=Wiki Help=
|| **Wiki Basics**
[[wiki help#page|How to Work on a Page]]
[[wiki help#text|How to Add Text]]
[[wiki help#pictures|How to Add Pictures, Videos, and Files]]
[[wiki help#link|How to Link to a Web Page]]
[[wiki help#create|How to Create and Link to a New Page]]
[[wiki help#embed|How to Embed Widgets
]][[wiki help#undo|How to Undo]]
[[wiki help#anchor|How to Create an Anchor]]
How to Create a Personal Icon ||
For more help, click on Help at the top of the screen or email your question to [[mailto:sblc@eastconn.org|sblc@eastconn.org]]
[[#page]]
==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 webpages and media.
* Click Preview to see what the page will look like before saving.
* Click Save
[[#text]]
==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
[[#pictures]]
==How to Add Pictures, Videos and Files==
* Click the image icon which looks like a tree in a box [[image:http://www.wikispaces.com/s/rte/images/image.gif]] in the toolbar to add a new link.
* Click on External Link and type or paste the web URL
[[#create]]
==How to Create and Link to a New Page or Link to an Existing Page==
* Highlight the word you'd like to link to.
* Click on the Add Link icon [[image:http://www.wikispaces.com/s/rte/images/hyperlink.gif]]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.
== ==
==[[#Anchor]]==
==**How to Link to A Place on a Page (Anchor)**==
* Find the place where you would like the anchor.
* Type in this code:
[[image:anchor.png]]
* Replace the word anchor with a name for the anchor.
* Click Save.
* Create your link and type in the name of the anchor.
[[#embed]]
==How to Embed Media (such as YouTube videos)==
* When editing any Wikispaces page, you'll see a button on the toolbar that looks like a television [[image:http://www.wikispaces.com/s/rte/images/embed.gif]].
* Click it, and paste the HTML from any embeddable web service in the box.
[[#undo]]
==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
[[#floating]]
How to Create a Personal Icon
<span style="color: #427c64"><span style="font-family: ArialMT"> </span></span>
<span style="display: block; text-align: left">Students LOVE to personalize their icons and doing so is easy. Here is how:</span>
<span style="display: block; text-align: left">1. First, they need to find an icon that they want to use. Here are some safe links</span>
<span style="display: block; text-align: left">to find kid’s icons. Your students may know of other places to find icons.</span>
<span style="color: #0000ff"><span style="font-family: ArialMT"> </span></span>
<span style="display: block; text-align: left">http://clip-art.kaboose.com/icons/icons-index.html</span>
<span style="display: block; text-align: left">http://www.schoolicons.com/eng/web/icons/icon_e.html</span>
<span style="display: block; text-align: left">http://www.petakids.com/buddy_icons.html</span>
<span style="color: #427c64"><span style="font-family: ArialMT"> </span></span>
<span style="display: block; text-align: left">2. Next, they need to save the icon to their computer. Windows: Point your cursor</span>
<span style="display: block; text-align: left">to the icon and right click. A menu will appear. Click on Save Picture As. Save</span>
<span style="display: block; text-align: left">the picture to the desktop or a folder.</span>
<span style="display: block; text-align: left">3. Log into the wiki. After students log on with their username and password, they</span>
<span style="display: block; text-align: left">need to click on My Account in the upper right corner of the screen. That will take</span>
<span style="display: block; text-align: left">them to their user information. They should not change **<span style="color: #427c64"><span style="font-family: Arial-BoldMT">anything </span></span>**<span style="color: #427c64"><span style="font-family: ArialMT">on that page,</span></span></span>
<span style="display: block; text-align: left">however, if they click on Change Picture in the upper left corner they can upload</span>
<span style="display: block; text-align: left">the saved picture for their icon by clicking on Browse, finding the picture on the</span>
<span style="display: block; text-align: left">computer, then clicking Upload. After that, the students will be prompted to</span>
complete the uploading process.