Learning4Content/Workshops/5 Day Course Layout

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PRE-WORK - GETTING STARTED
PRE-WORK PAGE - http://www.wikieducator.org/Learning4Content/Workshops/Community_Media/L4C_Adv_Pre


 * 1) Download and install Open Office 2.4 (recommended, but optional)
 * 2) Download, complete, sign & date Your Learning Contract
 * 3) Prepare your Introductory Text
 * 4) Create a new account or log in to an existing account.
 * Please read the tutorial and follow the instructions on how to Create an account.   How to create a WikiEducator Account on Video
 * 1) Confirm your WikiEducator Account (look for an email in your email inbox)
 * 2) Learn about WikiAdmin email notifications
 * Watch the video about E-mail notifications
 * Youtube Video on E-mail notifications
 * 1) Intro to wiki colleagues
 * 2) WikiApprentice Certification

Helpful Hints

 * 1) Please print the directions of the Learning4Content training, or read these directly on WikiEducator
 * 2) Join the L4C homepage on Google Groups: Google L4C Group
 * 3) Please review the guidelines on How to Start a User Page.
 * 4) Discuss any page in the wiki by providing feedback by clicking on this Feedback/Discussion Link. Please give your comment a heading, and then start typing in the Input Box.
 * 5) Learn as much as you can about the Learning for Content (L4C) initiative.
 * 6) Please download,complete, sign, and fax the Learning Contract to +1 604 775 8210 or scan and email to [mailto:PSchlicht@col.org Patricia Pschlicht]

What is a Wiki?
Please read  What is a wiki?.
 * Wiki in Plain English
 * Que es un Wiki? (in Spanish)
 * Community explains WikiEducator

How to use WikiEducator

 * 1) Getting Started
 * 2) Navigation

Register Your User Name

 * 1) Go to the User Name  EL4C20 page.
 * 2) Enter Your User Name and Real Name
 * 3) Click "Save"
 * 4) Notice that the your User Name is (and your peers' User Names are) automatically hyperlinked to your/their User Page

DAY 1
DAY 1 PAGE - http://www.wikieducator.org/Learning4Content/Workshops/Community_Media/L4C_Adv_Day1


 * WikiEducator Community
 * Professional Development on WikiEducator
 * WikiEducator Statistics & Activities
 * Basic Text Editing/Formatting

Video

 * Editing toolbar
 * Bold
 * Headings and subheadings
 * Indents
 * Italics
 * Lists
 * Bullet list
 * Numbered list

Video

 * 1) You will practice your edits in a personal editing space connected to your user page called a "sandbox". You may wish to download a pdf file on how to create a sandbox.

More Wiki Codes

 * Basics of editing
 * Edit links
 * Your first edit
 * Tutorials
 * Editing with wiki codes
 * Easy to follow formatting
 * All you need to know for advanced formatting of text


 * Open Educational Resources (OERs)
 * OER References
 * Professional Development on WikiEducator
 * Your Professional Development
 * OER Teaching Resources
 * Pilot Projects on WikiEducator
 * Create Your OER Teaching Resource OR Pilot Project

DAY 2
DAY 2 PAGE - http://www.wikieducator.org/Learning4Content/Workshops/Community_Media/L4C_Adv_Day2


 * Take the WikiEducator newcomer survey
 * Print these pages, and keep them close at hand when working on the wiki.
 * http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Quick_guide - Quick Guide
 * http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:How_to_edit_a_page - How to Edit a Page
 * Add Internal & External Links; also see Video
 * Internal Links - creating links to other pages within the wiki.
 * Piped Links - giving links more descriptive names.
 * External Links - linking to sites outside of the wiki.


 * Communication and Interaction Tools
 * Use the Course Feedback page
 * Read the Notes before you start
 * Post a comment (by clicking "edit") on the Course Feedback page, about your motivations and hopes in taking this course..
 * Post Your Professional Development Interests on your User Page
 * Continue Working on Your OER Teaching Resource
 * Rest & Reflection: Take a Break!!

