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Google Wave in higher education?

Dec 3, 2009

in Education, Technology

collaboration, collaborative authoring environment, collaborative editing, Gina Trapani, Google, google wave, higher education, internet access, leo laporte, online sources, scholarly document editor, search strategies, wave

I just got my invite for Google Wave and I feel like a little kid with a new toy, only I don’t know what the toy is, or how it works, or what (if anything) I’m supposed to do with it. Apparently I’m not alone (keep hitting Refresh to get different comparisons). I’m not going…
Wikipedia as a reference (part II)

Sep 23, 2008

in Open access, Technology

citations, online sources, reference, wikipedia

Edit (25/09/08): Here’s an article discussing the use of Wikipedia by students. It’s interesting because of the subject but also because it gives some insight into the research method used to come up with the data. A few months ago I mentioned the fact that the use of Wikipedia as a source of credible information for…