Category: Wiki
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Re: Does Wikipedia hurt scholarship?
So, the wiki debate continues. In the latest issue of AFT’s American Teacher, the pro and con discussion of the month is about Wikipedia. Here, in very stark terms, are what I consider to be very traditional views about the academic research process (Anderson) juxtaposed with a more reasonable interpretation of research, collaboration, and the…
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Some Props for Wikis from the NEA
Aram alerted me to this article from the NEA which gives a pretty fair shake to wikis and Wikipedia. Here is a particularly compelling quote: But with wiki technology, students can go beyond simply reading sites to helping write them as well, fulfilling the Web’s promise of becoming a fully interactive medium. According to Frey,…
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Wired News: The Wiki That Edited Me
Most of you know about the Wired wiki story, I am sure, so this post is really for me to save this for posterity. And, perhaps one of the sessions that I am co-facilitating at NWP this November. Wired News: The Wiki That Edited Me
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Re: Episode 11 on its way!
Hi Chris, I just wanted to touch base with you about your Teach with Tech podcast. I have been listening for a few months and I appreciate how you discuss new technologies and contextualize them in K-12 and higher ed applications. Just a quick comment on your Opera segment from last month. I have been…
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What’s the Matter with Wikis?
Wikis as a collaborative and social writing tool – and not just a way for students to cheat by calling something “original” material or for someone to create truth through “wikiality” – are starting to come into the news. But, I don’t think it is enough. For instance: Recently, Columbia University has begun to embrace…
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On “Wikiality”
By now, you have seen Stephen Cobert’s piece on Wikiality. If you haven’t, watch it before you read on. In this response to the piece, Frank Ahrens of the Washington Post takes an interesting angle on how and why Wikipedia works: But if Wikipedia is going to exist as an open-source resource and is going…