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 [...]

Education Week’s Digital Directions published an article on wikis in its most recent issue. Congratulation to our users whose wikis were featured in the article — Michael Horton, Jennifer Dorman, William Bishop, and Vicki Davis.
The article illustrates how wikis are used to do things like promote 100% student participation in the classroom and collaborate [...]

My trip to NECC this year was even more inspirational than last year. I spoke with many many teachers who are doing great things with Wikispaces in their classrooms. Every conversation only made me more determined to keep working to support you all. I don’t think I’d been “twittered” before so thanks to those of [...]

This week, I’m off to the National Educational Computing Conference in Atlanta, Georgia.
I will be presenting Using Wikis in the Classroom with Vicki Davis on Wednesday at 12 noon. And I’m looking forward to reconnecting with many of the educators who have been so supportive of us over the last 12 months.
The buzz [...]

I had a good chat with Sue Waters, a lecturer in Western Australia, about wikis in education yesterday. She was suitably impressed by the flatclassroom project so we spent some time talking about that project and its implications. I always like it when the discussions we have center around the projects built by Wikispaces communities.
Have [...]

If you’re an educator attending CUE in Palm Springs, California or IL-TCE in Chicago, Illinois this weekend, come by and say hello! Adam and I will be attending these two conferences and presenting sessions on Wikispaces and wikis in education.
At CUE, I’ll be at the Open Source Pavilion and presenting a session on wikis [...]

In the Sacramento, California area? Come see us tomorrow, Saturday 27 January! We’ll be presenting tomorrow at CTAP’s Educational Technology Conference in Roseville, California. Our 10:30 hands-on session will look at how wikis are thrilling students and teachers alike in classrooms around the world.
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As always, we’ll be giving away free Plus wikis [...]

The good people over at TeachersFirst have taken their expertise in providing clear, concise and comprehensive guides to web topics for teachers and applied it to wikis. We strongly recommend their new Wiki Walk-Through.

We think it’s a great primer for teachers interested in what wikis are, why they should use them, and how exactly [...]

Join us and the Australian Networks Community Forum for a live online tutorial about Wikis in the Classroom.
The session will be held at 4pm U.S. PST Thursday 2nd November (10am Australian Eastern Friday 3rd November).
You can join up to half an hour before the session by following this link.
The session will aim to help teachers [...]

Next Wednesday, October 11th, at 4pm PST (San Francisco, U.S.A.), we’ll be hosting a session called “Using Wikis in the Classroom” on Tapped In. For those of you not familiar with Tapped In, they are a Web-based learning environment for teacher professional development.
We’ll be covering what wikis are, how they can be useful in the [...]