Wikis

Tomorrow we are having another workshop with some Year 11s (supported by outreach funding from MLA North East). This workshop is mostly about just engaging them in 'communicating' but we have decided to run a trial of PBWiki (currently the web-based service most liked by both our young people and older community groups) versus the Tiddlywiki-based web service Tiddlyspot. A sample Tiddlyspot site we did this morning is at http://paulmayes.tiddlyspot.com/ . The big possible advantage to us of a Tiddlywiki is the seeming ease of being able to use a downloaded version of the wiki on a memory stick. We very much believe in the power of web-based services but it's nice sometimes to be able to give a learner an off-line version.