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--How to log into the wiki? --How to edit my web page and add images and links. --How to export an Inkscape file so it can be uploaded to the wiki.. --How to export a SketchUp project so it can be uploaded to the wiki. --How to add your art work to your page. --How to add New art work (made at home after class) to your page. --How to open multiple tabs in Firefox. --How to post to the Wiki. --How to Post to Online Discussions. --How to make a New web page on the wiki. --What can I have on my ePortfolio (my web page). --How to get a screen-shot. --How to check file sizes. --File Naming rules. --How to add your video game to your web page. --How to go to my web page. --What do I do if I forgot my password. How to log into the wiki? ** · Start Firefox/Safari and go to the Digital Design wiki using Bookmarks · Click on Sign in on the top right of the page. · Enter your user name. · Enter password and click on Sign in. · You will see your login name on the top right and a Sign Out where there used to be a Sign In. This means you are logged in.
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**How to edit my web page and add images and links ** · [|See instructions for finding your web page and adding images and links] **How to export an Inkscape file so it can be uploaded to the wiki ** · Inkscape files can not be used on the wiki. · You will need to 'export' them so they become a '.png' file · See the [|How to export Inkscape drawing] for detailed instructions.

**How to export a SketchUp project so it can be uploaded to the wiki. ** · SketchUp projects are 3D and they must also be exported as 2d images before they can be added to the wiki. · <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 9pt;">Orbit around your SketchUp project till you get the view you want to showcase · <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 9pt;">Click on File, Export 2D graphic, and click on Desktop and give your project a name (your wikiname followed by project name, e.g John5aHouse) · <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 9pt;">You will get a file on the desktop that ends with '.jpg' · <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 9pt;">This file can be uploaded to the wiki.

**<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 13.5pt;">How to add your art work to your page ** · <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 9.5pt;">Go to your web page and click on Edit · <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 9.5pt;">Add image by clicking on the ‘Insert Image’ icon (looks like a picture) · <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 9.5pt;">Enter your firstname in the box to find your images · <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 9.5pt;">Click on image you want to add · <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 9.5pt;">If the image is too big, click on Size – at the bottom · <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 9.5pt;">Save the page

**<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 13.5pt;">How to add New art work (made at home after class) to your page ** · <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 9.5pt;">Make sure you have exported your image and it is on the Desktop and starts with your name. · <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 9.5pt;">Go to your web page and click on Edit  · <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 9.5pt;">Add image by clicking on the ‘Insert Image’ icon (looks like a picture)  · <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 9.5pt;">Click on Upload Files and then click on 'Singe file upload'  · <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 9.5pt;">Click on Browse and find the file on your desktop. · <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 9.5pt;">Click on Upload · <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 9.5pt;">After the file is uploaded you will see a small icon of your art work. · <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 9.5pt;">Double click to add it to the page · <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 9.5pt;">If the image is too big, click on Size – at the bottom · <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 9.5pt;">Save the page

**<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 13.5pt;">How to open multiple tabs in Firefox ** <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 9pt;">When you are working on your wiki, it is useful to keep Help pages or other pages open at the same time. You can do this by opening the page in a New Tab. Use Apple click on the link instead of a simple click. You can also Use File New Tab, and then enter new page on the new tab

**<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 13.5pt;">How to post to the Wiki ** · <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 9pt;">Only your own personal work should be posted to your own page. · <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 9pt;">Go to your student page. Click on Edit and edit your page.

**<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 13.5pt;">How to Post to Online Discussions ** <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 9pt;">You will be required to post to the online discussion at some time during the class or to another student's discussion area. Do not post anything unless asked and make sure you post only what you want others to read aloud. Remember all your posts are being recorded, so we know who is the author of any post. Always make sure you are in the right area, you are posting a reply to the post and not a new question or post.

**<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 13.5pt;">How to make a New web page on the wiki ** · <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 9pt;">Login to the wiki and click on New Page · <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 9pt;">Enter your page name - same as your Wiki user name · <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 9pt;">Enter tags : schoolname. Click on Create · <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 9pt;">Edit the page. · <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 9pt;">Click on Save · <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 9pt;">Look at the address to get the URL of the page.

