Using Wikipedia as an Effective Teaching Tool
Alexis Shpall Wolstein
Milner Library - Illinois State University
Don't cite Wikipedia!
Cite the source!
Wikipedia as a teaching tool?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia
Beginning the research process
Narrowing down a broad topic
Evaluating a source's credibility
What is Wikipedia?
Wikipedia is a collaboratively edited,
multilingual, free Internet encyclopedia
supported by the non-profit
Wikimedia Foundation.
Questions?
Wikipedia's 30 million articles in
286 languages, including over 4.2 million
in the English Wikipedia, are written
collaboratively by volunteers around the world.
Don't cite Wikipedia!
"For God's sakes, you're in college;
don't cite the encyclopedia!"
- Jimmy Wales