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PBWiki

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Tool: PBWiki

Requirements: Computer w/ Internet

Cost: Free

 

PBWiki is an online wiki that has all the great features you expect from a wiki: you can add text, audio, video, images, calendars, polls, and a host of other widgets. All these options mean you can create a wonderful web site on just about anything. Plus, the commenting features and the ability to invite whomever you want to edit the wiki make this an invaluable tools for building learning communities.

Check out Distance Teaching Wiki for this wiki activity.

 

Contribute your own uses, benefits, tips, and suggestions at our PBWiki Contributions page.

 

Example Uses

  • Use it as your LMS and create a private course web site
  • Have your students use it to collaborate on group projects
  • Create a interdisciplinary web site around a single topic with your students
  • Develop a personal portfolio of all your work

 

Benefits

  • Helps build learning communities and encourages sharing resources
  • Provides an easy way to publish to the web
  • Allows for easy creation of multimedia collections
  • Is a re-usable learning object that students can contribute to across semesters

 

 

Tutorials

 

 PBWiki Overview

 

Set up your wiki site

 

 

Customize your wiki

 

Creating and linking to new pages

 

25 Tools: PBWiki - tutorials, resources, ideas for use in education

 

If you're looking for more, check out the PBWiki Videos on TeacherTube or see the PBWiki Educator Videos where teachers discuss using PBWiki in the classroom.

 

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