**<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 13.5pt;">What can I have on my ePortfolio (my web page) ** · <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 9pt;">Introduction/Welcome, · <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 9pt;">About your Digital Design class experience, · <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 9pt;">About yourself (remember NO personal information) · <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 9pt;">Your Digital Art your work (enter title if you have one and what the project is about, what you learned/what you could do better next time, at least one line per item) · <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 9pt;">Links to your friends pages

**<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 13.5pt;">How to get a screen-shot ** <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 9pt;">Command shift 4 gives you cross hairs and you can drag and select the area you want. It creates a png file on your desktop called Picture 1, so you then need to go to your Desktop and rename the file and move it into your own folder. Command-Shift-3 is the shortcut for taking a screen capture of your entire screen. Control-Command-Shift-3 (or 4), which, instead of creating a file on your desktop, copies the capture into your Clipboard memory, so you can paste it where you want.

**<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 13.5pt;">How to check file sizes ** · <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 9pt;">Use Get Info to see the details of your file including file type and size. · <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 9pt;">You can do this by selecting the file and hitting Control I. right click on icon and select Get Info works as well.

**<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 13.5pt;">File Naming rules ** <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 9pt;">All files must start with your wiki name, followed by the name of the project. This is the only way you can later find your work on the wiki. Example: Johnblob is the blob made by John. How to add your video game to your web page ** · <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 9pt;">You can place your game on your web page. · <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 9pt;">Go to your video game on the scratch web site. · <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 9pt;">Click on 'Embed' on the right side of the game. · <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 9pt;">You will get 2 kinds of code (one is an image that works as a link to the game, the other is the game itself). · <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 9pt;">Choose any one (the first image one works better on all browsers) · <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 9pt;">Copy the code (Command C on the Mac) · <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 9pt;">Go to your student web page and click Edit and position the cursor where you want the game. · <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 9pt;">Click on the icon that looks like a TV (next to the Add image icon). · <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 9pt;">Click on Other HTML · <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 9pt;">Enter the code you copied from the scratch site (use Command V on the Mac) · <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 9pt;">Click on Save · <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 9pt;">Save the page.
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<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 9pt;">1. Go to the Digital Gallery, see menu item on the left 2. Click on the gallery for your Track (this is the gallery page that was emailed to your parents) 3. At the bottom of the gallery, click on Student Pages. 4. You will need to login with your username and password. Example of usernames for 2010-11 school year: John_Sm10R if you are a 6th grader John_Sm11B if you are a 7th grader John_Sm10G if you are a 8th grader What do I do if I forgot my password ** <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 9pt;">1. Do not use the Forgot password or Join Wiki to get to your password. Request to join the wiki sent to the Yahoo account will not be approved. 2. Please ask your parent to email Mrs S at the school email address (see About page or letter to parents) and give your full name
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How to Edit your web page <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 9pt;">1. Start Firefox/Safari and go to the Digital-class wiki using Bookmarks 2. Click on Sign in on the top right of the page. 3. Enter your user name. 4. Enter password and click on Sign in. 5. You will see your login name on the top right and a Sign Out where there used to be a Sign In. This means you are logged in.
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**<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 13.5pt;">Go to your web page ** <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 9pt;">1. Click on My Wikis on the top right near Sign In and click on the wiki name 2. Click on your name and go to your web page

**<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 13.5pt;">Add images to your web page ** <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 9pt;">1. <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 9.5pt;">Click on Edit <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 9pt;"> 2. <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 9.5pt;">Position your cursor where you want the image. <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 9pt;"> 3. <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 9.5pt;">Add image by clicking on the ‘Insert Image’ icon (looks like a picture) <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 9pt;"> 4. <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 9.5pt;">Enter your firstname in the box to find your images <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 9pt;"> 5. <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 9.5pt;">Click on image you want to add <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 9pt;"> 6. <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 9.5pt;">If the image is too big, click on Size – at the bottom <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 9pt;"> 7. <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 9.5pt;">Save the page

**<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 13.5pt;">Add links to your web page ** <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 9pt;">1. Click on Edit to edit your page 2. Enter the name of your friend who is in the same class 3. Select the name and click on the Link icon (looks like a chain) 4. Edit the page name by deleting a few characters till it shows you the page of your friend. 5. Select the page. You will get a green check mark. 6. Click on Add link 7. Save the page and test if the link works

How to export an Inkscape drawing <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt;">1. Click on your artwork and select it. 2. Click on File, Export Bitmap 3. In the new window that opens, click on Browse. · <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt;">In this new window, enter filename (for example John4Acolor) · <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt;">Make sure Save in Folder is set to Desktop · <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt;">Click on Save, this closes this window 4. Click on Export.