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== =Welcome to Online Wikispaces Training=

During a two-week window, from March 1 through March 15, you will be able to navigate through this wiki, following in order from top to bottom the links on the left-hand side of this page, and learn how to use Wikispaces at your own pace, all while earning three hours' flex. Wikis are an excellent tool that can be used for classroom organization, student content creation & publication, and teacher collaboration, among many other uses.

=THIS VIDEO=
 * ... will give you the information you need to get started with this training session.**

While watching the video, you may want to press pause at certain parts in order to complete the actions described in the video. In order to do this, we recommend opening a new window in your web browser (for most web browsers, this can be easily done by hitting "control" and "N"). This will enable you to watch the video in one window, then navigate through the website to complete tasks in the other window.

Below the video, you can find many of the instructions in written form, in case you missed anything while watching.

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=Written instructions for getting started:=

In order to begin, please click on "Join this Wiki" near the __top__ of the left-hand navigation bar. You will be redirected to a sign-in page.

If you have an account, please sign in.

If you do not have an account, please click "Join Wikispaces Now," near the bottom of the page.

As you create an account, keep a few things in mind:

1. Your username is something that other people will see. 2. Over the next few years web 2.0 tools will continue to become commonplace and you will often make accounts when you utilize them. Using the same username and password for all of them is not a bad idea because it makes it easy to keep track of them this way. “Username” – create a username of your choice. Avoid being told that user name already exists by picking a very unique name, or adding numbers to a more popular name that might already be taken.

“Password” – must be at least 6 digits long. Numbers and letters are OK. Use something you will remember, but the more random you can make your password, the safer it will be.

“E-mail” – we recommend using your NP email address

“Make a Space” – for now, please click “no.” For the first part of this training, you will only need to navigate through the wiki we set up. Later in this session, we will give instructions for creating your own Wikispace. For now…

Click “Join.”

Once you have created an account and joined this site, you will be able to edit certain pages.

We ask that you only edit a page when instructed to do so, and only add your own content to a page; do not delete or alter the content of other posters.

An upcoming video, on the page marked "Video 1" will cover some more advanced controls, such as importing files, widgets, and embedding video. For now, if you feel comfortable having watched the video, created an account, and joined this space, please go on to the Introduction.