This is the second year that I have run a wiki for my VCE students to give them some assistance and a forum outside of school hours. I’m working on the butterfly wing theory as last year only a few diehard scholars actually used it. But, well, it’s too early to give up. I originally had a wikispaces wiki, but seemed to have a couple of glitches (as in everything suddenly disappeared one day and all of my pages were blank!) So this year a friend had recommended pbwiki (as easy as making a peanut butter sandwich don’t you know) so I thought,hmm, peanut butter – I’ll give it a whirl.
It looks very different from the wikispaces one and navigates slightly differently but does live up to the claim that it’s easy to set up. I have absolutely no knowledge of html or anything like that and only like to use technology as a tool, not for the sake of it, and it was simple to set up a wiki that looks visually appealing. It lacks some of the more intuitive features that I’d gotten used to in wikispaces, such as the ability to move images around easily but that could just be because I’m not yet fully conversant in its ways. I’ll test it out over this year and then assess it depending on how easy it is and how much the students find it easy to navigate.
The url is http://pbwiki.englishguru.com feel free to peruse and critique.
