Fragments From Floyd

Easy as making a Peanut Butter Sandwich, hence the name.

Thankfully, through my contact with Ecotone of years past, the wiki was familiar to me. Some are vastly complex. This one, as Goldilocks said, is JUST RIGHT!

I'm tinkering with ways to make my Biology 103 course material available to students this year, after cussing and kicking with WebCT last year and vowing 'never again.' After toying with a blogger.com blog (here), and thinking perhaps to use a public page in BackPackIt (here)--both of which may have their usefulness later in the semester--I've just yesterday discovered and committed to use this free and simple wiki as a means of building student-accessible course material for the coming term.

Unlike the blog format, my 'biowiki' (still barely more than the foundation poured there so far) will allow collateral pages to be set up with amazing ease.

After the semester gets cranking, a student who's missed a few days checking the page can simply click the "recent changes" link and see what has been added where. Or you can go to the "all pages" link and see basically a site index quickly.

I'll be the sole owner of the wiki (many are collaborative with many authors) and use the blog to post discussion questions to which all students can respond using comments.

Will they use this resource? If they want access to lecture notes and assignments, yes, I think they'll bookmark it right away as I suggest, and use it regularly. I'm looking forward to learning more about how to make full use of the program. I strongly suggest you give PBWiki a look--no matter what you do online. And if you download it, tell'em Fred sent you. I'd love a free upgrade to the Premium Package!