
> best,
>
> - Yishay
>
> Chris Gillies wrote:
> > I would like to extend the content of our website to include more work
> > from our students. As such does anyone have any suggestions regarding
> > web construction/admin tools that are suitable for the kids to use.
> > For example a tools that allows them to make there own web page
> > straight on the server (I hope that makes sense).
> >
> > Thanks
> >
> > Chris Gillies
> > IT Co-ordinator
> > St Thomas's School
> > Mareeba AUSTRALIA.

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