Thing #9 Setting Up My Wiki and Playing in the Sandbox

Playing in the wiki sandbox was a bit frustrating but once I got going things just flowed.  At first I couldn't figure out how to join the wiki.  I later found out it was because I wasn't logged in.  As I went to the sandbox site, I realized I had to join and be accepted.  I did join and didn't have to wait long until I noticed I was accepted but I realized it by accident.  I never did see a Fall 2010 link that listed my fellow participants.

As I began to edit my wiki page (Toes in the Sand) in the sandbox I realized how easy it was.  I was surprised at how easy it was to add photos.  Now I want to learn to upload video but I have to take video first.  I'm grabbing my camera tomorrow at school to click away and post a few seconds of video.  I played around with the fonts and colors of the text.  I want to go back and look at the educational wiki's now that I know how they created them.  I am also curious about what other formatting options are available, such as the brackets around toc for the table of contents.  The photos I uploaded were placed at the top to the left.  I want to find out how to move these about and place them where I want them instead.

I can't wait to show my site to some of my teachers and find out how they could use this in their classrooms or on class projects.  I feel that I know enough now to teach them to use the basics and maybe they can assign something like this to their students and the kiddos can teach us a thing or two.

I also added a couple of websites to the 2.0 Web Sites.  I also placed my blog site, TLACBookStudy  in the 2.0 Tool Integration Ideas so that others can see how I am applying what I am learning.

I'll be going back to the other wiki's my fellow classmates created to get some ideas.