Make+a+Wiki+Page 

Start Here: Your personal wikispace website will hold all of your artwork completed in Media Art. This assignment shows you how to add text, upload images, create pages on your page, and how to turn in your work. Please follow all the instructions in order to receive a grade. Several students have failed this class due to not properly setting up their websites.

**Directions to Make a Wiki** : > Click on **Sign In** at the top right hand corner of screen. > Click **Make a New Account** > Put in **UserName** (Firstnamelastname) > **Password** (Something you will always remember) > **Email Address** (Use Your school provided gmail account...Student Number...Password: Date of Birth) > Select **Yes** for Make a Wiki? > Wiki name: **Your name** (firstnamelastname) > Wiki type: **K-12**
 * 1) Create a new tab (Command T) and open up: www.wikispaces.com
 * 1) Keep the website a Classroom wiki. Course: Media Arts. School: George Washington High School, Denver.

**To add text:** 2. Once into your site, you will be located at your **Home Page**. Click on **Edit (which is hiding in the top right corner)**. Notice a new **menu bar** appears at the top. b) Highlight all the text and click delete. This opening page should say something about yourself so start typing. Tell me about who you are, what makes you learn, what you like, where you want to go someday. c) Then highlight all the text, and click the **T with the circle** that has color in it.

It will direct you to a new menu that has options for text size, color, etc. Only the highlighted text will change.

3. To add **pictures** to your home page....

a) First create a folder on the computer named after yourself. This folder will hold all your work. To create folder: MAC VERSION: Click on finder. Click on student under places. Click the button like looks like a wheel titled "Perform tasks...." Click New Folder. Name it after you. b) Upload photos from your phone by emailing to yourself and saving to your folder. These pictures should say something about you. c) Put your cursor where you want the images to go on your home page. Then click on **File** on the menu bar. You must have your images already saved to the computer so once you click file, it will redirect you to another screen. Click **Import Photos** to bring in images and find where you stored your images on your computer. Once you select what you want, choose **open**. Give it a minute but they will appear. __//**You can only import .jpgs, NOT PHOTOSHOP FILES.**//__ Once you import them, they stay in your library. Click on the image you want, and it will appear on the Home page, where your cursor was originally. It will have it's own menu as well. You can change the size of it by click the **+ or the -**. Once satisfied, click **save** on the menu bar.

4. Add **links** to the menu bar: Click **edit navigation**. High light the box you see, and hit **delete**. Then type in:

Home (then hit return) Mini Tutorials (then hit return) Who am I Project (then hit return) Social Commentary Memes (then hit return) Highlight **Home** and click **Link** on the menu bar. Then click **add link**.

b) Highlight Mini Tutorials, click link, then add link. Do the same to Who Am I Project. Click **save**.

**5. To send Ms. O'Ryan a message on wikispaces (this is how you turn in your work):**

a)First, go to your homepage, click on //members//. Look in the upper right corner for "//Invite People//". Click. Type in **eoryan** into the TO box and click Invite. This invites me to be a member and access your webstie.

b) Then go back to your homepage by clicking HOME and copy the url address at the top of the screen. (For example: www.georgewashingtonart.wikispaces is an url address).

c) Next, click on the **envelope looking icon** at the top of your wikispace. Click **compose message**. In the User Name box, put in **eoryan**. Put in the subject (such as Packet 1 completed...) and in message, paste the url address. Then click send. That's it!

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 * Purpose**: Students will learn how to create a personal website using www.wikispaces.com. This website will be used for posting their art projects that they completed in Media Art and a demonstration of information technology literacy.

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