Wanted. A Web 2 home for KPS stuff

Most of the merry little band who skim this blog from time to time will recall the frustration we went through when we began to set up the KPS site in one of the free Wiki spaces. Much to our frustration the Education system net police that control what sites schools can and cannot access blocked access to this Wiki site. Apart from tackling these folk (the net police) we do need a place where anyone can add/edit/write about the KPS stuff in which they are engaged. So.... this is a request for suggestions, ideas. I think it is important that students doing this work also have access to such sites. I can set up a site out of Deakin (Joomla or Drupal based) but would value some reactions from others.

Producing music, producing knowledge

What is knowledge and how is it produced are pretty important questions in the KPS space. When I grew up, knowledge was something that you had, more or less, in your head. To some extent there is still an element of this today but, IMHO, that is much reduced in its importance as about a billion folk set participate in all manner of conversations and debates using various bits of so-called Web 2 software to produce knowledge. As David Weinberger of Everything in Miscellaneous fame, has argued in a number of podcasts, knowledge resides in the conversations, the email lists, the blogs, the wikis. Of course, you don't need the online stuff to do it as the post from Edutopia flags. The creative arts have always been a place to look to find KPS-like stuff happening. More often than not the teacher is also a practising artist and is thus well placed to articulate what goes on in the classroom with what goes on in the world outside.

23 questions

I must admit to enjoying the fun Roger Schank has with the silly parts of schooling. Here he asks 23 fun questions about some improvements in Maths scores in New York city. If such testing and its consequences were not so tragic it would be funny.