21+Steps+to+Integration

**21 Steps to Integration** If you are an educator, learn how to create your new wiki here. || If you would like to request membership to a **private** wiki, simply log in, and go to the wiki. There will be a box to request membership to a wiki and send a comment to the organizers of the wiki. || A member or organizer of a wiki can invite people to that wiki. If a member invites a person to the wiki, that invited person will still need to be approved by an organizer before they become a member of the wiki. If an organizer invites someone to the wiki, that person only needs to accept the invitation to become a member. To invite people: || || || To customize a theme,
 * **Steps** || **Resources** ||
 * #1: Sign Up for a Wikispace Account || # Go to http://www.wikispaces.com.
 * 1) In the "Join Now" box, put in your username, password, e-mail address, and, optionally, wiki name.
 * 2) Click "Join" and you're done. If you've chosen to create a wiki, you will be taken straight to your new wiki.
 * #2: Join a Wikispace || =How can I request membership to a wiki?=
 * #3: Invite a peer to the wiki || =How do I invite people to my wiki?=
 * 1) Go to "Manage Wiki."
 * 2) Click on "Invite People."
 * 3) You'll be brought to a form that allows you to invite people to your wiki. You can invite people by their Wikispaces username or their e-mail address.
 * 4) Click "Send."
 * #4: Create your own wikispace || =How do I create a Plus wiki for K-12 education?=
 * 1) If you have a user account on Wikispaces, [|login] first.
 * 2) Go to [|http://www.wikispaces.com/t/x/teachers].
 * 3) Fill in the form.
 * 4) Certify that your wiki will be used exclusively for K-12 education and click "Join."
 * 5) You will be brought to your new wiki.
 * #4: Get a K-12 educators site with no ads || =I am a K-12 educator but forgot to set my wiki up on the educator page. How do I convert my wiki to the K-12 plan?=
 * 1) Sign in and go to the wiki you would like to upgrade.
 * 2) Click "Manage Wiki"
 * 3) Go to "Subscription."
 * 4) At the bottom of the page will be an option to request an upgrade to our K-12 plan.
 * 5) We will review your request and either approve it or send you an e-mail for more details.
 * #5: Customize your space || =How do I customize my theme?=
 * 1) Go to "Manage Wiki."
 * 2) Click on "Look and Feel."
 * 3) In the Theme section, there is an option to "Change or make a new theme."
 * 4) You can either choose from Pre-Made Themes, or you can Make a New Theme from scratch or based on a pre-made theme.
 * 5) Once you have made changes to the theme, click "Save."

=How do I change the wiki's background color?= If you are an organizer of the wiki, || To create a new page within the current wiki: Another way to do this is to edit your page and create a link to a page that doesn't yet exist. Once you save your changes, click on the link to this new page. Click "Edit This Page" to add content to that page. Note that the "New Page" link will only be present if you are a registered user and have logged in. || Each editable page on Wikispaces has an "Edit This Page" button at the top of the page. Sometimes the button will look slightly different or be in a different place but it should always be easily recognized. Click on this button to bring up the page editor. The page editor allows you to add text and pictures to a page and to format that page. || || || You can create tables by clicking on the table image in the toolbar. After you specify the number of rows and columns for your table, click "Ok." =How do I make changes to my table?= If you would like to make any changes to your table after you have created it, click on a cell in the table. || A discussion page is a forum where people can post and respond to messages. Each page on Wikispaces has its own discussion page. On a discussion page, you can start a new topic or you can participate in an existing one. For each discussion topic, you can see its author, how many people have viewed or replied to the message, and when the last reply was. To go to the discussion page, click on the "discussion" tab at the top of your wiki page.
 * 1) Go to "Manage Wiki."
 * 2) Click '"Look and Feel."
 * 3) In the "Colors" section in the page, you can pick your desired color for your background, wiki menu, text, and links.
 * 4) Click the "Save" button.
 * #6: Add a page || =How do I create a new page?=
 * 1) Click on the "New Page" link in the sidebar.
 * 2) Choose the name of the page.
 * 3) You will go to your new page, which you can begin editing.
 * #7: Edit the text || =How do I edit a page?=
 * #8: Add a picture || =How do I add an Image or File to My Page?=
 * 1) Click the image icon which looks like a tree [[image:help:help.image.gif caption="help.image.gif"]] in a box.
 * 2) Use the "Upload New File" or "External Image URL" dialog to select the image or file you wish to put on your page.
 * 3) Put the cursor at the position on the page where you wish to put the image or file.
 * 4) Double click the image or file to put it on the page.
 * #9: Add a file || same as above ||
 * #10: Add a link || =How do I add or remove a link on my page?=
 * 1) Click "Edit This Page."
 * 2) Highlight the text you wish to link and click the earth icon [[image:help:help.hyperlink.gif caption="help.hyperlink.gif"]] in the toolbar to add a new link.
 * 3) Another window will come up with an option to create a link to a page in your wiki or to another website or wikispace. If you create a link to a page which hasn't yet been edited, the page name will be red. If the page already exists, the page name will appear green.
 * 4) To remove a link in the visual editor, put the cursor on the link, or highlight the link, and hit the broken link earth icon [[image:help:help.unlink.gif caption="help.unlink.gif"]].
 * #11: Add a table || =How do I add a table to my wikipage?=
 * 1) The table icon [[image:help:help.insert_table.gif caption="help.insert_table.gif"]] will appear on the edge of that cell. Click on that icon.
 * 2) Options for changing the alignment or heading for a cell, row, column, or the entire table will appear. You will also have the option to add or remove rows or columns or merge cells with each other. You can also choose to delete the entire table.
 * #12: Add a discussion || =What are discussion pages?=

