Wikis…continued
August 4, 2008
I can understand why many teachers/faculty “ban” Wikipedia as a source for student research but I don’t agree with it. Wikipedia can be a very valuable source for background research and Wikipedia references often provide students with a starting point to begin their research. Wikipedia is much easier to keep up-to-date than any other encyclopedia, book or journal article. I like to think of Wikipedia articles as subject guides with an easy to read introduction. If I were a professor, I would remind students that the information on Wikipedia is not reliable and needs to be confirmed through another source and leave it at that.
For the Thing # 4 module, I edited the All Together Now wiki.
