Skip to content

Edwired

Teaching History in the Digital Age

Menu
  • Blog
  • Scholarship
  • Teaching
  • Service
  • Speaking
  • Media
  • RRCHNM
  • Me
Menu

Tag: Wikis

My Students Weigh In

Posted on January 30, 2007January 30, 2007 by Mills

I alerted the students in my Western Civ course to the decision by the folks at Middlebury College to ban Wikipedia from being cited in essays. Here’s what some of my students had to say in response.

Read more

Why I Won’t Get Hired at Middlebury

Posted on January 26, 2007January 27, 2007 by Mills

Oh my. It’s a good thing I’m not a finalist for a job at Middlebury College, because my decision to assign the Wikipedia as the textbook in my Western Civ course this semester flies in the face of a decision the History Department there has made to ban students from citing Wikipedia in any of…

Read more

Wikipedia in the Classroom

Posted on December 30, 2006 by Mills

Two weeks ago I was in a meeting at the National Endowment for the Humanities and Bruce Cole, Chairman of the Endowment, asked those in attendance what we thought about the Wikipedia. I went first and tossed out the bombshell that I’m using Wikipedia as my textbook in Western Civ next semester. Needless to say,…

Read more

The Dustbin of (Wiki) History

Posted on December 4, 2006December 26, 2006 by Mills

I suppose it had to happen. The volunteer editors at Wikipedia have begun deleting entries from the massive online encyclopedia based upon their view of that entry’s value. On December 2, the Washington Post’s David Segal ran a story called “Look Me Up Under Missing Link,” in which he detailed the stories of several people…

Read more
  • Previous
  • 1
  • 2
  • 3
  • 4
  • 5
  • 6
  • Next

Recent Posts

  • No Wild Ducks Online
  • Hybrid Challenges
  • Lighten Up!
  • What Foundations Can Do
  • Who Knew?

Photography

  • My Portfolio
Where I do my research these days.
© 2023 Edwired | Powered by Minimalist Blog WordPress Theme