how-to-wiki

How to Wiki

toc We'll use this page as a workspace for experimenting with the wiki platform.
 * The first set of "**Practice**" exercises are something everyone in the class will do to learn the necessary skills for doing the second part. Complete this Tech Challenge at some point between [TBA]
 * Then, each student in ENGL 3220, Fall 2011 will post an idea for a tech **"Module"** below, then write up instructions for how to use that technology on the page to which you'll be linked. Complete this Writing Challenge [TBA].
 * Finally, each student will make some **improvement** -- major or minor -- to three (3) other student modules. Complete this next Tech Challenge [TBA].

=Practice=

The two most basic skills for working on a wiki are 1) being able to add/revise text on a page, and 2) creating a hyperlink to another page on or off the wiki. So let's practice doing both. >
 * 1) **Adding/revising text:** Using the "Edit" button you'll find near the top of the page, open up this page for editing, fix the spelling of your name on the list below [TO BE PROVIDED LATER], and then save the changes.
 * 1) **Creating a hyperlink:** Using the "Edit" button, open up the page, highlight your name, click the "Link" icon on the editing toolbar, and then create an external link to any page on the the web that you want to represent you by pasting in the address. (For example, I've linked to a page showing how to play different of inversions of one of my favorite chords -- Gm7b5 -- on the baritone ukulele.)


 * List**


 * [|Ryan Jerving]

=Modules=

Your task as a student in ENGL 3220, Fall 2011, will be to propose a "Module" below and then write up instructions on the page to which you are linked that others in the class could follow to accomplish use this technology in the way you suggest. To propose, be sure to add your name after the item. The instructions you create should be brief and yet organized and written to make the process as clear enough as possible to an audience assumed to have very little technological know-how with the technology in question.

NOTE: I've set up this site so that it can be viewed and edited by anyone. But some of the tasks you may want to do in writing up your instructions (for example, uploading images to your page) below may require that you be registered as a member of this site. If that seems to be the case, let me know and I'll talk you through doing that.