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 * Sprucing Up Classroom Wikispaces **
 * Settings and Templates of your classroom wikispace
 * Embeddable widgets that are available through Wikispaces.
 * Wikispace supported widgets from external sites.
 * Other widgets designed and created on external sites that are embeddable in Wikispaces.

Settings and Templates
If you are the wiki organizer, you may change your wiki's [|settings], [|look and feel], [|permissions], or [|members].

Official Wikispace Widgets
Wikispaces has designed special widgets that allow you to place dynamic content about your Wikispace on your page. This content includes most frequent editors, the discussion threads for a particular page, the page history, and your space's tag cloud.
 * 1) Click "Edit This Page."
 * 2) Go to the embed widget button onthe toolbar that looks like a television[[image:help:help.embed.gif]].

Wikispace Supported Widgets
We provide you with a way to embed videos, audio, calendars, and any other embeddable web service on to your page.
 * How do I place videos, calendars, or other media on my wiki?**
 * 1) Click "Edit This Page."
 * 2) Go to the embed widget button on the toolbar that looks like a television [[image:help:help.embed.gif caption="help.embed.gif"]].
 * 3) Choose the type of media you would like to embed, such as YouTube or Google Calendar
 * 4) For each application, there will be instructions for copying the HTML from that application's site and pasting it in the widget tool's box.
 * 5) Once you have embedded the widget to your page, "Save" your page.

External Widgets
The widgets below originate on the web 2.0 site described, but can be embedded into Wikispaces. Follow the steps below to add these widgets to your wiki.
 * 1) Create your widget at one of the sites below (or any other site with embed code).
 * 2) Find the EMBED code from the site and copy it onto your clipboard.
 * 3) Go to your wikispace and click the TV icon.
 * 4) Select "Other HTML"
 * 5) Copy the HTML code from your clipboard.
 * 6) Click Save to save the widget.
 * 7) Click Save to save the page.

Text / Logo Generators
The sites below can all be used to create cool and exciting text or logos for your portfolio or website.
 * [|Metaatem.net/words] - Spell with Flickr[[image:cooltext.png width="404" height="62" align="right"]]
 * [|Supalogo]
 * [|Flamingtext.com]
 * [|Cooltext.com]
 * [|Glowtxt.com]
 * [|Sparklee.com]
 * [|Mytextgraphics.com]
 * [|wordle.net]

Image Creators [[image:lisetteboticelli.png width="132" height="176" align="right"]]
The sites listed below are all sites in which you can make and/or modify images.
 * [|Imagechef.com]
 * [|LoonaPix.com]
 * [|Befunky.com]
 * [|Dumpr.net]
 * [|Bighugelabs.com]
 * [|Makesweet.com]
 * [|Speechable.com]- add speech bubbles to photos
 * Face of the Future

Animated Slide Shows
Use the tools below to create slide shows online that you can embed into your project's website.
 * [|Slide.com] - Upload your photos, choose a frame, theme, transitions, add music and voila! An interesting slideshow for your images.
 * [|Bubbleshare.com] - Similar to [|slide.com], upload photos and choose frames and transitions to create a slide show online.
 * [|Animoto.com] - Upload your photos, choose or upload music, add text, and an MTV-like video is created for you complete with cool transitions and editing.
 * [|Voicethread.com] - Upload your photos, documents, presentations, videos, etc and leave audio or text comments. A very collaborative and interactive way to produce a slide show.

Talking Avatars
Use the tools below to create online persona that do the talking for you.
 * [|Voki.com] - Create and customize your avatar, record your own voice or type in the text you'd like it to read in a variety of different accents and languages.
 * [|Gizmoz.com] - Express yourself with a lifelike 3D talking head, created from YOUR picture!
 * [|Blabberize.com] - Add your voice, songs, sound bites, to photos with a mouth that you virtually "cut out".
 * [|Storyblender.com] -

Digital Scrapbooks
Use the tools below to create scrapbooks online that come complete with many templates, graphics, and doodads.


 * [|Mixbook.com]- create a scrapbook online with photos, text, backgrounds, templates and stickers - collaborative space
 * [|Scrapblog.com]- create a scrapbook online with photos, text, backgrounds, templates and stickers
 * [|Glogster.com/edu]- create interactive posters with video, audio, images and more.
 * [|Smilebox.com] - make slideshows, scrapbooks, photo albums and more all on this one site.
 * Add your voice to photos of your family and friends, politicians, celebrities, animals... whatever! Just choose a mouth, record your voice, and you're done!

Interactive Timelines
Use the tools below to create interactive timelines online complete with text, images, video and audio.


 * [|Dipity.com] - the "favorite" time line tool right now - easy to create and embed.
 * [|xTimeline.com]
 * [|Timetoast.com]
 * [|Ourstory.com]

Comic Creators
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 * [|Comiqs.com]- VERY similar to Comic Life
 * [|Pixton.com]
 * [|Toondoo.com]
 * [|Pikistrips.com]
 * [|Goanimate.com] - animated
 * [|Xtranormal.com] - animated - text to movie

How to Add Elements to your Wikispace
Follow the instructions below to learn how to embed the items you created with the websites listed above into your Weebly website. Thanks to Dianne Krause
 * 1) Follow the instructions on each site to create the thing you want to embed - avatar, slideshow, timeline, scrapbook, etc.
 * 2) When you are finished, look for a link or an area of the website with "embed this" or "share this". The goal is to find the HTML "embed code" for the thing you just created.
 * 3) Once you find the HTML code, highlight it all and copy it.
 * 4) Go to your wikispace.
 * 5) Go to the page where you want to put the element you just created.
 * 6) Find the place on the site where you add widgets or HTML code. (TV icon)
 * 7) Choose the type of widget you are inserting.
 * 8) Paste in the HTML that you copied from the website where you created the thing you are embedding.
 * 9) Save your page.