Earlier this year we wrote and shared a guide for ed-tech entrepreneurs and have enjoyed the ongoing conversation that has sprung up around it. If you’re in the San Francisco area this week, we’ll be continuing the discussion at the EdSurge SF Edtech Meetup. Our co-founder James Byers will be joining Jennifer Carolan (Managing Partner of NewSchools Venture Fund’s Seed Fund) and EdSurge CEO, Betsy Corcoran, to debate how education technology start-ups should fund themselves. The event will be on Thursday, June 20th, from 7-9pm in Redwood City, CA. Read more about the event and sign up here! Drop us a note if you’ll make it, we’d love to say hello. Update: For those of you who couldn’t attend, EdSurge recorded the event and posted some highlights here. Enjoy.

Today we’re announcing the availability of Wikispaces Campus, which brings Wikispaces Classroom to entire schools, districts, and universities. Over the past month, we’ve enjoyed sharing Wikispaces Classroom with you, our newest product that helps educators teach more efficiently, improves student outcomes, and increases student engagement. Wikispaces Campus is Wikispaces Classroom- with its News Feeds, Formative Assessment infrastructure, Project features, and of course traditional wiki pages- delivered as an enterprise service where your school, district, or university can create and administer accounts, apply school-wide permissions and custom theme settings, integrate with your internal systems and manage all of your teachers’ and students’ wikis from one easy-to-use dashboard.     Wikispaces Campus is priced per user starting at $1,000 a year- you can start a free month trial right now and request a live demo from our team to learn about how Wikispaces can help your teachers and students be more effective. If you currently are a Wikispaces.com Private Label Education customer, log in now and you’ll have Wikispaces Campus already enabled. If you are a Private Label customer and don’t currently see Wikispaces Campus, get in touch with us at help@wikispaces.com. Want to learn more? Join us this week at our Introduction to Wikispaces Campus webinar on Thursday, June 27th at 1PM PDT to learn all about Wikispaces Campus, including how to create an entire network of wikis and have full administrative control over every space, user and site-wide setting. We’ll also show you wiki templates, unlimited data storage and our integration features (Single Sign-On, Direct LDAP, and Google Apps.)

Julie Ramsay started the Ramsay’s Class Innovation Day wiki in January of 2012. 1. Briefly describe your group, your wiki, and what you use it to do: This Wikispace was created by my class of fifth grade students at Fultondale Elementary School in Fultondale, Alabama. My students celebrate an Innovation Day each year. This is a day where students are 100% in control of their learning. Each student gets to pick a topic of interest to explore on this designated day. When that day arrives, they explore the topic in the manner that they learn best, become an expert, and then synthesize their newfound knowledge into a project that they use to teach their peers about their topic. This day is completely in their control. On the photos page of the Wikispaces, you can see their progress throughout the day. Also, any of the projects that were digital are published here and here. The creation of this page came about as a result of our class connections on Twitter (@RamsaysClass). My students were doing a countdown until our Innovation Day. Another class sent us a tweet asking us to explain Innovation Day. As a class, we discussed how to best explain it. One student expressed that it was impossible to express something so incredible in only 140 characters. That’s when they suggested we publish it as a webpage. Wikispaces was a perfect fit for this project. On their Innovation Day Wikispace, the students also included different projects that we did as preparation for Innovation Day. As a class, we read Mistakes that Worked and the students wrote book reviews. They were also intrigued by the idea of innovators and designed a project to each learn about an innovator that interested them; they created faKebook pages of each of them. You will also see testimonials of the students’ thoughts about Innovation Day which were created at the end of the day. Wikispaces was the perfect vehicle for my students to convey, share, and discuss their work with their global peers. 2. Besides the Edit button, which wiki feature is your favorite? In addition to the easily used "edit" button, my students and I really like the ability to embed projects from other sites such a Voki, Prezi, ProProfs, and Animoto. In addition to embedding their projects, we also enjoy being able to easily upload audio, video, URLs, images, and PowerPoints. The flexibility that Wikispaces offers makes it one of our favorite tools to communicate and collaborate with our global audience. 3. What is one way you’re using wikis and other web 2.0 tools in your projects? We use Wikispaces for many different aspects of our class learning environment. From posting class updates, to housing links to resources for lessons, to creating our own science "textbook," Wikispaces always helps me meet the diverse learning needs of my students. One tool does not fit all. Wikispaces provides me and my learners the ability to publish all our voices regardless of which tool we use to create. 4. Tell us about a particular moment that made you say, "Aha! THIS is why I use wikis!" I have been using Wikispaces with students for about five years now. It was the first collaboration Web 2.0 tool that I embraced. My students were doing a writing roulette with a class in Arizona. When my students saw how the other students were able to sign in and add to our story, their excitement shot off the charts. They were thrilled that others were not only reading and commenting upon their story, but also improving and helping them grow. That’s when I knew that Wikispaces would have a long term place within our class. 5. If you could ask it, what do you think your wiki would say about you? "These fifth graders are awesome and I’m helping them share their learning with the world!"

