Want to set up a class, group project or individual web site or wiki?
With the amazing range of tools on the web to do sites and wikis, you don’t need learn web editing any more. Why go through all the pain of using a web editor and uploading files when you can everything simply in one place ?
Do you want the world to see your content, but control and share the editing and adding of pages and content to a selected group of others? Then:
Use a Wikispace
The online tool we recommend for student and class projects is Wikispaces.
Wikispaces is education friendly, free in its basic membership, and very easy to use. It is great for having small groups of people create a web site together. You can control who can and cannot edit this wiki. It has a good WYSIWYG editor, easy ways of adding pages and external web links, and great support for embedded files, pictures, and media links (such as audio and video links). You don’t have to know anything about “wiki markup codes” or “WikiWords” to use this simple but powerful tool.
How to set up your Wikispaces wiki
Getting started with it is easy, just like most web applications these days. Go to http://www.wikispaces.com and fill out the simple “Join Now” form.
Here are two screencasts we have made that will guide you through the sign up process for your free wiki and how to get started inviting others to share your wiki (if you want).
- Getting Started with Wikispaces - Short Version (3:16)
- Getting Started with Wikispaces - Long Version (9:09)
Wikispaces has some wonderful help, which of course is in the wiki: