Wikispaces - Teach by Example

I have begun using wikispaces.com quite a bit in my classroom for completing projects.  There are no more posters being brought to school to paste together a project that may or may not be hung in the hallway and get thrown out as soon as it is graded and returned.  We are now completing our projects for the world to see online, and students can work on these "digital posters" collaboratively without being in the same physical space.  While 8th graders will seemingly always be more interested in adding flair than they are in the content, I have had a lot of success with this method of project completion, and the students really enjoy putting these projects together.
While working on our current project about cost analysis of either driving cars with differing fuel efficiency or purchasing a mobile phone contract with different text messaging rates, I have referred to my own wikispaces page to teach them about embedding content, citing sources, and using creative commons content appropriately.  Having completed a couple of projects for my current course through a wikispaces page, I have been able to show students examples of all of these ideas for them to refer to as well as being able to model for them the appropriate use of content they find online, especially creative commons images.  Seeing that I have done it for a class I am taking makes them realize that copyright issues and citations are really important.  It is awesome to watch them work, and I feel like I have won a minor victory when I see that Flickr and WikiMedia Commons have almost entirely replaced Google Images as a way to find pictures for them to use in their work.  I have even had a couple of people searching through Internet Archives Community Audio to find music to add to their Math projects without worry of any copyright issues!!
My suggestion to anyone thinking about using wikispaces pages in their classrooms is to create your own page where you cite creative commons content, embed video, add music, etc. so that you can use it as an example for your students to use as a resource.
Here are a couple of samples of their work if you are interested.  The project due date is still a few days away, so keep in mind they are still a work in progress, but they are doing a nice job.
http://legroupproject.wikispaces.com/
http://camarovsprius.wikispaces.com/
http://kunlls-bffs.wikispaces.com/