Things you can do with some of the new tools on the web!

Firstly, many thanks to the pbwiki team for some great improvements. As well as making it much easier for you to add your own comments, they have also provided a free upgrade to their Gold version which has lots of space, gets backed up and has lots of new features.

I shall be using this site to support a series of sessions I'm doing around the country where I'll be trying to get tutors (or anyone else for that matter!) interested in using some of the great new tools available that are free and simple to use. You can see these on my webtools site. Hopefully, some will be interested enough to share their comments on them, and even add some examples of what they do with them. I've included links on that site to pages on this site where you can just edit the appropriate pages. In fact, you now have several ways to type on a web page which would have been virtually impossible a short while ago! It's quite amazing how things are changing. If you have just dropped by then you can get to the individual tool pages from the menu on the right too. Click the SideBar tab if it's not already showing.

Hopefully you'll also get some inspiration on the way and come up with some bright ideas of your own for using some of the tools. Feel free to add a page with news of what you do. The SandBox page is a place to play - content there doesn't get saved for long.

Another example of a wiki that is being used in education is the Mind Mapping in education wiki set up by Dave Foord.Another pbwiki - this time showing examples of pbwikis that are being used in education is http://educators.pbwiki.com/ The pbwiki people are doing a lot over the Summer break to help people get started, including a Summer Camp with an offer of a free wiki which is worth investigating. There's a link at their main page. I'm a bit concerned about the best free tools turning into commercial £x a month deals. Still, at the rate things are developing there should be plenty to keep us interested that's free and ad-free for a while yet. I feel that there's a Big Change coming . . . moodle is looking a bit old and sad and most of what people do with it can be done better and more simply with these tools - someone just needs to find a way to put all the pieces together. Maybe moodle will. One day.

Oh, nearly forgot - you can edit pages on this site using the key webtools. [Some complete idiot tried to advertise weird satellite tv just now. If it happens again I'll have to ask you to contact me for the key. Hope I don't have to. Let's see.] I would like to update this to the new version 2 sometime but although it looks good I'm not sure I'll be able to retain all the features of this Gold version 1. Contact me if you need help. Should be a link either in the footer or on the sidebar.

 Create your own educational wiki!Support Community Add to Del.ici.ous Add to Digg Add to fUrlPublic, Gold wiki Privacy Policy RSS