Using your PSU personal Using your PSU personal Web SpaceWeb Space

Ron CostelloRon Costello

Instructional Design SpecialistInstructional Design Specialistrjc35@psu.edu

www.personal.psu.edu/rjc35

X-7374X-7374

Applying for personal Applying for personal web spaceweb space

Personal Webspace is available to faculty Personal Webspace is available to faculty students and staff at students and staff at www.personal.psu.edu

You can get up to 1gig of storage spaceYou can get up to 1gig of storage space

You must complete a short but simple quiz You must complete a short but simple quiz in order to receive your personal web spacein order to receive your personal web space

What You Need To What You Need To KnowKnow

PSU Web space is for university business, not for PSU Web space is for university business, not for personal monetary gainpersonal monetary gain

Never share your login / password with anyone…for Never share your login / password with anyone…for any reason!any reason!

Each person authoring a site must use their own Each person authoring a site must use their own individual login / passwordindividual login / password

Copyright Law!Copyright Law!

You may not use any images, audio, video, text, or You may not use any images, audio, video, text, or any other media from another site without written any other media from another site without written permission (if written permission is obtained, the permission (if written permission is obtained, the contents must be credited) contents must be credited)

Getting Graphics For Your Getting Graphics For Your PagePage

Penn State makes Penn State makes University related University related graphics and images graphics and images available for web usersavailable for web users

http://publications.psu.edu/image_collection/index.html

Ways to Create Your Web Ways to Create Your Web SpaceSpace

Make a Psu BlogMake a Psu Blog Create Your own WikiCreate Your own Wiki Design your own page Design your own page

from scratchfrom scratch Iweb for Mac usersIweb for Mac users Dreamweaver for PC or Dreamweaver for PC or

MacMac

Creating a PSU BlogCreating a PSU Blog

Once you have applied Once you have applied for & received PSU for & received PSU webspace, you can webspace, you can create your own PSU create your own PSU blogblog

https://blogs.psu.edu Begin by selecting the Begin by selecting the

style you want (under style you want (under the design tab)the design tab)

http://blogger.psu.edu/http://blogger.psu.edu/files/psublogs/files/psublogs/MoveBlog.swfMoveBlog.swf

Creating a New BlogCreating a New Blog

To create a new blog, To create a new blog, choose "Create a new choose "Create a new blog" from the blog blog" from the blog selection menu.selection menu.

This will display the This will display the Create Blog screen. Create Blog screen.

Creating EntriesCreating Entries

For each separate For each separate section of your blog…section of your blog…you must create a new you must create a new sectionsection

Click on CreateClick on Create Then On New EntryThen On New Entry From there you can From there you can

title your entry and title your entry and write any desired textwrite any desired text

Create Your Own WikisCreate Your Own Wikis

There are many sites There are many sites designed for educators to designed for educators to create an interactive Wikicreate an interactive Wiki

Tiddlewiki Tiddlewiki (http://www.tiddlywiki.co(http://www.tiddlywiki.com/ )m/ )

Tiddlewiki will generate Tiddlewiki will generate an html page that you an html page that you can add to you PSU can add to you PSU webspacewebspace

PB Wiki is very easy to PB Wiki is very easy to use and is specifically use and is specifically designed for educatorsdesigned for educators

http://pbwiki.com/http://pbwiki.com/

IWEBIWEB

EASY WEB AUTHORING EASY WEB AUTHORING FOR MAC USERSFOR MAC USERS

EASY TO USE PREMADE EASY TO USE PREMADE TEMPLATES TO TEMPLATES TO CHOOSE FROMCHOOSE FROM

THE LAYOUT IS DONE THE LAYOUT IS DONE FOR YOU, JUST FOR YOU, JUST SUBTITUTE YOUR OWN SUBTITUTE YOUR OWN TEXT AND GRAPHICSTEXT AND GRAPHICS

WeeblyWeebly

Weebly is a free to use Weebly is a free to use web based web web based web authoring toolauthoring tool

Very user friendlyVery user friendly Compatible with your Compatible with your

domain or theirsdomain or theirs Sign up and get Sign up and get

started at started at www.weebly.com www.weebly.com

PSU Page TemplatePSU Page Template

Penn State Provides a Penn State Provides a Page Template that you Page Template that you can usecan use

http://http://portfolio.psu.edu/portfolio.psu.edu/files/eportfolio/files/eportfolio/template1.ziptemplate1.zip

You can open these You can open these pages in dreamweaver pages in dreamweaver or iWeb and start or iWeb and start customizing them from customizing them from therethere

Important Notes!Important Notes!

When building your site When building your site (no matter which way you (no matter which way you choose to go about it)…choose to go about it)…

You must save everything You must save everything you are going to use for you are going to use for your site (photos, audio your site (photos, audio clips, Powerpoint, Word, clips, Powerpoint, Word, and other files) to one and other files) to one folderfolder

You must transfer all of You must transfer all of these files together to these files together to your PSU web storage in your PSU web storage in order to publishorder to publish

Publishing Publishing

2 ways2 ways The Easy Way…The Easy Way… Go to Go to

https://explorer.pass.psu.https://explorer.pass.psu.edu/edu/

Choose upload and Choose upload and upload to your www upload to your www folderfolder

Download the SSH secure Download the SSH secure shell application from ITSshell application from ITS

https://https://downloads.its.psu.edu/downloads.its.psu.edu/

Look under file transfer Look under file transfer

Info for Connecting Via Info for Connecting Via Secure ShellSecure Shell

Host Name: Host Name: splogin.cac.psu.edusplogin.cac.psu.edu

User Name: (your PSU User Name: (your PSU login)login)

Port Number: 22 Port Number: 22 (should be filled in (should be filled in automatically)automatically)

Authentication Authentication Method: PasswordMethod: Password

User your PSU login User your PSU login password when password when promptedprompted