Some PBwiki users are surprised when they create a wiki and make it public, but no one comes to collaborate.

 

Here, let's share our best practices for building a wiki that others will contribute to. Share your best ideas, suggestions and tips - help others!

 

 

The wiki

  • Your wiki should have a purpose that other people care about
  • Public wikis get far more collaboration than private wikis. To change your public/private settings, click "Settings"
  • Your wiki's FrontPage is the most important page on your wiki
    • It should have 1 or 2 purposes
    • Don't list everything on your FrontPage. This confuses people
    • Use Boxes and bold to highlight important things
    • Let people click through one or two levels to get to the appropriate places. For example, a classroom FrontPage might have 2 main links: Browse Student Assignments and Create Your Student Page

 

(screenshots of best practices)

 

Sharing your wiki

 

General tips to get more collaboration on your wiki  - add some of YOUR tips.

  • Use your FAQ as a simple landing page with links to the next steps you want people to achieve
  • Tell the parents to keep track of the class on the wiki
  • Share it with other teachers --  spread the word about wikis or PBwiki in general

 

Case studies of big, popular PBwikis -- Contact me if your interested in participating

 

What you think the PBwiki team should do to make Edu collaboration easier

  • Audio tutorials
  • Better sharing tools
  • "Request access to a wiki" tool, which will let people visitors edit access to your wiki and let you approve/deny them
  • Allow settings to enable any reader to comment (ideally with moderation of comments as an option?)

 


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