We were very happy to join the "Learn with Michelle" Hangout on Air Series this past week! Michelle Pacansky-Brock and Robin Bartoletti from Academic Partnerships Faculty eCommons hosted us to talk all about wikis in education, from great classroom use cases to the new features in Wikispaces Classroom and its whole-school and whole-district package, Wikispaces Campus. We were especially excited to see Robin share her micro-MOOC (massive open online course), a professional development course using Wikispaces called "Engaging Technology and Online Pedagogy.". She’s created clear navigation week by week and great graphical headers to separate each week’s assignment, making it more than easy to follow along with the work. Michelle and APCommons have more great learning opportunities coming up- find out more here. And if you want to find out more about Wikispaces Classroom and Wikispaces Campus, do join us at one of our upcoming webinars!

Susan Brandon started the SharonBYOT wiki on the Forsyth County Schools Private Label site in June of 2012. 1. Briefly describe your group, your wiki, and what you use it to do: I’m an Instructional Technology Specialist at the elementary school level and I created this wiki to serve as a resource for teachers in my school, as well as any other school who wants to use it. This was our first year embarking on the journey of becoming a ‘Bring Your Own Technology’ (BYOT) school. I’m proud to say 100% of our teachers joined this journey and our entire school embraced this initiative. 2. Besides the Edit button, which wiki feature is your favorite? I love that wikis are interactive and allow for collaboration. While this wiki is being used more for informational purposes for teachers, I love that we can set them up so teachers and students can interact and work collaboratively on projects. This year I collaborated with a teacher and we helped the students create a wiki based on what they learned about bridge construction. They were able to work at school and from home, which extended learning well beyond the school day. Students were able to add their own information, images, and videos to their pages, and share them with peers and adults. They loved that they were able to be more in charge of their own learning. 3. What is one way you’re using wikis and other web 2.0 tools in your projects? Using web 2.0 tools, such as wikis, helps make learning relevant for our 21st century learners. In addition to the bridge project, I’ve collaborated with teachers to create web-based resources for our students. An example of this is in this wiki for third grade. The wiki was used for students to research famous historical figures in their social studies curriculum. While this wiki is not as interactive (yet), it allows younger learners to utilize online research skills, while providing a more protected environment. Using teacher-selected sites within a wiki is one way to introduce online research. We then have the opportunity to extend learning and discuss why these websites are valid and relevant, while others are not. Then we can help our learners become more independent and prepared as they search for sites using student-friendly search engines. Using web 2.0 tools also creates a sense of responsibility among our learners, because their audience moves beyond classroom visitors and family members to a world audience. Another wiki I’m planning right now is more interactive and involves teaching students about digital citizenship via a webquest, where they’ll then become the educators. Webquests are great because they allow more interaction and can help differentiate learning for students by including schema building activities and extension opportunities as well. In my T-R-U-S-T webquest wiki, students will learn key ideas about being a positive digital citizen, as referenced in ISTE’s NETS-S standards. Students will use this wiki to learn from videos, scenarios, activities and a collection of websites linked from it. They will then have the opportunity to blog, take polls and even create their own video, digital story, or cartoon to share with others what they learned. I’ve found with using web-based tools, especially using wikis to engage learners, it is as easy as creating a word processing document, only the possibilities are endless. With so many students starting to have access to personal devices, learning can happen well beyond the school day. 4. Tell us about a particular moment that made you say, "Aha! THIS is why I use wikis!" My aha moment came when I stepped back, handed over the creative control to our students, and watched what they came up with collaboratively. Once they learned how to create a wiki (and all the capabilities it has), they came up with so many creative ideas! Let me tell you, students take working on their wikis very seriously, because they know it can be viewed by a world audience, not just their teacher or parents. While as a teacher or tech coach you can set up parameters for your students, it is within this environment, we can truly model for our learners how to create a positive digital footprint. I can’t wait to use this resource even more next year. 5. If you could ask it, what do you think your wiki would say about you? My wiki would say I’m willing to try something new and I want those who are beginning the BYOT journey to be successful. Most importantly, it would say I’m willing to collaborate and share my ideas with others, so they can learn, share, or create an even better resource for the rest of us to learn from. I look forward to learning from my fellow Wikispaces collaborators!

