Do+One


 * Do One**

As I made this particular wiki, and I am not done the process, my initial thoughts are that it is fairly easy. Making the links is a cinch. I simply highlight the word or words that I want to make a link of, click on the link icon and enter the website address.

To insert a video such as the one that is shown below, click on the TV icon, select the location of the video and follow the instructions. The video below is a quick video on PBwikis is and how they work. [|PBwikis] is an alternative wiki site to Wikispaces which is the wiki software I am using. *PBwikis is now called PBworks*

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From the TV icon, numerous different objects can be inserted. The list is really quite exhaustive and I would suggest going through each one. As a teacher, it would be a good idea to play with each one of them and see what they can do. This really is the best way to understand the power of the tools. A final comment on the ability to embed other web 2.0 objects into the wiki. This is the power of web 2.0 tools. The mashing-up of web 2.0 tools to make a more productive tool is an extremely flattering feature of web 2.0 tools. By themselves they are highly effective; [|in-sync] with each other, they are simply wonderful!

To this point, I have had next to no frustrations with technology and I would suggest that working with wikis, with its Microsoft Word look and feel, many teachers could easily start developing wikis for their students. I did run into some difficulty in organizing the navigation on the left hand side of the page. There is an automatic feature that will list the page names for all of the pages on the site. A pretty cool feature...saves time! But, it organizes them alphabetically. This is not good if you are trying to have the information flow from page to page in some sort of sequence not based on page names. I was able to fix this by editing a page called space.menu. It is on this page that the automatic navigation feature is working in the background. I was able to delete the feature which appears on the page as a picture. Once this was done, I remade the navigation bar by creating links. I figured out how to do the fix by reading the help section. When in doubt, read the help section.

To this point in developing a my own small little wiki, I think it could be a benefit in the classroom. I will talk more about using wikis in the classroom in the teach one section.