Presentation+4+Widgets

=**Adding Widgets to your Wiki**=

What is a widget? Great question! Before this tutorial, I did not know the answer myself! Now that I am wiser, I can answer the question. Widget are software applications that can be placed on your computer (or wiki) that make you happy to have. There are many widgets, so the possibilities are literally endless!

How do we add these happy things to our wikis?


 * click on the "edit" tab




 * click on the "widget" tab


 * choose the widget you desire


 * follow the instructions


 * Congratulations! You have now added your "happy things" to your wiki!**

Examples of Widgets;


 * Science Magazine News Feeds**

rss url="http://www.sciencemag.org/rss/current.xml" link="true" number="10" date="true" author="true" enclosure="true"

media type="googlemap" key="http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&geocode=&q=hawaii&sll=37.0625,-95.677068&sspn=30.185946,79.013672&ie=UTF8&hq=&hnear=Hawaii&z=6&ll=19.898682,-155.665857&output=embed" width="425" height="350"
 * Google Map of Hawaii**

media type="custom" key="7602415"
 * Lincoln's Gettysburg Speech**