Wikipedia:Not The Wikipedia Weekly/Episode 41

=== ; Date and time === 31 March 2009

Length: 59m 43s

= Topics discussed in this episode
= Links:
 * Robert Cummings book Lazy Virtues: Teaching Writing in the Age of Wikipedia
 * The value of theory in understanding the teaching of writing and the value of Wikipedia assignments
 * The role of audience in student writing
 * Student buy-in
 * Participants' experiences with Wikipedia assignments
 * Inside Higher Ed - Opinion piece by Robert Cummings, with ensuing discussion among academics and others. The commenter who suggests Cummings be brought up for tenure review is Jon Awbrey, a banned former Wikipedian who comments on many Wikipedia-related stories in a similarly negative vein.
 * The Color Purple (film) (Wikirank statistics for the book and film articles, grokstats statistics for the film)
 * Durova's link - Potential restorations
 * Robert said in chat: "I would suggest that anyone who would like to author content on Wiki/Wikipedia writing assignments, who needs/wants academic credit for peer review of those contributions, consider: http://writingspaces.org/ "

= Participants
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 * Robert Cummings, author of Lazy Virtues: Teaching Writing in the Age of Wikipedia (Vanderbilt University Press, 2009)
 * User:Awadewit
 * User:Ragesoss
 * User:John Broughton
 * User:Durova
 * User:AEG English4994