Wikipedia versus Britannica - free versus subscription
How are you dealing with Wikipedia in your school/college? Are your students favouring it and citing it as their main or only reference in secondary classes? I have been preparing a comment for staff at school and found these useful links:
* http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Schools_FAQ
* short article in the journal Nature about a survey of quality in the articles in the publications Giles, J. (2005) "Internet encyclopaedias go head to head." Nature, (438), 900-901. http://www.nature.com/news/2005/051212/pdf/438900a.pdf
At a conference recently, we spoke to Encyclopaedia Britannica representatives and invited them to Hobart early in 2007 to showcase the wealth of Tasmanian content and customising for early learning, primary and secondary levels in the online version which delivers remote access very well from school intranets for all students enrolled.
At school at the moment, students are blocked from uploading and contributing articles to wikipedia as well as their own sites on myspace.com... simply for their bandwidth quota issues. Students are requesting a reversal of this decision, and I suspect we will! What about Flickr www.flickr.com and Del.icio.us www.del.icio.us - are you using them?
Saturday, October 14, 2006
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Another tack on the Wikipedia story, is the Citizendium. You can view the pilot here.
Wikipedia's entry on Citizendium gives you an overview of its history.
The philosophy behind the Citizendium project is more fully reported on this page.
David Morris.
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