Wikis+-+Create+Your+Own+Wiki

Assignment #3 Create Your Own Wiki
Expected time to complete this assignment: up to 1 hour, depending on your previous experience.

There is no better way to become comfortable with wikis than to simply play with them by creating your own. Every person has his or her own interests and skills. Every person's wiki will be a little different. The purpose of this assignment is to make sure you can

· Create a wiki of your own in wikispaces.com · Navigate around a wiki and use all the basic features · Invite others to join your wiki · Start to use some of the more advanced features of wikispaces.com

__Please follow the following steps to create a wiki of your own.__

Decide what the purpose of your wiki will be (A collaboration tool to use with other teachers? A homework page for your students?)

Sign in to wikispaces.com

Click on your USER NAME to go to your DASHBOARD



Click on "New Wiki"

In the next window that opens, you will give your wiki a name, choose your privacy setting, and designate your Wiki type. IMPORTANT! K-12 and Higher Ed are advertisement-free. __Be sure to set up your wiki as one of these options.__



Click on "Create" and voilá! You have created your very own wiki.



<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; margin: 0in 0in 10pt;">You are not required to, but you may want to try adding some information on your home page. Once you have added information to your home page, you can create new pages for your wiki, which will be automatically added to your Navigation Bar on the left. Use the "New Page" button if you want to create another page.

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; margin: 0in 0in 10pt;">For the next step, go to "Manage Wiki."



<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; margin: 0in 0in 10pt;">Under "Look and Feel," change the look of your wiki.



<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; margin: 0in 0in 10pt;">Note that the Manage Wiki page also allows you to invite new members.

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%; line-height: 115%; margin: 0in 0in 10pt;">There are many other advanced features of wikispaces. To learn how to upload and add images or documents from your computer, see the HELP menu. <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%; line-height: 115%; margin: 0in 0in 10pt;">Adding Navigation Links can be tricky. To edit your navigation links is a multi-step process. In our drag-and-drop world, you might expect it to be easy to rearrange menu items, but this is not always so in wikispaces. This topic will be covered in our webinar, or you can always check out the HELP menu of wikispaces for more details.

** When you are finished with this assignment, please post your name and the URL of your new wiki below. ** ** Example: **

** Claudia McIvor ** http://holyfamilyaff.wikispaces.com/

**Madeleine Vessel** http://silence-pathwaytogod.wikispaces.com/ Madeleine, this is a great idea for a wiki. I was not able to contribute because you must have it set up as a protected or private wiki. You can send me an invitation to join and I'll post my thoughts. Great job! - Claudia

Madeline, I was so happy finally to be able to read your wiki, and I would be happy to share or blog on this topic. Sr. Sheila

Madeleine, Nice start! Your moving right along! SC

Lorraine S. DeLuca
http://catguidelinesk-6.wikispaces.com/ In this wiki, Lorainne is using a wiki as a central hub to post a document under revision. Wiki members can download the document from here to their home or work computers and work on revisions individually. Thanks, Lorraine! - Claudia Lorraine, though I personally do not teach catechism at this grade level, I will forward your Beamont Diocesan guidelines for Grades 1-6 catechesis to the other two Sisters in my community who are directors of religious education in their Las Cruces parishes. The document might give them some good supplemental ideas. Many thanks for posting these. Sr.Sheila

Lorraine - Wonderful use of a wiki for the guidelines. Good giong! SC = Paul J. Thomas = http://discoveringgod.wikispaces.com/ Thomas, I think you have captured the power of using a wiki as a collaborative tool. -Claudia

Paul, Yes - this is a wonderful collaborative tool. You've got the hang of it! -SC

Joanna Haston http://dlcofficeofliturgicaleducation.wikispaces.com/
Joanna, I like it! And you see how you can create a variety of pages. Thank you! - SC

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 * This is March 17th, and at Caroline's suggestion and with Claudia's help I am revisiting the Wiki assignment. I discovered that I forgot to record my wiki here. It is as follows and I would be happy for others to share about it:**=====
 * http://sheilasharing.wikispaces.com**

Sheila, Keep up the good work! Yes, you are doing well. It's fairly easy to do as well! - SC

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