Objectives: 

• Set up a Wiki site
• Include content (images and text) while keeping in mind infrastructure, visual impace, and access considerations 

Wikis are remarkably simple and surprisingly versatile. This unit helps you understand content acquisition and development, visual layout for your pages, and who gets to see, edit, and comment on them. Let's get started!

Tasks/Activities (see tutorials for step by step guidance in completing each task) 

Task 1: Create a Wiki site

Tutorial 2.1 Creating the Wiki Site: how to register for a free site

Task 2: Provide information on the settings page and set permissionstitle of workspace

• Description of workspace
• Color scheme
• Access controls
• Advanced settings

Tutorial 2.1.1 Wiki Settings: how to adjust your site for security, and how to customize the wiki's appearance and functions

Task 3: Set up folders

• My Images
• My Files
• My Pages

Tutorial 2.2 Organizing the files in your Wiki: how to create folders to keep your pages and images organized

Task 4: Compose a homepage

• Add a Wiki title
• Add a Welcome message using editing features

Tutorial 2.3 Creating a home page for the Wiki site: setting up your welcome page

Task 5: Create an images folder on the desktop

• Locate images from external sources
• Download to folder

Tutorial 2.3.1 Downloading images: how to get images from the cloud or a thumb drive into your desktop file

Task 6: Upload images to the wiki site

Tutorial 2.3.2 Uploading images: how to get images from your desktop file into your wiki site.

Task 7: Add a table to the homepage

• Add a wiki description or state its purpose 
• Add an image to the table
• Edit the image in the table

Tutorial 2.3.3 Using tables to position text & images: how and why to create tables, along with more things you can do with images

Task 8: Add a link to the homepage

• Locate a web resource and copy the link to add to the homepage using the Add Link feature
• Add identification and currency to the homepage
• Add a link to your institution

2.3.4 Customizing the home page-adding links: how to connect to external sources

Task 9: Create 4 pages on your wiki:

• About Me - add a table with 2 columns and 2 rows, add headings, upload an image, write some text about yourself, save the page
• Particpants' Bios Page - add a table with 2 columns and 2 rows, Add headings (Name and Bio), save the page 
• Favorite Links - add a table with 2 columns and  2 rows, add headings (Links for _____ and Description of Link, add text links in the Links column and write descriptions (annotations) in the Description of Link column, add more rows as needed, save the page
• Teaching Resources and Materials -add a 2 column table, add 2 rows, add headings, upload an image, add text, save the page

Tutorial 2.4 Creating pages and adding content: how to create and add more pages

Task 10: Customize tables using table properties

• Adjust table width
• Align
• Fix cell width

Table 2.4.1 Customizing tables for size and position: how to adjust tables for content constraint and presentation

 Task 11: Add color to tables

• Choose a new background color
• Choose a new border color  

Tutorial 2.4.2 Customizing tables with color : how and why to add color to table

Task 12: Access Users feature

• Add workshop participants
• Set level of permissions to Writer
• Create a generic user name and password in the User area to share with your Wiki partner   
• Save

Tutorial 2.5 Inviting participants to your Wiki: Adding participants using email

Task 13: Add workshop participants in the PCI

• Copy and paste from list (click on tutorial link to access)
• Add to users area 

Tutorial 2.5.1 Adding Workshop Participants: the invitation you can't refuse

Tutorial 2.5.2  Adding Participants by Username and Password

Task 14: Edit the sidebar

• Set up the sidebar to link to Wiki pages
• Add page names to the sidebar
• Link pages 

Tutorial 2.6 Navigating the Wiki with the SideBar: creating customized organization and presentation for your wiki pages

Wrap Up:

Now that you've created a Wiki site and added pages and other elements that help build out the site, let's see how these features can best support interaction and collaboration!