Introduction+to+Wikis

Signing up for our wiki
Just because you can read pages in this wiki, and just because you have a wikispaces account, does NOT mean you are a member of THIS wiki. There are two steps you need to do.
 * 1) Sign up for a wiki spaces account. Use your first name, dash, ISU as your login name. An example would look like this: Darci-ISU
 * 2) Once on our page, click on the "request to become a member" link, to be approved to become an active participant. I will get notification--and have to approve you, so this will not happen immediately. You will know your account is active when your login name is at the top right hand corner of your screen & you have an "Edit This Page" button instead of a lock at the top of the Community Questions page. (Many of the other pages remained locked even after you are a member!)

If you are new to Wiki's watch the video below to get an understanding of how they are used.

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Suggestions
Follow these instructions to avoid losing information: Make small edits - do not use the wiki as a word processor. Refresh the page before you start writing. Highlight and copy what you've written before you post. Use the history tab to see what changes have been made - especially if you lose some info

=Advanced Wiki Skills: Tabs Along the Top= At the top of every page you see 4 tabs:
 * The "**page"** tab is the page that everyone first sees when they go to that page.
 * The "**discussion**" tab is a place to have a discussion "behind" the page. Which on some pages doesn't make sense, but when working collaboratively, students find it very useful to use this feature.
 * The "**history**" tab is where you can view previous edits of that page. I LOVE this feature of the wiki. It allows you to see who edited and added what information. Text additions and deletions are shown by different highlighted text.
 * The "**notify me**" tab is also best used on group pages. You can have wikispaces send you an email everytime one of your group members updates your group page. It saves you time in having to always be checking it.

Note these tabs are specific for that page only. Within our wiki space we have many pages. These tabs are page specific.

==To upload a photo, word doc, excel file or any other, follow these directions:==
 * Once inside the editing mode (you've clicked on "Edit this page"
 * Put your curser where you want the file to be inserted onto the page.
 * Then in the edit bar, click on the icon with a photo-and the mouse over says, "Insert Images and Files"
 * Browse to find the file, click upload,
 * Double click the file to insert it into the wiki.
 * In edit mode, it will just be in brackets with the file name. Once you save the draft, it will show up with a blue link

==To post a video (from You Tube, Teacher tube, Google Video) follow these directions:==
 * Go to the You Tube Tube website, and look for the "embed" field & copy the code. [Note some videos are protected and can't be embeded into other sites. If that is the case, you can just link to the video instead of having within our wiki.]
 * On the wiki page click on "Edit this page"
 * Put your curser where you want the video file to be inserted into the page.
 * Then in the edit bar, click on the icon with a TV image--the mouse over says, "Embed Widget"
 * Click on "Video"
 * Pick which site the video is coming from (You Tube, Teacher Tube, Google Video, Yahoo Video, Blip TV, or other)
 * Paste the code from You Tube.
 * Save