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The Wikidot.com blog said today that, "While free private sites are limited to five members, Wikidot.com has offered universities and schools the option of unlimited private sites for their classes and courses. Now, we've decided to make it really simple to get an educational site. In your site manager Access policy page, just click the "educational upgrade" link, enter your school or university name, and description of project, and click "Please upgrade my site now"."

Instead of sending an email and asking for educational status, you can now get the status immediately, online.

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Teacher

Tom (beheerder) 29 Nov 2009 12:39

Ik ben leerkracht en heb wiki ontdekt in de hogeschool. Meteen was het voor mij duidelijk dat Wikidot verder gaat dan de gekende wikipedia en blogs die overal te vinden zijn. Ik kende niets van programeren en dergelijk en toch heb ik met weinig moeite een site aangemaakt en zonder grote problemen ingericht. Ik heb met Wikidot leren werken en ben van plan om later mijn leerlingen dit ook te leren. Eenmaal je een goede wiki hebt gemaakt is dit een grote medium als informatiebron voor de leerlingen. Leerlingen leren opzoeken, verwerken, kritisch beoordelen en werken met het internet en informatie. Jammer dat er zo weinig nederlandstalige sites zijn.

I am a teacher and I discovered Wikidot in college. Immediately it was obvious to me that beyond the known Wikidot wikipedia and blogs are rife. I knew nothing about programming and such and yet I have little difficulty with a site created and decorated with little problems. I'm learning to work with Wikidot and am planning to teach my students. Once you've made a good wiki, it is a great medium to extract information for the students. Students learn to find, process, critically evaluate and work with the Internet and information. Too bad… so few Dutch sites.

Kind regards, Tom

Re: Teacher

leiger 30 Nov 2009 00:15

You could encourage other people that you know to try Wikidot. The more well-advertised Dutch sites there are here, the more there will be as people will come to see this as a way to create their new site for free :)

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