Looking to rename, lock, or delete a page? You can do all this and more just by heading over to your More Page Options button. Psst. It’s the button that looks like an ellipsis ( … ). From there, you can: Rename a page or redirect it to a different page on your wiki. Lock the page so only organizers can edit it. If you are on our Super, Private Label, or Campus plans, you can also set up Custom Permissions. You can hide pages from everyone but organizers, make a page on your private wiki available for anyone on the Internet to see, and more. Delete a page that you no longer need. Turn on notifications for a page you’d like to follow and receive emails or messages any time someone edits it. Tag your page and create your own personal classification system. View and print your page in various formats including as a PDF or Word document. And more. So check out More Page Options. You’ll be impressed by all you can do in just a few clicks.

We’re seeing teachers do great things already with Wikispaces Classroom, our new bespoke product for teachers and students which features our new Social Newsfeed and Formative Assessment features. Here are a few great classrooms to take a look at. Quite a few Wikispaces Classrooms are already alive with collaboration and communication, like Third Grade Thinkers: Senior Sub School Leader Jo Egan at Mentone Girls’ Secondary College is up to great things at the Science 9 Wiki. It takes advantage of the Projects feature in Wikispaces Classroom to assign different students to different project pages and give them feedback quickly and easily: Others, like Blair Einfeldt, Junior English teacher at Rock Springs High School in Rock Springs, Wyoming, are using Discussions for Literature Circles and debates. Check out his RSHS422 Wikispaces Classroom: And we’re always excited when people share their thoughts publicly. Richard Byrne shared a lovely blog post about his initial thoughts with "Wikispaces Introduces a Brand New Look for Classroom Wikis." As did Brian Beierle with "Wikispaces Adds Wikispaces Classroom." Over on the Twittersphere, there’s been lots of talk about Classroom: @j_allen says, "It looks pretty slick." @BethRitterGuth says, "Excited by the new Wikispaces Classroom! I can’t wait to show it to our faculty." @Sra_Barahona is excited to use Wikispaces for a third year in a row and is "extremely easy to build and very friendly for my grade 1 students." @KrisKing @alezeb @nuriasalvador @ellisinwonderla @MsCafarelli @mmatp all shared their interest in Wikispaces Classroom on Twitter as well- we’re excited to hear what you all think! We also recently released Wikispaces Campus, and we know @tim_leister and @mmkrill are excited to try these features out school-wide with their teachers. Want to help your students engage with their work using Wikispaces Classroom? Join us at one of our upcoming webinars, read our Classroom Blog Post tutorials, and follow the #wclassroom hashtag on Twitter.

