I located the Michigan Department of Education on wikipedia. I made a very minor edit as shown in the screen shot below. I simply added “of Public Instruction” after Superintendent. Just another example of my “digital immigrant” status that makes me want to play it safe.
It was also very easy to create my own wiki using wikispaces.com. Here is the link if you want to check out my newly created wiki: http://trevino3.wikispaces.com/ . I played with the widget options and added a google map and a calendar. I also created a specific page for the O.A.K. group.
As you know by now. I am new to wikis and so my comfort level isn’t quite where it needs to be. It will take some time and practical use for me to become more familiar with this type of communication.
Hi Julie--
ReplyDeleteYou are so right...a bit alarming that Wikipedia can so easily be changed. That's the nature of it, though. Students should be regularly reminded to carefully test via other sources the information they take from Wikipedia...and a lot of other Internet sites. They do have people whose job it is to monitor the changes and updates, but I still think some caution is needed.
Hi Julie,
ReplyDeleteI totally understand the proceed with caution on wikis. As I made note on my blog I learned the hard and fast way. I was told to make changes. Talk about having "fear" to hit the save button. It all a matter of doing it a few times to get comfortable. As Debbie point out, it's very important that students use wikipedia as a resource, a secondary at least because they aren't always the most accurate. I try to use it for a brief understanding of something but always find other resources.
I have a feeling you'll be editing your wiki a lot in the future. Enjoy and have fun doing it.