We love you too
August 15th, 2007 by Adam
Some of the latest comments from our quotes page:
“One thousand thank-yous. Wikispaces is an absolutely fantastic educational resource for schools. Best I have seen.”
- Huw Derwentsmith
“Thank you! This is the best on-line service I have EVER received!”
- Francine Vollman
“Your Wikispaces site is great. My class has created information pages, choose-your-own-adventure stories, sports pages, book reviews and many more pages. They find the format easy to use and I am impressed by the security feature available where I can see who has edited each page.”
- Toby Peck
“We have been very pleased with the capacity of Wikispaces and I’ve been bragging about your services to all my colleagues.”
- Chris Conley
“You guys are my new favorite technology company. I can’t wait to see what you do next.”
- Steve Anderson
“Thank you for offering such a great product. I was very impressed with the simplicity, the features, and the usability of this wiki and would like to continue using it for this and other projects.”
- Karen Eckberg
“Thanks! The site is WONDERFUL - I’ve never seen these kids work so hard on something before.”
- Jody Raabe
“Wikispaces is a real benefit to our students and has increased their engagement in their learning, and I just wanted to say thanks!”
- Kristian Still
“I presented at the Delaware Instructional Technology Conference on using wikis in the classroom. I used Wikispaces as my recommended hosting site and for my workshop modeling. You have a great service. I spoke a lot about how I choose hosting sites based on the support they provide, and yours has been nothing but excellent.”
- Abby Shubert
“Thanks so much! You guys are wonderful. We are having great success with the classroom wikis here at New Paltz High. Your Wikispaces are terrific.”
- Joanna Arkans
Just wanted to add my voice to the accolades. I just delivered 7 presentations to a national group of educators, one of which was on creating wikis. More importantly, I modeled wiki-ing by using Wikispaces for all my presentation materials. Every time I ran out of handouts (which was every presentations, since they were standing room only) I told people to download them from the wiki. I must’ve used the word “wiki” 1000 times.
Not only was the wiki a lifesaver for posting handouts, videos and mp3 files, it was infinitely updatable. When reviewing my material the night before a presentation I was able to quickly add links and modify material. In fact, it was so easy to use that I realized that I didn’t create one PowerPoint presentation - it was “all the way with wikis.”
Thanks so much Debbie, that’s great to hear.
I’m a doctorate student doing something on ESL classroom and feedback in writing. I’m using wikispaces for my students to post their reports and receive feedback. So far I find the tool extremely helpful in doing this because readers (teachers, peers & others) can easily give feedback by directly editing, etc. To enhance the possibility of wikispaces as a feedback tool, my suggestions would be one, to include other Word document features like colour, highlighting, comments to the edit functions, and secondly allow for images to be inserted in-text (without having to learn code), because my students are writing engineering reports so they need to have diagrams, etc. Other than these minor features that can enhance wikispaces, I think it is a wonderful, stable (I’ve tried a number of other free wikis), user-friendly tool that has so far helped me in my study. Thanks you.
Thanks so much for the feedback. That’s great to hear.
We do have image inserting without code:
http://www.wikispaces.com/help#tochelp30
The other feature, colors, highlighting, etc. is one we get asked for often so it’s pretty high on out todo list.