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 = Hands-On Tasks to Learn Wikis =

||  □  Go to www.wikispaces.com  □  In the ‘Get Started’ Box (on the right), type in a username, password and email  □  Click the ‘Get Started’ button || ||  □  Go to [|www.e1bwikisineducation.wikispaces.com]  □  In the top box on the left hand side, click the link for ‘Join this wiki’  □  Click on the ‘request membership’ button || ||  □  Click on the ‘hands-on learning’ link on the left hand navigation bar  □  Now that you are signed into wikispace __&__ are a member of this site, you should see an ‘Edit’ button on the top right corner of the page – click it!  □  Once you are in edit mode, you will see a toolbar across the top of the wiki page  □  Change your participant # to your name  □  Using the mouse, highlight your name  □  Click on the globe/link icon  □  A box will appear, simply click ‘ok’ to create a new page in the wiki  □  Click save || ||  □  Click on the ‘edit navigation’ link at the bottom of the navigation bar <span style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"> □  You will see another page for editing appear <span style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"> □  Type your page name in the appropriate place <span style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"> □  Highlight your name using the mouse <span style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"> □  Click on the ‘Link’ button (see above) <span style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"> □  Select ‘wiki link’ <span style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"> □  Under the heading ‘page name’, click on the link ‘choose an existing page’ <span style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"> □  Find your page name in the list and click ‘ok’ || || <span style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"> □  Adding text to your wiki is simple…. Just type! <span style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"> □  Click on the ‘A’ icon to change the font and color of the text || || <span style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"> □  To add a file, simple click on the picture icon <span style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"> □  Choose the ‘browse’ button to find and upload a file from your computer <span style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"> □  The file will appear in the box as an icon <span style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"> □  Click the ‘insert’ button || || <span style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"> □  Follow the procedure for adding a file above, but choose a picture instead || || <span style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"> □  To add a widget (video, audio, polling tool that is published on the web), click on the TV icon <span style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"> □  Choose the type of media you wish to add <span style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"> □  Copy and paste the embedding code and click save ||
 * ** Steps ** || ** Details ** ||
 * ** 1. Join wikispaces **
 * ** 2. Join this wiki site **
 * ** 3. Create a page **
 * ** 4. Adding your page to the navigation bar **
 * ** 4. **** Add text to your page **
 * ** 5. **** Add a file to your page **
 * ** 6. **** Add a picture to your page **
 * ** 7. **** Add a widget to your page **

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