Zotero and saving Flickr images. Wowza! | Librarians Matter. I just found a way to use Zotero to save me heaps and heaps of time. I use a lot of Creative Commons images from Flickr in my presentations. I usually upload them to slideshare.net, which means I am stringent about attributing the image with a “Media Credits” slide at the end. I have been cutting and pasting the details from Flickr. With the URL, the author/date and the image title all being in different spots, this was three separate transactions that took a couple of minutes per image. Now Zotero – the Firefox extension that organises citations, saves the day. Here’ s a little video clip I made to show how it works, Using Zotero with Flickr and PowerPoint .
UPDATE: Zotero also can save, store and organise your academic citations on the web. In search of credibility: pupils' information practices in learning environments. Olof Sundin University of Gothenburg & Lund University, Department of Cultural Sciences, Lund University, Box 117, SE-221 00 Lund, Sweden Helena Francke Swedish School of Library and Information Science, University of Borås, SE-501 90 Borås, Sweden Introduction In today's late modern information and education sector, teachers and librarians exercise less control of the learning environment than they used to. Educational ideals and methods that take advantage of and incorporate the changing media scene characterised by networked digital media have become increasingly popular. In schools, pupils are no longer dependent on carefully selected textbooks or the authoritative collections in the school library. Rather, they face and can take advantage of a vast, often unstructured, mass of information, something which encourages a change in information habits (Rowlands et al. 2008; Todd 2008).
Lately, the Web has also exploded with different kinds of user-created and collaborative resources. Individual knowledge in the internet. Putting Wikipedia to the Test: A Case Study. Wikipedia and osteosarcoma: a trustworthy patients' information? Wikis and Wikipedia as a Teaching Tool. Editor’s Note: This paper leads us from the basics of wikis for teaching and learning to Wikipedia and a whole new concept of productive activity for faculty and students. It explains the value of wikis for teaching and learning as compared to web pages. It goes on to show the power of open source learning and the Wikipedia. Most important, it shows how the Wikipedia and global peer review can directly and immediately influence the quality and relevance of teaching and learning in classrooms and learning spaces today. Piotr Konieczny Abstract Wikis are a very versatile and easy-to-use tool that is finding increasing applications in teaching and learning.
Wikipedia can be used for various assignments: for example, students can be asked to reference an unreferenced article or create a completely new one. Introduction Recently some new technology-related buzzwords have been making their rounds around the campuses. Wikis are collaborative websites where anybody can edit and publish. Whither Wikipedia? You’ve got to feel a bit for Wikipedia cofounder Jimmy Wales. Here’s a guy with a fairly simple but incredibly powerful idea: Create a way for people to share what they know with the wider world and in the process build a resource that can be of great benefit to everyone. As he said in a recent message to the Wikipedia community, “One person writes something, somebody improves it a little, and it keeps getting better, over time.”
Later, in bold face, he says, “Imagine a world in which every single person on the planet has free access to the sum of all human knowledge.” Lofty stuff, and you can’t deny he and the project have been incredibly successful. I can’t help wondering, though, whether it has all turned out quite the way he had in mind. It doesn’t take advertising, so there’s the continuing need to raise funds. There are other darker clouds on the Wikihorizon. Those might someday spell difficulty for the project, if the product starts to dim in terms of usefulness or interest. How College Students Seek Information in the Digital Age.
An evaluation of medical knowledge contained in Wikipedia and its use in the LOINC database. The Grinch Who Stole the Semester - Advice. By Peter S. Cahn In the last days of the semester, the gulf between students and faculty members seems even larger than usual. Professors trade stories of escalating outrage about the latest sign that undergraduates care little about their studies. They turn in final papers riddled with misspellings and a bibliography consisting only of Wikipedia entries. They cram all of their studying into the night before a final, sending panicky e-mail queries time-stamped 2 a.m. Surely, we tell ourselves, education was the top priority in our student days. But I've begun to wonder if the halcyon days of self-motivated students ever existed. A few months ago, I joined four colleagues in a seminar room to conduct an oral examination of a Ph.D. student.
The oral examination itself ran smoothly, although I noticed as it continued into the second hour that one committee member was sneaking glimpses at his iPhone. One of the most common symptoms of student indifference is high absenteeism in class. Volunteers in Wikipedia: Why the Community Matters. The Quality of Open Source Production: Zealots and Good Samaritans in the Case of Wikipedia. News: A Stand Against Wikipedia. As Wikipedia has become more and more popular with students, some professors have become increasingly concerned about the online, reader-produced encyclopedia. While plenty of professors have complained about the lack of accuracy or completeness of entries, and some have discouraged or tried to bar students from using it, the history department at Middlebury College is trying to take a stronger, collective stand. It voted this month to bar students from citing the Web site as a source in papers or other academic work.
