Wikipedia is one form of social media, and often at the bull’s eye of “new media myopia” (Obar, 2012). When asked to do research, Wikipedia is usually the first place students look. While we might want to teach students that Wikipedia is one place to start, it usually is not the one place where we want them to end. Therefore, incorporating Wikipedia into classroom instruction is a powerful way to teach students how to analyze the sources they use. This presentation will introduce educators to possible ways Wikipedia can be utilized in the classroom as a teaching and learning tool.
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Wikipedia is well-known and has become a main source for initial research. Yet its interactive nature allows language learners to play a more active role, to gain an online voice and focus on accuracy and quality in their written work.
www.avatarlanguages.com
Wikipedia for Language Learning - a guide for teachersHoward Vickers
Wikipedia is well-known and has become a main source for initial research. Yet its interactive nature allows language learners to play a more active role, to gain an online voice and focus on accuracy and quality in their written work.
www.avatarlanguages.com
This is a white paper on the topic of using blogs and wikis as tools to help English as a Second Language (ESL) and English as a Foreign Language (EFL) university level students improve their English.
Twitter: #MARC11_SESS48
Slides: http://www.slideshare.net/amsdiane
This special "Experience IT" session is designed to offer a hands-on, highly interactive introduction to an emerging tool and explore its potential impact for professional development and the classroom. Please bring a laptop to the session to ensure you can engage with the presenter. Seating will be offered on a first-come, first-served basis.
Wikis allow multiple users to edit the same web page while tracking individual contributions. Their inherent simplicity gives users direct access to their content, which is crucial in group editing or other collaborative activities. But how can you use wikis to effectively provide collaborative opportunities in the classroom and elsewhere on campus? How do wikis compare with other collaboration applications? This session will take a look at the use of wikis in online courses and discuss other effective uses.
This presentation will discuss using online tutoring in conjunction with face-to-face tutoring as two halves of a complete tutoring experience. We will look at the PCCC Writing Center’s combination of the use of eTutoring with face-to-face tutoring to help students improve not only individual papers, but also their writing in general.
This is a white paper on the topic of using blogs and wikis as tools to help English as a Second Language (ESL) and English as a Foreign Language (EFL) university level students improve their English.
Twitter: #MARC11_SESS48
Slides: http://www.slideshare.net/amsdiane
This special "Experience IT" session is designed to offer a hands-on, highly interactive introduction to an emerging tool and explore its potential impact for professional development and the classroom. Please bring a laptop to the session to ensure you can engage with the presenter. Seating will be offered on a first-come, first-served basis.
Wikis allow multiple users to edit the same web page while tracking individual contributions. Their inherent simplicity gives users direct access to their content, which is crucial in group editing or other collaborative activities. But how can you use wikis to effectively provide collaborative opportunities in the classroom and elsewhere on campus? How do wikis compare with other collaboration applications? This session will take a look at the use of wikis in online courses and discuss other effective uses.
This presentation will discuss using online tutoring in conjunction with face-to-face tutoring as two halves of a complete tutoring experience. We will look at the PCCC Writing Center’s combination of the use of eTutoring with face-to-face tutoring to help students improve not only individual papers, but also their writing in general.
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Building Bridges Not Walls - Wikipedia's new Content Translation toolEwan McAndrew
Slides from today's presentation at the Open Educational Resources Conference 2017 held at Resource for London on 5-6 April 2017.
Wikimedia’s mission is to be ‘the sum of all human knowledge’. That Wikipedia has amassed over 40 million articles in over 290 languages in its short existence is quite incredible and a testament to the dedication of its community of volunteers. Yet the distribution of articles in these different language Wikipedias is nowhere near evenly spread.
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Brief introduction to Wikimedia, and overview of classroom Wikipedia assignments -- benefits, best practices, pitfalls and gains. (Updated May 2014). Thanks to LiAnna Davis and Jami Mathewson at WMF for their help and content (quotes, education project slides).
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Operation “Blue Star” is the only event in the history of Independent India where the state went into war with its own people. Even after about 40 years it is not clear if it was culmination of states anger over people of the region, a political game of power or start of dictatorial chapter in the democratic setup.
The people of Punjab felt alienated from main stream due to denial of their just demands during a long democratic struggle since independence. As it happen all over the word, it led to militant struggle with great loss of lives of military, police and civilian personnel. Killing of Indira Gandhi and massacre of innocent Sikhs in Delhi and other India cities was also associated with this movement.
Macroeconomics- Movie Location
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Prepare a presentation or a paper using research, basic comparative analysis, data organization and application of economic information. You will make an informed assessment of an economic climate outside of the United States to accomplish an entertainment industry objective.
