Wiki (Jotspot): Simple How To Guide

Class on wednesday will discuss the Wiki project in more detail. Once this is discussed the following tips will enable you to begin this project. The scope of the project is articulated here.

As you begin your wiki team project you will need to know how to create additional wikipages; how to link a word to a different page and how to link to outside resources on the web. All three tasks are straightforward, but this is designed to get you started.

Naming Convention
For the project you will have been assigned a chapter along with 2 - 3 other classmates. Each chapter is named with the following convention; for chapter one the wiki page is ChapterOne (note the capital letter on the second word and no word spacing, this is the convention necessary for the design of the wiki space.) For chapter two, the wiki name is ChapterTwo etc. Each of you needs to create an additional page, that hosts the article summaries you begin and manage. You should use the following convention, assuming you are part of the chapter three team and your last name is Brown; ChapterThreeBrown.

Creating your Wiki Page
Your first step, before creating your first article summary, will be to create your wiki page. To accomplish this simply:

1. Go to your assigned chapter page
   
2. Click on the 'create page' button on the horizontal nav. above the header of the page
   
3. Type on the wiki name for the page, in my demo it would be 'ChapterThreeBrown', press 'go'. This page is now created, and displayed, it is that easy!
   

Linking to your Wiki page
Linking to your wiki page is very straightforward, both within the wiki itself, and as a URL on the internet at large (you may consider linking to it from your blog for instance).

To link to the page within the wiki:

1. As you create text simply type out the WikiWord for your page. So in the above example, each time I type ChapterThreeBrown I would be creating a hyperlink to the page 'ChapterThreeBrown', assuming this page has already been created. Very simple.
   

To link to the page from the internet at large:

1. Simply use the URL http://buad47705fall.jot.com/WikiHome/ChapterThree/ChapterThreeBrown Note: if I had created the page when I was at the WikiHome page, rather than the ChapterThree page, the URL would not include the ChapterThree element.
   

Linking to Outside Resources
Part of your article summary assignment is to link to outside resources discovered via google etc. To do this as you type out your text you will need to highlight words within the text which will then link to the resource. From the example on: http://buad47705fall.jot.com/WikiHome/ChapterThree/ChapterThreeBrown

1. First step is to highlight the appropriate text, I highlighted 'class blog'.
   
2. Click the 'insert web link' option (looks like a chain)
   
3. In the dialog box add the appropriate URL (http://infotechmarketing.blogspot.com)
   
4. Also add a Title, this appears as someone places their 'mouse' over the link before clicking, in this case I added 'My Favourite Class'; the select 'OK' You are finished.