Our team has loved seeing all of the creative examples of how teachers are using the new Wikispaces Classroom at schools this fall. We featured some of these amazing teachers, like "Coach E" Blair Einfeldt at Rock Springs High School in Wyoming, in our blog "Wikispaces in the Wild" last month. Mr. Einfeldt’s example of using Wikispaces Classroom’s Newsfeed, Projects, and Assessment features in his Literature Circle Project was so good, we asked him if he wouldn’t mind sharing how he set it up with all of you.   Mr. Einfeldt explains his Wikispaces Classroom site in detail below. "Our state requires that our Juniors do a ‘Lit Circle’ and as a group present their findings on a book of their choice. I decided that Wikispaces, with its built-in functionality of discussion forums, provided exactly what I was looking for. I decided to take all 4 of my Junior English classes, give them accounts, and put them in a big pot and divide them in groups using the Team feature in Projects. Since most of my students were in groups with kids that weren’t in their particular class, this forced group work to be done exclusively online and through the discussion threads. Wikispaces was perfect for providing a forum where they could present their findings in a professional, 21st-Century-Skills-driven way. To prepare my students, I spent an entire class period for them to get familiar with the wiki. They created a profile, added pictures, and completed a checklist of things I wanted them to do and treated it like more like missions to accomplish throughout the day. One small tip I learned from this was to have a small mini-lesson to help my students understand that this is academic writing even though it resembled a Facebook-type functionality. I had quite a few students type things that were more suited for social networking but after this lesson and practice the commenting improved. Be prepared for social justice- we had students calling group members out for not doing their jobs, mostly because I think they felt that they could be more blunt through the false sense of anonymity provided by computers. This was positive and negative, but they were much more demanding than I have ever seen in regular face-to-face group work. I also took full advantage of the great Assessment tool. This page helps you track who is doing what and we even turned it into a competition to see who could get the most page edits and words posted at the end of the project. I think the most beneficial part of our project was providing students a new way to do the same thing. They saw other classes doing it the same old way and felt a level of pride in that they were doing it in a technological way. It gave them the freedom to create and each page, post and discussion was different. I actually loved reading their discussion forums because I felt like I got more out of them this way than I would have in a classroom setting of 25+ students. They were all engaged, in charge of certain jobs which meant accountability, and all interested in the outcome. The other incredibly helpful thing about Wikispaces Classroom is that it is online and creates a broader audience. Being online, students could work on it at home, at school or even on their personal devices. Rather than presenting their findings to their group of friends, they had to be accountable to the entire online community. This forced students to be a bit more selective of what they put on there." Blair Einfeldt, Junior English Teacher and Coach Rock Springs High School, Wyoming Twitter: @kaynio Feel free to reach out to Blair to share your own ideas about using Projects in Wikispaces Classroom, and join us at our Back to School Night webinar this Sep. 12th at 6PM PDT. You can also click through his site below!

BOSCO is an organization using wikis and other technology to help give the isolated and war-affected people of Northern Uganda a voice in the global community. They started using Wikispaces Private Label back in 2009 and we’ve been sharing their amazing story of wikis in Uganda on our blog ever since. Recently, we were fortunate to hear an update from the field from Tom Loughran, Vice President of BOSCO and professor at the University of Notre Dame. He shared with us the incredible story of one woman using technology to make a difference. "You don’t often get a picture of your first meeting with someone you’ll grow to admire, but here’s mine. Notification of Latifah’s first post to the BOSCO wiki I first met Latifah as administrator and subscriber to the BOSCO-Uganda Wikispaces site. Her determination was evident from her first post; the remarkable circumstances that gave birth to that determination emerged only later. BOSCO’s web 2.0 training had found an eager student in Latifah. She quickly emerged as a leader of her site in the city of Coope, managing training around one highly-valued computer in a rented storefront. When she wasn’t training others, Latifah (also known as Akello and Monica as the Acholi don’t make a surname distinction) began to tell her story, online for the world to hear. I began to assist her online to help her with formatting and other technical editing, and became captivated by the tale she told.   