My+experiences

==I have created and co-created wikispace sites that have involved middle, high, and elementary school students. I have found that if I am excited and motivated about wikispace being a realistic online collaboration, then my students are excited and motivated as well. I have black, hispanic and white students of all abilities that participate at present, and they are pretty evenly boys and girls in grades 3-5. I usually sacrifice some of my own time so that students can come to my room for help and to get on computers because they can't at home. But it is worth it when I can get these students not only excited, but so enthusiastic that they become mini 'trainers' in their own right. I have a student right now that knew nothing about wikispace at the beginning of the year, and now she comes in daily to work on her own wikispace page as well as help younger students create their accounts and pages (these student pages are within my page). It is possible to get students inovlved and motivated, it just depends on how much you are willing to give yourself. ==