1. Ask your teacher for permission to create a wikispace to demonstrate your learning.
     
2. Ask your teacher to email or call Mrs. Shari Dusman at the Helpdesk to create the wiki.  All Mrs. Dusman needs to create a wiki is the one word name you want the wiki to be called, and the group members SWSD usernames.   For example:  "We want a wiki called "CivilWar" and these students will be using it:  JohnRT23, SarahYR08, and LukeER17."
   
   
3. Once Mrs. Dusman has created the wikispace, you will be able to find it at:  http://YourOneWordName.swsd.wikispaces.net .  For the example above, the wiki would be
   http://civilwar.swsd.wikispaces.net
   
   
4. When you visit the wiki, you should see a link to log in, and then you will be able to edit the wiki.
   
   
5. Be sure you add the content to your wiki, and the great thing about a wiki is you can collaborate with others!
   
   

Tips for Using a Wiki

• Don't worry about it looking perfect - wikis are made to be fast and easy, but they won't be super pretty.
  
  
• Only one person at a time can edit a page.  If two people try to edit the page at the same time, you will lose your work.
  
  
• Save often!
  
  
• Teachers:  Once your done with a student created wiki page, you can set the page permission to HIDDEN to sort of archive the page.

Making a Wiki Look...Better

• Create a Logo for the top of your wiki - use Supalogo: http://supalogo.com/  
• Create a Word Cloud - use Wordle: http://www.wordle.net/
• Create a fancy word clould in the shape of a picture - use Tagxedo:  http://www.tagxedo.com/
• Spell your Title out in Flickr Pictures of Letters - use Spell with Flickr:  http://metaatem.net/words/

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