All faculty members will be telling students about the policy and explaining why material on Wikipedia -- while convenient -- may not be trustworthy. "As educators, we are in the business of reducing the dissemination of misinformation," said Don Wyatt, chair of the department. "Even though Wikipedia may have some value, particularly from the value of leading students to citable sources, it is not itself an appropriate source for citation," he said. Wikipedia - Explained By Common Craft - Common Craft - Our Product is Explanation. You've probably seen encyclopedias.
Whether you're settling an argument or researching a school project, these books can hold the answers. These days though, the world moves so fast, it's hard for books that were written months or years ago to keep up. Thankfully we have a new kind of encyclopedia that's online, free, built by thousands of people and changes every day. The idea that thousands of volunteers could create an online encyclopedia doesn't sound possible, but thanks to new technology and specific policies, Wikipedia has become one the top 5 sites on the Web. To see how it works, let's get started with the "wiki" in Wikipedia.
Being a wiki means that Wikipedia is always changing. This means every change to Wikipedia is reviewed and must abide by two big rules: The first is verifiability, which is necessary to ensure high quality. Requiring contributors to cite these resources in articles and quotations ensures Wikipedia articles are factual and high quality. Second Life. Built into the software is a three-dimensional modeling tool based on simple geometric shapes that allows residents to build virtual objects. There is also a procedural scripting language, Linden Scripting Language, which can be used to add interactivity to objects. Sculpted prims (sculpties), mesh, textures for clothing or other objects, animations, and gestures can be created using external software and imported. The Second Life terms of service provide that users retain copyright for any content they create, and the server and client provide simple digital rights management (DRM) functions.[3] However, Linden Lab changed their terms of service in August 2013, to be able to use user-generated content for any purpose.
The new terms of service prevents users from using textures from 3rd-party texture services, as some of them pointed out explicitly.[5] Users can also photograph in Second Life with the camera technology the client programs have. History[edit] 10th anniversary[edit] Semapedia.org: index. Policies and guidelines. Wikipedia policies and guidelines are developed by the community to describe best practice, clarify principles, resolve conflicts, and otherwise further our goal of creating a free, reliable encyclopedia. There is no need to read any policy or guideline pages to start editing. The five pillars is a popular summary of the most pertinent principles. Although Wikipedia does not employ hard-and-fast rules, Wikipedia policy and guideline pages describe its principles and best-known practices. Policies explain and describe standards that all users should normally follow, while guidelines are meant to outline best practices for following those standards in specific contexts.
Policies and guidelines should always be applied using reason and common sense. This policy page specifies the community standards related to the organization, life cycle, maintenance of, and adherence to policies, guidelines, and related pages. Derivation Role Adherence Enforcement Content Policy and guideline pages should: Comparison of wiki software. What to Do With Wikipedia. Infolitland What to Do With Wikipedia By William Badke, Trinity Western University If you want to get five opinions from four information professionals, just mention Wikipedia. Often banned by professors, panned by traditional reference book publishers, and embraced by just about everyone else, Wikipedia marches on like a great beast, growing larger and more commanding every day. With no paid editors and written by almost anyone, it shouldn’t have succeeded, but it has.
In fact, it’s now emerged as the No. 1 go-to information source in the world. It’s used not only by the great unwashed but also by many educated people as well. ONLINE reported on the Pew Internet & American Life Project’s findings that 36% of the American population regularly consult Wikipedia (July/August 2007, p. 6). Admit it—you use Wikipedia too. Some Just Don’t Like It There are detractors. WikIpedia’s Edge Though traditional encyclopedia producers disdain it, Wikipedia has an edge in one area—currency. 1. 2. 3. Abusive Wikipedia Biographical Editorial Process: a case study in problematic alternative forms of governance?
Using Wikipedia in the Classroom. Wikipedia Lesson Plan : Weblogg-ed » 2005 » July » 12. (via David Warlick) Andy Carvin comes up with lesson plan that gets the most out of the unverifiableness of Wikipedia. Bottom line, use it to teach the type of information literacy skills we should be applying to much of what we read these days: Here’s a quick scenario. Take a group of fifth grade students and break them into groups, with each group picking a topic that interests them. Any topic. I would only add one step to this and that is to have a Wikipedia Party at the end to reflect on why this process is so important these days and how to apply it to other sources. What can we say in general about the accuracy of Wikipedia and our use of it in research?