----- "Thomas Dalton" thomas.dalton@gmail.com wrote:
From: "Thomas Dalton" thomas.dalton@gmail.com To: wikimediauk-l@lists.wikimedia.org Sent: Tuesday, 14 July, 2009 16:50:09 GMT +00:00 GMT Britain, Ireland, Portugal Subject: Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Open Source Schools conference, Nottingham, Monday 20th July
Great stuff! Take a stack of Wikipedia for Schools CDs (or DVDs,
I'll try! Hope they arrive on time.
whatever it's on these days) to hand out. I guess you need to spend most of the time emphasising how to use Wikipedia properly and that, if you do use it properly, it is a good research tool so shouldn't be banned.
Yes - I guess primary and secondary school teachers aren't going to be so focused on reliability issues compared to university teachers - but I might be proved wrong!