Why use Web 2.0 Tools

For those of you who attended the webinar I gave last week on why to consider using web 2.0 tools in your class, here is an example of a class assignment using Wikipedia: http://insidehighered.com/news/2007/10/29/wikipedia.

This article is a report on a presentation at the Educause conference last week given by Martha Groom, faculty at University of Washington. She asks students to write an article for Wikipedia, which requires them to write for a much larger audience than herself and also to learn to write an encyclopedia article.

Lisa Cheney-Steen