{"id":10594,"date":"2005-07-11T10:20:12","date_gmt":"2005-07-11T10:20:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/libtest\/2005\/07\/11\/wikis_and_the_c\/"},"modified":"2014-01-29T20:20:00","modified_gmt":"2014-01-29T20:20:00","slug":"wikis_and_the_c","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/librarynews\/2005\/07\/11\/wikis_and_the_c\/","title":{"rendered":"Wikis and the Classroom"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An interesting article in this week&#8217;s Chronicle of Higher Education (51.45 (15 July 2005): A35) (the <a href=\"http:\/\/chronicle.com\/article\/Romantic-Poetry-Meets\/15723\/\">online version<\/a> may require a password, inquire from one of us and we can give it to you) about using wikis in the classroom. It focuses on professor Mark Phillipson&#8217;s use of a class wiki to get his students writing about Romantic poetry. The article briefly discusses the uses and benefits of a wiki for annotation, discussion, writing, and class participation.  If you don&#8217;t know what a wiki is (and that article doesn&#8217;t explain it well enough for you) check out <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Wiki\">this article<\/a> from the most famous wiki, the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/\">Wikipedia<\/a>. Wikipedia has garnered a lot of media attention (especially from librarians) because it is a publicly editable (anyone can edit it) online encyclopedia. Like any other reference source it has its pluses and minuses, but many fear that the lack of traditional peer-review negates its utility as a reference for information.  &#8211;Derik A Badman<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An interesting article in this week&#8217;s Chronicle of Higher Education (51.45 (15 July 2005): A35) (the online version may require a password, inquire from one of us and we can give it to you) about using wikis in the classroom. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/librarynews\/2005\/07\/11\/wikis_and_the_c\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":605,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3],"tags":[7,6],"class_list":["post-10594","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-library-news","tag-hot-topics","tag-top-news"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/librarynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10594","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/librarynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/librarynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/librarynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/605"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/librarynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10594"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/librarynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10594\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/librarynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10594"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/librarynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10594"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/librarynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10594"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}