Requesting Membership, Registering for Wikispaces, and Creating a Page!

Becoming a Wikispaces Member

This year, we will be using Wikispaces as our homebase for all of the technology stuff we will be doing in class!

In order to contribute to our site, you will need to become a member of our class wiki. Please go to our class website: http://msspiezio12.wikispaces.com And follow the directions in the video below!

BE SURE your user name has an identifier in it! Your first name, last name, initials MUST BE IN YOUR USER NAME! Become a member by Friday to earn your points for this week!

Creating a Page

On your wiki page, please include the following:

1.  Your first name ONLY
2.  Your favorite hobby and why
3.  Your favorite book
4.  What you're looking forward to in 7th grade!

Also, you MUST do the following!

* Change font color
* Change font
* Change font size

CHALLENGE!  Can you do any of these?

Add a picture?
Add a hyperlink?
Add a Youtube video that is school appropriate?

Task 17: Creating a Page on Wikispaces

Because we will be using Wikispaces on a regular basis in our classroom, each of you needs to learn how to contribute to the site by making pages, adding links, uploading files, and inserting pictures!

However, before we delve into using technology on a regular basis, we need to understand how to appropriately and professionally use these tools.

For this week's Techy Tuesday, you will be creating your very own Student Page on our class wiki that will focus on Acceptable Use of Technology.

On your page, please include the following items:

1. Five Acceptable Use rules you think should be included in our class policy

2. A brief explanation of each rule

3. Links to at least TWO websites where you found your information about these rules

4. An image that goes with each rule (a total of five images)

5. A resources we can use to better understand how to use appropriately use computers and the Internet

(A video, game, website, etc.)

Mr. Poole and I will choose the top ten Acceptable Use rules to create our own class policy!

Task 16: How To Become a Member of a Wiki on Wikispaces

This year, we will be using Wikispaces as our homebase for all of the technology stuff we will be doing in class! In order to contribute to our site, you will need to become a member of our class wiki.

Please go to our class website: http://msspiezio11.wikispaces.com

And follow the directions in the video below!

BE SURE your user name has an identifier in it! Your first name, last name, initials MUST BE IN YOUR USER NAME!

Become a member by Friday to earn your points for this week!

How to Embed a Presentation into Wikispaces

Make an Image a Hyperlink in Wikispaces: Guest Post by Yasmin from P6

Task 13: Embedding a website or blog into your portfolio

Well students,

Now that you are all officially "Techies," it is time to teach you how to use a bit of "HTML." "HTML" is a language that the computer understands and obeys! Today we are going to write an easy bit of HTML in order to embed our blogs or websites into our portfolio.

Please follow the steps below and use the HTML code exactly in order for the computer to understand :)

Step One:
Open up your google portfolio/site you are using to keep all of your work.

Step Two:
Once you have opened the portfolio, click on the button that says "Create New Page" (probably has a green plus sign next to it).

Step Three:
Name the page "Blog" or something similar

Step Four:
Once on this "new page" click on the "HTML" button.
When the screen pops up you will see "<br>"... LEAVE IT ALONE :)

Step Five:
Type the following HTML code directly underneath it:
(Type your blog URL where it says "your blog URL")

<iframe src=http://yourblogURL/></iframe>

Hit "update" and then click "SAVE"

Step Six:
You can play around with the size of the blog by doing the following:

- Click on "Edit Page"
- Double click the top of the gadget
- Click on properties

I like to the the width at around 750 - 800 and the height at about 500

Step Seven:
To get the page to show up in the "sidebar navigation" you may have to follow these steps:

- Click on "Edit sidebar"
- Once on the edit page click on the "edit" button under the "navigation" section
- Click "Add Page"
- Choose the page you would like to add to the sidebar
- Click "OK" and then "Save Changes" and your done!

YOUR TASK:

1. Insert your Blog or website into your portfolio!

2. Share your portfolio with your teacher if you haven't already

Check out the video below to watch these steps in action!

Task 8: Embedding Objects into Wikispaces

As you know, we use our class wiki on a regular basis, and it's been great! However, we are also using other great tools that we need to showcase on our home base... the wiki!

Using the following video tutorial, this week I would like all of you to embed not only your glogs to the class wiki, but also both of your Tell Tale VoiceThreads.

Go to this link to find your book to embed your Tell Tale!

Task 1: Wikispaces Set-Up

Wikispaces is a free program we use regularly in our class. Most of you have your own user names and passwords already; however, for this week's Techy Tuesday I'd like for you to change your user name so it includes your initials and period number. In order to do this, click "My Account". You will then click a button that says "Change Username". Type in your new user name, and click save!

Once you have your new user name, visit our class wiki. You are going to not only become members of our wiki, but also create your own student page!

All student pages must include the following!

1. Your first name only

2. A few short sentences about you

3. What you like about English class

4. What you'd like to do this year

CHALLENGE!

See if you can embed an image of one of your favorite things!

Check out the video below for step-by-step instructions on how to complete this week's Techy Tuesday!