How Wikipedia Works

On Saturday evening while I was out having dinner I overheard a conversation that sounded like a father telling his daughter (I can't co...

Wikihood World Browser - Part Map, Part Wikipedia

Wikihood World Browser is a neat combination of Google Maps and Wikipedia. The goal of Wikihood World Browser is to provide visual, geo-loc...

WikiTube Adds Videos to Wikipedia Entries

WikiTube is a nice Chrome extension that adds relevant videos to Wikipedia pages. With the extension installed and enabled just visit a Wik...

Eating Crow... Or the Speed of Wikipedia Editing

This morning at the Maine School of Science and Math my Google workshop went off the rails a bit when the topic of Wikipedia reliability cam...

Video - How Wikipedia Works

I still often hear teachers say that they don't allow students to use Wikipedia for anything. That's too bad because Wikipedia artic...

Mapping Wikipedia

Mapping Wikipedia is an interesting attempt to organize Wikipedia articles and images by location. Mapping Wikipedia allows you to search f...

Wikipedia Maze - A Wikipedia Game

If you have ever found yourself or your students jumping from one link the next in Wikipedia and gotten so lost that you forgot where you st...

Try the New Wiki Summarizer Features

Last year I discovered Wiki Summarizer and almost immediately started sharing it in many of my presentations.  Wiki Summarizer  is a site t...

Textbooks, Wikipedia, and Primary Sources Comparison

I posted this yesterday on Google+ and it seems to have been well-received so I thought I'd share it again. In February of 2010 I design...

Wiki Summarizer Outlines Wikipedia

Wiki Summarizer is a site that allows you to search Wikipedia, have articles summarized by key points, and provides lists of articles that ...

Five Ways to Visually Explore Wikipedia

Wikipedia is one of the first places that students often go to get some background information on a topic they're researching. Besides ...

Zomobo - A Real-Time Encyclopedia

Zomobo is a new site that bills itself as a real-time encyclopedia. Zomobo, like the similar Mashpedia , pulls the latest information avail...

Wikihood - A Wikipedia and Google Maps Mashup

Wikihood is a neat way to explore the world in your web browser. Wikihood is one part Wikipedia and one part Google Maps. There are two way...

Ten Years of Wikipedia Animated

Wikipedia turned ten years old this month. Like anything that lives for ten years, Wikipedia has changed over those years. The State of Wiki...

Need Primary Documents? Try the Avalon Project

The Avalon Project is a free resource that I use on a regular basis with a couple of my US History classes. The Avalon Project, produced ...

Let's Get Video on Wikipedia

Let's Get Video on Wikipedia is a joint project of five organizations including Miro, Kaltura, and the Wikimedia Foundation. As the nam...

Wikipedia in Plain English

Last week I had a student tell me that one of his other teachers doesn't allow the class to use Wikipedia for anything. Unfortunately, t...

Wikipedia Explained by Common Craft

Lee and Sachi Lefever have once again created a great video that educators should watch. Wikipedia Explained by Common Craft uses Common Cr...

Wiki Mind Map - Visual Webs of Wikipedia Entries

Wiki Mind Map is a resource for visually exploring Wikipedia. Wiki Mind Map is essentially a search engine for Wikipedia articles that use...

Wikipedia in the Classroom, David Warlick's Comments

Yesterday, I published a post titled Textbooks, Wikipedia, and Primary Source Research . That post generated some responses that somewhat su...