Sunday, October 11, 2009
BP6_2009102_Web 2.0 Tools- PB Works
Wikis are a great source of information in the world today. Wikis are being used in academic circles more each day. An easy wiki to use to create your own collaborative space is PB Works. It can be found at http://pbworks.com/. This site allows for people to come together to create a wiki. There are a variety of options regarding the services that one can use. There is a basic free account, which anyone can use. There are legal and project accounts as well. There is also an educational account available as well. With this educational account, for $799 schools can have their own account with 1000 users for the year. This would allow everyone in the school to utilize wikis and the new aspects of PB Works that are being released.
Wikis create a wonderful collaborative environment for teachers and students. With a wiki, teachers would be able to put the different ideas they have together to create amazing lesson plans and project ideas. Since most teachers have different planning periods from their colleagues, a wiki would allow them to collaborate whenever they had time throughout the day. For Spanish teachers, a wiki would allow a place for us to discuss different grammatical concepts. We would be able to thoroughly discuss the different grammar components that made up the concept. We could then decide where each component should be taught. Finally, we could develop different ways to teach each component and relate it back to the whole concept.
With my students I would use a different approach. I would use a wiki as a place to collaborate for different projects. One activity I would like to try is a collaborative writing assignment. My students would break up into teams, and create a story using a wiki. This would allow the team to work together to develop a story. All students could use their own Spanish skills, but the team would be there to help each other out. Using a wiki would allow students to work together even if their busy schedules did not allow them to meet together at the same time or place. They could all work when they had the time, but they would still be collaborating together. A variation of this activity would be to have each student start a story, and then a teammate would have to come in and add to the story. This way each student would be responsible for a certain part of the story.
1 comments:
- Kelly McKinley said...
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This is a great website. Oddly, I was just talking to my husband about it. He used it to post his resume. He then created a link from his e-mail so that whenever he sent out an e-mail, people would be able to access his resume, too. Seemed to work for him-he got a really good job when he graduated from grad school!
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