1. Hatice Çilsalar-EDS536 Tech Demo- Wikibooks
Wikibooks Exploration Steps:
1) Click on thewebsite: http://www.wikibooks.org/
2) Click on English icon.
3) Click on create an account
4) Therearesomecriteriaforselecting of username;
Usernames should not be promotional, misleading, or offensive
Promotional usernames:
o containing existing company, organization, group, or website names
(including non-profit organizations)
o containing domain names or email addresses
Misleading usernames:
o close to names of celebrities, notable world figures or events, or known
Wikipedians
o containing words like "bot" or "script" which refer to automated editing
processes
o containing titles like "admin" or "sysop", which imply authority on
Wikipedia
Offensive usernames
For technical reasons, a username cannot include the #, / and symbols. Any underscores will
be converted to spaces. The first letter of a username is automatically capitalized.
5) Write the words that appear in the box, to help protect against automated account creation,
without any spaces.
6) Chose and write your username, password and rewrite password, you can write an e-mail
address (You do not have to provide an e-mail address, but if you forget your password,
you will not be able to regain access to your account without one). You can change your
username after creation it.
7) Click on create account icon.
8) In order to confirm your e-mail address on this website, you should click the link that has
been sent to your mail address.
9) And now you can explore wikibooks exactly.
10) You can edit a book already written by only clicking to the edit button. After the editing
you should complete the edit summary part in which you summarize the change, even if
only briefly; even a short summary is better than no summary and give reasons for the
change, if there is a reasonable chance that other editors may be unclear as to why it was
made. It displays in lists of changes.
11) For creation a book:
You should create a page before starting your book.(I create EDS536 book for
you).
Link:http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Using_Wikibooks/Starting_A_New_Wikibo
ok you can reach this page from main page and then go to “using wikibooks”
icon. Than go “Starting A New Wikibook”under category of “The
Wikibooks Writer”
Click on the create a page ıcon: Help:Pages#Creating
Write the name of book
And start to create your book.

2. Hatice Çilsalar-EDS536 Tech Demo- Wikibooks
12) Let’s start editing a book (Work on Research and technology in teacher education book
http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Research_and_Practice_on_Technology_in_Teacher_Educat
ion)
==…….== Use this for creating main sections
===…..=== Use this for creating sub sections
You can enter a descrition part of the book which welcomes readers and editors
(This wikibook is created as a class project in EDS-536 Research and Practice
on Technology in Teacher Education Course.)
{{stage|0%|March 05, 2013}}: This gives information to wikibooks about the
completion level of the book. This means only 0% of this book completed.
{{Todo|<…….>}}Via this you can add to do list the books first page
[[Subject: Education]]: You can add the category of this book
[[Media:]][[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ARwOs2RLLdE&noredirect=1
]] you can add videos, pictures, news from a website. It is seen in the book like
this= [[1]]