Jeff Utecht – Educator, Consultant, Author
Posts tagged wikipedia
Taking control of your school’s profile: Where to start
May 22nd
So I woke up this morning to find that my post last night on school’s taking control of their profiles has started a little conversation. I gave a talk on this topic to educators and administrators at the EARCOS conference in March that scared a few, made a few jump into action, and others left shaking their heads not knowing what to do.
So where do you start? First you need to understand that I work at a private international school. At the end of the day we are serving customers and need to understand where our customers are coming from and where More >
Schools: Take control or forfeit your profile
May 21st
Who is controlling your school’s online profile?
In my presentation to educators I usually say:
You need to take control of your online presence, because if you don’t…someone else will!
Do schools have someone looking after their online profile?
Do we need to create a new position in the communication office?
I just got done editing my school’s wikipedia entry where someone had put false information on the site. It was brought to my attention today by a teacher who was told by a student about the edits made to the article.
Funny enough as I’m writing this blog post I go back to the page to More >
Wikireader or Wikicreator
Mar 31st
Yesterday in my presentation I talked about how educators and schools view Wikipedia. Where some schools have blocked the site and other schools have not blocked the site. How some teachers are allowing students to use it as a research site, while others are not.
This is still in debate, but I think we’re missing the bigger picture of what Wikipedia or Wikibooks allows us to do. We need to quit looking at Wikipedia as the end result and instead look at it as part of the learning process. Why not go to Wikipedia and use it as a learning device. More >
Gollum browser-The Wikipedia Browser
Jan 18th
Our web designer here at school just e-mailed this to me.
Gollum Browser works best with Firefox and opens and overlays a layer on Firefox that allows you to quickly and easily search Wikipedia articles. If Wikipedia is blocked at your school is this away around it? I was impressed with the speed. Wikipedia is blocked here in China, but I had no problem accessing it through this site.
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