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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].

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LINKS AND LOGO AND SEE ALSOS AT [ http://scholarship20.blogspot.com/2008/03/using-wikipedia-to-reenvision-term... ] Thanks! /Gerry Gerry McKiernan Associate Professor Science and Technology Librarian Iowa State University Library Ames IA 50011 gerrymck@iastate.edu There is Nothing More Powerful Than An Idea Whose Time Has Come Victor Hugo [ http://www.blogger.com/profile/09093368136660604490 ] Iowa: Where the Tall Corn Flows and the (North)West Wind Blows [ http://alternativeenergyblogs.blogspot.com/ ]