=How do I start a discussion topic?= To post a new discussion topic: To respond to a previous discussion topic: We provide you with a way to embed videos, audio, calendars, and any other embeddable web service on to your page. || =How do I edit the Navigation Bar?= The space.menu page acts like any other wiki page meaning you can put in links, headings, images, lists - anything that can be on a normal page. The only difference is that bulleted lists will not have bullets displayed in order to preserve space. || adminstrator ||  || other arrangements ||  ||
 * 1) Go to the "discussion" tab at the top of the page you'd like to post on.
 * 2) Put in a subject and begin composing your message.
 * 3) Click "Post" when you are finished with your message.
 * 1) Click on the topic on the discussion page.
 * 2) Write your reply message.
 * 3) Click "Post" when you are finished. ||
 * #13: Add a widget || =How do I place videos, calendars, or other media on my wiki?=
 * 1) Click "Edit This Page."
 * 2) Go to the embed widget button on the toolbar that looks like a television [[image:help:help.embed.gif caption="help.embed.gif"]].
 * 3) Choose the type of media you would like to embed, such as YouTube or Google Calendar
 * 4) For each application, there will be instructions for copying the HTML from that application's site and pasting it in the widget tool's box.
 * 5) Once you have embedded the widget to your page, "Save" your page.
 * #14: Edit the navigation bar || By default, they will. If you haven't edited the navigation bar, when you create and edit a page, it will be listed in alphabetical order in the Navigation Bar. When you edit the Navigation Bar, you will be taken to your space.menu page. There you will see an "include pageList" box. If you delete it, your pages will no longer automatically appear in alphabetical order in your Navigation Bar. You can then custom your Navigation Bar as you would like.
 * 1) Click on the "Edit Navigation" link on the left side of your page.
 * 2) You will be editing your "space.menu" page.
 * 3) If you no longer want all of your pages to appear in alphabetical order in the Navigation Bar, delete the "include pageList" box. List the page names, or enter any other content, you want to appear in the Navigation Bar.
 * 4) Highlight each name and link it to its appropriate page by clicking on the button that looks like the Earth [[image:help:help.hyperlink.gif caption="help.hyperlink.gif"]] in the toolbar.
 * 5) Save the page.
 * #15: Create an assessment ||  ||
 * #16: Create student friendly handouts ||  ||
 * #17: Contact the technology coordinator and/or
 * #18: Reserve computer lab, cart or
 * #19: Get student accounts with no email ||  ||
 * #20: Ask other colleagues to evaluate site ||  ||
 * #21: Send letter home to parents ||  ||