Tuesday, September 30, 2008
Wikispaces aiming for 250,000 educational wikis
Wikispaces has been aiming for the past two and a half years to achieve their goal of 100,000 educational wikis and they have done it.
And now they have set themselves a new goal of 250,000 educational wikis.
Here is a message that I left on the blog post announcement. Basically as a wikispace user for the past two and a half years, I am very happy with the service and will continue to use wikispaces as my wiki of preference.
We love wikispaces here at Wedderburn College and I can't believe that it was back in June 2006 when I set up my first wiki with wikispaces http://teaching-with-technology.wikispaces.com/ Since then we have used them for portals for classwork http://wedderburnp12.wikispaces.com/classwiki, as digital portfolios for individual students ( all set to private thanks to the generous 100,000 wikis for education initiative, http://rose0001.wikispaces.com/ and as an online repository for sharing and collaborating on a particular topic. http://discoveregypt.wikispaces.com/ http://cleversearching.wikispaces.com/ http://the-games08.wikispaces.com/ I have used a number of other wikis when collaborating with other schools who have chosen to use something different, but wikispaces are by far the easiest, most flexible and best looking IMHO. By the way I love the new skin on the manage page. It looks great. Good luck with the next 250,000.
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I'm yet to try out wikis. Is it something I would do as a teacher, or could I use it somehow with my 6 and 7 year olds?
Sure could use it with young kids. We have used it with this age as firstly a repository for sites that they regularly go to. Saves them having to type in unwieldy URLs. But wikis are so easy to edit and set up that I don't think it would be too difficult to work with younger students with them editing. Check out Jen Wagner's ning to see some more ideas and opportunities for younger students. http://projectsbyjen.ning.com/
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