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 * __WIKISPACES REGISTRATION__**

 1. Go to www.wikispaces.com  2. Click on “join” at the top right-hand corner.

3**.** Fill in the form: (For example: jessebeck could be jessebeck123)  4. Go to http://excelacademy.wikispaces.com, click on “Join this Space” at the top left-hand corner.
 * Your username should be something that your colleagues will recognize. If the username is already taken, add some numbers at the end //that you will remember.//
 * Choose a password that you will remember.
 * Fill in your email address.
 * Make your own space if you would like to. It is okay to check “no” at this time, you can always go back in and create a space at a later time.
 * Click join.

5.  While waiting for your membership to be confirmed, go to your email account. Wikispaces will send you a message to verify your email address. Once the message is open, click on the link and you will be sent to the wiki in a new window.

 6. Use the links on the top of the page and to the left of the page to navigate. //(More instructions on other handout)//  7. Always log out after you are finished with your session. This is extremely important on public computers.

**  Happy Wiki-ing! ** **__  GET TO KNOW WIKISPACES   __**      1. Go to http://excelacademy.wikispaces.com and create a new page. The title of this page should be your name. On your new page, type three technology goals that you would like to meet by the end of the summer. Make one of the goals bold, with blue Arial font. Make another goal red, italicized with the size increased to 120%. Make the third goal a Heading 1 font. Highlight all three goals and click on the bullets tool, they should become a bulleted list. Add a horizontal rule underneath the goals. Click Save (we want to save often!) 2. Open another browser window and go to maps.google.com. Type in the address of the school to see a map. On the right side of the page, click “Link to this page”. Select the all the text in the HTML box and copy it (Control-C on your keyboard). 3. Back on your wiki page, click “Edit This Page” again. Select the “Embed Widgets” tool, Map, then Google Maps. Paste the text from Google Maps into the empty box on the bottom of the pop up window, then choose Save. You will see a blue/grey box on your page with “googlemap” in the center. Click Save to see what the map looks like to readers. 4. Click “Edit This Page” again. Select the “Embed Widgets” tool, Wikispaces, and Top Contributors. Change the parameters if you wish, then select Embed. 5. If you would like to change the order of the widgets you are embedding, just click and drag them around. 6. Click “Edit this Page” again. Click on “Insert Table”. Make the table 3 columns by 5 rows. Type few things in each box to see how the table reacts to your text. Save your page. 7. Click on history to view the different versions of your page that you have saved. You revert back to any one of them and add a comment to remind yourself why you reverted back to an earlier version. Try reverting back to the earliest version of your page, then revert again to the latest version of your page. 8. Click “Edit this Page” again and create a link to [|www.google.com]. Type the url anywhere on the page where you would like the link, then highlight the url and go to “Insert Link” on the editor toolbar. Select the button for “External Link” and paste the url in the box. Click OK then Save. 9. Open another browser window and go to images.google.com. Search for puppies. Right click on your favorite picture and save it to your home directory. 10. Back on your wiki page, click “edit this page”. Choose “Insert Images and Files” from the editor toolbar. Click “Browse” and navigate to find your puppy picture. Then “upload”. Check the button for “inserts the file” and double click on the picture. It should show up on your wiki page. Click and drag to move it around. Double click on the image to change its alignment, to add a caption or to make the image a hyperlink. Save your page. (note: you may also insert files onto your page in the same way)

11. In the Sandbox, create a link for your page by clicking “Edit this page” then “add link” from the editing toolbar. In the box for Link Text, type in your name. In the drop down menu for Page Name, find your page and make sure it is selected. Click OK, then Save. 12. On the Tech Team page, click on the discussion board tab at the top of the page. Post a list of the features of WikiSpaces that you think will be most useful to you in the discussion thread called “Features of WikiSpaces”. 13. Using the Wikispaces search box or Google search, find other wikis that may serve as inspiration and resource to you next year. Post the links of these wikis and a brief description on the tech team discussion board thread called “Wiki Links”. 14. On the left side menu, select “manage space”. Here you will see many options for customizing the space. As a member of a space (as opposed to an organizer) your options here will be limited, but one great tool is “List Pages”. This allows you to see all of the pages that are associated with the space and when they were last edited, you can access them by clicking on their name. 15. When your page is in edit mode, you may list key words (tags) that describe your page. This section is at the bottom of the page. Under “Manage Space” and “List Tags” you may search the pages of any wiki by keyword. 16. Go to [|video.google.com]. Choose a short video clip of something you might use in your classroom. Once it is playing on your screen, click on the name of the video underneath the player. On the right is a box that says “Embed” with a line of text underneath. Copy the text. Back on your own wiki page, choose “Edit this Page”, “Embed Widget”, “Video”, “Google Video” and paste the text in the box at the bottom of the pop up window. Click “Save”. Save your page to see the video. 17. At the top of your screen is your log in name, directly to the right click on “My Account”. Here you can change your password, add an image to identify yourself and change your preferences. Check these now to be sure they are set to your specifications.

**__  COLLABORATING ON THE EXCEL ACADEMY WIKISPACE __** 1. Go to excelacademy.wikispaces.com and be sure you are logged in. If you are, you will see your username on the top right of the screen. If you are not logged in, this username will read as “guest”. 2. Navigate to the Tech Team page and to the “On-Your-Own Summer Assignments”. 3. Work your way through these assignments and be sure to post on the discussion board and on the wiki teacher resource pages as indicated on each step.

**__  MAKING YOUR OWN WIKISPACE __** 1. Be sure that you are logged in to Wikispaces. If you are, you will see your username on the top right of the screen. If you are not logged in, this username will read as “guest”. 2. Click on your username and from the left side menu, choose “Make a New Space”. 3. Name your new space then you will be directed to your new homepage. Consider making a map of your organizational plan before you start adding content. A terrific site for mapping is bubbl.us 4. On the left side menu, choose “Manage Space”. Since you are the organizer of your space, you have __many__ options that regular members do not have. Try changing the “look and feel” of the space. Change the site permissions to either public or private. You can request that your space be ad free (since it is used for K12 education) by going to “Subscription”. At the bottom of the page is the link to make the request. 5. When someone requests to join your space you will see a note at the top of your screen. You will have the choice to approve or reject their request. 6. Wikispaces has recently started a new feature where an automatic table of contents if generated for your left side menu. As you add pages to your space, you will see them added to your table of contents. If you do not like this feature and would rather create your table of contents by hand so it is editable, click on “Edit Navigation” under the left side menu, highlight the table of contents and click delete.