Web 2.0 and Responsible Educators

If you read this blog regularly, you will know that I believe setting up your computer as your own PLE (Personal Learning Environment) or as some call it, your PLWE (Personal Learning and Working Environment) is a basic step in being efficient on the web. When I have research time, and sometimes just because I [...]

Mapping Wikipedia

Teachers who want a way of introducing their students to a new topic may find it useful to use WikiMindMap to create a mindmap to introduce the subject, and as a quick way of getting basic resources into the hands of students. Mindmaps are especially useful for visual thinkers and those starting to research an [...]

The Question of Wikipedia

The first time I heard about Wikipedia, I got really excited; I characterized it as a “world mind”.
I saw it as a place to share knowledge that anyone (with an online connection)could contribute to and/or benefit from. I confess I was initially impatient with, and disparaging of, those who told students not to use [...]

Another Wikipedia Evaluation

There are still people who think Wikipedia isn’t reliable, that people should be warned away from it. I think it is an utterly amazing example of collaboration, the creation of an external collective mind.The Denver Post got 5 experts to evaluate articles in their areas of expertise.
The results? Four out of five agreed their relevant [...]