When we got all of this started, I opted for Wikispaces to host our RRS wiki. I've used it before, in my classroom, and my experiences have more or less been positive.
The kids kind of shot this idea out of the sky.
When I used wikispaces last year for a collaborative project with an art teacher, we had students a.) create awesome digital posters b.) embed them onto their own page on the project wiki c.) create a QR code advertising the site. The reason I had them create digital posters? Wikispaces allowed me to add several editors to the wiki (the students who were participating), but it wasn't pretty. The site had the barest of bare-bones formatting; basic text, basic image uploads, no flashy templates. Making digital posters (using Glogster, Smore, etc.) and embedding them was one way to circumvent the general blandness Wikispaces' pages.
The students this go 'round, however, had been using Weebly in various classes instead. I had only a base knowledge of Weebly and how it worked, and I was under the impression that it was a way to build really attractive websites, but with only one editor and a limited number of pages. The kids proved me wrong in seconds flat.
First off, Weebly is most definitely prettier than Wikispaces -- it has dozens of eye-catching templates and several different options for pages within those templates (for the RRS wiki, I chose one with a stock-image of a hiker in the mountains -- perfect for a former Boonie's pathfinder page). Second, I was wrong about pages; as far as we can tell, the pages are unlimited. We can add as many as we want. And third, perhaps most importantly, I can invite as many editors as I need to -- just like Wikispaces.
Sorry, Wikispaces. Looks like Weebly won this round.
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