Wikipedia?

Created by William J. Allen (Arkansas State University) on January 05, 2007

I appreciate the comments on my last post.

In terms of student privacy I already include in my syllabus a statement that the other students in the class will see student posts in the Bb discussion board and I suggest that if a student is uncomfortable with that circumstance that they should withdraw from the class (nobody ever has).

In terms of legalities, I wonder if an obvious answer is to simply use Wikipedia as the class site. I start an article and show the students how to add, edit, etc. Would the legal onus then fall on Wikipedia and not on me?

Submitted by StuartYeates on Tue, 2007/01/09 - 4:54am.
Wikipedia has strict rules about content. They're aiming to build an encyclopedia, and any pages which are not encyclopedic are subject to removal.
Submitted by wallen on Mon, 2007/01/08 - 3:27pm.
I was unaware of the link. I will follow it and see what I find. Thanks.
Submitted by kguidry on Sat, 2007/01/06 - 12:07pm.
I presume you've read about some of the other existing projects in Wikipedia. If not, that's probably a really good starting point to see what others have done, what they're doing, and how they've dealt with the potential issues.