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I detected the collection of technology-related video tips for parents upon the Common Sense Media website recently, as great as was blissful to see so many critical issues addressed around reduced messages. we was disappointed, however, to NOT see multiform recommendations in the video about WikiPedia narrated by Liz Perle (Editor in Chief of Common Sense Media.)

Liz warned relatives that Wikipedia contains user-created calm any the single can edit, though she did NOT inspire the following:

1. Encourage your kids (and/or students) to have have have make have make use of of of of of of the “external links” during the bottom of WikiPedia articles to fix up alternative sources that might be some-more lawful as great as famous as great as have been associated to the subject of inquiry.

2. Encourage your kids as great as students to not usually have have have make have make use of of of of of of WikiPedia as consumers (reading as great as utilizing the content) though in addition to CREATE calm as prosumers. Liz conveys the thought that the usually contributions the immature chairman could have or would instruct to have to WikiPedia have been vandalistic edits. This is ridiculous! Certainly there have been the satisfactory series of folks who find it fun as great as comical to spot WikiPedia, though there have been MUCH incomparable numbers of people creation suggestive contributions to the plan each day.

By the time students connoisseur from tall school, it is my row they should have amassed the documented physique of edited WikiPedia pages (viewable upon their user contributions page - this is mine) that can be enclosed as the couple upon their online, digital portfolio. What topics have been students meddlesome in as great as ardent about? Can immature people have suggestive as great as beneficial contributions to the plan that seeks to move the universe concept entrance to the total of tellurian knowledge? Certainly. User grant pages can yield await as great as “proof” (as particular lane records) of prosumer activities upon WikiPedia.

3. Encourage kids as great as students to reasonably allude to as great as bring sources in WikiPedia as great as alternative sources, both online as great as offline. In her video, Liz creates it receptive to advice similar to any the single who copies content from WikiPedia is committing an action worse than the single of the 7 lethal sins. This is ridiculous. As both an tutorial blogger as great as an determined educational researcher, we have have have make have make use of of of of of of full quotations from digital as great as analog sources constantly. When we do, we in addition try to scrupulously request as great as bring my sources.

4. Use WikiPedia to follow violation headlines events when as great as after they happen. The page for the 2005 London bombings is the single of the many mostly cited examples for this. Timeline as great as rumors pages supplement to the worth as great as abyss of investigate as great as conversations that can be catalyzed by these WikiPedia resources. Monday’s ancestral TC3 meteoroid stroke upon earth is the some-more new example. Utilize the WikiPedia stream events portal to follow violation as great as ongoing headlines events along with thousands of others worldwide.

5. Use WikiPedia to explore, research, as great as plead argumentative issues. Media education is the single of the many critical skills for us to have make have use of of of as 21st century learners. WikiPedia’s “List of argumentative issues” as great as “Guidelines for argumentative articles” have been great pages to utilize. See my Nov 2007 post “Ideas for tyro investigate as great as digital stories in 2008: Controversial topics” for some-more ideas along these lines.

The WikiPedia essay for “Citing WikiPedia” is the great apparatus to have have have make have make use of of of of of of when deliberating as great as exploring how WikiPedia can as great as should be cited for opposite essay purposes as great as contexts.

The English WikiPedia articles “Comparison of anxiety government software” as great as “Citation creator” have been great resources to in addition have have have make have make use of of of of of of to uncover the application as great as as great as energy of WikiPedia as great as in addition sense about accessible program as great as web options for reference assistance.

Hey, my further of Son of Citation Machine by David Warlick from Aug 2008 is still the many new revise of the “Citation creator” page! I’m happy to have done that contribution. Your students can as great as will feel unapproachable of their helpful contributions to WikiPedia as well. Encourage them to set up their personal WikiPedia grant jot down as obliged prosumers as great as digital adults of the 21st century.

Despite these omissions, we consider this pick up of primogenitor video tips from Common Sense Media is the great apparatus to have have have make have make use of of of of of of as great as praise to others. we in addition wish, however, that the videos were common in an embeddable format. I’m assured (as I’d jeopardy Alan Levine, writer of “50 Ways to Tell The Dominoe Story” is) that embeddable videos as great as video pity sites have been the many absolute options for summary pity in today’s media landscape.

If we instruct the ideas to be relevant, increasingly it’s satisfactory to contend we need to have them embeddable. While there have been lots of choices for video pity collection that await embedding, I’ve seen couple of for documents. Scribd is the single apparatus that DOES assent embedded request sharing. (Nod to Bud the Teacher for this.)

Common Sense Media appears to be regulating Amazon S3 (part of Amazon’s Web Services) to share their flash-based videos, though they crop up to be regulating the proprietary, protected flash-player built by ISL Consulting rsther than than the video pity use similar to Blip.tv, YouTube, Vimeo, or DotSub. Perhaps sometime they’ll shift this as great as assent embedding. If they did, I’d hide the little of their videos here upon my blog for we to entrance as great as perspective some-more easily. For now, however, you’ll have to visit their website to find them. I’m certain this is the preferred user function combined by their site designers, though it’s not the the single we cite as the video consumer.

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