Task 17: Playing around with PBWiki

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"Sandbox" is the term that wikis often use to describe the area of the website that should be used for pure play. For this discovery and exploration exercise, we’ve set up a whole Learning 2.0 Favourites wiki* that’s for nothing but play!

For this “explore-and-play-with-wikis” exercise, you are asked to add an entry or two to our PBwiki Learning 2.0 sandbox wiki. The theme of this wiki is simply “Favourites” : Favourite books, favourite vacation spots, favourite restaurants, favourite anything …all you need to do is play and add your thoughts. To mark your adventure on this site, you should add your blog to the Add Your Blog here page.

Discovery Resources:

• PB Wiki Tour - Find out how this collaborative tool can be used
  
• PBWiki Video Gallery - Short videos of PBwiki features
  
• PB Wiki Tips

Discovery Exercise:

1. Access the TQL Learning 2.0 sandbox wiki and add a few of your favourite things to the Favourites pages. OPTIONAL: If you feel up to the challenge, you might even want to create a separate page for a book review or a short travel essay and link up to that.
   
   
2. Add your blog to the Add Your Blog Here page. That's how we'll know that you've been there. It’s easy to do if you follow this simple syntax:
   
   Format: URL link - Title of blog
   e.g. http://plcmclearning.blogspot.com - Learning 2.0 (just follow the format of the others already there)
   
   With just a little typing, you’ve added a link - yup, it’s as easy as that!
   
   
3. Create a post in your blog about the experience.

* NOTE: Our TQLlearning2 wiki was created using the free version of PBWiki, a tool that lets you create webpages that anyone can edit.