Webbies

The leading international award The Webby Awards,
http://www.webbyawards.com/webbys/current.php? honours excellence on the Internet including Websites, interactive advertising and online film and video and will be announced on May 6th. Under Education is an excellent website FactCheckEd,http://www.factchecked.org , the site states their aim is to:
"help students learn to be smart consumers of these messages, not to accept them at face value; to dig for facts using the Internet, not to stop looking once they get to Wikipedia; and to weigh evidence logically, not to draw conclusions based on their own biases." Its lesson plans include one on the accuracy of Wikepedia. The site FactCheckEd Under the guide to lesson plans is a lesson called Wikiality. The lesson plan examines the ease with which Wikipedia entries can be altered (either innocently or maliciously). Discusses the accuracy of Wikipedia as an encyclopedia and consider the usefulness of any encyclopedia as a source of information. It also searches Wikipedia for specific factual errors. Looks a great way to get our students considering the usefulness of Wikipedia.