Presented at 2009 SACC Conference in Tucson to demonstrate how a wiki can be set up for students to collaborate on projects in an anthropology class.

1. USING A WIKI TO COLLABORATE WITH OTHERS In an Anthropology Class

3. Web 2.0 and Social Networking

6. Wikis in the class environment

10. Setting up a wiki

16. Creating a wiki - Screen Shots

17. To create your wiki, go to pbwiki.com and then click on Academic

18. Click on Try it Now!

19. Then select Basic

20. Fill in the requested information. Once you submit your request, you will receive an email confirmation.

21. Agree to the terms of service and then go to your wiki

22. To begin making changes, click on Edit

23. The toolbox that appears provides standard formatting options

24. Once you’ve edited the text, click on Save

25. To add pages to your wiki, click on Create a page

26. Give your page a title and then click Create page

27. Add content to the page and then click Save

28. To create a link to your new page, (1) highlight the text you want to link and then (2) click on the hyperlink button (1) (2)

29. Select the page you want the link to go to and click Ok

30. Follow these same steps to create and link to the rest of your wiki’s pages

31. Click on Page history to see a chronological list of changes made to an individual page

32. View the previous version by clicking on the time stamp or compare two pages using the radio buttons

33. If needed, you can revert back to this version of the page or return to the page history

34. Use the sidebar to add content that you want to appear on all pages – such as links to commonly used websites

35. You can upload documents and images for use within the wiki by clicking on Upload files…

36. or using the Insert Links tool while editing a page - and then link to them by clicking on the filename

37. You can also link to images found on the web

38. Whether clicking on an uploaded image or using the web link, the image will appear on the page

39. To change wiki settings, click on Settings

40. For example, you can add users

41. Or change your security settings