Week 26: Setting up to begin Podcasting Unit

Day 1: Creating our wikispaces.com account and creating our own wiki
Here are links to the grade and class Project Wikis.

• Join Wikispaces with your school username plus section number, password and email.
• Ask to join the Project Wiki for your grade
  

7th Grade
6th Grade

• "Create New Wiki" from your account page
• Use this naming format for your new Wiki: "yourname's"-podcast-project
• optional: you are free to make a personal wiki of your own, with your account you can make as many wiki's as you want, however, keep your project wiki appropriate for school work.
  

Optional: Use the "Manage Wiki" link to change the look and feel of your page

Day 2: How do we link our page to the class page?
Using "Edit-write-link-save" we will link our personal project pages to the class page.

• Use Safari for this process
• login to your wikispaces account
• open your project page and copy the URL(web address)
• go to the class page, click on the student pages link for your section

"Edit-write-link-save"

• click the edit button
  
• add your name to the list
• select(highlight) your name
• click the link button
• select "external link"
• paste in your URL
• check the "new window" box
• click "Add link"
• note: if it doesn't work at first, (usually when you are in Firefox)click EDIT again, and select the "Load" message that pops up
• now see your name linked there, and click save