Posts
Below you'll find my Hand Picked Headline News today.
Making Wikis Work for Scholars
By Andy Guess
Even if they won’t admit it, students are using Wikipedia to kick off their research and fill the gaps in their class notes ... right now. It might not show up in the bibliography, but the free, open source online resource has long since become the starting point for settling factual disputes, brainstorming paper ideas and even offering suggestions for further reading.
If that’s an open secret, then so is this: For all the hand-wringing over whether Wikipedia is a legitimate source for completing college assignments, some professors are quietly incorporating it into their classrooms and even their research. Others, noting features of the Web site that contribute to inaccuracies and shortchange the value of expertise, are building variations on the model that are more amenable to academics and to peer review.
Source: Inside Higher Ed
Social-networking apps can pose security risks
Experts warn users to be careful about what they post...and download
Using those cool little applications designed to enhance social networking sites like MySpace and Facebook can make personal information as public as posting it on a billboard.Trouble is, most students (and educators) never have a clue.
Consider Sarah Brown. She's unusually cautious when it comes to social networking. The college sophomore doesn't have a MySpace page and, while she's on Facebook, she does everything she can to keep her page as private as she can.
Related links
Source: eSchool News
Film School: To Spice Up Course Work, Professors Make Their Own Videos
By JEFFREY R. YOUNG
Sometimes Edward J. Berger leaves class with the nagging feeling that some of his engineering students at the University of Virginia just aren't getting it. Maybe the concept he was trying to get across was too abstract. So he heads back to his office, films himself working through an actual problem, and posts the video to the course blog.
Most of the students tune in, even though watching is optional and the cinematic style is not the kind of thing that fills seats at the multiplex.
Most of the students tune in, even though watching is optional and the cinematic style is not the kind of thing that fills seats at the multiplex.
