Props for Wikispaces
September 23, 2008Troy Hicks 2 Comments »Anyone who has ever been in one of my classes or workshops knows that I rely on Wikispaces for almost all of my teaching and professional development. Read more about their new K12 initiative in this article.
A quarter million teachers to get free wikis | Gaming and Culture – CNET News
A San Francisco wiki services provider has just finished a multiyear project under which it gave teachers all over the world 100,000 free wikis. And now, it is doubling up and getting set to give away another quarter million.The company, Wikispaces, decided in 2006 that it would make helping teachers use the collaborative software to further cooperation between students, both in their own schools and with schools in other cities and countries, a cornerstone of its business.
September 29th, 2008 at 8:31 am
Thanks for this post. Wikispaces are a great resource and it’s good to see they’re going to be even more widely utilized.
Your site has given me some good ideas for a blog I recently started with the NIFB Young Entrepreneur Foundation. Feel free to stop by and give some feedback.
Thanks!
Julie
http://youngentrepreneurfoundation.wordpress.com/
September 29th, 2008 at 10:43 pm
[...] I was browsing through google reader, I found an interesting article at http://hickstro.org/2008/09/23/props-for-wikispaces/ that talks about wikispaces. In light of what we’re discussing in class, I found that [...]