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Wiki Workshop Session 2
Technology has always been pushing the edges of education and society. The following video by Karl Fisch reminds us that what goes round comes round. media type="google" key="-2855786550703993653&hl=en" width="400" height="326"

Basic Features
Congratulations on your new wiki. Let's start by looking at the basic features of a wiki. You will notice that the name of your wiki is at the top. By clicking on it you can return to the Home page from any other page in the wiki. The first tab is the Page tab. By clicking on the drop down arrow you have several options:
 * Edit** - This is one of the two most important functions of a wiki. Click on the Edit button and you will have what looks like a Word document. The Visual Editor bar has some familiar functions:
 * Bold, Italic, Underline.
 * The Heading function allows you to choose a heading size.
 * Then there the Ordered List, Bulleted List, and Insert Horizontal Line buttons.
 * Next is a function that you will use a lot, the Insert Link. It allows you to insert a link to another page or and external link, the next button Removes Links.
 * Insert Images and Files
 * Widgets allows you insert many different functions
 * Insert Table gives you more control over the placement of text and images.
 * Insert Special Characters
 * Insert Code to fine tune wiki
 * Text Editor is used if you want to have the wiki look a very specific way.
 * Preview so you can see what the wiki page will look like before saving.
 * Save - moves out of the Edit function back to the wiki function. Save often as you develop your wiki.
 * The Floating Toolbar is very helpful as you create long wiki pages like this one. You can move it up and down the page
 * Tabs**
 * Print- print the page
 * What Links Here? - to see what links to this page
 * Rename - to rename the page
 * Delete - to delete the page
 * Redirect - to have the page open somewhere else
 * Lock - make the page uneditable by other members, only the organizer can do this.

The Discussion tab opens a discussion board. This is used as a background communication channel. The main communication should happen on the wiki pages, but for commits on the wiki this is where you do it.

The History tab allows you to see all the wiki entries and edits. Here is where you can find out who has made the last edit and what was edited. If you need to go back to a previous version you can do it here.

Notify Me - If you want to have an email sent to you every time someones makes a change, set it up here. You can also set up an RSS feed to have you notified. RSS feed are another workshop.

Action Buttons

 * Add New Page - will create a new page for your wiki you will only see this button if you are signed in
 * Join This Space - this button will be seen by people who are not members or not signed in.
 * Recent Changes - keeps track of changes you or other members make, also lets you go back to an earlier version of the wiki
 * Manage Space -

Add Text
Open the Editor and add text to the wiki Home page. Experiment with the editor buttons, make sure to save each edit.

Invite Members
There are two ways to add members to your wiki
 * 1) Join This Space. This button allows anyone to request a membership in your Wiki. You chose who to admit as a member. You will receive an email asking you to add this person as a member. The email does not always identify who the person is, so if you use this method ask members to identify themselves in the join request.
 * 2) Send an email to the member and invite them.Go to Manage Space, at the bottom of the page look for Invite People. In the To: box list the invited members email address separated by commas. In the Message From box you can include your own message, **Send**

**Adding New Pages**

 * 1) Click New Page button.
 * 2) Enter Name of New Page - Create
 * 3) The New Page will be created and you will be in the Edit function, type something in or just hit the Space bar.
 * 4) To make this page appear under Navigation click **edit navigation**, this will open the **space.menu**.Type in the name of your new page. Highlight the name. Click on the **Insert Link** button. Click on the **Wiki Link** button. make sure the **Page Name** it the name of the new page. **OK.** The new page link will appear under Navigation.

Building Wikis
Continue to look at other wikis for ideas to build your own wiki. Ask your peers what they are doing and get suggestions from them. Students should be part of the process of building a wiki. Asking them for input through the wiki will begin to teach them how to use Web 2.0 tools and connect them to the process of being in charge of their own learning. Remember that the Web 2.0 and wiki community is about interconnectedness and learning from each other.


 * [|Using Wikis in Education]** is a wiki book that has been edited by Stewart Mader. He asked several educators to write a chapter about how they are using wikis in their educational settings.