How+to

Unable to Access Skype at Your School?
Following great efforts in 2010 with no success I have finally found a way for Skype to work through School Zone. This might help you if you are also having trouble!
 * ====**1**==== || ====Go to www.skype.com==== ||
 * ====**2**==== || ====Download Skype to your computer==== ||
 * ====**3**==== || ====Click on Tools on the top banner==== ||
 * ====**4**==== || ====Click Connection Options==== ||
 * ====**5**==== || ====Tick Enable==== ||
 * ====**6**==== || ====Enter the username and password that you would ordinarily enter when getting onto the net.==== ||
 * ====**7**==== || ====Change Port to 80==== ||
 * ====**8**==== || ====Click Save==== ||
 * ====**9**==== || ====Shut down and restart your computer, then and restart Skype.==== ||

Free Educator Voicethread accounts
Get yourself a basic free account first and then follow these instructions to increase the number you have available to you.


 * **You need to go to where // your username // is and click the down arrow beside it.** **Go to //My Account// ** || **Beside account type you will have 'Free'. click on** //**View Upgrade Option.**// ||
 * **Click on //K-12// ** || **Click on** //** Single K-12 Educator **// ||
 * **Click on //Apply// underneath VT Educator** || ** Complete the form (don't stress about too much detail - it's just for their records) ** ||

 Skype
These screenshots of the trouble shooting comments from Skype may help you to check out your audio settings to ensure they give you good sound quality.



 Wikis in Plain English
Lee Lefever has developed a series of short videos that are available on Youtube that explain a lot of the Web 2.0 tools in plain english. This one will show you all why wikis are going to be really useful for you as teachers to help your students grow their learning collaboratively.

 Changing text
If you want to use a backgroud colour, do the same as above but use the box beneath labelled 'background colour'. Font size and fonts can also be changed using this tool
 * write your material
 * Go to the T with colours around it
 * Click in the 'colour' box
 * choose a colour set that you like either through the boxes of colour or by clicking on the area of the outside ring that suits
 * move the little circle (in the box of colour) to a spot on the pallette that suits (watch the preview - sample text at the bottom)
 * click 'apply style' when you are satisfied.

===**<span style="font-size: 1.1em; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 5px;">Loading a video onto a Wiki ** === **Instructions.** Go to the website and find the video Somewhere on the page is a couple of codes - you want the EMBED code (bottom right in this image)

Copy this. (Ctrl C) Return to this wiki Click on Edit Click on Widget (TV screen) in the tool bar

Find 'videos' (top) Click there - find the label for the website you went to (e.g. You Tube) but if it isn't there, use 'other'

Paste the embed code you copied earlier into the box

Click save.

N.B. For slideshows you need to firstly UPLOAD the presentation into something like Bubbleshare or Slideshare first and get it converted to a web-friendly wijit. That will create an HTML code for you to copy onto your wiki page