How+To+Use+a+Wiki

=How To Use a Wiki=

**Point, Click, Copy, Paste, Share!**
//Today's wiki interfaces are incredibly user-friendly. You don't need to know how to write code to be able to make your wiki easy to navigate, or cool and creative. Wikispaces employs easy-to-read tool bars to help your build, edit, and re-edit your wiki page.// //Have fun! Lots of options allow you to learn by playing.// //If you need assistance, you can Click on the "Help" link at the top right of all wiki pages, or browse these helpful tips://

__How to Make a Wiki Page__: Click on "New Page" in the upper left navigation

__Building and Editing Your Wiki Page__: If you have permissions to edit a wiki page, an "Edit" button will be available at the upper right of the page space. The editing screen of your wiki page is similar to an MS Word document- a tool bar appears at the top to help you customize. Let's take a brief tour from left to right!


 * Font styles
 * Bullets, lists, and breaks
 * Link: Choose to link to another wiki page, external link, or anchor. Enter how you want the link to appear, then select a page or paste in a URL.
 * File: Upload photos and documents from your computer
 * Widget: Wikispaces provides a variety of shortcuts for embedding popular media. If you don't see the application you want to embed (ex. Facebook) click on "Other" for step-by-step instructions on how to copy and paste code from sites like Share This
 * Tables
 * Arrows: Undo and redo
 * Preview, Cancel, and Save. Wikispaces also autosaves.

__Widgets (left navigation)__: __(center navigation):__ Will allow you to incorporate and embed features commonly found on websites and blogs
 * Video: easily embed code from YouTube or Google Videos.
 * Audio: supports Odeo
 * Calendar: embed Google Calendars, and others
 * Spreadsheets: embed Google docs, and others
 * Polls: embed surveys from Survey Gizmo
 * RSS: copy and paste feed URL
 * Chat/IM: supports Skype, and others
 * Slidshow: export from Flickr and Slide
 * Maps: embed a Google Map
 * Bookmarks: create a window into **your existing** Delicious account
 * Poster: embed a Glog [Glogster]
 * Other HTML: embed code from other sites and services on the web
 * Table of Contents
 * Reference: footnotes
 * RSS: same as above
 * Contents of a Wiki Page, List of Wiki Pages, List of Wikis: embed data from other wiki pages
 * Discussion Area: embed a small comments area
 * Page History: embed (same data as "History" tab)
 * List of Links to Page: embed backlinks
 * Tag Cloud: embed tag cloud of **entire** wiki
 * Top Contributors
 * Insert Special Characters: copy and paste from your Character Map accessory (accessory program on **your computer's** operating system)
 * Insert Code
 * Insert Navigation Widget: embed link to **your existing** social media account
 * Other: same as "Other HTML" above

__Posting Comments__: Each wiki page has a "Discussion" tab. This will allow you create comment threads for posting and dialogue.

The "History" tab allows you to view the record of edits made to the wiki. The "Notify Me" tab allows to get email and RSS alerts of edits and comments made on the wiki.

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