February Roundup

Since it’s the last Monday of the month, we wanted to take a look at some of the cool Wikispaces-related things that people have been talking about this month. Here are some of the highlights from February:

Free Wikis for Higher Education
Yep, you read that right. Free wikis — ad-free, full-featured Wikispaces wikis — are now free for higher education, as well as K-12 education. We’ll have more to say about that in a bit. In the meantime, take a look at what everyone else is saying:

• Steve Hargadon: New Wikispaces Ad-free Program for Higher Education
• Free Technology for Teachers: Wikispaces Now Offers Free Wikis to Higher Ed
• NeverEndingSearch: Wikispaces goes to college, gets even better, and stays FREE!
• CogDogBlog: Yee Ha! Wikispaces Rolling our Free Ones for Higher Education
• The Whiteboard Blog: Wikispaces to extend free wikis to Higher Ed
• Hack Education: Wikispaces Extends Its Free Wikis for Educators from K-12 to Higher Ed
• Around the Corner-MGuhlin.org: The Best Free Wiki – Now MORE Available for Higher Ed and K-12 @wikispaces #edchat
• YourCampus360: “Have you gotten your Free Wiki for Higher Ed Users? Pretty cool: http://bit.ly/fytSYG #highered #wiki”
• awyatt: “Just requested a complimentary upgrade to course wiki from @wikispaces! Thanks! http://www.wikispaces.com/content/for/highered“
• Janine Lim: “so excited that #wikispaces is giving away plus wikis to higher education now too!! yay for a company investing in education!”

Web 2.0 in the Classroom
Every month, you guys are building more and better uses of technology in the classroom. These are just a few of the resources and projects you were talking about in February:

• Malden Observer, Malden, MA: Learning history in the 21st century
• Deb Langford: “web2 classroom tools – one of my favourite sites http://webtools4u2use.wikispaces.com/“
• Jamie Burdon: “A useful HOW TO site for Google Apps. Includes videos. http://googletools.barrow.wikispaces.net/ #spneps”
• Steven W. Anderson: “Did you know the Did You Know Videos from @mcleod and @karlfisch have a wiki? Yep. Good stuff: http://bit.ly/gQACsl #edtech”

Collaborative Projects
Wikis are all about collaboration. Here are a few of the open projects out there reaching out to the world community. Check them out, and get involved!

• Jim Noble: “http://internationalstudentsurvey.wikispaces.com/ Collaborative stats project. Please participate, please help us spread the word! Thanks”
• Amanda Helmkamp: “@karacornejo @gilmorekendra This is a wiki for teachers to have others comment on their student blogs http://bit.ly/W3csi“
• kditzler: “Registration for the Progressive Story Project is now open: http://writeyourstory.wikispaces.com/“

PETE&C
In the middle of February, we went to Hershey, PA to attend PETE&C. We had a blast. Fortunately for those of you who couldn’t make it, many of the presenters and attendees wanted to share:

• Kathy Fiedler: “http://tech4di.wikispaces.com/ is a new resource for me. Thank you! #PETEC2011 #LL07″
• Shighla Jackson: “My head is spinning. iLIfe is amazing. Taking notes as fast as possible. http://crsd.wikispaces.com/iLife #petec2011″
• Jimbo Lamb: “Find info on my #petec2011 presentation here: http://misterlamb.wikispaces.com/PETE&C+2011“
• Brandon Lutz: “If you missed 60 in 60 here is the wiki http://60in60.wikispaces.com/ , click on PETE&C 2.15.11 under upcoming presentations!”
• Dorothy Noll: “Patti just showed 101 Math & Science resources in under 1 minute: duncanpatti.wikispaces.com“
• J. Camille Dempsey: “Co-presenting, iPads, Inquiry, & PD at PETE&C at 11:30 AM today: http://artseducator20.wikispaces.com/PETE%26C+2011 #petec2011″
• Rich Kiker: “http://bit.ly/fMhJE5 Very useful wiki on iPads in education from @rboltz & @amyjshoemaker #petec2011 #1to1″
• Cheryl Capozzoli: “Getting Ready for My PETEC Pres. http://web20guru.wikispaces.com/PETE%26C+2011 http://fb.me/KJFHJUVV“
• khornberger: “Great copyright tool from yesterday’s CFF session http://copyrightconfusion.wikispaces.com/Reasoning #petec11″