Pbwiki

=Getting Started With Pbworks - https://plans.pbworks.com/academic= 1. Your email address becomes your log-in and you will share the password, so keep that in mind. Use your school email. 2. Sometimes verification of the account is sent to your email address and must be clicked on before you can proceed. 3. On the next page you have to decide if this is going to be viewable to the public or completely private. Remember to agree to their terms, and continue. Pbworks used to be extraordinarily friendly to educators. I don't know if I'm grandfathered in, but I have more than one free account and no one has slapped my hand yet.

1. The Frontpage will be the first page of your wiki. Click on the Edit tab and select everything and delete it. Sometimes this causes the program to underline all the text. Highlight the text and use the **eraser icon** to change the formatting that was in place from the original page. Name your page and save it. 2. Create a new page. Name it and save it. On the right you will find the **sidebar**, used for navigation. Click **edit the sidebar**. On the right you will see your pages. Any pages you want in your navigation/sidebar should be clicked and save the page. To get back to where you want to work, click and go. 3. Insert a table if you want information in columns or it you want pictures next to information. 4. Links are added to a page by highlighting the word and clicking on the hyperlinked world icon at the top. If you are linking to another page in the wiki you choose internal and toggle the external button on for links to the Internet.
 * Making a page.**

1. In the upper right hand corner you will find **settings**. Under **Access Controls** you can invite **users** if they have an email address. At this point you have to choose their level of access. Do you want them to just be able to read, write or both? It also works with an IM address, but they have to wait until they get home before they can activate the link. Pbworks now has the capability of creating addresses for students who don't have their own email addressess. 2. The wiki notifies you every time someone makes a change on the wiki. You can use the history tab to take a page back in time, but so can your students. Read the differences in the types of users before you invite. If you are working with older kids you can sit them down and let them enter their own email addresses, you can change their status if they stray from instructions.
 * Using with Kids**