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Wikipedia: A Tool for Teaching (Skeptical) Research
1. Wikipedia
A Tool for Teaching
(Skeptical) Research
Presented by:
Loren Kleinman, Director, Writing Center,
Passaic County Community College
Ken Karol, Technology Resource Specialist,
Passaic County Community College
Elizabeth Nesius, Director, Academic Foundations English,
Hudson County Community College
2. Wikis & Wikipedia
Wiki – collaborative Web site edited by the
user community
Theoretically, always a work in progress,
never perfected
Wikipedia – free, multilingual online
wiki/encyclopedia (hence ―Wikipedia‖)
– Over 4 million articles
– Nearly half a billion unique visitors per month
– Essentially, the default encyclopedia of our
time
3. What we hear from faculty
―I don’t allow my students to use
Wikipedia.‖
―Wikipedia is not a valid source for
research.‖
―Wikipedia is not accurate and the
entries are not complete.‖
―Wikipedia is the source for
misinformation.‖
4. Myths & Fears about Wikipedia
Full of inaccuracies
– Anyone with Internet access can edit
– Articles are constantly being changed
Loss of control
– Academics and librarians no longer gatekeepers
– Not vetted by ―professionals‖
Too easy
5. Realities about Wikipedia
Wikipedia is the largest collaborative writing
project in human history
Well-Monitored
– Inaccurate information will not last long; repeat
offenders’ accounts disabled
– Insignificant information (e.g. vanity entries) will
not be published
Information must be verifiable to stay
While it is easy to access (in multiple senses),
readers are directed to more sources for
deeper information
6.
7. Embracing Wikipedia
Generally well-cited
– Leads to other sources of information
– Citations for information offered or requested if unavailable
Neutral voice
– Having multiple contributors leads to a consensus
Provides good topical overviews
– Better than most free Web sites
It’s timely
– Updated more often than traditionally published
encyclopedias
– Updated more often than most other websites
8. Title V Writing Initiative at PCCC
(2007-2012)
40 sections of Writing Intensive general education courses
(Composition 1 prerequisite)
Portfolio assessment of writing, critical thinking, and information
literacy
– Info lit assessment had already been conducted for 10 years in
PCCC’s first-year experience course
Information literacy weak spots: citation and evaluation of
sources
Problem not that students were using Wikipedia but rather they
weren’t citing it and weren’t exploring other sources
Students were using it even if they were told not to (and then
simply didn’t cite it)
However, instructors often did not suggest alternative outside
sources of information
9. Incorporating Wikipedia into the
First-year Experience
Every section of the First-Year Experience has an
Information Literacy module
Librarians present during one class period
Students complete an Exercise for homework and
a Project that is 25% of their final grade for the
course
Inspired by findings in WI course assessment,
Wikipedia incorporated into Exercise and Project
– Students find Wikipedia entry on their selected
research topic
– Students cite the Wikipedia entry in MLA format
– Students explore one of the citations included in the
original entry
10. Composition, WAC &
Wikipedia
Don’t have to use Wikipedia as a reference
source; use it to bring authentic, immediate
audience for student writing (Cummings).
Wikipedia assignments offer the chance to
consider student writers' responsibilities in topic
selection (Cummings)
Use it as a teaching tool as part of the Bookshelf
Project.
Creating knowledge rather than consuming it
Use as an opportunity to teach critical thinking.
Teach the importance of credibility and clarity in
writing.
11. Case Study
Robert Cummings, author of Lazy Virtues: Teaching Writing in
the Age of Wikipedia and an assistant professor of English and
director of First-Year Composition Program at Columbus State
University, in Georgia.
Robert Cummings says, ―As a class we then observe how
Wikipedians react to our contributions and get advice from each
other to develop effective rhetorical strategies before we
respond to our audience online. Lastly, students are asked to
compose an essay where they reflect on the experience of
writing for this large audience, and how the experience fails or
succeeds in helping them to develop their writing skills. Their
grade is determined mainly by their participation in these offline
writing assignments, and not the text contributed to Wikipedia
itself.‖
12. Using Wikipedia in Class
Make sure your students understand how it
works
Demonstrate (or have them try) changing an
article—can you get through a lecture without
the changes being reversed?
WID
– Form carries out purpose: Articles on different
topics look different
– Gives context to the rules of discipline-specific
writing
13. Collaborative Learning
Wikipedia can support collaborative
learning for students and faculty:
Students Faculty
Support peer-to-peer interaction Engage in the student writing
in virtual spaces process on a deeper level
Distribute and share knowledge Connect student learning with
what they will most likely be
doing after graduation
Students as writers, editors, and Promote and foster instructional
contributors rather than change
readers/consumers
14. What We’ve Learned
Wikipedia sparks conversation!
Students are going to use it no
matter what, and it’s our job to
make sure they use it well.
15. Questions / Comments
Has your perception of Wikipedia
changed?
Would you continue this conversation
with colleagues at your college or
university?
Would you be willing to integrate
Wikipedia into your research or writing
lesson planning?
16. Works Cited
Cummings, Robert. ―Are We Ready to Use
Wikipedia to Teach Writing?‖ Inside Higher
Ed. Web. 25 Feb. 2013.
Patch, Paula. “Meeting Student Writers
Where They Are: Using Wikipedia to
Teach Responsible Scholarship.‖
Teaching English in the Two-Year College,
v37 n3 p278-285 Mar 2010. National
Council of Teachers of English. Web. 25
Feb. 2013.