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[Faculty Focus] Wikis in the Classroom: Three Ways to Increase Student ...: I have two pbworks wikis for the courses I teach at UMass Lowell (ikesharpless.pbworks.com) and the Tufts Experimental College (animalethics.pbworks.com), and I use them for all of the above and one additional thing: weekly student uploads of links relevant to course material. It's a way for me to get my students to connect our readings to current events, and for me to integrate students who tend to participate less into class discussion without making them feel too vulnerable.

[The Sociable] How Europeana, crowdsourcing & wiki principles are preserving ...: pAs the Europeana digitisation roadshow starts in Germany this week we spoke to Jonathan Purday, Senior Communications Advisor at Europeana.eu, formally of the British Library, about how social media, crowdsourcing, and wiki-principles are preserving European history and bringing academia and the public closer together.

[Teo-Education.Com] Teo-Education.Com » Blog Archive » Wikis in the Classroom: Three ...: One interesting section of the wiki is called “Just for Fun.” This is a place for students to load links to funny stories or videos related to course content. You would be surprised how much is out there.

[Computational Cosmology] Discussion: Doing Science in the Open | Computational Cosmology:  I brought up a similar point in supporting open-source software through documentation, mailing lists, and IRC chat rooms, which has similar problems as blogging.  We don’t necessarily hire people to support open-source software in science, and the burden usually falls onto the core developers to maintain the code’s presence and usability.

[Innovation Watch - Leader's Bookshelf] Innovation Watch » Wiki Brands: Reinventing Your Company in a ...: Wiki Brands: Reinventing Your Company in a Customer-Driven Marketplace. By Sean Moffitt and Mike Dover. McGraw-Hill. Buy this book on Amazon. Wiki Brands: Reinventing Your Company in a Customer-Driven Marketplace. by Sean Moffitt ...

[Mark Kolier's Blog] Wikipedia – crowdsourcing making the world a better place: It was only in 2005, after Wales first began his efforts to identify himself as the sole founder of Wikipedia by downplaying Sanger’s early role, that Wales first claimed that he had actually initially heard of the wiki concept in 2001 not from Sanger, but instead from Jeremy Rosenfeld. Wales had also been quoted in the press as far back as October 2001, stating that it was ‘Larry (who) had the idea to use Wiki software.’

[The ExactTarget Blog] Jimmy Wales and The Power of One Wiki - Charlie McAtee's PR ...: One of the audience questions I particularly loved was around homework assignments, and teachers who ban students from turning to Wikipedia. Wales responded that trying to tell kids not to use Wikipedia is like telling them not to listen to rock music.

[Search Engine Journal] Google Introduces Wiki-Like Map Maker Guides | Search Engine ...: Makerpeda lets users make additions and edits on a variety of guides, which range from 101 material on using Map Maker to in-depth guides on specialized tasks, like mapping a local university. Map Makerpedia also highlights some of the major charitable projects from Google that have been built with Map Maker, including flood and disease mapping.

[Crowdsourcing Questions & Answers - latest questions] Google+ integration - Crowdsourcing Questions & Answers: Crowdsourcing Questions & Answers logo · login about faq · questionstagsusersbadgesunanswered ... toggle preview, community wiki ... How do people get the tweet and like button on every blog entry that they do? Google: to Buzz or not to ...

[Enterprise 2.0 Blog] Enterprise 2.0 Blog » Blog Archive » A Conference Focused on the ...: In November, I’ll be attending the conference once more and I am very excited about the community sessions because they offer case studies, new thinking, an operational focus, and some amazing speakers. Included are the following sessions:

[Next Chapter] Next Chapter | Blog | Next Chapter: Crowd Sourcing and Ethnography: When I hear about something new, the first place I go is Wikipedia. I find that this gives me an overview or limited insight into the issue to give me a greater spectrum of tools to search for my topic on databases and book stores.

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