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 * WELSTECH PODCASTS - August 27, 2008 BASIC WIKI CREATION** Back to NWDTC

CommonCraft video about the functionality of Wikis: media type="youtube" key="-dnL00TdmLY&hl=en&fs=1" height="344" width="425"

Wiki- quickly in Hawaiian Interactive web page with text, images, audio, video

**Why**
would you want to create and use one? Collaborate, Communicate, and be Creative – components of the list of 21st century skills touted by education today.

A few scenarios might be: 1. Teacher poses scenarios or questions – students and groups respond on the page…ongoing dialogue – go back and revisit, edit 2. Students create their product based on gathering, sifting, and sorting information in the form of a wiki. 3. Students from several schools collaborate on a project together.

4. Long distance confirmation classes – pastors put out topical info and students respond. 5. Online bible classes where a group of people all can contribute questions, answers, and thoughts

1. Open your account at http://www.wikispaces.com/ a. Free for educators b. Excellent video tutorials on their site to get you started c. Private – Only space members can view and edit pages d. Public – can be viewed and edited by anyone e. Protected –Everyone can view pages, only space members can edit them 2. Blank Page: Save and Edit – how those two work together a. Can create multiple pages – side bar b. Layout – justify to 3 spots only – use table to help spacing(like finalweb) c. Look and Feel - place to chose theme and add your logo if desired 4. Start keying text in just as if you were working in Word. 5. Address for viewing will be welswiki.wkikspaces.com


 * Using Basis Two icons in Top Menu Bar**

globe (link – internal (another one of your pages in the sidebar) or external – on the web green square with tree – upload a file or an image from your desktop or from a link to a photo in picasa or another place where you might have photos or documents stored

End of basis wiki creation – go forth and create!

Now for the fun……See Page on Widgets,