How Wiki TV Works

The goal of Wiki TV projectis to encourage students from all over the world to share their life experience in video programmes and comments to programmeson different countries' channels

A teacher can start/stop working at any time of the year and come back to the country's channel at any most beneficial time. A teacher has the right to delete or keep his/her previous years' programmes as an Archive.

The first thing a teacher should do after signing up is to register the students in a few steps - 
just go to User Creator.(students needn' t have e-mail addresses) or click on Invite people (students should have e-mail addresses).

The 1st column should be user names, the 2nd column - passwords
e.g: 
John_Smith 123456
Kate_Br banana
M_Ua spring
Sasha_1 project

John_Smith, Kate_Br, M_Ua, Sasha_1 are samples of user names, but 123456, banana, spring, project are samples of passwords.

Next, a teacher and students look at the home page or at the left hand side. They will see the menu of all the channels. 
They have to click on the link for their city's/country's channel.

What programmes should students add to their channels? 
It depends on why a teacher has chosen to involve students in Wiki TV project.
- Computer studies teachers can use the project to show their students' videos created at their lessons in order to demonstrate new technologies.
- Teachers of Foreign languages can create videos with their students based on the curriculum topics in order to improve their speaking and listening skills.
- Teachers of Science or History can have their students make programmes about scientific experiments, field trips, events of the past and present.
- A teacher of any subject can use Wiki TV as an optional teaching tool at all levels: at elementary, middle and high school.
Being creative, students can tell about their school, students, country, share some of their personal life. As a result of international collaboration students can enjoy different cultures and understand the world better.
Students are also invited to add ecological video programmes to **Challenge 20/20** . or YouthCaN or DID ecological channels

To begin with, add the first video programme to your channel, which is usually an Intoduction one, 
where teachers and students introduce themselves in any possible way.
The video should be uploaded to Youtube or some other storage place as unlisted.
After uploading the video as unlisted to YouTube for example, the next steps are the following:
1. Click on share
2. Click on embed
3. Copy the code
4. Go to your country's channel 
a) click on edit
b) click on widget
c) click on other HTML 
d) add the copied code
e) save the code
f) save the page of your channel



Space for forum comments is on each page of Wiki TV. 
To start adding comments, you have to click on the number next to Edit in the upper right hand corner.

Comments are not a must for every student. 
Teachers encourage students to post comments to video programmes on other countries' channels in a free way. 
They give students an opportunity to choose programmes and comments which are really interesting to them, 
trying to make students' communication natural.

If you have any problems, click here

Enjoy your time on Wiki TV.

Thank you for your participation,

Nataliya Byzova,
Wiki TV creator,
Kyiv, Ukraine

P.S. Here is Wikis in Plain English to help you start working as a team