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Popular wiki creation site for educators. 10 mb free with unlimited pages and folders. Folders can be used to organize pages by subject or classes. Role-based access control and rss for site with free account. Upgrades available.

This is a helpful piece, targeted slightly to teachers of younger children, concerning how to integrate Wikis into a classroom experience.

This articles talks about how technology has helped with students with disabilities and educational benefits of software that has been created. It gives information about Web 2.0. The articles also talks about the benefits of blogging and how blogging is used in schools and also with writing assignments. Wikis are also mentioned describing how they can be used in the classroom to even boost self-esteem in students learning disabilities.

This podcast explores various ways to engage students in their reading and writing using the power of the Internet. Gain insight to ways you can capitalize on Internet resources to help students read, write, collaborate, and most importantly, be creative. This podcast examines practices such as blogging, wikis, digital storytelling and more.

This article, retrieved from "Tools for TEKS- Integrating Technology in the Classroom" site, goes into why teachers should harness many of the new powers available to them now that read/write web (Web 2.0) programs are so readily available. Now that students have cell phones and are constantly posting to blogs, wikis, and YouTube, the author argues that we as teachers should put these things to good use in the classroom. Cell phones, as well as other digital audio and visual recording devices, can be used to gather and later present information for class projects.

With Google Sites you can create customized websites and secure wikis for free.

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A free site where members can find and contribute lesson plans and other educational support materials. Members can also review and rate the contributions and join groups to promote collaboration locally or globally. Nonmembers can view the resources.

Wikispaces offers free, private sites to all K-12 educators.