Skills: edit, display the history of, discuss, and track changes to a page, wiki technique tips Concepts: Wiki operations This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 License. Creating a wiki using Wikispaces
Where does this topic fit? Internet concepts – Applications – Technology – Implications Internet skills – Application development – Content creation – User skills
The first page, called Home
The second page, called Motto
Create and name your wiki
Page viewing and editing area A typical wiki screen layout
First draft with two errors
The editor
Correct the errors and click Save
The corrected page
Discussing the page
The page revision history
Compare pages
Change notification
Create a new page
Name the new page
Edit the new page
Save the new page
The starting home page
Wiki administration
The freemium business model
Summary Page viewing and editing area
Self study questions Every wiki service provides five operations. Without looking back, do you recall them? What are the three steps in editing a page? Is a wiki a one-many medium? Wikipedia is useful, but can you find other useful wikis on the Web?
Resources Introduction to Wikispaces (2m 1s): Wikis in Plain English (3m 40s) The demonstration wiki used in this presentation: Wikispaces help wiki, including videos: The Hawaiian busses that gave wikis their name: