What I realized is that PBworks has a very standard layout that looks exactly the same for everyone for the free features. It has a right side margin for the menu which includes:
1. Navigator: list of all the pages
2. Sidebar: flexible space for descriptions, websites, resources, etc
3. Recent Activity: keeps a history of changes
I can add/delete pages and these pages can be blank or set templates made by PBworks. Users can be added to my page or I can create accounts for my students if they don't have email accounts to make life easier.
Having said all that, I don't like it. It's so boring. I thought Wikispaces was boring, this seems worse. Maybe I'm tired and I'm not feeling it right now but it looks pretty boring to me. See below:
I don't think I can work with this format. At least with Wikispaces I could move my side menu to the other side...I had more colour choices. I can make my title bar nicer. Am I asking for too much? Anyway, I gave up after half an hour of fiddling. Just not for me.
In order to fully understand a tool's potential usefulness, you have to play around with it for a bit, and you have done this well.
ReplyDeleteNot all tools will speak to us as useful and valuable, and I think wikis are just not that applicable to your environment. Thanks for sharing what you did explore and what you learned and most importantly, the conclusions that you came to yourself for your own needs.