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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.

Tutorials using wiki text

 * 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

Copyright, Creative Commons licenses and OER

 * 1) Educators care: Why open matters
 * 2) Copyright: Your educational right to copy
 * 3) Creative Commons unplugged
 * 4) The right license

List of main Prefix Pages (namespaces)

 * Category:
 * Help:
 * Image:
 * 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


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Wikibasics

 * 1) Creating an account
 * 2) Basic wiki text
 * 3) Basic editing
 * 4) Wikipedia's Cheat sheet  (also available as a PDF for printing)
 * 5) Tips for WikiEducator beginners

Customising your pages

 * 1) Creating your WikiEducator user page
 * 2) Help page: Personalizing your wiki page
 * 3) MediaWiki Markup

Intermediate wiki text and useful features

 * 1) Help page: Personalizing Preferences
 * 2) Pedagogical templates
 * 3) Help page: Colors
 * 4) Help page: Special Characters
 * 5) Help page: LaTeX Symbols for WikiEducator
 * 6) Templates
 * 7)  Help page: Navigation Templates
 * 8) Help page: Extra Tips

Converting documents

 * 1) Editing using open office
 * 2) Converting documents to wiki format using the OOoConvertor

WikiEducator features

 * 1) Links and iFrame support for external websites
 * 2) Help page: Tips on creating accessible content on wiki
 * 3) Create an institutional portal page

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 [mailto:nelliemuller@email.phoenix.edu 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
 * Benjamin Stewart - General help. Request assistance by signing my guest book - live sessions available as well.
 * Sebastian Panakal - General help and mentoring learners to WikiBuddy level.
 * Balqis Thaahaveettil - General help and mentoring through live sessions, online collaboration and support
 * Jonas Backelin - General help and integrating WikiEducator courses with the Mozilla Open Badges Framework

Miscellaneous

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