how2participate

//Here's how you can participate here://

**Step 1 - Create your accounts**
In order to participant, each student needs to create two accounts: http://www.wikispaces.com [|http://www.slideshare.net] //__Notes__://
 * Be careful of your identity when creating accounts - don't create user names with your full name or ID number for example
 * When you create accounts at Web 2.0 sites you usually need to check your email and confirm that you were the one who signed up for the service using your email address.

**Step 2 - Join this Wikispace**
When you've created an account at Wikispaces (and confirmed your email address), visit http://picomputing2008.wikispaces.com/ and then click on **Join this Space** __In the text box,__ provide ... your **ID, Name**, and which **class** you're in //(This is so Vance can recognize his students - ONLY Vance will see this information, and once I've seen it, it isn't saved anywhere)//


 * [[image:vance_mangatar.jpg caption="Vance's Mangatar"]] || **This might be F.U.N.**
 * 1) Visit [|http://faceYourManga.com] and create an AVATAR
 * 2) Save your avatar to your PC (you can email it to yourself)
 * 3) Find your personal page here and EDIT it
 * 4) Use the PICTURE icon (has a tree in it) to upload your avatar to your personal page ||

Check out this video showing you how to upload pictures to a Wikispaces page:
http://www.utipu.com/app/invited/id/fca9b6414f154370a1240d24822b332e or **http://tinyurl.com/pic2wikispaces**

Remember, don't put your NAME on your personal page

**Step 3 - Upload your slides and get the EMBED code**
Remove your full name and student number from your slide presentation before you put it on the Internet. Upload your slides to your account at Slideshare.net space Locate the EMBED code for your show. Copy it to your computer's memory (or better, paste it to Notepad)

**Step 4 - Paste the EMBED code to a WIDGET in you wikispace space**
Log in to your Wikispaces account (you must be logged in to work here) Locate your page by clicking on your number in the left sidebar Select **Edit This Page** Click on the Embed Widget icon (it looks like a TV set with a blue screen) Select the category **Slideshow**, and for which type of show, choose **'other'** Paste the EMBED code in the field provided Save the widget and then save the page

You will see a MEDIA widget in Edit mode, but when you VIEW your page, you should see your slide show

**About this Wikispace**
This space can only be written to by students in Vance's classes Participation here by Vance's students is voluntary (It's just for fun and to help my students learn more about the read-write Web, not a marked assignment)

Dear Students, As a courtesy to one another please edit only your own pages. Wikis allow us to see a history of editing, so if you need to you can get a previous version of your page back, Vance can show you how.