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Wikispaces is a social writing platform primarily used for educational purposes. It allows teachers, students, and schools to create wikis and collaborate online. Key features include easy linking between pages, powerful search capabilities, and support for Creative Commons licensing. Wikispaces aims to improve writing skills, enable real-time formative assessment, and get students more involved with one another through online collaboration and discussions. Teachers can use it to create private networks for students and monitor their work.

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Wikispaces

Wikispaces is a social writing platform primarily used for educational purposes. It allows teachers, students, and schools to create wikis and collaborate online. Key features include easy linking between pages, powerful search capabilities, and support for Creative Commons licensing. Wikispaces aims to improve writing skills, enable real-time formative assessment, and get students more involved with one another through online collaboration and discussions. Teachers can use it to create private networks for students and monitor their work.

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WIKISPACES

WIKI
JORDYN KENDALL
EDT 180

Wikispaces is a social writing platform for education

Education

Two reasons for use

teachers, students, parents,


librarians, schools, and
universities

Everyone else

businesses, non-profits,
government, community groups,
individuals, and everyone else not
in education

PURPOSE
1

Easy linking

Powerful search

Just select some text, click our link button and select the location
you want to link to.
Search your space, or search all public Wikispaces using
advanced operators

Creative Commons and Custom Licensing

They support the use of Creative Commons licenses to encourage


open use of information. Of course you dont have to use it

POPULAR FEATURES
2

Made for everyone

Mostly geared toward people in


the educational field

Web address

https://www.wikispaces.com/

Web space

Web address

Social media defines as

Teachers

Builds profiles

students

Connects with friends

universities

Upload content in real time

Enable conversations

Posts have time stamps

INTENDED AUDIENCE/CHARACTERISTICS
OF SOCIAL MEDIA

Create a safe, private network for


your students

Connect and communicate using a


familiar newsfeed

Monitor complete history of


student discussions, writing, and
file uploads

We can use this in the classrooms

Gets students more involved with one another

REASONS TO CARE/ADOPT THIS


SOCIAL MEDIA

Yes

I would use this. I think


it is a very good education
tool for both the teachers
and the students.

WOULD YOU USE IT?


5

Social
interactio
ns

Improves
Writing
skills

Teachers
can
assess
students

Create
Projects

Real-Time
Formative
Assessme
nt

INTERESTING FACTS
6

amount of use
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4.5
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1.5
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Wikispaces

PBworks

Wetpaint

amount of use

INTERESTING FACTS
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Jordyn Kendall
[email protected]
(123)456-7890

THANK YOU
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