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wikisteps

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Steps to set up your Wiki

info on wikis - http://abogado.pbwiki.com/wikis - 4

 

 

Print out these instructions and follow:

 

click here for the podcast

 

1. go to http://pbwiki.com

 

2. pick a wiki name - it could be your name, or subject matter. please - use no spaces - all letters must be together, one after the other with no spaces, for example do not put david jordan.pbwiki.com or it will not set up your wiki

 

3. type in your new wiki name (keep track of it), and then type in your email address. - see some examples - http://missionetudes.pbwiki.com/ng-wikis

 

4. then go to your email account, and click on "get mail" - and you should receive in your regular mail an email from a sender "The Pbwiki Team" and subject matter "Use your new pbwiki (name of your wiki)now. If you do not find it in your regular mail, then check your "junk email" since your computer might have considered it was junk.

 

5. go ahead and click on the link in that email. type in "lamc" for your password, and type it in a second time. once we complete the workshop you can then change your password to a more confidential password. that will help us work with you and your wki.. then click on "what's wiki for" and click on education, and finally click on "agree to terms" - You can later make this wiki a private wiki if you do not want students or the public to view it, or you can have one public wiki and one private - used for different purposes.

 

6. then go ahead and click on "take me to my wiki"

 

7. you will see "Welcome to your PBwiki. - go ahead and click on "edit page" and it will open up the "home page" and at the top you will see "frontgage (editing) - this means you are editing the front or home page.

 

8. go ahead, and edit the first line, in this case we will change it to "Welcome to Mission Webquests" - you are renaming the top name of your page. you will see that there are 4 other lines of text. you can leave them there so you can come back to use them for your own training - the first one is "what can you do with a wiki" - the second "how to create a new page", the third "how to use bold, etc." and the fourth "share with others" - once you have become more accustomed to navigating and editing your wiki you will probably want to get rid of these lines of text.

 

9. now click on save, and you have your wiki.

 

10. We are going to start with opening up a "new page" so click on new page, and type in the word for the first page you want to create. In our example we want to tell the student the definition of a webquest, so we will type in "definition" that will open up a new blank page. We then go and open another browser page to let us search for the definition, so click on CTRL N to open up a new broswer page, and type in google.com and put in "webquest and wikipedia" - this will give you the wikipedia definition of webquest. wikipedia is the use of wikis to provide a free encylopedia of terms, etc.

 

Once you get the definition of "webquest" go ahead and copy it, and the url too so you can use that as a reference link - the url is - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WebQuest

 

now copy all of this information into the other browser page where you were editing, and click on save - you have created and saved a new page called "definition"

 

11. now the sweet part. go back and click on "home" - that takes you back to the frontpage of your wiki, click on "edit page" and place your mouse pointer in the white portion of the home page where you want to place the link. then look to the right, and you will see under "pages" the link "definition" - click on that and it will transfer that link over to your home page. then click on save. you can now see the link definition on your home page, and can click on it and it will give you the whole definition of webquest.

 

12. Another easy way to create a new page is to just put any word in a bracket, the bracket sign are located next to the letter "p" on your keyboard. so new-page-name and click on save. you will see the page underlined and click on it, and it will bring you to a new blank page named "new-page-name" and you are ready to go.

 

13. Since a webquest contains 5 integral parts you can then set up a new blank page for each element, and then create your webquest, the five parts are 1. introduction 2. task 3. process 4. evaluation 5. conclusion and you can also add your teacher page if you have one (you could create your teacher page in a pbwiki, and then just link over to it).

 

14. Well that is is for now. Hope you found the text and podcast helpful in getting up and running with your new pbwiki.

 

15. once you do create your pbwiki, please then go to http://missionetudes.pbwiki.com and click on "edit page" at the top, type in the password "lamc", and go to your name, and put in your pbwiki link and click on save, so that we can link over to all of your usefull wiki information.

 

here is the wiki we finally set up - http://missionwebquests.pbwiki.com

 

See you at the workshop next week.

 

David Jordan

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