Like everyone she knew, Latifah had been a victim of a brutal civil war, inheriting the aftermath of 20 years of cultural scouring. Like tens of thousands of Acholi children, she had been kidnapped and enslaved by the Lord’s Resistance Army. As she indicated, much of her experience was too painful to describe, a reluctance that must be measured against what she could bring herself to share: of being beaten to within an inch of her life for refusing to beat another child to death for the crime of attempting to return home; of forcible wedlock, in a group of young women all of whom faced a common life with promise of a common death if any of them escaped; of surviving and escaping through a government attack on the rebels; of returning home to shame and marginalization; of young teen pregnancy. But she also told of a father who loved her and urged her to take every challenge in life as an opportunity. And so she has. Latifah welcoming me to BOSCO’s Coope ICT site In March of 2010, after months of online interaction, we met ‘again for the first time’—this time face-to-face—as I toured the BOSCO Coope community site that continued to elect Latifah as their leader. Latifah showed me their one computer, one printer, and one solar-charged battery used to power both this hardware and a few small entrepreneurial activities (like cell phone charging) with what surplus power remained. In her attempts to train and engage the youth of her village, the scarcity of computing resources was a challenge. Latifah was helping Coope make the most of the opportunity. The computer Latifah managed in Coope During this time, Latifah continued to post regularly to the Wikispaces site. Writing about what she knew, she told of her hopes for law school to advocate for women’s rights, and shared at length about the cultural practices surrounding childbirth in traditional Acholi culture. Just this summer, she reflected on the press of isolation and hopelessness in the aftermath of the civil war, but how ICT (Information and Communications Technology, a phrase that most of the world uses to talk about computing) has been a source of hope in the lives of young people in the BOSCO-Uganda network. Latifah lives that hope. She summarized her intentions in one of her very many memorable posts: "This knowledge that have got from BOSCO i will always use it by posting in the Wikispaces, keep the togetherness, i will always try to work hard so that my life change and the life of my child change too and to always train the youth both sexes but i will also emphasize on the ladies who seem disadvantageous and i will make sure they learn the web 2.0 so that they can say all they have in their hearts so that they are relief from the pain by saying it out.!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!" I met Latifah a third time, quite unexpectedly. Having taken employment in Gulu, she was volunteering in a new site—BOSCO’s Bardege Library—where I was installing a new computing center this past August, one of four such installations donated by HP as part of an Accenture supported partnership between BOSCO and the University of Notre Dame’s Initiative for Global Development. This project is a collaboration to create ecosystems where young people can receive entrepreneurial and ICT training in the presence of sufficient solar power to support the connectivity and catalyze entrepreneurial uses of renewable energy. During the past year as this partnership has emerged, I often remembered Latifah’s account of the hope that a single solar-powered computer brought to Coope. In many respects—by responding to the opportunity to learn, by training others, by telling her story, and by sharing local needs—Latifah brought these new HP computers to Northern Uganda. In the hands of determined young leaders like Latifah, they will be instruments of hope for many others." Students in the Bardege Library in Gulu gather around a cluster of energy-efficient HP thin client PCs, powered by a local solar micro-grid. Latifah has documented her journey and healing from the war on her wiki page for 6 years. We hope you’ll read her accounts here:

