Adding text links can sometimes be boring, and if you have a lot of links you’re adding to your wikispace page, why not add some variety on your page, and create some image links? This tutorial teaches you how to insert an image, and make it a link, using the Embed HTML tool in your wikispace.
Wikispaces.com has a really cool option of displaying the latest posts from a blog. This is a great way to pull in other helpful information related to the information you post on certain wikispace pages. For example, let’s say you’ve just created a new page on your wikispace that contains helpful instructions on how to use Smartboards in your classroom.
Don’t let the title scare you, teachers! I show you step-by-step how you can change both the background color and background image of your wikispace using CSS. To change your background image, you first have to upload your image to your wikispace, and then you need to create a custom template based off of one of the default wikispace themes. Watch the video tutorial for complete instructions.
Each week, we will feature a new Wikispace of the Week here on wikispacetutorials.com. That’s right… you. We think that there are some pretty cool ways that people are using and managing wikispaces. Getting showcased here basically involves answering 4 questions…
Having a calendar on your wikispace can be helpful for many reasons, and Google makes it easy to do. In this tutorial, you’ll learn how to embed a Google Calendar in your wikispace, and also how to import a public calendar in iCal format. School administrators and educators can make use of this feature if their school produces an online calendar in iCal format.
Scribd is a website that allows you to upload, share, and view documents online. And wikispaces.com allows you to embed a Scribd document to your wikispace. This is a great way to give your users a quick and thorough glance at a document that you’d like them to view right there…
Twitter has recently come out with a newly designed widget that you can add to your website, blog, and yes, your wikispace. Adding a Twitter widget will allow your wikispace visitors to see what you’ve been tweeting on Twitter.
There is a way to insert a link into your wikispace that will provide the user with a separate window to view the link. And we accomplish this by using the Embed HTML widget within our wikispace. To do this, click on Edit, the little TV icon, then Other HTML…
Though not obvious at first, there is no link on the wikispaces.com homepage to the place on their site where you can signup for an ad-free teacher wikispace. In this tutorial, I’ll show you how to find that page on their site so that you can signup.
Maybe you just don’t like the way that your wikispace name sounds. Or maybe you accidently misspelled your wikispace. Whatever the reason is for wanting to change your wikispace domain name, it’s easy to change, and we can show you how.
