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"Sandbox" is the term that wikis often use to describe the area of the website that should be used for pure play. For this discovery and exploration exercise, we’ve set up a whole SWC23 wiki that’s for nothing but play! For this “explore-and-play-with-wikis” exercise, you are asked to add an entry or two to the Wikispaces SWC23 wiki. The theme of this wiki is simply “Favorites” : Favorite books, favorite vacation spots, favorite restaurants, favorite anything …all you need to do is play and add your thoughts. To mark your adventure on this site, you should add your blog to the Favorite Blogs page.

> > Example: > > Title of blog. Highlight the Title of Blog Click on the world with the chain link button Click on "external web address" and type (or copy and paste) it in!
 * Discovery Exercise:**
 * 1) Access the SWC23 Wiki and create a login account for yourself.
 * 2) Add your blog to the Favorite Blogs page. That's how we'll know that you've been there. It’s easy to do if you follow these simple steps:

OPTIONAL: Add a favorite or two to a few other pages (Favorite books, favorite vacation spot, etc). And, if you feel up to the challenge, you might even want to create a separate page for book review or short travel essay and link up to that. Blog Prompts
 * 1) Create a post in your blog about the experience. (For ideas if you're stuck, try the blog prompts below.)
 * 1) What was easy/hard about working with the wiki?
 * 2) What ideas do you have for how wikis might be used in education?
 * 3) What ideas do you have for wikis and you? (foreshadowing, perhaps??)
 * NOTE: The SWC23 Wiki was created using the free version of Wikispaces, a tool that lets you create webpages that anyone can edit. [|PBWiki] is another great site for free educational wikis.