Wikis

= How to use Wikispaces? =

="A **wiki** is a collection of Web pages designed to enable anyone with access to contribute or modify content, using a simplified markup language. Wikis are often used to create collaborative websites and to power community websites. The collaborative encyclopedia Wikipedia is one of the best-known wikis." []=

=Go to the Wikispaces video tutorial page and watch the five [5] tutorials.= = = http://www.wikispaces.com/site/tour#introduction

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Example Wiki Assignment:
Your Individual Wiki Assignment Once your individual wiki is created at Wikispaces, you need to send your wiki address to everyone in this class. On the home page of your wiki, write a brief introduction about yourself and add links to: Place an appropriate avatar on your wiki page [generally no bigger than 100 px by 100 px]. You will create a new wiki page for each assignment. Therefore, you should have the following pages: Each of the assignments listed above, except the Flickr image, is described in other sections of the Assignment Page. Your Audio Podcast will be uploaded to Wikispaces and placed on its own page. Your PowerPoint assignment will be uploaded to Slideshare and embedded on its own page. Your Digital Storytelling assignment will be uploaded to the Internet Archive and embedded on its own page. For the Flickr Image assignment, you need to go to [] and log into the site. Since different photographs posted on Flickr have different copyrights attached to them, you will be using the tens of millions of photographs posted on Flickr that carry creative commons licenses. To access them, go to [] and select a license. For this assignment, you may choose from the largest of the groups, the photographs under the "Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs License." Click on "See more" to enter the photographs using that license. Now you will be able to search through those photographs by using key words or tags. The Flickr Assignment: On your Flickr page, find and embed two [2] different images. Under each image, add an assignment you might ask your students to complete using the image. By way of example: Image from: Flickr.com - Washington, DC Monument 2008. Added by CanadaGood. Retrieved on 4/19/12. Assignment: Pictured above is a famous monument in Washington, D.C. Identify the monument and write a short essay [200 to 300 words] on its history. Locating the code to embed a photograph in your Wiki: Once you locate appropriate images, you should see an area called "Share This" in the upper right corner of the page. Click on this and a drop-down menu appears. Go down to "Grab the HTML" and click on it. You should now see the code necessary to embed the image in your Wiki. If you click one time on the code box, it should highlight all the code so you can copy and paste it on you Flickr Wiki page. Finally, add the student assignment under each image.
 * Your Blog Page;
 * Your Delicious Page;
 * Each Page you worked on at the Class Wiki; and,
 * Your Plagiarism Certificate.
 * Home
 * Audio Podcast
 * PowerPoint
 * Digital Storytelling
 * Flickr Image