Preparing for the 21st Century World Wikispaces Pages Instructions
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Preparing for the 21stCentury World Wikispaces Instructions
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Go to http://www.wikispaces.com
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Click on SIGN IN.
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Enter the user name and password given to you by Mrs. Santillo.
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You are now logged into our Wikispaces pages.
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5. Each student has his/her own page. To access your page, click on your name in the left
side navigation menu.
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Your Wikispaces page will appear. You should see your name at the top of the page. You
can erase the second name written in the white text area once you begin adding items
to your page, or you can leave it and edit it. Its your choice.
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If you want to add anything to your Wikispaces page, you must EDIT it. To edit the page,
click on the EDIT button in the upper right corner of the page.
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Editing Your Wiki Page
Once youve clicked on the EDIT button, the Editing Toolbox will appear on your wiki page.
This toolbox has some familiar tools that resemble other text editing tools youve used in
Moodle. Here is a list of what each tool does:
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Makes highlighted text bold.
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Makes highlighted text italicized.
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Makes highlighted text underlined.
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Opens up the main text formatting box. The text formatting box enables changing the
color and style of your text. The tools include:font type; font size; text color; background
(of text) color; alignment; vertical position; and strike through.
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Menu to select headings or normal text.
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Makes a numbered list.
7. Makes a bulleted list.
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Inserts a horizontal line to break up page area.
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Inserts a Web page link.
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Inserts a file. This can be a video file, document file, audio file, or image.
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Inserts a widget. This is an embedded file, such as a Web page, Web form, video, etc.
This tool will be explained in detail further into these instructions.
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12.Inserts a table.
13.Undo and Redo buttons.
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Lets you preview your changes.
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Lets you cancel your changes.
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Lets you save your changes.
Editing Text
In order to edit text in Wikispaces, you must type the text FIRST; highlight it, and then select
the text editing tool you want to use. For example, you would type the words, then highlight
them with your cursor, then click the BOLD button to make the entire sentence bold. Make
sure you click the EDIT button first on your page. You cannot make any changes without
clicking it first.
If you change the color and style of the text, it should continue to use those settings, as long as
you place the cursor next to the last word in that sentence, then hit the ENTER key to move
down the page. The next words you type should have the same color and style you assigned
the first sentence.
dding Web Links
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To add a Web link to the page, click on the LINK button in the Editing Toolbox to start.
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A dialog box appears. MAKE SURE YOU CHOOSE WEB ADDRESS FROM THE LIST ON THE
LEFT SIDE OF THE DIALOG BOX.
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Type in the LINK TEXT. These are the words you want to click on.
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Place a checkmark in the box for New Window if you want a new page to open todisplay the Web page. This keeps Wikispaces open in another window so you do not
have to hit the BACK arrow to get back to Wikispaces. You can view both pages at once
if you need to.
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Type in the COMPLETE WEB ADDRESS.
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Click ADD LINK when done. The link will appear on your wiki page. Click SAVE to save
your changes.
You can edit a Web link just like you edit text. Highlight the link text, then open the text color
and style menu from the Editing Toolbox to make changes to the link text. You cannot change
the color of link text. It will either be blue (before it is clicked) or purple (after it is clicked).
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If you need to change the URL address of a Web link, Click on EDIT, highlight the link text,
select the LINK button, and type in the new address.
dding a Document File
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Click on the EDIT button on your wiki page.2.
Click on the FILE button.
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The FILE menu appears.
4. If you are using a file youve already uploaded, it will be in the list of files. To move to
another page of the list, click on the page number or NEXT at the bottom of the list.
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5. If you havent uploaded your file to the wiki yet, select the +UPLOAD FILES button. A
dialog box will open so you can find your file, either on your computer hard drive or
flash drive. Locate the file, click on the file, and then click OPEN.
This adds the file to your Wikispaces files. Now you have to put that file on the wiki
page.
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Find your file in the list and click on it.
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7. Your document file will now be available by a link on your wiki page. The button will
show the name of the file, as it found it on your computer or flash drive. For example,
the button I added is Writing_Process_Organizer.pdf.
If you want the button to display something more appealing, you will have to rename
the file on your computer FIRST before you upload it to Wikispaces. You can move a file
by clicking on the file on the wiki page in EDIT mode, then selecting the style and color
editing tool from the editing toolbox and selecting alignment from the menu. This lets
you center, right-justify, or left-justify your document link.
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Click SAVE to exit the editing page.
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dding a Picture to Your Wiki Page
You can add a picture to your wiki page the same way you added a document file, by clicking
on the FILE button in the editing toolbox, and then clicking the +UPLOAD FILE button if you
have not already uploaded the file to Wikispaces. Select the picture you want to add to your
wiki page and click OPEN.
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When the picture is added to your page in edit mode, an editing toolbox appears with it. You
can resize the picture using the handles around it or use the resizing tools on the photo editing
toolbox. Click SAVE to save your changes and exit the editing mode.
The Photo Editing Toolbox
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There are two kinds of widgets in Wikispaces: internal and external. The internal widgets
include things like adding a table of contents to the page, adding a tag cloud to the page, etc.
The external widgets include adding documents, videos, pictures, slide shows, digital posters,
etc., from other Web pages like Slide Share, YouTube, Scribr, Glogster, etc.
To add a widget to your page, click on the WIDGET button on the editing toolbox. Widgets
Menu will open.
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dding a Video Widget
Find the video you want to add to your wiki page. The site MUST provide the embed code for
you to use a widget to show it.
If you select VIDEO from the external widgets list, another list of Web sites appears, as shownbelow:
If you found a video on a site that is not listed, use OTHER VIDEO at the bottom of the list.
NOTE: YOU CAN ONLY USE SITES THAT PROVIDE AN EMBED CODE WITH THE VIDEO. IF THE
SITE IS BLOCKED AT SCHOOL (like YouTube) THE EMBEDDED VIDEO WILL NOT PLAY ON
SCHOOL COMPUTERS.
So, how do you embed a video as a widget? Well look at Vimeo, since the videos on it are not
blocked at school.
I found a video on Vimeo I want to use. The SHARE feature is what you look for on the video
sites. On Vimeo, the share feature is right on the video player, as shown below:
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When you click on the SHARE feature, a box opens with the embed code.
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Copy all of the embed code by highlighting it and pressing CNTRL+C on your keyboard, or right
click-copy with the mouse. The code looks foreign, but you do not have to know how to read
it, you just have to know how to copy it.
Go to your Wikispaces page, click on the EDIT button, then the WIDGET button on the main
toolbox. Select VIDEO, and then pick VIMEO from the list. Paste the code into the text box
provided, and then click SAVE. The PREVIEW option doesnt work well, so I dont use it.
Your Vimeo video will be shown with a placeholder on the editing page. You will not be able to
view it until you save your changes.
The embedded video is now on your wiki page and can be played right there. No need to go to
Vimeo to watch it
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No matter what you are embedding on your wiki pagevideo, document, digital poster, the
site that hosts your media must provide an embed code to make the media into a widget. One
way to find common sites that do this is to look at the lists for each form of media in thewidget menu. If you find something on a site and the site provides the embed code but
Wikispaces doesnt list the site, use the OTHER option from the menu to paste in the HTML
code.