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WikiEducator Tutorials

The Wikieducator Tutorials are considered to be the essential requirements for a teacher/educator to be able to develop free content for education on the wiki. The time required for each tutorial is estimated at 15 to 20 minutes.

1. What is a Wiki?
2. Creating an Account
3. Editing Basics
4. Basic Text Formatting
5. Creating New Pages and Links
6. Inserting Images and other Media
7. Collaborative Editing
8. Talk pages and other Useful Features
9. Creating and using Pedagogical Templates
10. Thinking About Structure
11. Navigation templates
12. What is Free Content?
13. Developing a teaching resource on WE
14. Sourcing and using free images (WIP)
15. Using support and development templates (WIP)
16. Implementing learning design (WIP)
17. Collaborative Video - Help and Sandbox
18. Tutorial Index

List of main Prefix Pages (namespaces)

• Category:
• Help:
• Image:
• Kaltura:
• Main:
• MediaWiki:
• Practice:
• Portal:
• Summary:
• Talk:
• Template:
• User:
• WikiEducator:

Group Discussions (Forums)

We use several forums to facilitate discussion around WikiEducator. Please feel free to join us! Please visit the Community Portal for a list of recent discussion topics.

• WikiEducator Main Google Group
• Community Media Google Group
• WikiEducator Teacher Collaboration Google Group
• LearnShare HIV AIDS Google Group
• WikiEducator 4 Special Education Google Group

Quickstart guide

1. Creating an account
2. Creating your WikiEducator user page
3. Basic editing.
4. Editing using open office
5. Wikipedia's Cheat sheet (also available as a PDF for printing)
6. Pedagogical templates
7. Help page: Personalizing your wiki page
8. Help page: Wiki signature
9. Help page: Tables
10. Help page: Extra Tips
11. Help page: Tips on creating accessible content on wiki
12. IGNOU Wiki Support and FAQ
13. WikiEducator Tutorials
14. MediaWiki Markup
15. Help page: Special Characters
16. Help page: LaTeX Symbols for WikiEducator
17. Help page: Personalizing Preferences
18. Help page: Colors

Policies and guidelines

1. WikiEducator policies
2. Using WikiEducator
3. WikiEducator Skills Certification Policy
4. Certification: WikiMaster-WikiBuddy-WikiApprentice Requirements

People

We're here to help you! If you are interested in joining us, or just have a question, please put a link to your Talk page here and a brief note about what you need...

• BrentSimpson - Wiki syntax, templates, architecture.
• Wayne Mackintosh - WikiEducator strategy, international liaison, and anything to promote a free education curriculum by 2015.
• Minhaaj ur Rehman Wiki Syntax, templates, online collaboration and support.
• Philip Serracino Inglott - Wiki syntax, templates, VUSSC project.
• Patricia Schlicht - supporting WikiEducator through online facilitation and support, advocacy, capacity building, project development, assisting Dr. Wayne Mackintosh.
• Randy Fisher - supporting WikiEducator community development, relationship-building and facilitating cluster formation. Also supporting Community Media and WikiGovernance project nodes.
• Nellie (Muller) Deutsch supporting WikiEducator through online facilitation via Moodle and live online sessions via WiZiQ virtual classrooms. Please feel free to contact me or leave a message and ask questions on how to get started with Wikieducator.
• Peter Rawsthorne - Wiki Syntax, templates, K12 student-generated content
• Anil Prasad - General help
• Gladys Gahona - Wiki syntax, edition, templates, translation English-Spanish, general help.
• Maha Abdelmoneim - Community Support, Wiki syntax, Editing.
• Gita Mathur - Newbie help with colours and photographs. Also creation of interactive hubs for content development.
• Sarita Kumar - General help

Miscellaneous

1. Using IRC to chat with other Wikieducators
2. Automated Page Creation
3. FAQs