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How To: Get Started First, a few concepts: For our purposes, saying ‘wiki’ is often like saying ‘school’. Specifically, a ‘wikispace’ is like saying ‘class’ – that is, each teacher or student might likely have more than one ‘wikispace’ but everyone only has one ‘wiki’-account. So the first thing to do is create a wiki-account, which will get you into school. Even after you (or your students) have your wiki account created, you will still have to find your class’s wikispace and join that specific one, too. These tours are also very helpful – short videos from wikispaces about what is what.  1. ** Set up your wiki account ** for yourself. Go to this page, which is set up for K-12 educators: [].  2. ** Create a new wikispace **. Name it something that makes sense to you, but is not too long, as it will become the url address for your site. This wikispace is called “ycdswikiteach’. It’s best not to use spaces.  3. ** If you already have an account **, you can upgrade your current wiki to a K-12 Plus plan under Manage Wiki and the upgrade link in the top section. You should end up looking at the homepage of your new wikispace home page. Next steps are to customize your wikispace, add your students, and then start adding content and navigation.  4. To **customize your space**, click on Manage Wiki in the navigation bar on the left. You will see lots of control pages here. Start with Look and Feel, which you can explore to change the colors and style settings.  5. To **add students**, … [can anyone finish this tutorial from here?] Next, you need to start adding content.  6. To **make a new page**… [who can fill this part in?]  7. To **customize your navigation**… [who can fill this part in?]