Tips for educators engaging in a Project in Physiopedia
If you are an educator that is about to set about supporting a Project in Physiopedia here is my advice for making it all a bit easier for yourself. My main recommendation for anyone supporting a student project in Physiopedia is to become familiar yourself with making edits to pages. The best way to do this is by editing your own Profile page in Physiopedia to include links and images. If you need help with any of this you can refer to the User Tutorials.
It is also worth becoming familiar with creating new pages, adding them as links to your Project page and adding a Templates to those new pages for the students to work from.
- For creating new pages – See creating pages tutorial
- If you would like to use a Template for your project just let me know and I will set one up for you. For adding Templates – see adding Templates tutorial.
- For making the links on your Project page – see making links tutorial
It is also useful for you to know how to add references and videos so that you can help students with these. You can practice any of this in the Sandbox.
After editing your Profile page it is a good idea for you to create an Article in Physiopedia which you can direct your students to as a standard that you would like to see. See the articles from the Texas State Project as an example of some great Articles, they even created their own images and videos!
Then before your students get to work on creating the Articles that you tasked them with it is beneficial to have a familiarisation session in a computer lab. Use this session to go through editing their Profile pages and getting familiar with editing pages, just as you have done following the advice above. These sessions have been proven to be very beneficial in several previous projects and is always something that the students ask for in their feedback.
If you and your students become familiar with editing Physiopedia in this way at the start of your Project the whole experience will become a much greater experience instead of a technological challenge!
Adding Links to Images
Although all images in Physiopedia are linked to a specific page containing information about that image, such as file name, size and most importantly a reference for the image, sometimes we might wish to add an external link to that image. Now, it is quite a complex piece of code so if you are not familiar with editing the wikitext I wouldn’t recommend that you attempt this, however if you feel confident editing the wikitext here’s how you do it:
- Go to the page that you wish to add the image to
- Click Edit
- Click wikitext
- Add the following code where you want to place the image
<imagemap> Image:Physiopedia.jpg|200px| rect 0 0 206 134 [http://www.physio-pedia.com] desc none </imagemap>
- Replace Physiopedia.jpg with the name of your image
Replace 200px with the size that you want the image to be
Replace rect 0 0 206 134 with the size of your image (this information can be found on your image’s upload page in Physiopedia – see example)
Replace www.physio-pedia.com with the URL that you want to point the image at - Click Save
You should now have your image inserted in the page with a link to the URL that you want it to point at!
Get updates for changes to particular pages in Physiopedia.
- Login to Physiopedia
- Go to the page that you are particularly interested in
- Click on the History tab at the top of the page
- Then click on Toolbox
- Then click on Atom
- This will give you the feed for that particular page. Copy the URL (web address) and add it to your feed reader to receive updates for any changes made to this page or use this URL to add the feed to your website.
Now you will see all updates for that particular page in your feed reader or on your website as they occur.
Adding Prezi Presentation
Do you have a Prezi presentation to share? Now you can share it on Physiopedia, this is how….
Identify the Prezi ID for your project
- The first step is to identify the Prezi ID of the Prezi you want to use.
- Here’s an example of finding the Prezi id. If you go to http://prezi.com/oxpoxpljocjb/innovative-technology-in-clinical-education/ you’ll see the Prezi, “Innovative technology in clinical education”. Copy the html “embed code” provided below the Prezi, and paste it somewhere where you can review it. It should look like something like this:
<div><!– .prezi-player { width: 550px; } .prezi-player-links { text-align: center; } –><object id=”prezi_oxpoxpljocjb” classid=”clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000″ width=”550″ height=”400″ codebase=”http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0″><param name=”name” value=”prezi_oxpoxpljocjb” /><param name=”allowfullscreen” value=”true” /><param name=”allowscriptaccess” value=”always” /><param name=”bgcolor” value=”#ffffff” /><param name=”flashvars” value=”prezi_id=oxpoxpljocjb&lock_to_path=0&color=ffffff&autoplay=no&autohide_ctrls=0” /><param name=”src” value=”http://prezi.com/bin/preziloader.swf” /><embed id=”prezi_oxpoxpljocjb” type=”application/x-shockwave-flash” width=”550″ height=”400″ src=”http://prezi.com/bin/preziloader.swf” flashvars=”prezi_id=oxpoxpljocjb&lock_to_path=0&color=ffffff&autoplay=no&autohide_ctrls=0″ bgcolor=”#ffffff” allowscriptaccess=”always” allowfullscreen=”true” name=”prezi_oxpoxpljocjb”></embed></object><div>
- In html code provided above, the Prezi ID is in bold. Highlight and copy the Prezi ID only. Do not copy all of the code provided. The Prezi ID is the only part of the code that you will be using.
Wiki Code for Embedding Prezi
- Once you have the Prezi ID, use the following code on the wiki:
<gflash>550 400 http://prezi.com/bin/preziloader.swf?prezi_id=oxpoxpljocjb&lock_to_path=0&color=ffffff&autoplay=no&autohide_ctrls=0</gflash>
Note: The numbers “550″ and “400″ refer to the width and height of the Prezi, respectively. You can adjust these if you feel you need to; just make sure that you check that the Prezi looks okay on the wiki page when you save it.
- For example, using the Prezi ID for “Innovative technology in clinical education,” the wiki code is:
<gflash>550 400 http://prezi.com/bin/preziloader.swf?prezi_id=oxpoxpljocjb&lock_to_path=0&color=ffffff&autoplay=no&autohide_ctrls=0</gflash>
- With this code, the Prezi appears on the wiki like this:
Copyright and Physiopedia
If you are wondering what information you can replicate in Physiopedia or are not sure what constitutes copyrighted materials these new guidelines from The Canadian Association of University Teachers will answer your questions. The new comprehensive guide to the use of copyrighted materials in schools assess the current state of fair dealing in Canada and provide assistance for those with questions on their copyright rights. It is a clear and focused guide that describes what you can do, rather than what you can’t.
- If there is any doubt whatsoever as to whether a text is copyright, always assume that it is.
- Never paste text from a copyright source directly into an article, even temporarily.
- Do not closely paraphrase a copyright text. Even if the source is credited, close paraphrasing is both copyright infringement (illegal) and plagiarism (unethical).
- Significant chunks of copyright material must not appear anywhere on Physiopedia. Any small extracts used for temporary drafting purposes should be clearly marked with quotation marks and have the source attributed.
One of the best ways to avoid copyright violations (and to write a better article) is to use several sources rather than relying on a single reference work or web site. It also helps to draft your article gradually rather than rushing to get it into Physiopedia. This approach will result in more interesting and coherent content. It also allows you the time to review your work carefully for potential copyright violations.
It might also help to avoid copyright violations if you use this approach to your writing:
- Read the article the you want to take information from and put into Physiopedia. Digest it. Internalize it. Make sure you understand the outline of the subject well enough to explain it verbally to another person without looking back at the article.
- Then make an outline of the facts only, no adjectives; no phrases; just the facts.
- Now attempt a draft of the topic, just using your outline, preferably after not having looked at the article for a little while.
- This will force you to write it in your own words — it’s just too easy to be tempted to copy the perfect phrases written in the articles that you are using.
For more specific information on copyrighted materials in relation to Physiopedia, take a look at our Copyrights document.
References
Wikipedia:WikiProject Composers/Copyright guidelines. Retrieved May 11th 2011 from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Composers/Copyright_guidelines.
