1. pbworks.com How to use it?

2. In your Classroom Encourage student-centered learning. Even young students can build web pages, embed images & video, and post documents. "Wikis have genuinely changed how I teach." --Angela Cunningham

3. For your Library Provide access to information sources, book lists, and links to good articles. Have the resources stored for future use. "I use it to manage my library staff, schedules, and appointments." --Jane Carvajal

4. Throughout your District Host and share information between students, faculty and staff. Encourage staff development and shared resources across schools. "We are using PBworks to enhance instruction for students and provide high quality professional development for our staff." --Sharon Grimes, Supervisor, Library Information Services, BCPS

5. At your University Make distance learning more interactive and collaborative, support research teams, and improve inter-departmental coordination. "PBworks proved its worth practically overnight, and I expect the number of users to balloon." --Patricia Cloud, University of Chicago

6. What can you do with a Classroom Workspace? Class Resources - Publish class notes, PowerPoint lectures, schedules and policies; show off examples of great student work. Group Projects - Build collaborative pages, start discussions and encourage comments. Parent Outreach - Keep parents involved. Post assignments, key dates and volunteer lists. All available at home, from work, or anywhere. Student Portfolios - Give students their own page to post content, upload homework, and share their work. Expand Horizons - Share and interact with other classrooms or groups, across town or around the world.

7. How can you use PBworks in your library? Patron Service: Publish information about new acquisitions. Post library hours and policies. Publicize events such as author visits and reading groups. Procedures: Use PBworks to outline procedures for daily tasks, processing materials, sending out overdue notices, and giving out library cards. Staff Coordination: Link a busy staff of professionals and volunteers into an online team. Publish agendas and meeting notes. Launch and track projects. Coordinate schedules and coverage hours. Technology: Record past problems and solutions with your ILS software, subscription databases, catalog imports, etc. so that if a problem resurfaces in the future, it will be easy to find the solution.

8. In your district :Unlimited Workspaces, Unlimited Potential Student Collaboration: Provide course content and a place for students to collaborate and learn. All of the great capabilities of our Classroom Edition, available for larger groups of students and multiple courses. Share Resources: Build central workspaces to collaborate on ideas, lesson plans, and instructional strategies across a grade- level, a subject, or an entire school. Organize your meetings: Put the agenda, notes, and schedules for all of your faculty meetings on a workspace and keep everyone up- to-date. District-wide collaboration: find the best practices and the most innovative techniques and publish them across an entire district. Leverage the skills and experience of great teachers beyond their individual schools or seminars.

9. Administrative Control Administer New Workspaces PBworks Campus Edition makes it easy to upgrade existing workspaces and bulk add new workspaces to your license. Monitor Activity Campus Administrators maintain control with "superuser" power on each workspace. Administrator can make informed buying decisions with built-in statistics tracking workspace usage and teacher/student activity.

10. In the Classroom and Beyond Colleges and universities use PBworks in ways that are as broad and diverse as the institutions themselves: Course Resources: Centralize your syllabus, lecture materials, and additional resources in an online workspace that's available at anywhere / anytime. Distance Learning: Online shared workspaces increase communication and networking among distance learners, faculty, and student groups. Student comments, feedback and online Q&A enhance student engagement. Research Support: Coordinate day-to-day research work and schedules. Instantly share and comment on findings. Centralize links to outside resources and upload presentations. With unlimited workspaces, you can create a site for each research team. Faculty Coordination: Manage projects, coordinate meeting agendas and document action-items and decisions. Share reports & presentations to open processes to a broader audience.