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Making Your First Class Wiki With PBWorks By Paul H. Smith 2010

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Follow this step by step guide to creating your own class Wiki.

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Page 1: Create a Wiki for Your Class

Making Your First Class WikiWith PBWorks

By Paul H. Smith 2010

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Step 1. Plan it out

Scribble down what you want to achieve with your class wiki.

Sketch pages that you want to include

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Sign Up!

http://pbworks.com

Sign up now. Select the

Free option

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Sign Up 2

This will be your new wiki web address

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Sign Up 3

Click the link to get started

Then you should see

this

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Setting Up

Check your security

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PBWorks Screen: View Mode

Navigate to Frequently used pages

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Similar functions to

MS Word

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Add Students as Members

Access Users Tab, Add More

Users

If you don’t have student email select

create account for

your students

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Add Students as Members

How many students?

Make access level writer

You can enter names

and passwords if you like or

simple press continue

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Add Students as Members

This now prints out an easy to distribute user

card for students

You can enter names

and passwords if you like or

simple press continue

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Student Wiki Agreementshttp://www.budtheteacher.com/wiki/index.php?

title=Student_Created_Blog_Policies

http://butlertech.wikispaces.com/file/view/wiki+use+agreement.pdf

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Student Folders : Their Own Space

Access Pages & Files

Tab

Add a folder for each

student to keep their

pages

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First PageCreate a

page

Name Your Page

More OptionsPut in in YOUR

FOLDER

Click Create Page

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Images Select Images & files tab

Either Upload orInsert from URL (Most Common)

URL is a web address of the image e.g. Right-Click picture

from Google Images: Copy Image

Location or Copy Image addressPaste into Wiki

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Get Creative with your Wiki!Project Pages

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Plugins: Photo slideshows, You tube, podcasts and much

more!

Homework online

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Get Creative with your Wiki!

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Enjoy your Wiki experiences

Start small

Watch the students take the initiative

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Options

Customise your Wiki

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