How-to Style Guide

Getting Started
What should I do first?
If you just created your Wetpaint site or profile, you are probably wondering what to do next. Here are some tips and links to useful information to help get your site off to a good start. These tips will also help you get through the Wetpaint Orientation.

1. Add an avatar to your profile - learn how to add a profile image.

2. Edit your Profile -

just click on your username in the box near the top right, and
click EasyEdit to edit your profile!

3. Add a few pages to your site

learn how to add a page using Wetpaint help
add some links so visitors can easily navigate to all of the pages - learn how to add links.
add content to the pages so that they aren't blank -

Note. Types of content you can add include text, links, images, videos, music players, polls, tables, and more! See the FAQ page for more details.

4. Add a Thread or Attachment to the site - Just click Start a New Thread under the page update box. 5. Customize the site

Change the wiki settings - Learn how to change your wiki's settings.
Don't forget to add those Keyword Tags.

Try to remember to invite some friends too.

Also be sure to look through the following pages for more ideas on how to get your site off to a good start.

What this wiki is good for
UTube video by Lee Lefever

document sharing

Document Sharing

Wikis are quickly and easily revised and updated websites. There are also document sharing programs (like Google Documents and Zoho Writer) that act like more specialized wikis.

Tools:
Google Documents (http://docs.google.com/)
Zoho Writer (http://www.zohowriter.com/)
Think Free (http://www.thinkfree.com/)

Resources:
Wikis in Plain English, YouTube: v=-dnL00TdmLY
Wetpaint in Plain English, YouTube: v=F7BAU2XX5Ws
Google Docs in Plain English, YouTube: v=eRqUE6IHTEA
Exploration Guide: Educational Uses of Blogs, Wikis, RSS Feeds, etc.
(http://www.tltgroup.org/blogs.htm)
Wild About Wikis (http://www.techlearning.com/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=191801354)

How might you use Wikis & Document Sharing in Scholarship?
Collaborate with others on projects (Example: http://www.nmc.org/nmcpedia/What_The_2.0)

How might you use Wikis & Document Sharing in Teaching?
Collaborative group projects
In-process view of student work (instructors can easily comment upon it)

How might your students use Wikis & Document Sharing in their lives?
Collaboration with clubs, family members, and community groups (Example: http://www.commoncraft.com/archives/000648.html)
Make their own website without needing to have high-tech web authoring skills

blogs

Blogs

WeB logs (online journals) may be syndicated through an RSS feed and many can also receive comments from readers. More advanced blog programs, content management systems, can construct entire websites.

Tools:

Blogger (http://www.blogger.com/start)
Uniblogs (http://uniblogs.org/)—an instance of WordPress blogging software
LiveJournal (http://www.livejournal.com/)
Drupal (http://drupal.org/)—content management system
Expression Engine (http://www.pmachine.com/ee/)—content management system
Word Press (http://wordpress.org/)—open source content management system

Resources:

Instructional Blogging on Campus: Identifying Best Practices (http://www.campus-technology.com/news_article.asp?id=11311&typeid=155)
The Blogging/Scholarship/Media Interplay (http://www.inkstain.net/fleck/?p=1657)
Educational Blogging (http://www.educause.edu/pub/er/erm04/erm0450.asp?bhcp=1.)
Blogging as a Course Management Tool (http://technologysource.org/article/blogging_as_a_course_management_tool/)

del.icio.us/rrodrigo/blogging The "dangers" of blogging: Yossi Vardi on TED.com Digital Media Value Chain Blogs or Discussion Boards? Blogoria.com | Home Jobs, News and Views for All of Higher Education - Inside Higher Ed :: An Enthusiast's View of Academic Blogs

How might you use Blogs in Scholarship?
Publish “in-process” entries about your research and/or teaching
Get feedback from others interested in your topic as a form of peer “review”

How might you use Blogs in Teaching?
Have students keep an electronic version of the regular course journal
Require students to read and respond to one anothers’ blogs

How might your students use Blogs in their lives?
Publish “in-process” projects (academic, civic, professional and/or personal)
Have an ongoing family or group newsletter (multiple authors)

For more instructions on how to use the Wiki applications
click the help pages in the right hand tool box.

Intimidated to jump in? For a low stakes place to play around, visit the wiki sandbox.

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