Help:Contents
From New Teacher Handbook
Wikis enable people to contribute and refine content on the web quickly and easily, right from their web browser (FireFox, Netscape, Internet Explorer), flattening the technology learning-curve that often impedes people who have high-quality contributions to make to the content.
Each wiki typically revolves around an idea or topic, focused generally or narrowly, and can be highly or loosely structured by the person who starts it, but will evolve in content, focus and structure based on the contributions made to it by others.
Editing Help
Editing a wiki article is very easy -- but the formatting requires some attention to detail. See: Editing Help
This wiki is powered by MediaWiki, version 1.6.10, if you use Google search to find help.
- Cheatsheet PDF
Browsers
The prefered browser to use to edit this wiki:
- Firefox - http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/
If you use Apple's Safari 2.x, you will not get the helpful tools above the editing area.
Joining This Wiki
Anyone wishing to edit this wiki must first create an account, and then be approved by the district mentors who are managing the content of the New Teacher Handbook wiki or the wiki administrator. Please contact any of them to request permission to partipate.
- Steve Stanley, sstanley@mansd.org
- Cindy Stacy-Sevigny, cstacysevigny@mansd.org
- Margo Burns, mburns@mansd.org
Some Rules of Conduct
- Respect the freedom you have been given
- Edit pages to emphasize the flow of ideas, not the order in which they were contributed.
- Be concise and stay on topic for the page.
- Use language you'd be comfortable reading out loud and keep it simple.
- Edit only when you think a page is being improved.
- Delete only if doing so adds value.
- Remember, if you want a nice page, make one.
- Don't say things that are likely to make others mad and don’t avoid saying things to be “politically correct”.
- Above all, be open, and play nice.