DAY 3
DAY 3 PAGE - http://www.wikieducator.org/Learning4Content/Workshops/Community_Media/L4C_Adv_Day3

Video

 * Adding Images and Media
 * Uploaded files and Images
 * Images
 * Types of Media Supported
 * Basic Syntax for Inserting Images
 * Creating Thumbnails, Frames, and aligning Images
 * Inserting Other Media Types
 * Attribution for Images


 * OER Teaching Resource Page (continued...)
 * Searching WikiEducator

The Paradox of Control and a Paradigm Shift

 * Read: The Paradox of Control and a Paradigm Shift, a section of Randy Fisher's graduate project paper (MA, Organization Management and Development, Fielding Graduate University.)
 * Feedback: Share your thoughts and ideas with your peers

DAY 4
DAY 4 PAGE - http://www.wikieducator.org/Learning4Content/Workshops/Community_Media/L4C_Adv_Day4


 * Collaborative Editing & Keeping Track of Activity in the Wiki & on Your Wiki Pages
 * collaborative editing


 * Exploring Statistics in Community Media & WikiEducator


 * Three (3) Activities:


 * 1) Analyse StatisticsCommunity Media & WikiEducator
 * 2) Analyse the "History" for each page, to compare different page versions and contributions
 * 3) Analyse Recent Changes to see a real-time snapshot of WE activity


 * Analyse Your Contributions page
 * Visit Your Country Page
 * Network with Your Peers
 * Continue Working on Your OER Teaching Resource!

DAY 5
DAY 5 PAGE - http://www.wikieducator.org/Learning4Content/Workshops/Community_Media/L4C_Adv_Day5
 * Pilot Projects


 * Navigation: Organizing Your Pages
 * Promoting & Cross-Referencing Your OER Project
 * Community Media space
 * Navigation: Organizing Your Pages
 * Subpages
 * Navigation templates
 * Categories


 * Quality Assurance


 * Free Cultural Works, Copyright & Licensing
 * Copyleft
 * Defining Free cultural works (Free content)
 * Essential freedoms of free content
 * Permissible restrictions
 * Additional conditions
 * Essential freedoms of free software
 * Licenses for free content
 * GNU Free Documentation License
 * Creative Commons licenses


 * Continue Working on Your OER Teaching Resource!

CLOSING ACTIONS
CLOSING ACTIONS PAGE - http://www.wikieducator.org/Learning4Content/Workshops/Community_Media/Closing_Actions


 * 1) OER Teaching Resource
 * 2) Your Pilot Project
 * 3) Learning Contract


 * 1) WikiApprentice Level 2 Certification
 * 2) Become a Junior Facilitator - to improve your wiki skills and online facilitation expertise
 * 3) Join Discussion Groups
 * WikiEducator Discussion Group
 * Community Media Discussion Group
 * 1) Review the rest of the Tutorials
 * 2) Evaluation & Feedback

Categories

 * Developing Categories
 * add categories
 * link to category pages
 * categorize categories
 * move categories

Collaborative Team Effort

 * Sharing the Editing
 * Recent Changes
 * Differences and History - Comparing changes to pages
 * Reverting - Reverting back to a previous page

Creating Your User Page

 * 1) Please add your User Name to the User Page after reading the instructions on Submitting your Username
 * 2) Create your User Page (hyperlinked to your User Name)

Pedagogical Templates
Pedagogical templates are used when authoring teaching content in WikiEducator. A number of templates are predesigned to save you time with more complex layouts required of instructional materials. They include a range of "instructional devices" or subelements of a content page and are usually signified by an icon. For example: http://www.wikieducator.org/Quickstart_guide/pedagogical_templates


 * Template syntax

Templates]].
 * 1) Tutorial 9 on [[Wikieducator_tutorial/Pedagogical_Templates | Creating and Using Pedagogical
 * 1) Insert at least one pedagogical template on your user page, this will be required later for your certification as a Wikibuddy.

New Page(s): How to Create Them

 * How to start a new page
 * Creating New Pages
 * Automated Page Creation

Policies and guidelines

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

Quality

 * What about quality?

Text: Colors
List of colors

Steps for adding COLOURS to your Page (taken from Gita Mathur)
 * 1) Put in text on your page
 * 2) Decide which set of words you want to colour
 * 3) Add < FONT COLOR = "Green" > that is a less than sign followed by FONT COLOR then equal to symbol,name of the colour within double codes then add symbol for greater than.(Do not leave space between any symbols)in front of the text to be coloured.
 * 4) At the end of the text put the same syntax with the original colour name, otherwise all the text beyond this point will get the new colour.
 * 5) Example:I find colours very fascinating.....this page will echo my love for colours
 * 6) Click on the edit button above this section and look at the syntax I have used in the line above.
 * 7) Normal colour names work but for names of more shades see the weblink I have mentioned above.

Text: Fonts and Backgrounds

 * Adding color to your wiki pages
 * Text color
 * Additional text color codes
 * Font color

WikiEducator Community

 * The WikiEducator community
 * Values of the WikiEducator community
 * Types of WikiEducator initiatives

Wikis Explained

 * What is a wiki?
 * Advantages
 * Disadvantages