The first place I searched was on the Pbworks support site and found this video which I thought really explained the intended use for a wiki. This site is also the main support center for pbworks. It describes how instead of items getting lost in an inbox on your email, you have a place where a collaborative group can write out their thoughts and edit or add ideas to the discussion. This site also gives links to different "how to" documents or videos.
Jen Wagner has created a great tutorial which walks a new user through how to set up, edit, add links to pages, "extras", adding new pages, some quick guides, and how to change user and other settings.
Another video describes some features not many people realize pbworks is capable of: how to search topics and create a table of contents. It gives a step by step overview of how pbworks allows you to search through the wiki for specific topics you would like to find quickly.
Probably the most helpful site gave some good wiki examples. It showed current wikis and how they are being incorporated into the classroom or into trainings for educators. Some of the more helpful one's I stumbled upon from the previous site (not only for discussion boards but also for web 2.0 FAQ):
- http://cooltoolsforschools.wikispaces.com/ (great website for Web 2.0 tools)
- http://healigan.wikispaces.com/message/view/home/15665196 (these are discussions on poems)
- http://model-bfwilson.wikispaces.com/message/view/home/8136797 (discussion on biweekly reading)
- http://crowdsourcingexamples.pbworks.com/ (this just had some good discussion or ways that people gave their thoughts about the topic at hand)
The last helpful site I found had some great grading rubrics for when you had discussions or collaborative groups make a wiki page of information. (check out pages 3-5 for the rubrics)
-Laurie
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