Posted in Wikispaces on December 22nd, 2008 23 Comments »
We just launched our redesign of Wikispaces, bringing you a new Wikispaces home page and a consistent, attractive look across the site! After all the hard work designing and developing, we’re very excited to release the new version of Wikispaces to you.
Our New Look
As soon as you head to http://www.wikispaces.com, you’ll notice the difference. [...]
Posted in Features, Wikispaces on December 18th, 2008 17 Comments »
With our latest release, we give you more flexibility with how discussions appear on your wiki. You can now:
Have a discussion for each page
Set up one main discussion for your entire wiki
Turn off discussions for your wiki
To change your discussion page settings, go to “Manage Wiki,” and then “Wiki Info.”
All your content is saved [...]
Posted in Education, Events, Wikispaces on December 17th, 2008 9 Comments »
Join us today at 5pm PST for our December Education Webinar. We will run through how to set up an educational wiki, personalize it, and get started in your classroom. We’ll also have an open chat and the opportunity for you to ask questions or share tips with us or other educators.
If you [...]
For the past 3 years, Wikispaces has offered a service to educators where we would create all the accounts for their students in bulk. We are excited to announce that we have made this process even easier.
Now, for any of our K-12 wikis, you can create accounts for your students without having to send [...]
Posted in Education, Events, Wikispaces on December 12th, 2008 2 Comments »
On December 17, we are going to gather for our last education webinar of the year. We will show you how to get started with your educational wiki, personalize your wiki, and answer any questions that you may have about setting up a wiki in your classroom.
Join us at 5pm PST in our Elluminate [...]
Shelley Paul’s journey with wikis began two years ago, after reading a book about implementing different Web 2.0 tools in the classroom. She researched various open-source wiki platforms, but decided they presented too much of a learning curve for most of her teachers. Knowing that she had many more wikis in her future, she began [...]
Posted in Features, Wikispaces on December 10th, 2008 Comments Off
For all those Mac users out there, we now offer Visual Editor support for Safari 3. So if your school’s computer lab is full of Macs, or you just love the speed of Safari, you can now enjoy the ease of Wikispaces with it.
This new release also brings support for other WebKit-based browsers, such [...]
Posted in Features, Wikispaces on December 9th, 2008 11 Comments »
People around the world use and love Wikispaces, and we are making it even easier for non-English speakers to take advantage of Wikispaces. We are translating the Wikispaces interface into a variety of languages, and we have just released our first set of translations.
We are excited to let you all know that, with the [...]
It’s that time of year again. The Edublog Awards are back – the annual event supported by Edublogs Campus where you decide the best educational blogs, wikis, and Web 2.0 resources.
There are nominations in a variety of categories, from Best Educational Wiki to Best Teacher Blog. Be sure to take a look [...]
Posted in Community, Company, Features, Wikispaces on December 4th, 2008 Comments Off
Wikispaces Private Label is designed to be a wiki site for your organization, fully branded and customized to meet your particular needs. Our new “Content Editor” feature allows you to change much of the default text that we use across Wikispaces to make the experience of using your wikis even better.
Customizing your content is [...]