Wikispaces

Wikispaces is the new collaborative tool I decided to explore. I used wikispaces briefly in another course however, I did not become as familiar with it as I would have liked. I thought this would be the perfect time for me to do so. I signed up of wikispaces and started to create my classroom wikispace. Wikispaces is a great tool for teachers and students to use as a form of collaboration. The Wikispaces site is a secure wiki environment. Wikispaces allows you to edit your page by just clicking the edit button from any computer or web device.  You can add links, files, videos, and widgets to your wikispace. You are able to have ownership of what your wikispace looks like. Wikispaces allows you to add discussion forums. Another great feature about Wikispaces is you get to determine who views your content. I really like that Wikispaces has the tag feature. Tags allow you to categorize and classify pages. This helps keep your Wikispace organized. I think this tool is very easy to navigate.  I started to play around a little on Wikispaces. This is what I have so far. This is definitely a work in progress.

http://msrichardson1.wikispaces.com/

Here is a second grade teacher's wiki on Wikispaces. I would set up and use my Wikispace similar to hers.http://wikiwonderful.wikispaces.com/Here are some help links on wikispaces

.http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=df2rC2QfvFchttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hfh2vrgvdIQ