CitiWiki Summer Workshop Day 4: Wiki Teaching Project

Li XuCS, UMass Lowell

Day 3 Reflection Q&A More Project discussion, hands-on

lab time PmWiki Alternative:

www.wikispaces.com

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Day 4 Agenda Wiki installation, configuration Security, page protection Review of participants project plan Q&A

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Day 4 Goals Learn to install and configure

PmWiki on PC Learn to control Wiki security,

create user login and password Project plan Q&A, wrap up

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Wiki Installation Directions on the software page of

CitiWiki Download local copies to your PC

Install Web server, php engine, PmWiki

After install, test your wiki site by opening firefox to localhost/pmwiki-2.1.27/pmwiki.php

Create an index.php file

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Wiki Configuration Config.php script

Set admin password Wiki styling Read, edit, permissions

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Wiki Configuration Exercise:

Change title Enable site password to view

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Security Set access control

Only authorized users can view, edit Site.AuthUser page

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Common Settings Customize “skin” by editing template Enable admin password for full control Leave read permission open Page edit requires login+password

Create account for each of your student Single login for all pages editing, ie, no

extra protection for all pages

Seek Help From Documentation http://www.cs.uml.edu/~citiwiki/wi

ki/index.php?n=PmWiki.InitialSetupTasks

http://www.cs.uml.edu/~citiwiki/wiki/index.php?n=PmWiki.DocumentationIndex#admin

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Week 1 Summary Web and Wiki in education Tools and techniques

HTML, CSS PmWiki, editing commands, wiki

blogging Teaching Framework

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Week 2 Preview Google group Multimedia, podcasting RSS feed Build your prototype

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Next Month Pick your technology

Check with your school on apache, PmWiki

Or go with wikispaces.com Develop your prototype Use CitiWiki as repository to store your

design and end product description Stay in touch through GoogleGroup

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Participant project plan Question and answers Week 1 survey

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Thank You &We will meet again 7/30!