Top Tools: PBWorks

Posted on 13 August 2011 by Jane Hart — No Comments ↓

PBworks (previously PBwiki) is a hosted collaboration solution suitable for businesses and education.

Comments from some of those who selected PB Wiki as one of their Top 10 Tools in 2009

For easy organizing the learning content Malinka Ivanova
great way for prospective teachers to create and share safely their teaching portfolio; I am able to provide them feedback here, as well; unlike other online portfolios, such as LiveText, pbworks is free and can go with them after graduation and into their own classroom Sarah Davis
I have wikis for everything from the business plan to project planning to my doctorate. This is a fabulous way to work collaboratively and share files with distributed teams. (Carol Skyring)

Comments from those who selected PB Wiki as one of their Top 10 Tools in 2008

“mainly for archiving goodies, somewhat for collaboration” Jay Cross
“I almost stopped using wikis about a year ago, but PBwiki brought me back with all kinds of new plug-ins and added functionality, plus it is ad-free for educators” Barry Dahl
“We are running our intranet or ‘Knowledge Pod’ on this. Cool, flexible and easy too use. Even a drunken monkey can use it.” Anol Bhattacharya
“Lovely easy wiki software that anyone can pick up and use.” Phil Bradley
“We use PB wiki to create wikis for class projects. They are replacing pathfinders that were static pages – the fact that users can edit pages has created another level of interaction in the development of resources for learning.” Jenny Luca
“A couple of projects I have worked on lately have used PBWiki as a collaboration tool. It’s hard to beat for ease of use” Jeff Cobb

Comments from those who selected PB Wiki as one of their Top 10 Tools in 2007

“For working collaboratively with colleagues, I set up wikis. PB Wiki is great for this, especially as it is free, and I can quickly set up a space for any project I want. PB Wiki has recently released some new features including a shared calendar and spreadsheets.” Jane Hart
“Pbwiki was beautiful in appearance before it was WYSIWYG in use, so I set up my business website using it” Joan Vinall-Cox
“We are running our intranet or ‘Knowledge Pod’ on this. Cool, flexible and easy too use. Even a drunken monkey can use it.” Anol Bhattacharya
“amongst many free wikis this is my favourite one and which I not only promote for use with students, but use myself in my courses and module” Nicole Cargill-Kipar
“I like some of PBWiki’s more advanced features, like being able to add a YackPack chat to the wiki and the option to easily create a portfolio” Michele Martin
“I’m using it to collaboratively collect evidence for an action/case (to be held in early 2008) to learning technologies” Gianni Marconato