#16 - Join the Wiki collective
In today's lesson you'll get to join the collective.
Okay, not the collective (that's the last Borg joke I'll make, promise), but the Learning 2.0 collective - you'll get to add content to the Learning 2.0 Wiki.
Wikis, as we've already discussed, come in many shapes and sizes. Still another variation in the world of wikis is where your wiki lives - you can install wiki software on a server at your institution (like what we do with our website and email) or you can use a service that hosts the wiki for you. For today's exercise, we'll be doing the later - our Learning 2.0 wiki was set up with a service called PB Wiki.
Which is why you should take their quick quick PB Wiki Tour (this will open in a separate window). They'll detail the service and fill you in on a number of intersting ways to use wikis - keep clicking on the 'next' button to get to the next screen. Once you run out of 'next' buttons, you've come to the end of the tour.
We're moving quickly today - we're already up to today's Discovery Exercise where you'll become a contributer to the Learning 2.0 Wiki.
- Head over to the Learning 2.0 Wiki (link will open in a separate window).
- Read the main page and follow instructions for making your way to the 'best blogs ever' wiki page.
- Add your blog to the 'best blogs ever' wiki page - instructions will be at the top of the page. Make sure you include your blogging name in the appropriate space so that we know it was you
Up next: play and catch up...
8 comments:
Why is the line under my blog link a dotted line instead of solid in 27things wiki? When you click on it, it still follows the link, but I hate that it looks different than everyone elses.
In response to read4fun2, it looks like this is a quirk of the PBWiki editor - the dotted lines sometimes (not always) appear when using the add link feature but disappear shortly thereafter. Your link, for example, has lost the dotted line for a solid one.
It probably won't matter to most, but editing in PBWiki doesn't appear to work with Safari -- can't see all the editing tools, specifically the "link" button -- use Firefox instead. That's what i get for trying to Wiki at home :-)
Good thing you put a link to Borg on the page, because I had NO idea what you were talking about. I thought it might have been a communist collective, or Judge Borg wasn't he grilled for the Supreme Court years ago??
...Judge Borg wasn't he grilled for the Supreme Court years ago??
April 5, 2007 3:52 PM
Actually, that was Judge Robert Bork. But it does sound similar.
And of course, if that was a joke, as per my usual habit, I missed it and took it literally.
Oops.
Thank you to the anonymous person whose comment post in the "Best Blogs Ever" site helped me figure out why my blog name was not underlining & turning blue as it should have done. I'll try again when I get to work tomorrow. (It only took me 2 fruitless attempts before I found the comment.)
Our wiki at SH-RB is one-stop shopping for almost everything you used to have to look for on the desktop.
I loved checking out all the fun blogs.
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