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After investigating, using and reflecting on my experiences on Wikispace I have come to an agreement that this web site is a valuable learning tool. I have had experience using Wikispaces for other assignments and it is a great tool for collaboration work. Especially outside of school/uni hours. It is easy to update and view  from home or work internet sources and to collaborate ideas. 

As a teaching tool it could be used for feedback through the students as well as collaborative/group assignments and/or tasks. It would help students who are hard at finding information or sometimes just need another approach to learning information to the average student to swap ideas and theories with other students. Another great use for this tool is for the 'three before me' checking system. If used correctly students could post their assignments online and ask peers to check their assignments and add comments to their post. Teachers can also add the information they need to get across in a lesson onto a wikispace and ask of the students to add posts on their findings. Therefore allowing other students to view various thinking strategies to answer, solve, or investigate the teachers lesson online. 

Plus	Minus	Interesting
- Great tool for collaboration and group work.  - Allows for comments from other students/peers  - Teacher can use for virtual lessons.	- Information can be changed by peers. - Students may not want to participate therefore students are left out and not apart of the learning.	- Depends if peers have access to the password and user name and access it that way or if they just have the URL.   - If information can be found that is lost.