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What About Wikipedia?

I’ve just created a page about using Wikipedia on the WRDSB Library Learning Commons website, and thought I’d share it here. The focus is on being your own filter in assessing the quality of Wikipedia articles, using Wikipedia’s own social … Continue reading

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Teaching More Than Wikipedia

(Originally posted January 18, 2011 on Blogger) In my last post I chastised Wikipediphobics and encouraged them to learn about this most popular reference source and to teach their students how to use it properly. This time I’ll take a … Continue reading

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Teaching Wikipedia

(Originally posted January 16, 2011 on Blogger) Teaching Wikipedia was the title of a presentation I did at the Ontario Library Association‘s Super Conference 2008. I had, before that, done a similar session for The Partnership’s Education Institute and for … Continue reading

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