Antonio Juan Delgado García started the iescristoportfolio wiki in Dec of 2011. He shares his story in both English and Spanish. 1. Briefly describe your group, your wiki, and what you use it to do: Our secondary school students and teachers are implementing online portfolios on our wiki iescristoportfolios. They use their portfolios to upload all kinds of personal and sharable information around the learning and teaching process. Our Language Portfolios consist of three main sections: A language passport: The students create a Glogster where they share their learning goals in their different languages. Glogster lets the students create a less formal and more attractive proposal for how they’ll develop throughout the year. A language biography: Here students reflect on the co-evaluation process and the use of portfolios in language learning. A dossier: Students share their main pieces of work. Some embed publications with Issuu while others create colorful and interactive portfolios with text, images, videos, Glogster, Vokis, and more. They are able to create their own space which reflects themselves. Besides the student portfolios, we also have other wiki sections to help educate and engage our students about the portfolio process: Learning about the portfolio: Here, we educate our students about the European Language Portfolio, its components, goals, and standards. Web 2.0 Tools: As teachers, we believe that using web 2.0 tools in the learning process can be really motivating. Our wiki is proof of this. We are continually adding new and interesting tools to make learning easier and better for our students. Integrated Learning Units: Our English Department coordinates with other school departments throughout the year. As a result, we have developed some interesting and motivating units where students bring their language learning skills into other departments including Social Sciences, Art, Technology, Maths, Portuguese and Spanish. Our goal is to expand and involve even more departments over this next year. European Language Portfolio (PEL) Activities: In this section, students and teachers can explore some of the activities designed by the Junta de Andalusia’s Counsel on Education, Culture, and Sports. The activities appear in different languages - German, French and English - which the kids can explore. 2. Besides the Edit button, which wiki feature is your favorite? Definitely, the WIDGET Button. 3. What is one way you’re using wikis and other web 2.0 tools in your projects? Wikis have changed the way I teach. I use them as tools to motivate students and achieve a significant and real way of learning. I have created and designed many wikis, including one for my 12-16 year old secondary English students and one for my Bachillerato students (ages 16+). Both wikis are classroom wikis where you can see students’ personal dossiers, peer evaluations and self-assessments documents; and students can review grammar and vocabulary, see school assignments, and practice activities online. My other professonal wikis include: https://myenglishproject.wikispaces.com: A Learning English Project that won an eLearning Awards in 2009 for the Young Digital Planet silver award for "Foreign language learning through ICT". http://eportfoliosecundaria.wikispaces.com: A project that encourages students to learn English based on their own interests. Here, you can find a lot of classroom-ready material for both teachers and students. https://docentesenextremadura.wikispaces.com/: I teach courses in English and Spanish for teachers in Extremadura (Spain) related to ICT and English learning. This wiki lists a variety of educational resources for teachers as well as examples of education wikis in Spanish, English, and French for those of you who would like more example. https://zafra543.wikispaces.com/ - My personal wiki https://iescristodelrosario.wikispaces.com - My school’s wiki where parents and students can find information about the school and links to their teachers’ wikis. https://myenglishproject.wikispaces.com/Aplicaciones+Web+2.0+para+profesores+de+ingl%C3%A9s - Using wikis as a "reference website", I teach my students how to use web 2.0 tools. 4. Tell us about a particular moment that made you say, "Aha! THIS is why I use wikis!" I’m a real fan of wikis. I came across wikis one summer day when I was idle with nothing to do. I grabbed a computer magazine and EUREKA! There they were…wikis and Wikispaces! I didn’t really know what they were about, but something inside me said that they were going to be play an important role in my life as a teacher. And they have. They’ve also reached into my personal life with wikis for my music band, community’s breast feeding association, local sports association, and former secondary school students. And that’s it! Wikis and I have been close friends since then, 2007, I think. So, thanks Wikispaces for helping me become a different, and I hope, better teacher for my students. Simply, thanks! 