Robin Phares and Kathy Korty, of the Edgewood City Schools, were introduced to Wikispaces in a class on technology in the classroom. After recognizing the potential of using wikis in the classroom, they set up a training session for every teacher in their district, and began using wikis to facilitate communication between students, parents, and […]

NECC 2008, the 29th Annual National Educational Computing Conference, is coming up on June 29-July 2 in San Antonio.
Vicki Davis, of the Flat Classroom Wiki Project, and Adam Frey of Wikispaces will be presenting on how wikis can be used in education. The talk will be geared to all levels, starting out with wiki […]

On May 13th, Wikispaces will speak at a NetSquared event in San Francisco on how non-profits and educators can use wikis. Rushton Hurley of Next Vista for Learning, and Greg Wolff of the UnaMesa Association will also speak on their experience with wikis in their organizations.
If you are new to wikis, and are unsure […]

Many of you have asked us for materials you could use to help introduce fellow teachers to Wikispaces. We have just added some to our teacher’s help page that we hope you find useful.
There’s a customizable presentation for those times when you need to talk in front of your colleagues and would love an […]

Michele Haiken’s class, an elective for 7th and 8th graders on the history of rock and roll music, first began using Wikispaces after being introduced to it from a school computer coordinator. For their first project, they created a Webquest about the 1980’s rock and roll scene. “Students were required to research about music […]

The Centre for Learning and Performance Technologies conducted a survey of the top digital learning tools. They have published their results here.
Check out this list, along with each tool’s review, if you are looking for ways to expand your digital classroom. Also, don’t miss Wikispaces, which was voted the top wiki.

If you were listening to NPR’s Morning Edition this morning (Thursday, 29 November), you might have heard a mention of Wikispaces float over the airwaves. The topic was the growth of online learning in higher education, a revolution we see from a front-row seat every day.
We talk a lot about the tremendous uptake of […]

Suryaveer Singh, a geography teacher in Delhi, India learned about wikis from Shiksha India, an NGO which promotes technology for the improvement of education. In July 2007, Suryaveer joined Wikispaces and begin a classroom wiki for his 15-16 year-old students. “Most of my students do not have Internet connection at home or are […]

Students at Taunton’s College in Southampton, UK are using Wikispaces as a managerial and communications platform for their new charity, the Panini Project. These students, ages 16-19, are collecting football (or soccer) jerseys from the English Premiership teams to send to Tanzania football teams. They started the wiki a few weeks ago and […]

In our recent mailing, we asked to hear from you – how you ended up using Wikispaces, and what motivated you to stick around and keep using it. And hear we did. In several future blog posts, we will be highlighting some of the responses we received, showing you the diverse ways that […]