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How is Wikispaces Classroom Used?


Classroom Management
Having a place to manage all the activity, resources, conversations, and projects in your classroom is essential for keeping students, and teachers, organized and working together. Wikispaces Classroom gives you the features you need to get your classroom organized. Our philosophy is to make managing the day-to-day work of your classroom easy, and to let you bring in the best resources, content, and tools from around the Internet under one roof.‍ ‍We give you the tools to quickly and easily create assignments, share resources, make announcements, and foster discussion and community.‍

** Classroom demonstration space I created for a SOL Training ** ** http://solexample.wikispaces.com/ **



Project-Based Learning
Project-Based Learning is a dynamic approach to teaching in which students explore real-world problems and challenges. With this type of active and engaged learning, students are inspired to obtain a deeper knowledge of the subjects they're studying. Wikispaces Classroom provides a simple structure that allows you to create projects, define teams, assign students and manage them all through successful completion of their projects. Starting from pre-built templates, or a blank slate, students can work in private groups until their work is due. At the end of the project you can share the results with the rest of the class or even parents and other participants. Our formative assessment reporting let you track student progress on their projects in real-time. You'll know which students are succeeding, which are falling behind, and how much they are contributing to their projects so that you can help remediate, motivate, and challenge when you most need to.



Safe Social Networking
Your classroom is no longer tied to your building and school-day hours. Parents and students expect to work, communicate, and share at the times and places that make most sense for them. With Wikispaces Classroom, you now have a safe social network for your classroom. ‍You can decide who can participate and when.‍ And since your newsfeed is built around the work your classroom is doing, all of the discussion and activity is tied directly to the goals and work of the class.



Knowledge Communities
When you turn the individual pockets of information in your class and school into collaborative knowledge communities, you build the capacity of every student and of your entire institution to contribute, learn, and achieve. Professional Development resources, curriculum development groups, and student-built study guides are all examples of turning informal knowledge into formal resources. Wikispaces Classroom makes collaboration and community building easy and encourages the use of a myriad of Internet resources, content, and tools.



Online and Remote Learning
Face-to-face and in-class time is essential for effective teaching and learning. Why not open the classroom so that each student can learn and work wherever and whenever they can? ‍And why not enable the enthusiasm different students have for different kinds of engagement to broaden the reach and effectiveness of your class.‍ Wikispaces Classroom creates an online presence for your classroom, students groups, parent teacher association, faculty groups, and any other need you have so that people get the information they need and contribute their energy whenever they can. And Wikispaces Classroom is great for connecting your class with people who can't be there in person. Collaborate privately with students in another country, remote family members, and members of the community to enhance your classroom.

What Does Wikispaces Classroom Do?


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 * 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

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 * Collaboratively edit pages using our visual editor
 * Embed content from around the web, including videos, images, polls, documents, and more
 * Comment on sections of text or the entire page

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 * Create individual or group assignments in seconds
 * Choose to set assignment start and end dates, or create long-running projects
 * At the end of the assignment, automatically publish projects to the entire class or students, parents, or others in your community

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 * Watch student engagement in real time, literally as they type, without changing how you work
 * Report on contributions to pages, discussions, and comments over time
 * Focus on particular students, projects, or view reports across your entire class

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