Help

====Please consult this space first if you have any questions. If you need technical help, please consult the help page for the kind of tool that you are using and try to work through the problem with your team. If you cannot solve the problem, please consult your ICT teacher. All questions about how to complete a task can be found by consulting help menus, team members or your ICT teacher (in that order). Any question about the content on a webpage, please post a message on the page and consult your team members. All communication on the wiki must observe netiquette.====

**1. How do I learn how to use the wiki?**
Please use the following process using the wiki will be demonstrated in class by your ICT teacher. However, you may have questions later on in the project:
 * Click on the **Help menu** in the top right corner to look up a particular topic or view tutorial videos
 * Consult with your team members. Work out the answer together.
 * If the above two steps do not answer your question, then consult with your ICT teacher.

**2.** **What is Netiquette?**
Any suspected instances of violating Netiquette should be reported to your ICT teacher.
 * Netiquette** will be used throughout all aspects of our communication in the Digiteen Compass Project. It is the respectful, responsible and ethical communication of information in any form (text, images, audio and video) on the Wiki or Ning.

**3. What is an "eReference"?**
Each team for the nine themes in Phase 1 wil be creating an online **eReference** for their theme. Currently information regarding digital citizenship is scattered across many sources and not focused on students use of digital technologies. The eReference that your team is creating is the ultimate guide to the theme that your team is working on.

Please use MLA style on citation machine http://www.citationmachine.net
Cite your source under the information that is being referenced. Be certain to observe the intellectual property requirements as indicated (i.e. creative commons, copyright).

A wide range of information: text, images, podcast, files, video, link to blog.
Please consult the Wiki help for a complete listing of file types and services that are supported.

**5. How do I respond to information on a webpage?**
Click on the **discussion** tab at the top of the page.

**6. How do I add a YouTube video to a webpage?**
Consult the Help menu in Wikispaces for embedding a video widget on a webpage. Consult the Help menu in YouTube for uploading your own movies.
 * Go to Edit the page and click on the Media icon[[image:Picture_3.png width="47" height="47"]] for embedding widgets on the toolbar.
 * Be certain to copy and paste the embedded code from the original page.

**7. How do I add a podcast to a webpage?**
A podcast can be linked to a page by uploading the podcast as a file.

**8. What scripting language is available for customizing wiki pages?**
Wikispaces uses a scripting language called **Wikitext**. Go to the Help Menu and click on Wikitext for details.