Wiki+Workshop+2


 * Thursday 19 May 2011**

During Wiki Workshop 1 we created our class wiki and added a class photo and some learning links.

Today we are going to add reading, writing, numeracy and topic links that students will be able to access from home and school.

Don't forget that you need to be signed in to your wiki so that you can edit it.

To add a new page: 1. Click the 'New Page' button 2. Type in the name of your page, eg. 'Reading' 3. Click 'Create' 4. You will now be looking at your new blank page which will be waiting for you to add instructions or links

The joys of tabbed browsing:
 * Having more than one tab open in your browser (eg. Safari) will allow you to go back and forth between web pages painlessly
 * Clicking the little 'plus' sign to the right of the Safari browser will give you a new tab (so will the key combination, 'command + t')
 * 'Command + clicking' on the link you want to go to will automatically open the link in a new tab

Adding a Reading Link to your new page: 1. 'Command + click' on the following link, Years 0-3 [] or Years 4-8 [] This is the Computer Lab Favourites for the international Scholastic website. 2. Highlight the url in the address bar and click 'command + c' to copy 3. Use the key combination, 'command + shift + 4' to bring up a screenshot crosshair 4. Drag the crosshair across the title of the page to take a screenshot that you can use on your wiki page (this will send the screenshot to your desktop) 5. Click back onto the tab where your wiki is displayed 6. Click the 'File' button and then click the '+ Upload Files' button (this will bring up a Finder window) 7. Click on 'Desktop' (to be found under 'Places' in the Finder window) 8. You should be able to see the Screenshot image (it will be named Screenshot!) 9. Double click on the screenshot image to upload it (wait while uploads the screenshot, it will originally say, "No files found" but it will then pop up) 10. Click once on the screenshot to add it to your page 11. Adjust the alignment, the size and then click 'add link' 12. Click on the 'external link' tab then use the key combination, 'command + v' to paste in the url of the scholastic site 13. Finally, click 'Add link' and then 'Save'

Other additions to try:

Add a fancy title to your wiki using, [], [] or similar text generating website (Copy the code and use the widget button to embed the code onto your wiki) Michelle says, "Try googling 'Flickr spelling' to create letters and words with photos." - Great idea Michelle! - or click directly on this link, [] Jo says, "Check out, [], the only thing is you can't use numbers"

Embed a relevant youtube clip onto one of your pages (again, click the embed button in youtube, copy the code and paste it into the youtube widget on your wiki)

Organise your Navigation Bar by clicking 'edit navigation' and ordering the navigation manually to suit you - you may want to try uploading images (use the file button) into your navigation and attach the link to your page instead of just using text

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