1. Why Not Wikipedia? Appropriate Uses of Online Resources OELMA Annual Conference - October 14, 2011 Don Boozer, KnowItNow24x7 Coordinator

2. www.knowitnow.org One of INFOhio’s “21 Essential Things” learningcommons.infohio.org

3. One of INFOhio’s “21 Essential Things” learningcommons.infohio.org www.knowitnow.org

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5. Why Not Wikipedia? What is Wikipedia? What are appropriate uses of it? What about other online resources? How can I get involved?

6. What is Wikipedia? “a free, web-based, collaborative, multilingual encyclopedia project supported by the non-profit Wikimedia Foundation.”

7. What is Wikipedia? Free Web-based Collaborative Multilingual Non-profit

8. www.wikimedia.org

9. The “Googleplex”

10. www.wikimedia.org

14. “Wikipedia is not evil.”

15. Wikipedia is a tool.

16. “Anyone can edit anything!”

17. Case in point… Tecumseh

18. Added July 6, 2010, at 6:27pm

19. Deleted July 6, 2010, at 6:30pm (→Tecumseh in popular culture: self promotional - not third party coverage)→

20. Added July 11, 2010, 3:13pm

21. By the numbers… 7 th most popular website in the world 380,000,000 visitors 280+ languages 19,800,000 articles 90,000+ editors

22. By the numbers…

23. English Wikipedia equals 2,600+ printed volumes Encyclopedia Britannica

24. Wikipedia is a tool.

25. What are appropriate uses of it?

26. Introduction to a topic Popular culture Foreign language study

27. Introduction to a topic…

33. Pop culture…

44. Foreign language study…

53. What about other online resources?

54. Twitter…

55. #CMLbookchat

56. Twitter…

57. Facebook…

58. Google…

59. Google is a collection of tools.

72. How can I get involved?

73. Encourage students to edit articles

75. http://bitly.com/qbASkd

76. Connect students to the world http://bitly.com/qNEHsE

77. Encourage responsible “digital citizenship” http://bitly.com/oPTkDu

78. Use your tools wisely

79. Thank you! Evaluation posted at bit.ly/whynotwiki Slides are available at www.slideshare.net/donboozer Don Boozer KnowItNow24x7 Coordinator don@cpl.org