Wikipedia:Canada Education Program/Courses/Kaleidoscope 2013 (Temp)/Course description

Course description
Wikipedia is the go-to place of choice for students when starting their research assignments. Learn how to use the draw of Wikipedia to teach critical assessment of its usefulness as a resource in comparison with other online encyclopedia and scholarly resources. In edition, Wikipedia is an easy platform for teaching students how to edit a wiki, use a type of mark-up tagging and interact with their classmates online. This session will provide you with hands-on practice on editing in the Wikipedia “sandbox”, to demonstrate how easy it is to do.

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