Wikipedia discussion
I am not yet ready to offer my opinion, but I have been giving this whole Wikipedia thing a lot of thought. I first watched the Webcast of the opening keynoter at NECC 2005, David Weinberger, entitled The New Shape of Knowledge.
I then listened to a 02/22/05 NPR broadcast dealing specifically with Wikipedia.
Andy Carvin has also written a thoughtful essay that describes ways to use Wikipedia in the classroom. Give it a read.
As one who deals with using, organizing, accessing and evaluating information (and teaching others to do the same) on a daily basis, I am really torn.
PS Another interesting article may be found here, in the Village Voice.
Your thoughts and why?
I then listened to a 02/22/05 NPR broadcast dealing specifically with Wikipedia.
Andy Carvin has also written a thoughtful essay that describes ways to use Wikipedia in the classroom. Give it a read.
As one who deals with using, organizing, accessing and evaluating information (and teaching others to do the same) on a daily basis, I am really torn.
PS Another interesting article may be found here, in the Village Voice.
Your thoughts and why?
1 Comments:
Hello Kathy,
I really like it especially the open content portion. I've actually spen t the past few months putting together a RSS Feed for Wikipedia under the GNU. The feed works for every single Wikipedia topic so this means we have more than 730,000 high quality RSS feeds available. The feed is hosted and cached on our servers at BlinkBits which makes the Wikipedia Servers very happy.
Here's an example:
Derek Jeter Wikipedia RSS Preview
Derek Jeter Wikipedia Feed
Each of the feeds include a link back to the Wikipedia edit page so the feedback loop continues.
I could go on and on about open content... knowledge is power!
Wikipedia: Blinklmc
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Blinklmc
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