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

Â· Create a wiki of your own in wikispaces.com Â· Navigate around a wiki and use all the basic features Â· Invite others to join your wiki Â· 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 voilÃ¡! 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: **

Lynn Edmonds http://straphaelsundayfaithformation.wikispaces.com/

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

http://appel-familynews.wikispaces.com/
 * Ruth Appel **

Kevin Hansut http://sptasummercamp.wikispaces.com

Mary Miller

http://called2mission.wikispaces.com/

Amy Acker Mobley http://saintlyspaces.wikispaces.com/

Jennifer McIlveen http://lessonplan-jesus.wikispaces.com/

Rachele Deering http://smeccmiddle.wikispaces.com/

Karen Heaphy http://ledbythespiritaff.wikispaces.com/

Susan Ajoc (still __#|work__ in progress) http://stjosephlittleones.wikispaces.com/

Ruth E Manlandro (very much in progress) http://ddbc2012course.wikispaces.com/ This wiki is going to be used for RCIA team members as well as students.

Janet Mitchell (very much a __#|work__ in progress) http://intertwiningministries.wikispaces.com/ A very beautiful work in progress I might add! Amy Thank you :)

Dale Brown http://blackandcatholic.wikispaces.com/

Great names, layouts and content, everyone! So much fun to explore :) Mary- great welcome. Amy- Love the use of glogster, engaging look. Jennifer- fantastic multimedia use with the complete lesson. Rachele, nice "lockdown" to keep it private, especially if used for students. Karen, I love the link to an outside article and then the __#|guidance__ for discussion among your people. Susan, what a great way to invite parents to conversation/questions while providing information. Ruth, what are you thoughts for organizing the wiki (i.e. by date, topics, etc)? Janet, I couldn't get to yours, but the name intrigues me! Dale, great tool build community! Peace to all, Kristi

Kristi, not sure what I am doing wrong that my wiki can't be reached will work on it. Janet Got it you should be able to go to it now. LOVED it, Janet. What a great way to build up the ministries together! My only suggestion - with the schedules having full names/phone/email, you may want to consider posting them differently. Either in a password protected wiki page, or by removing the contact info, or by getting a signed release from everyone. -Kristi

Sybil Steuart http://stann-biblestudy.wikispaces.com/ Good start, Sybil. Is this to complement a "live" bible study? - Kristi

Kelli Bonner http://rosarwiki.wikispaces.com I have NO idea what I'm doing. :) My wiki is but a frame. Very creative name!!! Keep playing with it and you will totally know what you are doing. It looks great so far...what would you like to see happen with your wiki, who do you want to come and post there?

Ana L Munoz http://ffostmark.wikispaces.com/ Ana, I love your different pages for the various groups. I wonder if catechists could post one idea by lesson/date; or maybe have responses to a faith sharing question? -Kristi

suesharlow http://childrenssacramentalprep.wikispaces.com/ (just the tippy toe of getting started) Good start, Sue. How do you envision using the wiki, with parents, students, catechists? For review or reflection? Any direction would work! -Kristi

Kathleen Kirkpatrick http://charactereducationfilms.wikispaces.com/

Kathy Filippelli This is a wiki I created for the assignment with thepractical purpose of fursnishing our Echo an dorther college interns. http://stufftomove.wikispaces.com/

Ginny Nolan http://allthingsthroughim.wikispaces.com

Eulogio Olivo-Rivera http://awikivoiceinministry.wikispaces.com

Lori Crawford My catechists need resources and this will give them a comprehensive and on-going list, easy to add to. Great idea!!! http://ololcatechistresources.wikispaces.com/

Ann Ferguson http://anniefergie.wikispaces.com/ When I set this up it had said we could use our own name or whichever one we wanted. At that point I hadn't thought of a name yet, waiting to see how things progressed. In addition to a teacher website, I can see us using Wikis for teacher projects as well as students.



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