For my school's wikipedia site, I added some countries to the list of our students' nationalities. There were a few that I know of missing, so I added that information. You can see a screen shot of the wiki page here. I'm not sure why it is pixelated, but you can click on the link above to get to the wikipedia site itself.
The wiki I created is https://cep811-wiki.wikispaces.com and was my first attempt at creating a wiki. I was unsure of the wiki at first as I have attempted to use them in prior classes and did not enjoy the experience. I think I did not have as much information as to how they work and the benefits they provide when I tried to use them before. Also, the professors who used them may not have known how to best organize the course's content with a wiki, further adding to my confusion and frustration with wikis. As I experiment with wikis and become more comfortable with them, I may even begin to see how I could use them in my classroom. I'm not exactly sure how I would do this yet, but using them myself is the first step to figuring it all out.
I had also heard that editing Wikipedia was easy and that was why it was not the greatest source, but I did not know how easy it was until I did it! I was amazed! It really opened my eyes.
ReplyDeleteI know what you mean-- I could not believe how easy it was to change the Wikipedia page. Easy, and SCARY. It's one thing to post things to your own blog or website where a limited number of people will read it. But I actually found it somewhat frightening that anybody in the world might stumble across what I had written. Made the world feel about three inches big.
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