Week 7: Playing around with the PBCLSWiki

Week7: Playing around with the PBCLS Exploring Web 2.0 Wiki

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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 PBCLS Exploring Web 2.0 wiki that’s for nothing but play! The password/invite key has been sent to your gmail account. So go check your gmail and get the password/invite key. If you did not receive the password/invite key, please get in touch with one of the consultants and he/she will be able to give it to you.
For this “explore-and-play-with-wikis” exercise, you are asked to add an entry or two to the PBCLS Exploring Web 2.0 wiki. The theme of this wiki is simply “Favorites” : Favorite books, favorite vacation spots, favorite restaurants, favorite 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 Favorite Blogs page.

Discovery Resources:

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

Discovery Exercise:

1. Access the PBCLS Exploring Web 2.0 wiki with the password/invite key. You may want to uncheck "Notify me of changes" so you won't receive an email every time someone adds contents to this wiki.
   
2. Add your blog to the Favorite Blogs page. That's how we'll know that you've been there. The Point and Click Version of PBWiki now lets you add links without having to use the coding!
   

   Click on the link to the favorite blogs section of the wiki, click Edit Page, type in your blog url, be sure to include the http://. After you have entered your url, highlight your text and use the Link option in the editor menu. It is a lot like adding a hyperlink in a word document.
   
   PB Wiki will open up a link info window. Select the link type, which is a URL, verify that your url is correct, give the link text a name and click ok.
   
   Back on the wiki edit page. Simply click SAVE to save your edits and tada you have edited a wiki!
   

3. Create a post in your blog about the experience.