Wikispaces

Commoncraft

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Setting up a Wikispaces account done with help from David Truss toc =Sign-up and Join in 4 Steps For Independent Student Accounts= Note: You can use these instructions and images to guide your students through this process.

1. Go to the Wikispaces site you would like to join. Under **'Actions**' choose **Join This Space**.

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2. If you don't have a Wikispaces account then **__join Wikispaces now__** under **'New to Wikispaces?'**

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3. **Join Now**. All you need is a Username, Password, and Email Address. Then click **'Join'**

.Do NOT 'Make a Space', leave this as a 'No'. Further down you will see information about creating ad-free Spaces.

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4. If this is a Protected wiki space, then you will have to wait for organizer approval:

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=Creating Your Own Space=

For K-5 I suggest using [|this method] and upload to wikispaces user names and password on something like an excel speadsheet. This alleviates the need for the students to have email accounts.

Go to the '**Help**' Page (near the top right of the page) then go to the Teachers help page. Note #3 - [|Sign up here].-or just use this link! This route makes it easy to get the ad-free site for your classroom.

I suggest choosing 'protected' spaces for student sites:

Students will have to be approved, and you can control who can edit, discuss and make changes, but the whole world can see what your students do. (A [|ClustrMap] will show you where people have visited from.)

=Help= After you sign up, your **home** page on your new wiki space will have some helpful links:

The help section is great! Discussion on what teachers use from [|Classroom2.0 Ning]