In this article I will show you how to set up an account and give two ways in which I have used pbwiki to give my students more ownership of their learning.
Setting up a pbwiki only takes 30 seconds.
1. Go to http://pbwiki.com/
2. Enter you name and an e-mail and they will set up the page for you and send you a link.
3. Click on the link and it will prompt you to enter a password and agree to their terms. Anyone you share this password with will be able to edit the site.
4. You are now at your new page.
There are also a number of video tutorials along the way to help.
Two Possible uses of pbwiki in the Classroom
The first way I have used a wiki is as a semester end cumulative review. I post all the course's PLO’s and have the students add notes under each outcome. By the end of the activity the students have a comprehensive outline of all the material created and edited by them. This semester I plan on having my classes add to the existing pages.
Some examples of the students’ work:
The second way students use wiki is to produce a daily summary. Each lesson a student is nominated to be the scribe. The scribe is responsible for posting a summary of that day’s lesson on class wiki site. At the end of the semester we have a detailed summary to review from.
