# 17 Playing Around with PB Wiki


"Sandbox" is the term that wikis often use to describe the area of the website that should be used for pure play. For this discovery and exploration exercise, we’ve set up a whole JPL Learning 2.0 Favorites wiki* that’s for nothing but play! The password/invite key to this wiki is learning

For this “explore-and-play-with-wikis” exercise, you are asked to add an entry or two to the PBwiki Learning 2.0 wiki. The theme of this wiki is simply “Favorites” : Favorite books, favorite vacation spots, favorite restaurants, favorite anything …all you need to do is play and add your thoughts. To mark your adventure on this site, you should add your blog to the Favorite Blogs page.

Discovery Resources:

• PB Wiki Tour - Find out how this collaborative tool can be used


• PB Wiki Tips

Discovery Exercise:

1. Access the JPL Learning 2.0 wiki and create a login account for yourself.


2. Add your blog to the Favorite Blogs page. That's how we'll know that you've been there. Just click on Edit at the top of this page add your entry to the bottom of the list.
   • Place your cursor at the end of the last entry in the list
   
   
   • Press ENTER on your keyboard. This will add the next bullet in your list
   
   
   • Type the name of your blog
   
   
   • Highlight the name of your blog and click the "Insert/Edit Link: Icon in the edit tool bar
   
   
   • The link type is URL
   
   
   • Type (or paste) the url to your blog in the URL box
   
   
   • Click ok. Your blog is now linked to this wiki page


3. OPTIONAL: Add a favorite or two to a few other pages (Favorite books, favorite vacation spot, etc). And, if you feel up to the challenge, you might even want to create a separate page for book review or short travel essay and link up to that.


4. Create a post in your blog about the experience. Post a comment to this blog with a link to your blog entry.

* NOTE: The JPL Learning 2.0 Wiki was created using the free version of PBWiki, a tool that lets you create webpages that anyone can edit.