TOP TOOLS
Wikispaces
 

Wikispaces is a hosted service that lets you create a wiki for collaborative working.

Comments from those who selected Wikispaces as one of their Top 10 Tools in 2008

• "While there are a lot of awesome wiki platforms available out there in the sphere, I like the simplicity of wikispaces. Students seem to be able to pick it up fairly easily, and it has become the foundation to all my classes (example: collegeenglish.wikispaces.com)"  Beth Ritter-Guth
• "Collaboration is a critical job skill and new tools like wikispaces allows one to model and develop this skill online."  Britt Wattwood
• "The easiest of the wikis for students learning how to build information collaboratively. Works well in class environments" Anne Paterson
• "s WYSIWYG and the easiest for non-techies to use, so I use it with my classes and other organizations."  Joan Vinall-Cox
• "Available power of wiki-freedom. Use it wisely!"  Stylianos Mystakidis
• "Wikis for collaborative research, assignment submission, general information dissemination."  Jason Denys
• "I have been using this site for the past eight months to collaborative develop a knowledge base around information and media literacy.  The free spaces that are available for teachers means I can recommend it for other teachers to create their own as well.  You can see how the site has grown from three pages to over 50 pages in the relatively short time. iamliterate.wikispaces.com"  Kevin Amboe
• "I use it for classes I am conducting in which I embed YouTube and TeacherTube videos, Adobe PDF papers, MS Word documents, images and all sorts of stuff and then my students contribute to the discussion portion and continually add links and other information. The flexibility and versatility is great for running a collaborative class. MSIT Second Life wiki"  Karl Kapp
• "My wikispace wiki has been a wonderful tool to collect and collate my many valuable web finds. The page set up allows the visitor to explore my finds and web 2.0 learning journey."  Elaine Talbert
• "A great, and free, online wiki hosting service with lots of nifty features and great ease-of-use. I've used Wikispaces for two class wikis, and students -- who are not used to web authoring in any way -- found it easy and fun to use. And again, it has automatic LaTeX formatting which makes it perfect for mathematics classes"  Robert Talbert
• "New to the list. I’ve started using wikispaces with both grads and undergrads to promote community knowledge building. They’re eating it up. Plus, it helps that it’s FREE!" John Curry
• "I have built a space that I use as my "electronic filing cabinet" for samples of work I have done. I've also built a space that I use for my online portfolio so that others can learn about the quality and scope of my work."  Shari Ward
• "The collaborative function of wikispaces remains vital. Though it is not the 'prettiest' wiki tool, it's so enmeshed in K-12 education that I can't function without it, whether for the Horizon Project, or for small class projects - wikispaces is there in so many places."  Judy O'Connell
• "I have about 20 wikis here that I use to organize my online portfolio and to support various learning projects."  Michele Martin

Comments from those who selected Wikispaces as one of their Top 10 Tools in 2007

• "I've never met any of my coworkers in person; everyone on our team telecommutes. Wikispaces is one of our primary documentation and collaboration tools. It's easy to post tips, resources, processes, and brainstorming. The RSS feed lets me know whenever changes are made, which is a huge help."  Christy Tucker
• "Wikispaces has been WYSIWYG longest and is the easiest for non-techies to use, so I use it with my classes and others."  Joan Vinall-Cox
• "I've used it for a class I am conducting in which I embed YouTube and TeacherTube videos, Adobe PDF papers, MS Word documents, images and all sorts of stuff and then my students contribute to the discussion portion and continually add links and other information. The flexibility and versatility is great for running a collaborative class. MSIT Second Life wiki provides a rich community around the class and really fosters peer-to-peer learning."  Karl Kapp
• " find Wikispaces easier to use when I'm putting together a really down and dirty brainstorm or I'm doing some project planning."  Michele Martin
• "Wiki Service well organized and intuitive"  Jose Carlos del Arco
• "Wikis can become very useful educational tools"  Jose Luis Cabello
• "I’ve already mentioned my love of wikis in my blog but for collaboration and easy editing - wikis are the way to go. I also love the fact that wikispaces gives FREE wikis to teachers. Thanks for the support!"  Colette Cassinelli
• "his service enables me to provide an interactive site for my students.  Once I have created it, they can become active contributors to the site" Leigh Zeitz
• "couldn’t manage without this – use it for collaborative working with colleagues in two different time zone 20 hours apart – so versatile and I’m learning more about its use all the time"  Lisa Valentine
• "a free online tool available which can be used by groups to collaborate on projects"  Ramona Dietrich
• " Collaboration is a critical job skill, and new tools like wikispaces allows one to model and develop this skill online."  Britt Atwood
• "Notes, research and collaboration that is easily done "on the fly"" Mike Taylor
• "es, i do enjoy the ability to create web spaces on the fly. Knowing you can ask someone else to contribute (without having to FTP) is amazing. It's not perfect, but it keeps improving. Yes i would rather have the software on my own server, but there you are. (Link? you are on the site." Michael Chalk
• "I’ve already mentioned my love of wikis in my blog but for collaboration and easy editing - wikis are the way to go. I also love the fact that Wikispaces gives FREE wikis to teachers. Thanks for the support!"  Colette Cassinelli