Getting Started with your PBworks
PBworks is very similar to working with Microsoft word! To edit the wiki, click the edit button at the top of the screen. You can tell you are in edit mode when editor toolbar is shown. This looks different from the 'view' mode. Make your edits and then click "Save" to finalize and publish those changes. You can edit pages just as you would if you were doing word processing -- text and graphics appear exactly as when viewed on the workspace page.
Practice on your own workspace. On the front page, click edit and look for the toolbar to see that you're in edit mode. Make a change to the front page, then chose save. It's that easy!
The icons on the toolbar should look pretty familar to you, they are the universal symbols used on text editors (like microsoft word). To learn more about the items in the toolbar, there are more instructions available on the PBworks User Manual
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Once you learn how to edit a page, it's time to start to create your wiki by adding more pages. In the upper right corner of your workspace, you'll see a link to create a page. Click on this link to create your first page. On the next page you should chose a name for your page and click "create page."
Tada! Your page is created and is already in edit mode.
More instructions available on the PBworks User Manual
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Folders are the best way to maintain organization on your wiki. There are two ways to create folders.
More instructions available on the PBworks User Manual
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There are two ways to put a page in a folder:
More instructions available on the PBworks User Manual
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A tag as a simple category name, a way to label your page. Tag pages with a students name, or with the lesson. When you want to find all the pages by that student or related to that lesson, you can search for the tag. To add a page tage:
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Its important to learn how to link your wiki pages to other pages, or other sites on the internet. There are many ways to link pages:
This option becomes increasingly difficult as you create more pages. I prefer the second option:
More instructions available on the PBworks User Manual
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