Recorded 31 March 2009.

Participants:

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Planning

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Based on Awadewit's suggestion here, this is the organizing page for a podcast discussion of using Wikipedia as a teaching tool, particularly with editing assignments for students.

Interest list

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Logistics

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Later this week might be a good time to hold this discussion. Any preferred times or times that generally don't work?

  • Awadewit: Preferred times: Afternoon and evenings, EST
  • JimmyButler: Unfortunately my work hours are a tad long, 7:00AM - 7:30PM EST; however, if there is an opening I would be delighted to share. If not, then perhaps my students would offer an interesting perspective on such projects. I have two in mind; one that has reached FA and another currently dealing with the frustrations. Both are articulate - both would offer honest insights.

Also, we need someone with podcast experience to do the recording. Volunteers?

Potential times

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Topics for discussion

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  • Lazy Virtues: Teaching Writing in the Age of Wikipedia
    • Lazyness
    • Using theory to understand Wikipedia (economic theory, rhetorical theory, other possibilities)
  • Student attitudes to Wikipedia
  • Teacher attitudes to Wikipedia
  • What works, what doesn't and why
  • Sample assignments and the benefits of each to students and to Wikipedia
  • "Home-base" for assignments - on or off wiki?
  • Using wiki software to create assignments apart from Wikipedia
  • whatever you want to discuss

Report on discussion

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I just found out about this discussion. If you had an interesting discussion, perhaps you could include a short report in the Signpost? I think the usefulness of Wikipedia in schools is a topic of wide interest. Best regards, -- Ssilvers (talk) 21:32, 20 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

I'm going to point to this discussion when we publish the in-progress reviews of Lazy Virtues.--ragesoss (talk) 23:25, 20 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]