Kristine and PBWiki staff, this has been a fabulous experience. THANKS FOR SUPPORTING EDUCATORS!!! I can't wait to use this with my students. I'll let you know how it went but it sounds like it will be awesome from reading other comments.

I use slideshare.net to embed powerpoints. Here is a link to my wiki page so you can see what the slides look like when you do it. https://mathpirate2.pbwiki.com/geochapter1
Melissa Pearson, mentor

When will the flat payment rate going to be available?

The syllabus indicates a week 6 of roundtables and presentations. I've been out of town and just finished catching up to week 5. Is there anything else we need to do right now? Ann

How do I make a text box like the green one at the top of this page? I'd like to add some colour to my wiki and can't figure out how to do that.

Unless you know HTML code, the easiest way to add a box with text is to make a single cell table. Then you would need to add a background color for the table. Last I checked, this had to be done manually, by going into the source code, finding the "<tbody>" tag, and right after "<tbody" adding a space and the following code:
style="background-color: #CFECEC"
There should be one space to the left of the code above and a > (or if there is code before the >, a single space before the remaining code.
I randomly picked a color for the color code above. You can find more color codes on this page: http://www.computerhope.com/htmcolor.htm
—Ann

Oops! There is an easy way to do this. Right-click on the single cell and choose cell properties. That allows you to pick a background color for the cell. :)

Thanks Ann. But I think I must be doing something wrong. When I tried going into the source code all I wound up getting was the background colour information on my wikii page. I tried right clicking on the cell but didn't find anything that said cell properties. Hmmm! Any suggestions?
By the way, when I tried to right mouse on Kristine's green box above, I didn't get any table properties, so I'm guessing she didn't use a singe cell table. I was able to copy and paste her green box onto my wiki, but still can't manipulate the colour on it.
I'll keep trying.

I've been able to achieve the results that I wanted with a bit of a go around. If I make a single cell table in Word, choose a background colour, and then copy and paste it onto my wiki, then I can add text to it. For some reason I'm not able to add a background colour if I use the wiki table.

Kristine is using a "division" (tagged as div) with color, border, and other properties specified as the style; you'd need to know some HTML and CSS to do that. I was just thinking, maybe there is no tbody tag on a default single cell table. You could just style the cell itself. The opening cell tag would look like this: <td style="background-color: #CFECEC">

Right-click or ctrl+click should bring up a contextual menu, where you would click "cell" then "properties", but on a Mac I have to right click while on the cell then click the cell again to see the contextual menu. However, copy-paste from Word works. MS Office 2007 also doesn't create quite as much extraneous code as previous versions of MS Office products.

To get to cell properties, place the cursor in the cell, right click, select "cell", and then select "cell properties". Once this is done, you will find options to select a background color and a border color.

I have found some YouTube videos that would be great to use with my Early Years classroom. At the end of each video I am worried that students may follow the links to other YouTube videos and find something inappropriate - even if we set the rule that students only watch the videos that they have been instructed to watch.

Is there anyway to capture or copy the videos so that this is not possible? (Or maybe that would be a violation of copywrite?)

Yes, you can download the videos to your computer..there is a feature that lets you do that.
Some of the videos block copying and sharing...
The videos I used a lot were from the BBC...they have a lot too without the X content that Youtube is full of.
Have a look at my wiki...and also my website Activeenglish.biz
also M-carstairs.com/englishlessons
I cannot remember all the links to videos but the kid ones are there...

Hi, I am trying to find out how we sign up for graduation and week 6. I had to leave the webinar 15 min early last week to go back to school for our Back to School Night. Can anyone help?
Carla

Hi Carla. I don't think Kristine posts the info until Monday.

Ok, are we having a week 6 for graduation or did I misunderstand the syllabus?

Hi! Whgt do we have to do to participate in Week 6? Does anyone know how to enroll in this? The date for Week 6 is Monday, August 25th. Does anyone know the time for this webinarf? Thanks!

No, and I have emailed and posted.

Kristine and the PB WIKI crew,

THANKS for your patience with new learners and your willingness to bring educators up to speed on your products. They are a great classroom resource and I am looking forward to using it in my class this year. Wish me luck!

If I add kids to my wiki using the new add students options, will I be able to go back and add new students later?

yes -- you can use all three invite methods - email, request access and classroom accouts -- on the same wiki.

I've started my final presentation and put two films on the page but when I go to the edit button my page opens with nothing on it. I don't know what I am dong wrong, does anyone else?

I second JJ's comment. Thank you Kristine and the management of PBwiki! My students, as I write this, are already posting to their new course wiki.
I introduced PBwiki on Friday, the 22nd, and sent emails with instructions on Sunday afternoon. I set them up as readers then moved them over to writers Monday night as they learned more about the wiki and how to use it. Question: One of my students is still stuck on reader status yet I changed them to writer. How do I fix this? Thank you in advance.

Mine does the same with the google gadgets. When I save, sometimes they show up on the screen, sometimes they don't. If I go back into edit, they are there. I wonder if it's some kind of technical glitch? I did put a note on my page to let them know that they might have to go to the edit screen to see that I did put the required item on the page.

Vivian

This is driving me nuts ... I could swear I saw a link on here somewhere that we could pass on for others to register for the next PBwiki training course, but now I can't find it. Two other teachers at my school are very interested. Does anyone know where the link is posted (or was it all in my head?) Thanks.

Vivian

This happened to my students when I introduced the wiki to them. They created a profile page and wanted to edit later. The page appeared blank to them so they were afraid to attempt any changes. I looked at the page in class with the same result (blank page). I went in later, and it was fine.

I checked the history for this page and found you this link to surveymoney, which is where the sign-up seems to be... http://www.surveymonkey.com/s.aspx?sm=7hMKZESIAWpOBgA1WQtYDw_3d_3d

I think they need to use a password to access pages themselves...I am not sure how this works too..

I created Student accounts and got passwords...I shall give them out next class and see if they can access the pages with them and write to the wiki..

This is a problem I am having too.. Maggi

How exactly do the students access the wiki? Do they sign in with their user name and password??

Maggi

When will be get clarification that we have completed everything? Just to make sure that I did not miss anything, by the due date.

Had a good laugh when I read that it took 10-15 hours to complete this course. If you only knew!

"This wiki is here forever!
This wiki is remain in place throughout the school year."
Does "forever" mean 10 months?

When entered the URL Shayne posted, it took me to what I think is a place to sign up for the next summer camp (labeled "Summer Camp II). I tried to find the original link but couldn't. Kristine may just have to fix this one.

I think that Kristine said that the wiki will be locked eventually. I've been trying to create a resource page that everyone can keep updating at tbyresources.pbwiki.com and all are welcome to participate!

Just to echo Sandra - once everything is completed, how do we:
1. get the pbwiki badge,
2. have confirmation of keeping the Platinum Wiki,
3. what is the duration of the Platinum Wiki (in other words when does the school or ourselves need to take over the cost),
4. will there be a final "online party" to look at / discuss the final presentations?

Forever means that I am not going to take this wiki down -- ever.

It seemed to me my request of getting a certification of completion of this Pbwiki course is doomed to failure, and the team is indifferent and do not read sometimes what is written.

Zouita,
If you requested a certificate, then it was created. If you hadn't requested one by Sept 8th, then I did not create one.

Our engineering team is finishing up our certification badges that can go on your wiki or blogs. Is that what you're waiting for?

Kristine

Kristine,
I am sure that I have requested the certificate and Kept reminding you of it for several times, but this is the first reply I got from you. I am interested in the PDF format certificate. Could you sent it for me?

Thanks in advance

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