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Working with Wikispaces
An introduction for students
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What is a wiki???
• A website that allows visitors to add, remove, edit and change content.
• It also allows for linking among any number of pages and websites.
• It is easy to use and an effective tool for collaborative authoring.
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Creating your Accounthttp://multimediamadness.wikispaces.com
•Click JOIN
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Fill In
• Username: first name last initial
• EX. Marlap
• Password: write it down!!!!
• Email: one that works!
• Make a Wiki? NO
your username will be how the teacher credits you for your work.
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Requesting Permission
• After you have Joined.
• You MUST Request Permission to join the multimediamadness wikispace.
• If you do not see this page, you should type in http://multimediamadness.wikispaces.com into your browser again.
*Note- It may take a couple minutes for me to approve you. You can’t go on until you are approved!!
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Find your group page
• Each group has a link on the left side of the page. Once your membership has been accepted, click on your group name to redirect to your group’s page.
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Your Group PagePage Name Discussion Tab
Work Space
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Your Wiki…
All the information that you want people to learn about your topic will go here
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Editing your page
• INSERTING TEXT– Click on <Edit this page>– ONLY ONE PERSON can edit at a time. You
may want to cut and paste your work from MS Word and save it right away.
– Use the discussion tab to communicate with your group.
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Discussing Your WorkClick on the Discussion Tab to post a message (or reply) to your group
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Other Cool Things You Can do with the EditorAdd or
delete links Insert pictures and files Embed Widgets
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Editing your page
INSERTING LINKSIf you have a website that you want to add to your
page…..– Click on <Edit this page>.– Highlight the link you wish to add from your source.– Click on the link button – Choose external link– Paste the weblink from another source.– Click ADD Link
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Editing your page.• EMBEDDING WIDGETS• What is a Web Widget ?• A web widget is a mini-web application you can put
in your web page, blog or social profile that can quickly and easily provide your visitors with, user specific information , extra functionality, and even a bit of fun and games.
• A widget is available in a ready-to-use formats and are visually attractive and customizable by the user. It takes the form of pictures, graphs, statistics, summary, or just numbers.
• Its a snippet of HTML code which is available from the website which hosts the widget. you can "copy" that code and "embed" in your web page.
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Editing your page
Embedding A Widget – Create and save one
using the appropriate application.
– Click on <Edit this page>
– Click on the TV icon– Select the type of
widget you are using.– Follow the directions
provided