Pbwiki

Hello everyone! I chose Pbwiki as my Web 2.0 Tool. A colleague of mine introduced me to the Web 2.0 site and I am excited about exploring it further and potentially using it in my classroom during the upcoming school year. If you do a Google search you will find that Pbwiki is now known as Pbworks. Pbworks can be used by educators in any field. In the classroom Pbworks can be used by students to create web pages, imbed pictures and video and post documents. Educators can publish schedules, assignments, examples of student work, and announcements. Pbworks can be used to create collaboration between students by creating discussion boards and collaborative pages. These pages would increase group participation and would allow students to comment on others work. One feature of the web tool that I am really interested in using with my third graders is the Student Portfolio tool. Here students would be given a folder on the site where they may compile their work throughout the year. This could be accessed by students and their family from any computer. I currently compile student portfolios for my students year afte year, however, they are PAPER portfolios. How neat would it be to have an ONLINE portfolio that they compiled themselves!? I am attaching a link to my Pbworks page that I recently setup! One way I would like to use this site in my classroom would be to create a class Wiki where the students would be required to log on daily and respond to the Problem of the Day. Problems would vary from subject to subject and they would be based on the material that we were covering for the week. []#