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WikiEducator HELP

Resources to help you getting started on WikiEducator.

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. Collaborative Video - Help and Sandbox
  14. Tutorial Index

Projects


Group Discussions

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

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. Tables
  8. Extra Tips
  9. Tips on creating accessible content on wiki
  10. IGNOU Wiki Support and FAQ
  11. WikiEducator Tutorials
  12. MediaWiki Markup

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 co-facilitation, questions regarding help with the Wiki Newbie Tutorials, assisting Wayne Mackintosh.
  • Randy Fisher - supporting WikiEducator community development, relationship-building and facilitating cluster formation. Also supporting Community Media and WikiGovernance project nodes.

Miscellaneous

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