1. Walking with Wiki Presentation: Cameron Janzen

2. Overview What is a Wiki? What is the purpose? Example work Getting started – three main steps Creating a page Managing Navigation Editing a page Creating Hyperlinks Uploading files

3. Resource http://www.qataracademy.wikispaces.net/St arting+a+Wiki http://www.qataracademy.wikispaces.net/St arting+a+Wiki

4. Myths They are difficult to use It takes a lot of time consuming Anyone can change the information on a wiki page Kids will naturally want to go to your wiki Design options are as extensive as other web design tools

5. Purpose To facilitate communication between teachers for administrative or curriculum purposes To facilitate communication between students in a class To facilitate learning and communication between the class, home and teacher For student publication on a theme or topic To create a portal for a unit of work and distribute information and resources

6. Decide on your purpose Web 1.0: To communicate information from site creator to the user Web 2.0: To allow users to add/create information on to the site

7. Examples http://qmun.qataracademy.wikispaces.net/ http://qamun.qataracademy.wikispaces.net/

8. Getting started Create a user name/account (This is NON-QA) www.wikispaces.com

9. Getting started Go to: http://janzenfamily.wikispaces.com/

10. Getting started with QA Go to http://www.qataracademy.wikispaces.net/si te/signin http://www.qataracademy.wikispaces.net/si te/signin A NON-QA ID will not work Join here

11. Creating a new page Click new page Give your page a name Page name will form the url address Click create

12. Creating a new page Type in content Recommend cutting and pasting from Office software

13. Adding page to Navigation Page needs to be added into navigation Click edit navigation

14. Editing Navigation Screen will match current navigation

15. Editing Navigation Type name of page

16. Editing Navigation Click Insert link Page will appear with page name or find in your wiki directory (choose an existing page)

17. Editing a page Click edit this page Editing tools appear Simply make changes and save

18. Editing a page: Inserting links Highlight text Click Insert link - Click External link - Input url

19. Editing a page: Adding files Highlight text or put cursor in desired location of file Click add Images or files Upload new file and browse your directory to find desired file Click upload

20. Editing a page: Adding files File is now added to your wiki directory Select desired file

21. Editing a page: Adding files Design decision Insert link Insert file

22. Editing a page: Adding files Adding multiple files to wiki directory Click manage space Click List and upload files

23. Editing a page: Adding files Click upload files Go to the files location on your computer Press down on the shift key and click on all desired documents

24. Resource http://www.qataracademy.wikispaces.net/St arting+a+Wiki http://www.qataracademy.wikispaces.net/St arting+a+Wiki