[Air-L] assigning students their college/university wikipedia page

[Darren Purcell]

Hello all,

I have offered the assignment to students in my Political Geography course
over the last 2 years. To date I have had only one person out of 130
students do it. He took on a controversial topic and found himself defending
his work as it was being changed and edited a great deal.

My theory as to why more students did not take it on is that they don't see
themselves as producers of knowledge yet.  I can not confirm this, nor have
I asked why they do not. I just see looks of horror on their faces at the
suggestion .

Darren Purcell

On Mon, Nov 10, 2008 at 3:39 PM, Jankowski <nickjan at xs4all.nl> wrote:

> David:
>
> On the Vanderbilt Univ site is an audio interview with history professor
> Michael Bess who used the WP Discussion Page of a Wikipedia article ("Atomic
> Bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki") as some of the source material for a
> course on historical methods. See:
> http://blogs.vanderbilt.edu/cftpodcast/?paged=2
> http://www.vanderbilt.edu/historydept/michaelbess/Hist%20200
>
> Nick Jankowski
>
>
> At 22:19 10-11-2008, you wrote:
>
>  I would also like to hear about people's experiences with assigning
>> projects that involve creating/editing WP content.
>>
>> To that end, there is a WP page dedicated to its use in school projects:
>> <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:School_and_university_projects>
>>
>> -mz
>>
>> --
>> Michael Zimmer, PhD
>> Assistant Professor, School of Information Studies
>> Associate, Center for Information Policy Research
>> University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
>> e: zimmerm at uwm.edu
>> w: www.michaelzimmer.org
>>
>>
>>
>> On Nov 10, 2008, at 2:44 PM, David M Silver wrote:
>>
>>  aoir people,
>>>
>>> has anyone had any experience with assigning students the task of
>>> altering, improving, and tweaking their university page on
>>> wikipedia? in
>>> other words, has anyone assigned their college/university wikipedia
>>> page
>>> as a site of construction for a class? if so, i'm curious to hear any
>>> anecdotes, experiences, best-practices, relevant readings, and
>>> anything
>>> else you wish to share.
>>>
>>> david silver
>>> http://silverinsf.blogspot.com
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Darren Purcell
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Assistant Professor and Undergraduate Advisor
Dept. of Geography
University of Oklahoma

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