Creating+a+Wikispace

 The first step is to gain some familiarity with wikispaces by taking a virtual tour. **
 * Wikispaces are a wonderful resource for creating teacher or department websites. They are also very useful for preparing online units or lessons and can be used for online student notebooks. We envision a 21st century classroom including virtual notebooks for all students and virtual lessons prepared by teachers. Wikispaces include a great variety of helpful tools that can be utilized to enhance the learning experience, which you will explore shortly. On this page, we will take you through the process for creating a wikispace, on the __creating a virtual notebook__ page, we will take you through the process for creating your own model notebook that you will use for this course and soon use to help students establish theirs.

You will now be ready to house lessons on your site, provide classwork and homework assignments as well as resources such as helpful links, templates, graphic organizers, etc. In our section on __creating a virtual notebook__ we will take you through some of the features of wikispaces that we have found useful for classroom application for teachers and students. **
 * Now that you have taken the tour, go ahead and get started with your own wikispace by heading to wikispaces.com and creating a username and password, along with providing your email address. Be ready to enter what you want your wikispace website name to be. If you are planning on this being your teacher site, you might want to consider something along the lines of www.MrJonesNameHighSchool.wikispaces.com