Resources+for+Wiki+Class+-+contributions+from+teachers

Carl Sagan's BDK Kit []

Museum of Jurrasic Technolgy- Museum based on exploring the dynamic between credible authority and "baloney." The small niche museum uses standard museum practices to foster sense of authority. After looking at the website or the museum you are left completly skeptical and really don't know if you should belive it or not. Awesome website and museum. []

Walker poll

__Pictures__ -If you embed pictures that are too large, or, if you embed too many, your wiki will run slower. To get around this, create a [|Google Picasa]account(link below) and createa widget with a slideshow. This allows you to upload a large amount of pictuers while your visitors will still be able to view the picturse with ease. (the same principle applies with videos, just use YouTube instead of Google)

Here is a great link to a site that will evaluate your password strength. [|Passwordmeter.com]
 * Creatng a strong password**

__YouTube videos, songs, just in case__ -Here is a website that will allow you to have a backup video or song just in case the Internet is down on the day you want to utilize a link on your wiki: [] -You have to wait a few minutes or hours, but you'll have the video or song as a backup that you can put on your flash drive in case the Internet or serveris down that day in your district (which of course it never is)

__Uploading Docs to a Wiki__ -When uploading documents from Microsoft Word, it's a good idea to save it in compatability mode (97-2004). That is an option when you save in Word. This allows the document to be opened anywhere because its extension is .doc instead of .docx -If you use different fonts, colors or styles, if you save a copy as a .pdf that will allow anyone to view your document exactly as you intend. If you upload it with all sorts of crazy fonts, if the person opening your documetn doesn't have those, the document can look significantly different.

__The The Impotence of Proofreading--Taylor Mali__ -This is a funny video about the imporance of proofreading your writing to catch mistakes that the computer won't. []