Introduction to Wikispaces for both sudents and teachers

Wikispaces Classroom is a social writing platform for education. It is incredibly easy to create a classroom workspace where you and your students can communicate and work on writing projects alone or in teams. Rich assessment tools give you the power to measure your own or your students contribution and engagement in real-time. Wikispaces Classroom works great on modern browsers, tablets, and phones.
Wikispaces Classroom is free for teachers and students. They have over 10 million registered teachers and students on the platform. You can find the main informations and create your own from here: https://www.wikispaces.com/

Their mission is to help teachers help students. Since 2005 they've been listening closely to the millions of teachers who've used Wikispaces. Wikispaces Classroom is the result of everything they've learned.

Wikispaces has been adopted and loved by so many teachers and students precisely because it has done these things implicitly. Wikispaces Classroom is about doing them explicitly.‍

If you give teachers technology they love, that it is simple to use, and that it helps them do the work of the classroom, the benefits are obvious. More often than not, though, technology is a hindrance: poorly designed, hard to use, or not actually built to help with teaching and learning.
They're different. Millions of teachers love Wikispaces. They designed Wikispaces Classroom from the ground up to eliminate everything that gets in the way while delivering what teachers and students need to work together. Teachers can get started and be working with their students in a modern, powerful, collaborative, private social environment in seconds. They can monitor their students' work as it happens so they can give feedback, assistance, and encouragement as needed, while all the time focusing on the work of the classroom, not the tools.

Wikispaces Classroom gives teachers immediate, relevant, and direct insight into student engagement and contribution. That means that teachers can help those who need it most and challenge those who don't. Often referred to as "formative assessment," this type of assessment is not about test scores used for ranking, admissions, or school evaluation, but information that actually helps teachers in their day to day efforts to help students. And the more and better help each student gets from their teacher, the more they will achieve.

Wikispaces Classroom is built around a familiar communications newsfeed that encompasses the work of the class and a private social network. Teachers get the tools to quickly communicate with their students as individuals and groups. Students get the flexibility to engage with their peers at their own pace without sacrificing privacy. The end result is more participation and enthusiasm in the classroom.Have a look at the video about to get an introdution to how to set up your first wikispace above and here is an excelent workshop to look at and help you. But please only create one if you are really planning to work it out over a period of time say an academic year.here are some more great videos.

https://rachelboyd.wikispaces.com/wiki+workshop

Hope this information has been useful for you.Have a nice day now.

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