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Welcome to the St Joseph's College Teaching and Learning Strategies wiki.

This is a place for sharing tips, tricks, ideas, inspirations and resources for use in the grandest of professions, Teaching! Have a read through those already here in order to refresh and renew your class. You may find something new or an oldie-but-a-goodie. Have something so awesome that you just have to share it with the world? Well, feel free to add that too.

The aim of this wiki is to share, and in this modern world we often don't get the time we'd like to tell people about the amazing things we've done or ideas we seen. Yet with the advantages of our modern world we can still inspire each other in some small way. It is hoped that the Teaching and Learning wiki can do just that- inspire you- whilst making finding ideas just a little easier.

Have fun :)

Adding the wiki to your bookmarks bar 1: Well you've already done the first step by coming to the right page.

2: Just to the left of your address bar is a plus sign (top left corner of the screen). Click it. You'll get a small screen that looks like this.



3: Choose a name for the site. Tip! Pick something smallish so it doesn't take up you whole bookmarks bar. Eg. T&L wiki

4: Make sure the second box says Bookmarks Bar (like in image above). Click Add. <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 17px; line-height: 25px;">The name you have chosen for it will appear in space beneath your address bar. Just click this anytime and it will take you directly to the website.

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 21px; line-height: 31px;">How to add to the wiki

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 16px; line-height: 31px;">Anyone can add to the wiki, you do not need to be a member. <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 16px; line-height: 31px;">Any page can be edited, except the home page.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 16px; line-height: 31px;">Simple steps for typing in an idea.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%; line-height: 31px;">Pick the page you want to add to.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%; line-height: 31px;">Click Edit, in the top right corner.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%; line-height: 31px;">Go to the bottom on the list and put the cursor there.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%; line-height: 31px;">Type.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 16px; line-height: 31px;">Click Save.

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">When you add a file to the wiki, people can click on the link and download it onto their computer. One thing you need to consider when doing this is the file type. There are various file types: some that work on **Macs**, some for **Windows**, and some on **both**.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">If you want to add a file link to the page follow the instructions below

Mac: files made in Pages, Numbers and Keynote, will only open in those programs. This means if you put this on the wiki, it will only work for people with Macs. *This is fine for most of us here as we all have Macs!

For work made in Pages you need to make it into a PDF file. <span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;"> 1. File, Export <span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;"> 2. Click on PDF format, click Next. <span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;"> 3. Choose where you want it to save, then click Export.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 16px;">To make the file something that can be opened by anyone, you can **Export** it, which saves it as a different type of file.

1. Follow the same process as making a Pages file into a PDF.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">For work made in Keynote, you need to export it as either a PDF file or Quicktime video.

<span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;">1. To upload a file, click on the button that says **File** (in middle of edit bar) <span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;">2. A window will pop up, click **+Upload File**, choose your file or video, from your computer, and wait for it to appear. <span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;">3. Click on the file or video. It should appear on your page. <span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;">4. Click **Save** on edit bar to see what your page will now look like.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 16px; line-height: 23px;">To upload to the wiki.

<span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;"> *You can also add **images**, though remember this is posted on the web and copyright laws do exist. <span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;"> Try the Creative Commons in Flickr or use your own images and photos to avoid this problem completely.