Start Wiki-ing

From Baruchnewmedia

FIRST THINGS FIRST

• Do NOT open Blackboard. You will work much better by simply opening a browser window and typing the url for this wiki in the address bar.
• Open this page in a new window or a new tab so that you can go back and forth between your work on the wiki and this page of instructions.

NOW, FOR TODAYS LAB

1. Create a BaruchNewMedia user account

NOTE: You will only be able to do this during the registration period at the beginning of each semester.

On the top right of the page, Click on "Log in / create account"

Click on "Create an account"

Create a userid and password for yourself.

Your userid should be constructed as follows: <first initial><last name><any 3 digits>.

Fill in the requested information - Submit

Email your Prof the username you have created for yourself. This will be proof of "attendance" in the lab session.

2. Check out your Preferences page

Go to "mypreferences" on the top right of the page.

Click on the "Date and time" tab.

In the "time zone" area, click "fill in from browser"

Click Save.

NOTE: If you change the settings on the Skin tab, you will change the "look and feel" of the BNM wiki site (but only to your userid).

3. Your user page

Top right - click on your username (should be in red)

Click on "edit this page."

Enter your real name and your email address

Click "Save page"

4. Create your own Bio

Do 1 of the following alternatives:

A. You can first create the link to your bio from your user page (you will have to do this later anyway).

On your user page put a link something like this: [[<your bio page> | my bio]]. Note that an internal link - a link to a page in the wiki - uses two sets of square brackets.

After you save the page, you can click on 'my bio' and you will be ready to start entering information into your bio page.

B. Or, here's another way to do the same thing:

In the search bar on the left pane, type: Bio-yourname This will be the name of Your Bio Page in the BaruchNewMedia wiki. Note: type your name instead of <yourname> :)

Click "Go"

When the search results come up, that page will not appear since it does not exist yet. Click "create this page".

Now, Start entering your own bio. Don't sweat it - you can always edit this later.

Click Save Page.

5. Link to your Bio

• If you used the first option to create your Bio, skip this step - you did it already!

Go to your user page again. (This time your username should be blue since you created the user page in Step 3.)

Add a link on your User Page to your Bio. The link is an internal link and will look something like this: [[Bio-<yourname> | This is my bio.]]

6. Upload a photo

Click "Upload file" in the BaruchNewMedia toolbox at the left of your screen.

Click "Browse" to find the photo in your local computer.

Keep or change "Destination filename".

Remember that other folks may use similar names. So, for example, if you name your picture me.jpg someone else may do the same and end up overwriting your photo with theirs.

In "Summary" give a brief description of this file. For example, John Smith's photo.

Click "Upload file"

You can check that your photo uploaded correctly by going to either Gallery of new files or File list.

HOMEWORK - Finish anything you did not get to finish in class in #1 - #6. Plus...

7. Flesh out your bio

Finish working on your bio. For example, you can use the content from your Blackboard homepage.

Look at the other bio pages and user pages in the BaruchNewMedia.com wiki and figure out how to do the following:

Put 'section headings' in your bio. Note that if you have more than 3 sections, your bio page will automatically have a Table of Contents at the top.

Put a picture of yourself - the one you uploaded in Step #6 - in your bio.

8. Link to your bio from the Baruchnewmedia:Community_Portal page of the wiki

Find your class and add your name.

Try for alphabetical order, if you can. :) Best way to do that is to bring up the course roster in Blackboard so you can see where you fit in order. (Thanks Kevin!)

REMEMBER that all the other CIS 3810 students in all sections of this course will be trying to edit this page during this time. ETIQUETTE: To avoid conflicts, (1) check the discussion tab before you edit to see if someone is already working on the page and (2) edit the discussion page with a message like:

I'M WORKING HERE ~~~~.

The four tildes automatically insert your signature. Then remove it when you are done with your editing.