Transcript PPT - UMass Lowell

CitiWiki Summer Workshop
W2 Day 2: Wiki Management,
RSS and GoogleGroup
Li Xu
CS, UMass Lowell
Day 2 Agenda
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Wikispaces site management
GoogleGroup as mailing list and
discussion forum
RSS feed on wikispaces
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Day 2 Goals
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Understand wikispaces management
Manage your space
Create your GoogleGroup
Use RSS feed on your Wiki
Project time
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Math101 Example
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See source code
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Math101 page
Schedule page
Side panel
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Wikispaces Management
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Site organization
Site backup
User access control
Look and feel
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Use the left panel: “Manage Space”
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Wikispaces Management
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List pages
Backup as .zip files
Space name, info
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Wikispaces Management
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User access control
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Members and permissions
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Public, protected, private
Private will mandate user login to view page
Invite members by sending email
Member can request to join (left panel)
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Wikispaces Management
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Look and feel
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Theme: bubble
Colors: background, #ffcc66
web color: http://html-color-codes.com/
Edit CSS directly
Logo: upload an image
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Wikispaces Examples
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School Examples
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Westwood.wikispaces.com
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Wikispaces
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Exercise:
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List your page, login name on CitiWiki
Change permission to private
Find others spaces:
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Invite others to join your space
Request to join other’s space
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Wikispaces
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Exercise:
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Change look and feel
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Change your theme, bubble, etc
CSS styling sheet
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GoogleGroup
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Mailing list and discussion forum
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Groups.google.com, sign in use your email
If not registered, need to register first
Choose Create a group
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GoogleGroup
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In the setup page
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Add members
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Set group name, email, web page, group
discription
Access level (public, private-member only)
Invite members through email
Member management
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Edit membership
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GoogleGroup Exercise
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List your Email on your CitiWiki page
Find others email and invite them to
your group
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RSS Feed
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Use RSS to monitor page update
RSS Reader
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Desktop: thunderbird
Web-based: bloglines
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RSS Feed
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Sign in on bloglines
(http://www.bloglines.com/register)
use your email to register
Choose “notify me” tab on your space
Copy&paste RSS link, add link to
blogline feeds->add
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RSS Feed Exercise
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Add your main page RSS to your
bloglines feed
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Day 2 Assignment
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Refine your space setting, look and feel
Add GoogleGroup link to your main
page
Use RSS feed to view page update
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