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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

Discovering keywords

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

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