5. If you could ask it, what do you think your wiki would say about you? I think it would say: "Hey, guy, I fancy you. We’re the perfect couple, like the bow and the arrow." And here is A. Juan’s story in Spanish. (Y aquí está la historia de A. Juan en español:) 1. Describes brevemente tu grupo, tu wiki, y cómo la utilizas: Se trata de una plataforma online en la que nuestros alumnos de Enseñanza Secundaria Obligatoria tienen ubicados sus portfolios y en la que participan distintas áreas del currículo, tanto áreas lingüísticas comono lingüísticas. A modo de Portfolio de las Lenguas, está dividido en tres grandes secciones o partes de un portolio: Pasaporte, Biografía, Dossier. Tanto el alumnado como el profesorado del centro utiliza esta wiki de manera cotidiana durante el periodo escolar para subir todo tipo de documentación referida al proceso de enseñanza-aprendizaje. Además tenemos otras cuatro secciones que complementan el trabajo que realizamos en el portfolio y que son las siguientes: Aprendiendo sobre el PEL: En este espacio damos a conocer cómo los alumnos comienzan a conocer lo que es el PORTFOLIO EUROPEO DE LAS LENGUAS y sus partes. Herramientas Web 2.0: Nos parece interesante el hecho de trabajar con herramientas web 2.0 en el plano educativo y prueba de ello es este proyecto de elaboración de portfolios electrónicos de nuestro alumnado. Nuestra idea es la de seguir incorporando nuevas y atractivas herramientas que mejoren y faciliten el aprendizaje de nuestro alumnado. Unidades Didácticas Integradas: Nuestro departamentode inglés, y durante el curso escolar llevamos a cabo distintas unidades didácticas integradas en coordinación y colaboración con otros departamentos. Hasta la fecha hemos llevado a cabo unidades con los departamentos de Ciencias Sociales, Plástica,Tecnología, Matemáticas, Portugués y Lengua Española. Nuestra intención es seguir contando con la colaboración de otros departamentos y extender esta práctica a todo el centro. Actividades PEL: En esta página damos a conocer información relacionada con actividades tipo PEL. Para ello proponemos el siguiente enlace en el que la Junta de Andalucía ha elaborado una serie de actividades muy interesantes para poder ser llevadas a cabo en el aula de inglés, francés o alemán, y que aparecen concretadas atendiendo a los distintos niveles de aprendizaje dentro del MCERL (Marco Común Europeo de Referencia para las Lenguas). 2. Además el botón Editar, ¿cuál herramienta wiki es tu favorita? El botón WIDGET. 3.¿Cuál es una forma en que estás usando wikis y otras herramientas web 2.0 en tus proyectos? En cuanto a la docencia directa en el aula, tengo elaborado una serie de wikis que aporta al alumnado motivación e interés de cara a un aprendizaje significativo y real: https://iescristodelrosario-ingles-eso.wikispaces.com/ y https://iescristodelrosario-ingles-bach.wikispaces.com/: Wikis para mis alumnos en Enseñanza Secundaria Obligatoria y Bachillerato. En ambas se pueden encontrar cuadernos online del alumnado con sus trabajos personales, documentos de autoevaluación y coevaluación, actividades online de gramática y vocabulario, proyectos y/o tareas individuales y grupales, actividades relacionados con las cuatro destrezas básicas, canciones, videos, etc. https://myenglishproject.wikispaces.com/: Un Proyecto Aprendizaje de inglés y por el que recibí en 2009 el E-LEARNING AWARDS: Young Digital Planet silver award for "Foreign language learning through ICT". http://eportfoliosecundaria.wikispaces.com/: Es un proyecto en el que se muestra un nuevo método de enseñanza del inglés en secundaria basado en los intereses del propio alumnado. Hay una gran cantidad de material, tanto para el alumno como para el profesor. https://docentesenextremadura.wikispaces.com/- En esta wiki, me dedico a impartir cursos a profesores, tanto en inglés conmo en español, relacionados con el aprendizaje del inglés y las tecnologías de la información y la comunicación. https://zafra543.wikispaces.com/ - mi wiki personal https://iescristodelrosario.wikispaces.com - Wiki de mi centro de trabajo donde puede encontrar informacíon sobre la escuela y enlaces de wikis de los profesores. https://myenglishproject.wikispaces.com/Aplicaciones+Web+2.0+para+profesores+de+ingl%C3%A9s - Utilizando siempre los wikis como portales de referencia, enseño a mis alumnos el uso y el manejo de otras herramientas web 2.0. 4. Cuéntanos un momento particular cuando dices "¡Ajá! Es por eso que uso wikis!" Como podéis ver soy un apasionado o fanático del uso de las wikis. Me encontré con los wikis un día cualquiera de un verano cualquiera, aburrido, agarré una revista de ordenadores y en una página cualquiera que abrí por casualidad …, sí, allí estaba. La palabra wiki, wikispaces; yo no tenía muy claro de lo que se trataba. Tomé papel y bolígrafo, y anoté que eso que estaba delante de mis ojos me podría servir para mis clases. Ahora no sólo las utilizo en el plano educativo pero también en mi vida personal con wikis para mi Banda de Música, Asociación de Lactancia Materna, Asociación Deportiva, y también para los antiguos alumnos de mi instituto. Y así fue, desde ese verano de 2007 hasta hoy día. Le doy las gracias a Wikispaces por todo lo que me ha aportado en mi trabajo diario y por lo que seguirá significando en mi labor docente futura. Simplemente, gracias. 5. Si podía pedirlo, qué crees que tu wiki diría de ti? Creo que diría: "Chico, me gustas. Somos la pareja perfecta."