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| Welcome to Australian Wildlife Educational Site  This community site has been set up for everyone to enjoy and I envisage a large collection of educational resources being created for all ages to share about Australian wildlife. This could be photographs, websites, blogs, eBooks, galleries, RSS Feeds, exhibitions, books, discussions, magazines, news articles, videos, documentaries, nature journals etc. The possibilities are endless and this site belongs to all of us where you are free to add, edit and create to your heart's content as long as it is quality material with accurate content. I have created albums for all of our photos such as Birds, Animals, Insects, Wild Plants, Reptiles etc where you can also view slideshows of the photos [please only upload your best photos which should be nice and sharp with details added] Please watermark your photos if you are worried about copyright issues - better to be safe than sorry! I need your help to be able to make this community site pop with inspirational info and resources that you are willing to share and I am looking forward to seeing your contributions and ideas for this site. Before you do anything on this site, I urge you to read this whole page and if you are planning on adding a photo or info, pay particular attention to "Now that I've Joined, What do I do? and Aims and Objectives for this site and how you can start helping now!This will make sure that you are familiar with the site, photo size restrictions and where to place your information in the relevant sub-categories.     Lesley Why should I join Australian Wildlife Educational Site? If you:
 Now that I've joined, what can I do?
Aims and Objectives for this site and how you can start helping now! Basically, the site should provide pictures and factual information about as many Australian creatures and wild plants that we can come up with using our collective knowledge and resources. If you wish to "borrow" info or a picture you see somewhere on the Internet, please make sure that you have permission and that you include the person's name and relevant sources. This also goes for any books you have obtained information from as we need to be very careful about this and not step on anybody's toes! There is an extensive menu on the left hand site of this site containing Identification Guides of various categories and sub-categories so if you want to add information about e.g. a bird you have seen, look for the appropriate sub-category such as Birds/Parrots and when you click on this it will bring up a template for you to add your picture and information notes. It is important that we all use this template for a pleasant uniformity of information on the site. If someone else has already included the creature or wild plant you were going to add, decide if you think another photo and more information would be advantageous. It's all about sharing and it's perfectly ok for members to tweak other members' additions. If you are not sure why don't you visit the member who has supplied the information and seek clarification? To check what content has recently been added, simply click on the updates tab. Example of "Ladybird" Identification using template which has been adapted  Not sure which category, can't identify your finding or you need to ask a question? Start up a thread or discussion (bottom of each page) and members will help you with your query. This goes for any other issues or newsworthy articles you wish you engage members in discussion or opinions about. See "To Feed the Birds or not to Feed the Birds" discussion as an example. How to use the tools on this site to create your information You click on the EasyEdit button (picture below) to start editing the template and replacing the picture and text with your own!  After you click on EasyEdit button you will see another tool appear which is the EasyEdit Toolbar (picture below). This is a mini word processor and allows you to type with formatting and other options such as adding a video, photo, hyperlinks, widget etc Make sure to add tags for your entry so that members can find it easily.  Please let me know if you need any help. P.S What do you think of our banner - kind of cute? Lesley | |
