Creating+a+Wiki+with+Wikispaces

 **Creating a Wiki With Wikispaces**
 * Go to www.wikispaces.com
 * Click on “Get Started”
 * Enter username, password and email address
 * Click on “Join”
 * Enter the name of your wiki (whatever you put will be in the address bar – so be aware of what will show up). It can have only letters, numbers and hyphens, must have no spaces, and can’t start with a hyphen.
 * Select the bubble marked (Protected free)
 * Wiki Type – k12 Education
 * Click on “create”
 * You will see a “Getting Started” Page. Any time you want to see it, just click on “Help” at the top menu bar and this page will appear. As you are getting familiar with using Wikis, the page will help you become more comfortable with the process.
 * To make your Wiki ad free, click on “Manage Wiki” in the left hand menu bar.
 * Click on “Subscription” under Settings. Scroll down to the bottom of the page.
 * Locate “Request a complimentary upgrade to Plus for K-12 Education.
 * Click on the box certifying that it will be used for educational purposes, then click “**Request a Complimentary Plus Upgrade**” . You will be notified when your request is processed. Until then, you’ll see ads in your wiki.

<span style="background-attachment: scroll; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: 0% 0%; background-repeat: repeat repeat; color: black; display: block; font-family: Chalkboard; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; text-align: center;">**Designing Your Wiki** <span style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% white; color: black; font-family: Chalkboard; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; margin-left: 0.25in;">Now we’re ready to design the Wiki – This will be your home page – think of it as the cover of a book.


 * <span style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% white; color: black; font-family: Chalkboard; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Click on “Manage Wiki” on the left menu bar.
 * <span style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% white; color: black; font-family: Chalkboard; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Click on “Look and Feel” under “Settings”
 * <span style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% white; color: black; font-family: Chalkboard; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Pick your Theme and click “Apply”. You can change your theme at any time.
 * <span style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% white; color: black; font-family: Chalkboard; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">In the left hand column, click on “Home” and it’ll take you back to your Wiki.
 * <span style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% white; color: black; font-family: Chalkboard; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Let’s start your Home Page. Click on Edit. (You will basically be deleting what’s on here and typing as though you were using Microsoft Word.)
 * <span style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% white; color: black; font-family: Chalkboard; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">To change the font, size or color of your text, click on “T” at the top menu bar.

**<span style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% white; color: #100990; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">THE IMPORTANT THING IS TO CLICK ON SAVE – SAVE OFTEN! ** <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%; text-align: center;">**Limiting Access**


 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">Click on “Manage Wiki”.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">Go to “Settings”.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">Click on “Wiki Info”.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">Scroll down to “Discussion Settings”
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">Select “No Discussion Pages”.

<span style="background-attachment: scroll; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: 0% 0%; background-repeat: repeat repeat; display: block; line-height: 115%; text-align: center;">**<span style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% white; color: black; font-family: Chalkboard; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Starting a new Page **


 * <span style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% white; color: black; font-family: Chalkboard; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Click on” New Page”. (The location of this link will vary depending on the theme you chose)
 * <span style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% white; color: black; font-family: Chalkboard; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Type in the title of the page, then click on “create”.
 * <span style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% white; color: black; font-family: Chalkboard; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Edit this page, just as you created the Home Page”.
 * <span style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% white; color: black; font-family: Chalkboard; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Remember to Save.
 * <span style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% white; color: black; font-family: Chalkboard; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">You can keep the page up as long as you want.
 * <span style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% white; color: black; font-family: Chalkboard; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">You can add to any page, at any time, just click on edit.

**<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">Deleting a Page ** <span style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% white; color: black; font-family: Chalkboard; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">If you want to delete a page, ( <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">NEVER DELETE YOUR HOME PAGE ).
 * <span style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% white; color: black; font-family: Chalkboard; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Click on “Manage Wiki”
 * <span style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% white; color: black; font-family: Chalkboard; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Under “Content” click on “Pages”
 * <span style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% white; color: black; font-family: Chalkboard; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Click in the box next to the page you want to delete, then click on the delete button at the top of your window.

<span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%; text-align: center;">**Activating Links**

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">Find and open the pages to which you want to link. When you are in the edit mode on your wiki page:


 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">Type in the name of the link you want to activate
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">Highlight that name
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">Click on the link button in the tool bar
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">Select the tab marked “External Link”.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">In the window that appears, the name of the link you want to activate will appear under “Link Text”.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">Add the URL in the box marked “Address”
 * //<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">While you may just type in the address, a good way to be sure you have the address correct is: //
 * //<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">Open the web page you want to link to in another window //
 * //<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">Highlight the address in the URL window and copy it //
 * //<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">Paste the address in the box marked address //
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">Click “Add Link”.

**<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">To Add a graphic or video **

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">First, prepare your media. Save your picture, or get your youtube video all ready.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">Save the photo or graphic to your desktop (save it as a jpg.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">While on the page on which you want to place the image, click on “Edit”.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">Place the cursor where you want to place the image
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">Click on “File” in the toolbar.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">Click on “Upload Files”.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">Select the graphic you want to upload.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">Double click on the graphic and it will appear on the page. An editing window will appear with the picture that allows you to align, change the size or delete the picture. You can bring this window up at any time by just clicking on the picture.

**<span style="color: #0400ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">BE SURE TO SAVE! **

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">Clean up the video so that the only thing that appears is the clip by putting it through ViewPure.com <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">The easiest way to do this is to set up ViewPure on your toolbar. If you'd rather not put ViewPure on your toolbar, you can still clean up video directly on the ViewPure site.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">If you are using a YouTube video: **

**<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">To Clean up a Video Using ViewPure **
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;"> Go to the ViewPure site.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">At the bottom of the page, see "Use it Anywhere." As instructed, click and hold the button that says “Purify” and drag it onto your bookmarks toolbar.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">Once it’s on your toolbar, all you have to do is click on “Purify” once you have your video and it will take out everything but the video clip. (You still have to manually close the ads by google by clicking on the x to close them out)
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">On the tool bar at the bottom of the video, you will see a triangle. Click on the triangle, and then click on the icon that pops up (a square, with a grey square and lines on it),
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">This window will the appear next to your video



<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">You will be able to embed the entire clip on your page.


 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">To Embed a Video (Have the video open in a separate window) **


 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">While on the page on which you want to place the video, click on “Edit”.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">In the tool bar at the top, click on “Widget”.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">Click on “Video”
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">Select “Other”
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">On the page with the original video, get to Embed and double click in the box.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">Go back to your wiki page, and paste the address in the box that appears.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">Click on “Save”.

**<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">To Create a New Wiki ** <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%; text-align: left;">Once you've joined Wikispaces, you can create additional Wikis. If you want to create a new Wiki:
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">Click on "My Account" at the top of your Wiki.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">Click on "Create a New Wiki".
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">Fill in the information - just as we did for this one.

<span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%; text-align: center;">**Deleting a Wiki** <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%; text-align: left;">You can delete your wiki any time you want:
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">Click on "Manage Wiki".
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">Scroll all the way down to "Tools".
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">Click on "Delete Wiki". This is permanent - once you delete a wiki, it's gone, and you can't have another one with that name.

<span style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% white; color: black; font-family: Chalkboard; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"> Click on "Help" at the top of your wiki to get information on how to create and add to your pages, as well as other useful information. There are articles, as well as video tutorials that should answer any questions you might have.

**<span style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% white; color: #000000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Projects **

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">In September, 2011, Wikispaces annouced a new feature called <span class="wiki_link_ext">"Projects" to make it easier for teachers to projects designed for group work. The website has step by step instructions for setting up a Projects Wiki.