PB.Wiki!!!!

Dear all,
I have been trying different wikis with my students (graduate and undergraduate), but since I found pb.wiki I fell in love. It is very easy to use, and I had had no problem with my students. At the moment, I am using a pb.wiki with an international group of teachers from all over the world. It is one of the sessions of the TESOL Electronic Village Online, the Becoming a Webhead e-workshop, co-moderated by Teresa Almeida d'Eca and myself. We have 250 teachers from the 5 continents (as you can see on our map).

In this session, teachers are to explore different Web tools and discuss how to best use them in their educational contexts. Wikis are one of the tools we are introducing, and this year, I selected pb.wiki, and created our own BaW-06 pb.wiki for the session where teachers are exploring its use. For most of them, this is their first exposure to a wiki, but little by little they are creating their own pages to explore what they can do.

These are some of the pages created by our participants:

http://baw-06.pbwiki.com/VanyaKatsarska

http://baw-06.pbwiki.com/CarlaArena

http://baw-06.pbwiki.com/CherylOakes

http://baw-06.pbwiki.com/MtCiaffaroni

To check them all out, visit our Baw-06 pb.wiki


Personally, I have been using wikis with students for a while, as usual I have started with easy tasks and then getting more sophisticated ;-)
These are some of the activites I have done with wikis in my classes:
1. I create a table, and have students:

• Write their Yahoo ID's
• Write the URL's of their blogs
• Copy the URL's to their recordings
• Write the articles they have selected to read
• Select the applications they have selected to explore

2. Write collaborative essays (each group creates a page, an on their page they work on their essay)

3. Write a collaborative book about a topic(on the first page they write the index, each topic in the index is a link to the page where the topic is discussed.

4. With my graduate students I am now using wikis as e-portfolios

Who doesn't like peanut butter? pb = peanut butter

Let's keep wikiing at pb.wiki ;-) Get a free wiki at PBwiki.com

hugs,

Daf