***Apologies for Receipt of Duplicate Postings***
Colleagues/
>>A Most Interesting Recent Discovery<<
When Wikipedia Is the Assignment
Wikipedia: time-saver for students, bane of professors
everywhere.
OR IS IT?
If there*s one place where scholars should be able to
question
assumptions about the use of technology in the classroom
(and outside of
it), it*s the annual Educause conference, which wrapped up
on Friday
in Seattle. At a morning session featuring a professor and a
specialist
in learning technology from the University of Washington at
Bothell,
presenters showed how Wikipedia - often viewed warily by
educators who
worry that students too readily accept unverifiable
information they
find online - can be marshaled as a central component of a
course*s
syllabus rather than viewed as a resource to be banned or
reluctantly
tolerated.
That*s what Martha Groom, a professor at the university*s
Interdisciplinary Arts & Sciences program, tried to do
for the first
time last fall by requiring term papers to be submitted to
the popular,
user-edited online encyclopedia. The project comes at a time
when
instructors and administrators continue to debate the
boundaries of
certain technologies within the classroom and how to adapt
to
students* existing online habits.
-- MORE--
I Would Be Most Grateful To Learn Of Other ***Uses of Wikis
for
Innovative Composition/ Writing*** As Described in The
Associated PPT
and News Coverage [I will of course search
ERIC/CompPile/OTHER(S)?, But
Would Greatly Appreciate Learning of Core/Key Articles From
The Library
Community].
>>I am Particularly Interested In Innovative
**SCHOLARLY**
Composition/Writing in The Sciences/Tech Fields<<
LINKS AND LOGO AND SEE ALSOS AT
[
http://scholarship20.blogspot.c
om/2008/03/using-wikipedia-to-reenvision-term.html
]
Thanks!
/Gerry
Gerry McKiernan
Associate Professor
Science and Technology Librarian
Iowa State University Library
Ames IA 50011
gerrymck iastate.edu
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