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http://thefischbowl.blogspot.com/2008/09/please-help-abby-with-her-homework.html Karl Fisch, whose blog I really enjoy, posts about an assignment his daughter has: to create a travel journal and write to friends to ask for postcards. Karl thinks like I do. What about the online component? I think this assignment is fine as far as it goes, and we mailed it off to a friend [...] http://www.backtoschoolchallenge.com/ How The Back to School Challenge Works Join the Challenge Via Gerry McKiernan: http://chronicle.com/wiredcampus/article/3064/ Josh Fischman writes: Long a standard reference source for scholarship, largely because of its tightly controlled editing, theEncyclopaedia Britannica announced this week it was throwing open its elegantly-bound covers to the masses. It will allow the “user community” (in the words of the encyclopedia’s blog) to contribute their own articles, which will be clearly [...] Stephen Francouer writes: http://tinyurl.com/556pof My Plan Methodology Wikipedia Check out Steve Campion’s newest installment – yet another perfect resource for your Learning 2.0 endeavors! http://librarystream.wordpress.com/2007/12/17/learn-more-wikis/ If you gather a committee, write a draft document, and solicit feedback, you might receive scores of revisions in email and on paper. Compiling all those changes back into a single coherent document could be a long and tedious task. [...] http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/7130325.stm Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales has said teachers who refuse younger students access to the site are “bad educators”. Speaking at the Online Information conference at London’s Olympia, he played down the long-running controversy over the site’s authority. He said young students should be able to reference the online encyclopaedia in their work. Mr Wales said the site, which [...] http://www.pewinternet.org/PPF/r/212/source/rss/report_display.asp Pew reports that 36% of online American adults consult Wikipedia. A table included in the report details to top sites used for reference and education. Wikipedia has 24% use in a table provided by Hitwise of those types of sites. The National Library of Medicine is featured, but all of the others are not library sites. [...] Teresa Walls, the chair of Children and Technology Committee of the Association for Library Service to Children (ALSC) wrote to announce the committee’s new wiki at: http://wikis.ala.org/alsc/index.php/ALSC_ChildTech_Wiki I’m impressed with this fledgling wiki. The Currently Reading page looks interesting. I hope more librarians add to that page and the others. Let’s watch this resource grow! |
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