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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. APRIL 2011 Wikispaces Private Label Education Webinars Start saving up your questions and sign up today: on Wednesday, May 25, we'll be holding a webinar to talk about Wikispaces Private Label for K-12 education — then, the next day (Thursday, May 26) we'll be holding a separate webinar for Wikispaces Private Label for higher education. Try our video help Still new to Wikispaces? Our video tours will show you the basics. Wikispaces for organizations If you want more wikis, more options, and more control, take a look at Wikispaces Private Label. Why wait for the newsletter? Be the first to hear about new features and events — visit our blog or follow us on Twitter. Drop us a line If you have any questions or need support, send us an email at help@wikispaces.com. Your new navigation bar This month, we introduced a new, improved navigation bar for all wikis. It lets you sort pages by tag, drag and drop pages to rearrange them, and more. Find out more. Widgets for all! In part 2 of our tips and tricks mini-series on widgets, we point you to a few of our users' favorite widgets and give you tips on how to find even more. Read on. Featured Wiki: Educational Origami Andrew Churches started the Educational Origami wiki in April of 2007. 1. Briefly describe your group, your wiki, and what you use it to do: The Educational Origami wiki is a starting point for education. When I first published the wiki I was working on taking traditional teaching practice and fitting it into the wide range of tools that we have available to us. Since then it's expanded to cover Bloom's Digital taxonomy, a revision of Benjamin Bloom's original work and then the later revision by Lorin Anderson and David Krathwohl. Bloom's Digital Taxonomy takes these works and brings them in to the 21st Century. I use the wiki as a resource hub, where I and the others who contribute to the wiki can share resources on a wide range of technology and education based topics ranging from Pedagogy to Leadership and management. We have starter sheets for different technologies and rubrics for their use, plus links to readings that challenge the reader to think and question their teaching practice. 2. Besides the Edit button, which wiki feature is your favorite? The discussion tool - there are so many great discussions and these help to shape my thinking. It's a huge privilege to have people take the time to comment and suggest, I really appreciate the conversations. Keep reading. A Message from James Spring has come to San Francisco. The sun is shining, cherry blossoms are in bloom, and our thoughts here in the office are turning to new growth. Twice a year — during our fall and spring — we see a huge influx of new teachers and students signing up for Wikispaces for classes. We often see well over 10,000 new accounts in a single day. That's a lot of green shoots! With all those people coming in the door, we're especially mindful of keeping the Wikispaces service working well day in, day out. Whether it's your first day or fifth year with us, we think you deserve a fast, reliable site. So we spend a lot of time tending the systems and servers that operate behind the scenes. For example, we run Wikispaces live out of two different datacenters in Texas that are 10 miles apart. (Because you never know when Godzilla — or a power outage — will strike.) When you visit the site, you're communicating with dozens of servers that work together to build your page in as little as a tenth of a second. And the pages and files you edit are automatically backed up across the country into three more locations within seconds! We love the spring. And we're thrilled to see what all those little shoots will grow into on top of a fast, reliable wiki. James What will you do with your next wiki? Good Idea: Plan and coordinate a community garden. Bad Idea: Plant and cultivate a community garden: carrots don't grow well in wikis. 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.