3 very useful Wiki Tips

I want to share with you 3 very useful Wiki tips to help your online learning experience at MySLife Wiki.

TIP 1) Examples Examples Examples– Share your work!

Reading, Watching and Downloading the code of someone else's work is a great way for collaborative learning!

All MySLife syllabus topic pages have a discussion tab (on the top menu) that has examples of other SLB participant's work.

• Animated Illustrations Topic examples
• Text Topic examples
• Graphics Topic examples

Visit these pages, download the code! Play and modify the work to learn how to make your own. Don't forget to add a copy of your work there too!

It's all about sharing!

TIP 2) Watch your pages for changes

Wiki has a useful tool to let you know when someone changed a Wiki page (wrote a comment, added an image…).

Use the watch tool to get an instant alert right to your mailbox when your pages are changed.

Here is how to watch a page:

1. login to the Wiki
2. Go to the page you want to watch (for example: Group Discussion Page)
3. Click "watch" on the top menu

Pages I recommend watching:

1. Main Page
2. Group Discussion Page
3. Itay's Talk page – where everyone asks me questions and gets answers : )
4. Your own Page
5. Your own project page

TIP 3) File Gallery

Looking for someone's work and can't find it? Uploaded a file but forgot its name? The File Gallery is the place for you!

The Wiki File Gallery has a list of ALL the files uploaded to the Wiki – Images, Flash Movies (.SWF), Flash Code (.FLA) and more.

The Wiki File Gallery is on the left navigation menu on the Wiki.

Let me know if you have any questions about the Wiki or MySLife Tutorials, I am here to help!

See you online!

Energy Solutions

Thinking about my Animated Illustration project related to Global Climate Change made me search the Internet and look for unique and interesting energy solutions. Here are three solutions I liked:

The most interesting one I found was “Wave Energy” – Turning ocean waves into energy sounds amazing.

Here is a clip about Wave energy:

Read more about wave energy at: www.alternative-energy-news.info

Another environment friendly energy solution I read about is “Garbage Gas” – Methane generated by rotting rubbish in landfill dumps could make a far greater contribution to the world's energy supply.

Here is how it works: (we can use Flash to animate it)

You can read more about at: www.newscientist.com

A another technology I read about is "Concentrated Solar Power - Power Tower" - Power Tower systems work by having a field of heilostats reflect solar radiation onto a central receiving tower. The heliostats are two-axles tracking mirrors that follow the sun over the course of the day, concentrating the solar radiation onto the tower.

Here is how it work: (we should animate this as well)

You can read more about at www.abengosolar.es

If you know of other interesting energy solutions, please share with everyone!