Presentations/Workshops
WNYC+Nancy@SXSW - 14 March 2018.
"Teaching with Wikipedia." CTLET Wikipedia Initiative, York College, CUNY. 22 February 2018.
“WP NYC College Educators Nework” - LaGuardia Community College, CUNY. 07 October 2014.
“Teaching About Wikipedia.” Professional Development Day, City College of New York Library. 28 May 2014.
“Crowdsourcing Information Worldwide: The Wikipedia Phenomenon.” Rutgers University Libraries. New Brunswick, NJ. 25 October 2011.
“Wikipedia Loves Libraries: Leveraging Library Expertise and Collections in the Wikipedia Environment.” METRO. 27 September 2011.
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"Wikipedia in the Classroom" - CUNY IT Conference 2009 - John Jay College of Criminal Justice, Dec. 4, 2009
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- What free resources online are not yet being fully explored by educators? How can we can develop new ways of teaching and creating content?
- Students report a disconnect between classroom practices and integration of educational technology. See recent CDW study: http://newsroom.cdwg.com/features/feature-11-02-09.html
- Wikipedia & Education - some common goals: free, community-driven, collaboration, citation, engagement, publicity...
- We need to start thinking about making use of this highly public, freely accessible resource. Some examples:
- Wikipedia: School and University Projects - Suggested exercises, descriptions of current projects in a range of classes.
- Wikipedia: WikiProject Murder Madness and Mayhem - The University of British Columbia's class SPAN312 ("Murder, Madness, and Mayhem: Latin American Literature in Translation") contributed to Wikipedia during Spring 2008. The goals of this highly successful project were to bring a selection of articles on Latin American literature to featured article status (or as near as possible). By project's end, they contributed three featured articles and eight good articles. None of these articles was a good article at the outset; two did not even exist.
- Wikiversity
- Some general ideas for classroom usage:
- Analysis of an entry relevant to course content.
- Supply missing references/citations to a relevant entry.
- Extra credit ideas: improve a problematic entry or create a needed one.
- Start conversations on the role of encyclopedias, comparison of information sources, citation issues, print vs. digital, authority, truth...
Wikipedia Demystified: Content, Coverage & Controversies
- LG Opening Sessions - Tuesday, September 8, 2009
- Presentation: slides
How to Edit/Contribute
Ideas for work that needs to be done