How+to

**Free Educator Voicethread accounts**
Get yourself a basic free account first and then follow these instructions to increase the number you have available to you. **You need to click on** **the down arrow beside your username** ** ﻿ at the top right of the page ****, then on //My Account// **   **Beside account type you will have 'Free'. click on** //**View Upgrade Option.**//  **Click on //K-12// ** **  **Click on** //** Single K-12 Educator **// **  **Click on //Apply// underneath VT Educator**  ** Complete the form (don't stress about too much detail - it's just for their records) **

**Skype**
These screenshots of the trouble shooting comments from Skype may help you to check out your audio settings to ensure they give you good sound quality.

**Wikis in Plain English**
Lee Lefever has developed a series of short videos that are available on Youtube that explain a lot of the Web 2.0 tools in plain english. This one will show you all why wikis are going to be really useful for you as teachers to help your students grow their learning collaboratively.

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**Changing text**
If you want to use a backgroud colour, do the same as above but use the box beneath labelled 'background colour'. Font size and fonts can also be changed using this tool
 * write your material
 * Go to the T with colours around it
 * <span style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 3em; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Click in the 'colour' box
 * <span style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 3em; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">choose a colour set that you like either through the boxes of colour or by clicking on the area of the outside ring that suits
 * <span style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 3em; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">move the little circle (in the box of colour) to a spot on the pallette that suits (watch the preview - sample text at the bottom)
 * <span style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 3em; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">click 'apply style' when you are satisfied.

<span style="font-size: 1.1em; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 5px;">Loading a video onto a Wiki
**Instructions.** Go to the website and find the video Somewhere on the page is the EMBED code. <span style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Click on the embed box and copy the code (ctrl C) <span style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Check the settings to make sure you don't bring other related videos etc, and that the size is as you want it   Return to the wiki you want to put the video on

Click on Edit Click on Widget (TV screen) in the tool bar

Find 'videos' (top)

Click there - find the label for the website you went to (e.g. You Tube) but if it isn't there, use 'other'

Paste the embed code you copied earlier into the box (Ctrl V) Click save.

N.B. For slideshows you need to firstly UPLOAD the presentation into something like Bubbleshare or Slideshare first and get it converted to a web-friendly wijit. That will create an HTML code for you to copy onto your wiki page