Getting ready for NETA 2008

We here at the Tech Fridge are getting ready for the local NETA Convention to be held this Thursday and Friday in Omaha. Here are a couple of websites that you'll need to know for NETA.

Our Wetpaint site: http://youtubeatneta.wetpaint.com

NETA on Twitter: http://twitter.com/neta2008

Tag photos with NETA 2008 on Flickr

As we find more we'll update!

Wetpaint Rules!

The issues I had with the Wetpaint website appear to be district issues and have nothing to do with the website. I apologize to the company for not more thoroughly checking the situation out before my last post. We have not had any other websites behave differently "in-district" than they do "outside" of the district. Thankfully, I don't have a large reader list...:)

I plan on using Wetpaint at NETA and will not be ashamed to admit it!!

Wetpaint is not dry

Last week we created a Wikispace site to share with the local historical society. Students and teachers have started collecting interviews and will be doing some more as they go back this year for the field trip. Much to our dismay, when we went to the local library and experienced the "outside Internet," we found Google Ads on our site. I have no problems with Google Ads, but the ads were for "adult chats" and "local singles" and other things that Grandma wouldn't want to see. So we did some checking for some other wiki sites. We found Wetpaint, a site that claims to not have ads for educator wikis. While that's not entirely true, there isn't anything like we found at our Wikispace.
Then we went back to our Wetpaint wiki this morning. I was highly disappointed. I followed Wetpaint's suggestion and went to ZeeMaps to make a map of the area. That map wasn't showing up today. Also, the TeacherTube clips I embedded weren't showing up. Now, I haven't checked this on the "outside Internet," but I think the content I add should show up in and out of school. This started out on Friday as going to be a glowing review of Wetpaint, but the editing features are not nearly as quick (and apparently stable) as Wikispaces. Hopefully, with a few more tests (as in my NETA presentation that I was getting ready to start before checking the other site), we will be more in love with Wetpaint. Right now, we've just got paint dripping everywhere over our fridge. What a mess...