Are there any free wikis out there where we can uploand folders?

I've been trying to create a wiki at PBwiki, but it appears yu can't upload folders, only create individual pages. Does anyone know of anything available to use where we can uploand entire folders for sharing? The PBwiki folks say that is coming soon-but will we have to pay for a premium service to take advantage of this? So far, this is not conducive to creating a shared cache of lesson plans. It seems we can still only upload one document to a page. Just to upload curriculum for one class, there would be well over 100 pages that would have to be uploaded separately. There has to be a better way. What have others found out?

District H.S. English wikki

Now we're talking. This was the most useful piece we've done in class, as far as I'm concerned. They are still not as easy to use as bulletin boards, but they are simpler to set up. What they did with Central's English is exactly what I've been trying to do at Highland. Unfortunately, I'm not getting much buy in from the rest of the English Dept. What if we take things one step further? Why not create a wikki for the entire district for high school English that anyone who contributes can access? We would be able to select from a wide variety of lessons and units for all the literature we teach, including IB and AP. Why should we continually have to reinvent the wheel each year when we get assigned all new classes? The work has been done numerous times already. How handy would it be for all of us to access pre-written lesson plans, unit maps-and all aligned to the standards? Is there anyone out there who is interested in trying this? I think it would be powerful in so many ways-and it would help us all to standardize the high school curriculum as the district is pressing us to do. Who's with me?
b.c.

Online Resources for ELA

I have been looking more thoroughly at the ELA resources in our resource links page. The pickings seem rather slim. I am having my 11th graders research an American poet as part of a multi-pronged poetry unit. They will have to analyze two poems from the author they choose, present to the class, and finally, there will be an opportunity for them to write their own poetry. However, in researching sites for information on American poets, I found six excellent sites that I have included in a document for my students to use. I will copy and paste them here for anyone interested in accessing the same information. These links are very complete, with direct links, in most cases, to complete works by each author.

http://famouspoetsandpoems.com/country/America/American_poets.html

http://www.americanpoems.com/

http://www.americanpoems.com/poets

http://www.poets.org/page.php/prmID/361

http://www.poetseers.org/the_great_poets/am

http://www.kyrene.org/schools/brisas/sunda/poets/poet.htm

http://www.english.uiuc.edu/maps/poets.htm

I hope this helps others. Why recreate the wheel, when we can all share?
b.c.

ENOUGH!!!

I will be out of town until New Years, so if I don't get back to blogging after that I hope others can use what I discovered with the different browsers and dial up connections.
b.c.
Peace

Definitive answer #1

OK kiddies-here we go
In switching to the IE browser, I found page loads to be much quicker, and the pages loaded completely. So here we have the first part of our answer. When connecting using DIAL UP/use the IE browser for quicker and more problem free access to blogspot.

This still does not answer the question about whether or not Firefox was designed to be used with the Mac platform. I shall endeavor to find this out for all those out there who are restricted to dial up access. After all-if we want our students to be able to use this technology, we must be able to tell them how it will work best with dial up access.

The unfortunate thing, is that now, every time I need to access the district network, I have to go into my control panel and change my default browser to Firefox, because no other browser allows us remote access to the Campus server.

b.c.

See how I'm spending my Xmas?

Here I am, trying to figure out something when I should be having Xmas dinner with my family. Never fear-I shall slay this dragon, and have a definitive answer to this conundrum (not the Xmas one). My next attempt at creating a blog will be using the IE browser instead of Firefox. I will let you know which is more dial up friendly in a short while.
b.

Firefox may be a major culprit

I am going to try using internet explorer as a browser instead of Firefox to see if the dial up interface with bloglines is any better. I have had difficulty with Firefox on many other sites that worked smoothly with either the IE browser of the Netscape browser. I have two theories:
1. Firefox is designed for the Mac platform and doesn't interface well with the standadrd PC platform
2. Firefox has many redundant security features that render it all but useless with a dial up connection, using up all of the time to load a page with passing various security tests.

Someone else should already have an answer for this. Why am I trying to do this on my own, when I have more important things to deal with? Oh well.
b.