Wiki+Rules+and+Help

=Wiki Rules (or Wikis Rule!)=


 * Using a wiki requires that we follow online etiquette.**

//Please be sure to follow these simple rules so that everyone has a great experience://
 * Respect what others have written on the wiki.
 * You can either add to what others have written, make revisions or begin something new on the wiki.
 * Use correct spelling and grammar on the wiki. Remember what goes up on the wiki, goes up for the world to see. This is published writing, not draft.
 * Use appropriate language. Do not use any language that could be interpreted as mean to others.
 * Any factual information must be accurate.
 * Please remember to give credit to and cite your sources. Failure to do so is plagiarism.

=Wiki Help= How to Work on a Page How to Add Text How to Add Pictures, Videos, and Files How to Link to a Web Page How to Create and Link to a New Page How to Embed Widgets How to Undo How to Create an Anchor How to Create a Personal Icon || For more help, click on Help at the top of the screen.
 * **Wiki Basics**

How to Work on a Page

 * Click on the **Edit This Page** button at the top of the page
 * Add text, pictures, videos, files, links to web pages and media.
 * Click Preview to see what the page will look like before saving.
 * Click Save.

How To Add Text:

 * Click and type where you want the text to appear.
 * Use the formatting buttons on the toolbar.
 * Click Preview to see what the page will look like before saving.

How to Add Pictures, Videos and Files

 * Click the image icon which looks like a tree in a box [[image:Picture_4.png]] in the toolbar to add a file.
 * Click on the file and it will appear where the cursor last was on the page.

How to Link to a Web Page

 * Before linking the page in your wiki, copy the web page address (URL).
 * Go back to your wiki page to edit it.
 * Highlight the word you'd like to link to.
 * Click on the Add Link icon [[image:Picture_3.png]]in the toolbar to add a new link.
 * Select the "External Link" tab and paste the web page address.

How to Create and Link to a New Page or Link to an Existing Page within the Wiki

 * Highlight the word you'd like to link to.
 * Click on the Add Link icon [[image:Picture_3.png]]in the toolbar to add a new link.
 * To link to an existing page, pull down and select the page name you would like to link to.
 * To create a new page, either keep the name of the word you highlighted or write a new page name.

How to Embed Media (such as SchoolTube videos)

 * When editing any Wikispaces page, you'll see a button on the toolbar that looks like a television [[image:Picture_5.png]].
 * Click it, and paste the HTML from any embeddable web service in the box.

How to Undo

 * You can't actually Undo something you just did like in a word processor, but you can revert back to the page before you saved it.
 * Click on 'history' on top of the page you want to revert
 * Select the version you would like to go back to, by clicking on the revision in the date column
 * Click 'revert to this version' at the top of the page

**How to Link to A Place on a Page (Anchor)**
> 1. Go to the part of the page where you want the link to jump to (usually located farther down the page). > 2. Type in with the brackets and the # sign. Replace "anchorname" with the actual text you want to be the name of the anchor. > 2. Click on the link button in the toolbar (it looks like a globe). For Page Name, select the name of the page you want to link to. This is most often going to be the page you are currently working on. > 3. Click the "Link to anchor?" link, which will then display a box into which you can type the anchor name. So in the example above, you would type the word apples in to the Anchor box, since this is what you put inside the anchor code in Part 1.
 * **Part 1:** The anchor point. i.e. The place you are linking to.
 * **Part 2**: The link. 1. At the top of the page (or wherever you want your anchor link list to appear), highlight the text that you want to use as your link.

How to Create a Personal Icon
Personalize your icons is easy. Here is how: 1. First, you need to find an icon that they want to use. Here are some safe links to find kid’s icons. You may know of other places to find icons [] [] [] 2. Next, you need to save the icon to their computer. Windows: Point your cursor to the icon and right click. A menu will appear. Click on Save Picture As. Save the picture to the desktop or a folder. 3. Log into the wiki. After you log on with you username and password, you need to click on My Account in the upper right corner of the screen. That will take you to user information. You should not change ** anything ** on that page, however, if you click on Change Picture in the upper left corner you can upload the saved picture for your icon by clicking on Browse, finding the picture on the computer, then clicking Upload. After that, the you will be prompted to complete the uploading process.