Week One Bonus Assignment
Maximum grade: 10 points
Due: 11:55 pm, Saturday, Jan. 29
Where: Post your assignment to the class Blog. See instructions below.
Criteria: Review this Discussion Forum Rubric. Use it as a guide for assessing your own work. I will also use it as a scoring guide.
Wikipedia is the most popular, reader-written and edited, online encyclopedia. The name is a combination of the Hawaiian word “wiki” which means “fast” and the word “encyclopedia.” Some call the Wikipedia an irresponsible information source. Some rely on it as a handy reference. What do you think?
Instructions
1. View the video The Word - Wikiality (4:10 min.) What does the word “wikiality” mean?
2. Badke, William. "Stepping Beyond WIKIPEDIA." Educational Leadership 66.6 (2009): 54-58. Academic Search Complete. EBSCO. Web. 24 Jan. 2010. Badke is the author of Research Strategies, one of our online textbooks. Read the first two pages of the pdf version. Do you agree or disagree with Badke's observation and suggestion? Why or why not?
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