TechKnowFile
Today I gave a presentation with Derek Williams, a History professor at UTM, at TechKnowFile, the U of T IT staff conference. Right before this started we discovered that they had booked us into a room with a class in it, so we had a last minute scramble to a new room. And then somehow between leaving home this morning and unpacking to give the presentation at 3pm I lost my video out cable, which really bums me out. I loved that cable, man. But amazingly they found me one to use for the presentation.
Anyway, all this is to say, when we started this presentation I was a little off my game, but we picked it up again pretty fast. In the end it was a lot of fun and there were lots of interesting questions afterward. Derek Williams is an amazing guy and a great instructor, and we used this tech_know_file presentation as a moment to talk about what he did with his Latin American history class this winter term. In sum: he gave his students something beyond a grade to work for. He asked his students to improve the content of Wikipedia.
You can download and listen to the presentation here: Wikis on the Move: TechKnowFile.06 [19 meg file].
Edited to add: I found my video out cable. I was on my bedroom floor. Phew.
[...] I have yet to listen to the MP3 file, but Random Access Mazar had an interesting post today about a presentation given for TechKnowFile. Her co-presenter, Derek Williams, a History professor at UTM, has an amazing assignment he gives his history students. They are told to fix Wikipedia pages dealing with their topics. [...]
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