Talk:Educational Technology
From WikEd
9/14/04, ~9:45 - 10:25 pm:
Judi: I just watched Brandy experiment with this page, and learned a cool trick from her! Notice that I've deleted the "Click here to enter the Curriculum-Based Technology Integration K-12" text and link, and instead just linked the capitalized heading. This wasn't working correctly for me before because I had tried to link the text AND the formatting characters that appear before and after it. If you only link the text with an internal link, then it works -- and the "menu" on this page looks much cleaner and easier to follow now, don't you think? :-) (I did find out in the process, though, that all-caps page titles are not seen by the WikEd software as the same as mixed-case page titles. So, I had to move the "Curriculum-Based Technology Integration K-12" page contents to a (technically) new page called "CURRICULUM-BASED TECHNOLOGY INTEGRATION K-12" page so that the title link on the Educational Technology page would work correctly.)
Also, Joy asked me after class tonight about embedding images in our wiki pages. I hadn't played with this feature -- but I just did. Though the system looks like it should let us upload pictures (non-copyright protected, of course) and embed them in our pages here, it wouldn't let me upload a William & Mary seal image in either .jpeg or .gif format. :-( I'll message Tony, the WikEd "tender" and ask him whether it's possible to turn this feature on for us.
9/15/04, ~10:45 pm
Judi: Great news! Tony, the fellow at the University of Illinois who tends to WikEd, has fixed the settings in the WikEd program on his server so that we can upload and insert SMALL, NON-COPYRIGHTED pictures into our Wiki pages! :-) To do this, there's a three-step process involved:
1. Locate or create the picture (no bigger than 80 x 80 pixels; smaller if possible) and save it in .jpeg format to your hard drive.
2. Click the link on the left-hand side of the screen that allows you to "upload file." Click the "Browse" button that appears to locate the picture file on your hard drive, insert a description of the picture in the box that requests it, and click on the "upload" button to send a copy of the picture to WikEd.
3. Insert the picture using the picture-frame button or text characters in the following configuration: Image:PictureName.jpg inside double square brackets, approximately where you would like the picture to appear. Please remember that you will be inserting the picture relative to a line of text (at the beginning, middle, or end), NOT placing it somewhere specific on the screen.
