Wikispaces from the Ground Up

Reasons to get a Wikisapce:

Great for the classroom
Interventions, Remediation, and Extensions on classroom material
Discussions between your own students or between different classes around the
world
Post video or audio podcasts of your own lecture for students to listen to
A place for students to practice skills, for example, measuring
Webquests
Tutorial videos for students
Post homework, newsletters, “Student of the Week”, class assignments, etc.
Collaborate with teachers, other classrooms locally or globally

Table of Contents
1. Getting started
2. Create
3. Signing Up for Wikispace
4. Help
5. Activating Wikispace
6. Editing
7. Toolbar
8. Getting to Know Your Toolbar
9. Widget
10. Video
11. Adding Video
12. Size of Video
13. Adding Links
14. Changing Font Size
15. Adding Files
1. FIRST, go to www.wikispaces.com.

Click Here

2. It’s time to CREATE your own Wikispace.

3. This is what it should look like. Add in your own username and password, email address, and Wikispace
name. Use an EMAIL address that you check regularly.

4. This page will appear. You can use it to HELP you’re setting up.
5. This is the email you’ll receive. You need to ACTIVATE your email account. I would save this email.

6. Here’s your new Wikisapce page. It’s ready to EDIT, so click . This is the page that will come up when
someone visits your page. You want it to be eye-catching, but simplistic enough that people will know what
you’re site is all about. You might put a picture of your classroom, the subject you teach, or maybe a really cool
picture that catches attention.
7. This is what the editing page looks like. You’ll see your whole TOOLBAR above. I’m going to walk you through
the different things you can do with this tool bar.

8. For example, the tab will let you insert a link to another website or even to another page in
your Wikispace. As you scroll across the tabs (Link, File, Widget, Table, etc.), text will appear, telling you
what you can do with that tab. This one is for inserting a link.
 Let’s go through some of the things you can add to your page. I’m
going to cover adding a video, link, picture, and document to your
Wikispace.

9. Click on the tab. This window will open up. I’m going to show you how to insert a VIDEO, but this
Widget tab will allow you to add a lot of neat things to your Wikispace.

10. Let’s add a VIDEO. Click on the tab on the Widget on the left. The window will change to this:
You can embed videos onto your Wikispace from any place with an embed (TeacherTube, Google Video, Yahoo
Video, Blip.Tv, etc.) Let’s start with .

11. Find a video you’d like to add. I’ve chosen a Wikispace tutorial from YouTube that you can watch if you need
help after the session. There are other Wikispace tutorials on YouTube, so feel free to search if you need
additional help. Click on from the Widget Window. This window will pop up. Look at (4.).

Now you need to go to the video on YouTube (or whatever site you’ve chosen) you’d like to add to your Wiki.
When you get there, look for the embed code.

Click on Embed
This pull-down window will open. See all the gibberish in the box? Click inside it and it will highlight blue.
Right click and choose “copy”.

Now go back to your Wikispace page and get ready to add your video. Click inside the box. Then, right click
and choose “paste”. After doing so, click on .

After you click save, this will show up on your editing page. Click on “save” to view your video on your Wiki.
Your video should look like this. Now whoever comes to your site can simply click on the ‘image’ and the
video will play.

12. If you want the size of the VIDEO to show up

smaller or larger, go back to the button.
Then, click on the blue box to change the
dimension.

When you click on the box, this will appear:

If you want the video to be
larger, click on the . If
you want to make it smaller
on your Wikispace page,
click the .
13. Let’s move on to adding a LINK. Adding a link will allow your visitors to click on the text to get to another

website or even another page on your Wiki. On the toolbar, click on . This window will open.

You want to click on .

This tab will let you link to another page in your

Wiki.

The box will change to this:

“Link Text” is text that shows up on your Wiki
page. It’s what you want to name the link.
I wanted my link to be named “Herrington
Wikispace”. In the address box, you will paste
the link. If you want the link to open up in a
new window, then you would click the box for
“New Window”. When you’re finished, click
on this: .

Your link should now be added and will look like this on your editing page. The green arrow indicates a link.
 Now we want to make the font larger on the page. First you need to highlight the link (Herrington Wikispace).

Highlight the text by holding your left mouse button down

at the “H” in Herrington and dragging it to the end of the
part you’d like highlighted, which is the “e” in Wikispace. It
should turn gray or light blue.

Now for the next step. Click on the text size box arrow,

which looks like this: . You will get a

pull down menu.

14. The pull down menu looks like this. The sizes of the FONT are listed in succession by size. You can choose
accordingly. I want my text to be large, so I will choose “Heading 1”.

After you click on “Heading 1”, your font size will change on your editing page to this.
15. Now we will insert a FILE from your computer. I am going to insert a picture, which will also be a link.

First, click on from the toolbar.

This window will pop up.

First, click on . A window from
will pop up that will give you access to files on
your computer. Choose the file you’ll like to
add. In my case, it’s a picture.

After you’ve chosen the picture, we need to decide if we want the picture to show up on the page or whether
we want it to just be a link to the file or image. In my case, I want the picture to show up on the page. So I
need to click .

If you want the file to just be a link, then name the

the file on your computer what you want it to say on the
Wikispace page. Upload the file and click
instead of “embed file”.
 The file will upload in the area to the left. When your
file is done uploading, click on it. It will be added to
your editing page. Click “Save” to view your file.
- Be aware that Word Documents, Excel, etc.
will show up as a link. When a visitor clicks
on the link, they will be prompted to open or
save the document or file.

This is the picture I uploaded. To make it a link,

simply click on the image. Next, click on on your

toolbar. When the window opens, repeat the instructions
for adding a link, which is number (13.) on this handout.

Here are some of the most popular files you can add
to your Wikispace:

Pictures
(jpeg,
png,
etc) Word Documents PDF Files

Excel Files Audio

PowerPoint Zip Files RAR Files

Photshop File Adobe Illustrator Flash Video