Wikispaces - Announcing free wikis for Higher Education

You're receiving this email as a member of Wikispaces.com. Having trouble reading this email? View it in your browser. Don't want to receive this newsletter anymore? Unsubscribe instantly. FEBRUARY 2011 Free wikis for higher education! We get such a kick out of giving away free wikis to K-12 educators that we're introducing a new free plan for Higher Education as well - and that's just the beginning! Read more about our new, free education plans. Still getting to know Wikispaces? Check out our video tours for helpful how-to's. Try Wikispaces Private Label Our solution for organizations, Wikispaces Private Label gives you unlimited wikis in a safe, self-contained environment. Learn more. Don't wait for the newsletter! Get the latest news, helpful tips, and event announcements on our blog and Twitter. We're here to help! Send any comments or questions to help@wikispaces.com. Hands-on Training On Wednesday, March 16, at 3 p.m. PDT (10 p.m. UTC), Sarah Cove will be hosting a special training webinar for Wikispaces Private Label. If you have any questions about what Wikispaces looks like in large organizations and schools, we'd love for you to join us. Sign up today. Simple Tools for Great Pages This month, we released a Tips and Tricks post to help people get a little more bang out of their wikis. If you ever get paralyzed by all the options for setting up a page on your wiki, this might help you out. Take a look. Featured Wiki: MindDrive Tom Strongman started the MindDrive wiki in January of 2010. 1. Briefly describe your group, your wiki, and what you use it to do: Our Wiki has played a key role in telling our story, which has received worldwide attention. We began as a group of seven at-risk students and 11 adult mentors from DeLaSalle High School in Kansas City, and our goal was to convert an old Lola Indy car to electric power, to design a lightweight full-coverage body for it, and to measure how efficient we could make it. The class met for four hours every Saturday morning for eight months. Our Wiki enabled me to document the class and post weekly updates so that all mentors, students, and school officials could keep abreast of our work. As the project developed, we attracted the attention of a couple of major corporate sponsors, and the Wiki played a key role by letting them follow our progress on a weekly basis. The news of our achievement spread quickly around the world, and we were featured on more than 300 websites, TV shows, and magazines. Once people saw our story, they would come to the Wiki to read a detailed version. 2. Besides the Edit button, which wiki feature is your favorite? Besides the Edit button, I like being able to embed widgets because I publish videos and slideshows. Keep reading. A Message from Eric I love a good challenge and look for any excuse to exercise my wiki expertise. I can be a bit of a showoff like that. It's quite common for new users to send us an email at help@wikispaces.com that's simply a list of requirements for a project. That's when I look to comparable wiki success stories and look at the project at hand through my wiki prism to offer a solution on our platform. Each day, I come across a wiki that one of our users has created that makes me re-think what can be done with Wikispaces. Thank you for the continuing source of inspiration, I look forward to hearing about how you would like to use wikis and helping you accomplish what you set out to do. What will you do with your next wiki? Good idea: Kids absorbing info about your local aquarium from your wiki. Bad idea: Your wiki absorbing water from your local aquarium. Sent by Wikispaces.com - 67 Langton St, San Francisco CA 94103 help@wikispaces.com If you no longer wish to receive this email you can unsubscribe instantly.