EduTechnorama » Wikipedia http://www.edutechie.ws Educational Experiences and Experiments of a Computer Scientist/Educational Psychologist/Technologist Tue, 08 Dec 2009 20:14:24 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 Take that, Wikipedia http://www.edutechie.ws/2007/11/01/take-that-wikipedia/ http://www.edutechie.ws/2007/11/01/take-that-wikipedia/#comments Thu, 01 Nov 2007 16:57:22 +0000 Jeffrey http://www.edutechie.ws/2007/11/01/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.

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