Wikispaces

Wikispaces is a place where you can create a wiki- a web page that others can edit and collaborate on.

Ease Of Use
Wikispaces is easy to use and has some live tutorials to get you started. You can start a page from scratch or use one of the templates available. It is very simple which is good for individuals who do not know a lot about technology.

Main Help for Wikispaces [|Tours] of Wikispaces

The look and feel of your wikispace can be customized (background color, logo, text, etc). Images, Media and HTML can be embedded onto each page. You can also edit the navigation bar so you can have a common navigation menu across all of your pages. Discussion Areas, You Tube, Live Chat can be added to your wikipage and you can integrate your blog with your wiki.

Wikispaces are essentially community based but each page can be customized individually and pages can be locked..

It supports "search" engine technology on the right upper side in the index page to make it easy to find individual interests.

It records the date of articles for users who wants to get an article with a particular date and time. Pages can be customized to the user's own interest.

Teachers have special privileges in upgrading their wiki and Wikispaces has an Help section just for teachers.

Cost
Wiki offers three types of free spaces: public, private or protected. Wikispaces is free as long as you keep the advertisements on your page. In order to have an ad-free page you have to upgrade to PLUS and pay $5 a month or $50 a year. If you use your wikispace exclusively for k-12 you can upgrade for free.


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