ACTIVITY:
Your students are completing a community project where they are asked to solve a community problem by presenting their idea to the city town council.
You are considering ways that students can document evidence of their learning and thinking so that others can see the process behind their project . Your school district has an ePortfolio software tool, but the students want to share their learning with the public.
Questions:
Editing Wikipedia
“Don’t cite Wikipedia, write Wikipedia.” - Ewan McAndrew
Editing and writing Wikipedia articles are powerful ways for educators and students to share scholarly knowledge in an authentic and public way, and to develop information and digital literacy skills.
The following resources from the Wikimedian in Residence project at the University of Edinburgh provide further information and tools:
Here is a link from a previous workshop on editing Wikipedia at NUI Galway;