By now you have posted an entry at your personal weblog presenting evidence to support your position on whether Wikipedia is a reliable resource. Your instructions were to do this collaboratively, discussing with others in class while you worked. But your entry on the topic is ultimately individual.
The next step in this process is to work collaboratively online using a wiki set up for the purpose. Your instructions for this class period are as follows:
- Visit http://wikipediawiki.wetpaint.com/ (aigerim, victoria, sagydnyk, dauren, akina, anastassiya) , http://wikipediawiki2.wetpaint.com/ (nataliya m, zarina, murager, natalya s), or http://wikipediawiki3.wetpaint.com/ (kristina, yulia, yekaterina, sadyk, semyon, aliya) (depending upon your group). These are the wikis I set up for our collaborative writing. I will give a brief introduction to the Wetpaint wiki tools, but mostly you will learn to use them by using them.
- Use the student entries (your own or other students’ entries) as a starting point for material you can submit on your wiki. (Use our course links to individual weblogs to find these.)
- Working collaboratively online, try to develop a statement or discussion at your wiki related to the question, Is Wikipedia a reliable resource?
- In addition to the entries already written, you may find other material or write something entirely new for your site. You may also post graphics or anything else the site allows.
- Be creative. Don’t be afraid to disagree with your collaborators. Don’t be afraid to try something different or new. Have some fun with this…
- The idea with this exercise if for you to get some experience working with a wiki tool and to see whether (and how) it affects your social interaction with your work group.
