Wiki+Tips

Wiki Tips toc **Adding Students**
 * You must be the wiki creator.
 * Go to "Manage Wiki" > "User Creator" and follow the directions provided.

Adding Video
**Upload video to Vimeo:**
 *  Take your video showing students working on the project and/or experiment
 *  Save the video in a folder on your desktop and name it
 *  Log into your vimeo account at __[|www.vimeo.com]__
 * Click on Upload Video
 *  Browse for the desktop
 *  Select the video
 *  Make sure that you change the privacy settings to (Anyone)
 *  The upload can take several minutes
 * Embed the video in your wiki**:
 *  Once the video is uploaded, click on the video and you will see an Embed Code Button
 *  Copy **the old embed code**
 *  Paste the code in the Video Widget under Other
 *  Save

**Adding A Slideshow of Pictures to your wiki**

 * **Upload pictures to Flickr (or Picasa)**
 * **Upload pictures to Flickr: (**Put them in a set when you upload them)
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> Create a folder on your desktop and name
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> Save your pictures to the folder
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> Log into your your flickr account at <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000099; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline;">__[|www.flickr.com]__
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Choose the link Photos and Video
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Create a new album (set) for the photos
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> Select the photos you want to upload
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> Make sure the privacy settings are changed to __Public__
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> Click on Upload Photos and Video
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> You can add a caption to your pictures by choosing add a description
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> Save your work at bottom of page
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> Choose the set
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> Select slideshow at top right
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> Click Share
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> Grab the embed HTML
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> Copy the code
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> Paste the code in the Slideshow Widget on your wiki
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> Save

**Making Your Wiki Fancy**
Getting Tricky with Wikis - this wiki will give you lots of tips and tricks to enhance your wiki @http://flamingtext.com/- enables you to create fancy titles

**Wikispaces FAQs and detailed help for teachers**
__<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #0000ee; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 16px; text-align: start; vertical-align: baseline;">http://www.wikispaces.com/help+Teachers __

Clip Art/Image Sources
Teacher Files - free clip art for educators Flickr -Do an Advanced Search for Clip art or Images under Creative Commons ( remember to cite your source and/or link to it)