Comments on: Wikipedia Idea http://anne.teachesme.com/2005/07/14/wikipedia-idea/ Comments, reflections and occasional brainstorms Wed, 08 Feb 2012 21:20:37 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.4-bleeding By: Anne Davis http://anne.teachesme.com/2005/07/14/wikipedia-idea/#comment-321 Anne Davis Fri, 15 Jul 2005 11:14:19 +0000 http://anne.teachesme.com/2005/07/14/wikipedia-idea/#comment-321 <a></a>Thanks for the link, Ewan. This collaboration sounds terrific. I look forward to following it. You make really good points about the planning before hand. Thanks for the link, Ewan. This collaboration sounds terrific. I look forward to following it. You make really good points about the planning before hand.

]]> By: Ewan McIntosh http://anne.teachesme.com/2005/07/14/wikipedia-idea/#comment-320 Ewan McIntosh Fri, 15 Jul 2005 09:42:28 +0000 http://anne.teachesme.com/2005/07/14/wikipedia-idea/#comment-320 <a></a>At Musselburgh, in Scotland, we are taking part in a collaborative wiki project with seven other schools as part of a celebration of the signing of the Austria State Treaty. it includes a conference of children in Graz, Austria, in October. The wiki is just starting at <a href="http://www.as-graz.org" rel="nofollow">http://www.as-graz.org</a>, but will allow pupils in the new term to put together joint web presentations and discussions on the theme of living in a Europe without borders. It should work because it is based on thorough discussion in the classroom first. The danger of wikis is that, without this kind of structured lesson beforehand, the page can begin to tell half-truths or pass opinion off as fact. Wikipedia is full of this kind of error or half-truth. At Musselburgh, in Scotland, we are taking part in a collaborative wiki project with seven other schools as part of a celebration of the signing of the Austria State Treaty. it includes a conference of children in Graz, Austria, in October. The wiki is just starting at http://www.as-graz.org, but will allow pupils in the new term to put together joint web presentations and discussions on the theme of living in a Europe without borders.

It should work because it is based on thorough discussion in the classroom first. The danger of wikis is that, without this kind of structured lesson beforehand, the page can begin to tell half-truths or pass opinion off as fact. Wikipedia is full of this kind of error or half-truth.

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