I did this presentation to get my colleagues up to speed on what wikis- pbworks- can do for their pupils for Home Based Learning.

1. Wikis 101
North View Primary School

2. What’s a Wiki?
• A wiki is a website that uses wiki software,
allowing the easy creation and editing of any
number of interlinked Web pages, using a simplified
markup language or a WYSIWYG text editor,
within the browser.
• Wikis are often used to create collaborative
websites and to power community websites. The
collaborative encyclopedia Wikipedia is one of
the best-known wikis.

3. Why WIKI at all?
• HBL due to H1N1 & other pandemics
• LEAD allows us only 2 slots - Tuesday:
12noon to 2pm and Thursday: 6pm to 8pm
• Online collaborative work for the digital
natives - our pupils!
• FREE ~ for our needs, at this point of time.

4. What is your workflow like?
BASIC
Teacher Pupils
upload download
MS Word MS Word
MS Excel MS Excel
MS PPT MS PPT
EMAIL

5. Powerful Collaboration
Features
• Collaborative Page Editing
• Let multiple people collaborate on the
same page. No need to send documents
around and wait for comments -- your
pages and documents can be centralized on
the workspace for as many editors as you
grant access to.

6. Powerful Collaboration
Features
• Document management & file sharing
• Use PBworks's Document Management
feature to share documents, spreadsheets,
Powerpoints, or any kind of document
imaginable -- right on your workspace.

7. Powerful Collaboration
Features
• Complete history and audit trail
• PBworks keeps a complete audit trail of
every change made to your workspace. See
who changed what. Reverse any change
with a couple clicks.Your PBworks allows
you to maintain full accountability of your
users.

8. Powerful Collaboration
Features
• Easily invite others to collaborate
• Invite 1 or 1,000 users to your PBworks in
seconds. (If you're a teacher, PBworks also
features Classroom Accounts for students
without email addresses.) No more
complicated user provisioning and no more
waiting for IT. Inviting users is easy.

9. Powerful Collaboration
Features
• Automatic notifications by RSS and email
• PBworks notifies you of every edit so you
can monitor changes and engage when you
need to. Notifications by RSS and email
allow you to keep up to date, automatically.

10. PB Works
(formerly pbWiki - peanut butter wiki, really)

11. http://pbworks.com/
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21. Uploading Resources

22. PLAN first!
a) Lay out ground rules whilst using Wiki
FrontPage b) Direct pupils with clear instructions of Where to go & WHAT to
do
a) One page per pupil, per activity, per Subject? Depends on nature
of assignment - collaborative or individual?
b) Further instructions can be placed in assignment pages
Other Pages c) Post assignment directly onto a page and get all pupils to do on
same page?
d) Can have other sub-pages within main-pages: Subjects,etc.
a) Remember 2 GB Limit
Files b) Upload softcopy of WS done on MS Word and get pupils to print
& do and hand-in hardcopy?
Folders a) Keeping all the files in order - according to subject, perhaps?
Pages & Files Tab

25. Adding pupils

36. Examples of PBworks
• http://pedeptnvps.pbworks.com/
• http://infocommclubnorthview.pbworks.com/
• http://p6teachersatnorthview.pbworks.com
• http://chauncy-ict.pbworks.com/Unit+1+Home