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Take that, Wikipedia

Wikipedia gets a bad rap in academia because of the nature of a wiki allows for any commoner editing an article and potentially resulting in thinning down the article of interest you are reading.

The instructor in this news story used Wikipedia in a whole different way by making an assignment for her students to contribute articles to Wikipedia; thereby having the experience of not just writing for their professor but for the whole world.

Posted by Jeffrey on November 1st, 2007 No Comments

Virtual Worlds Learning Opportunity?

I just learned of some major news that is right under our feet at ASU: A potential competitor to secondlife developed by everyone’s favorite non-evil company, Google:

http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20070924-google-testing-my-world-for-launch-later-this-year.html

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Posted by Jeffrey on September 24th, 2007 No Comments