“Sandbox” is the term that wikis often use to describe the area of the website that should be used for pure play. (That’s right… pure play!) For this discovery and exploration exercise, we’ve set a whole Learning 2.0 favorites wiki, that is nothing but pure play!!
For this discover, explore and play with wikis exercise, you are asked to add an entry to two to the PBwiki Learning 2.0 wiki. The theme of this wiki is simply Favorites: Favorite books, favorite vacation spots, favorite restaurants, favorite anything… all you need to do is play and add your thoughts. To mark your adventure on this site, add your blog to the Favorites Blog pages.
Discovery Resources:
- PBWiki Video Gallery - Short videos of PBwiki features
- PB Wiki Tips
Discovery Exercise:
- Access the New Canaan Library wiki.
Click on the Edit Page button. - Add your blog to the Favorite Blogs page. That’s how we’ll know that you’ve been there. It is very easy to do.
Click on the “Edit Page” button, and you will see a text editor appear (which slightly resembles Blogger and Microsoft Word).
Enter your blog name, highlight the text and press the Link button, and a edit box will appear. Under link type, choose URL if you are linking to a page outside the wiki. - OPTIONAL: Add a favorite or two to a few other pages (Favorite books, favorite vacation spot, etc). And, if you feel up to the challenge, you might even want to create a separate page for book review or short travel essay and link up to that.
- Create a post in your blog about the experience.
* NOTE: The New Canaan Learning 2.0 wiki was created using the free version of PBWorks, a tool that lets you create webpages that anyone can edit.
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