Week Seven, Assignment #17

#17. Add an entry to the Pennsylvania Curriculum Connection wiki.

I went to the PA Curriculum Connection wiki but I couldn't immediately play in the sandbox or edit a page because I didn't have the invite key. I emailed the administrator to ask for the invite key and she sent it to me. I then had to look around a lot before finding a place I could make an entry. There's supposed to be a sandbox, and I expected to find one with lots of other people's comments, but there's only a sandbox homepage with a welcoming message and a link to PA Curriculum Connections. It didn't look like a place for me to make a comment or to "play" with friends. I finally found a page under "Online Learning" where I felt I could make an entry and not mess up the main design of the site. I added the PA Online Web 2.0 link on this page: http://pacurriculum.pbwiki.com/ONLINE.

In May when someone e-mailed me for permission to add to this page, I looked around and saw that the page itself was redundant. Someone else had set up the page, but their postings were listed on other pages, so I deleted the "Online" page. Other people who wanted to post there would be better advised to post on one of the other available pages.

I'm wondering where other people who are following this "23 Things" online tutorial plan for PSLA are making their entries on the PA Curriculum Connection site.

Week Seven, Assignment #16A

#16A. Take a look at California's Learning 2.0 SandBox wiki.

I took a look at it. I can't say I want to play in the sandbox, but I did it anyway.
You can see my sentence with a link to this blog here: http://calcurriculum.pbwiki.com/SandBox

Week Seven, Assignment #16

Week 7: Wikis
#16. Learn about wikis and discover some innovative ways that libraries are using them.

I went to pbwiki.com and found the note, "You don't have permission to comment on this page." I thought pbwiki was something I had access to. When I went to Joyce Valenza's session at last year's PSLA Conference, I found out about her pbwiki and I was able to access information on it.

I set up an account with pbwiki, so now apparently I can create a wiki, but since my school district bans access to any and all wikis, there's not much point in my trying to find a way I can use this in my school library.

I just went looking at Joyce Valenza's TeacherLibrarian Ning site, to see what I could find about pbwiki. I used the "search" feature, but only came up with the suggestion that librarians use the pbwiki for their libraries. I hate when I have to spend time searching for stuff like this. There's definitely an overload of librarian possibilities in my brain. On the positive side, along the way I saw some things I might want to go back to look at again.