[Asis-l] Second Life journal club discussing article about wikipedia: Tuesday 22 Nov

[Sheila A Webber]

When: Tuesday 22 November 2011, 12 noon SL time (which is the same as
US Pacific Time & is 8pm UK time: see http://tinyurl.com/d9vqr5h for
times elsewhere)
Where: In the virtual world, Second Life,
http://slurl.com/secondlife/Infolit%20iSchool/106/208/30/   You need a
SL avatar, and the SL browser on your computer, to participate.

I will lead discussion on:
Head, A. and Eisenberg, M. (2010) How today’s college students use
Wikipedia for course-related research. First Monday, 15 (3). Retrieved
7 November from
http://firstmonday.org/htbin/cgiwrap/bin/ojs/index.php/fm/article/viewArticle/2830/2476

We will discuss questions including:
1) Is your use of Wikipedia similar to that of the students surveyed
in this study?
2) If you yourself work in a school or college, is your students' use
of Wikipedia similar to those in the study?
3) The students were studying in the USA. If you are not based in the
USA, do you think that use of Wikipedia is similar in your own
country?
4) Do you think the methodology (data collection and analysis) was
suitable to achieve the authors' research aims and the literature
review was adequate?
5) What did you think was the most interesting finding?

Discussion will be in text chat
A Centre for Information Literacy Research event

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Sheila Webber, Senior Lecturer & Director of the Centre for
Information Literacy Research, Information School, The University of
Sheffield, 211 Portobello Street, Sheffield, S1 4DP. UK
s.webber at sheffield.ac.uk
Phone: +44 114 222 2641
Second Life & Twitter: Sheila Yoshikawa
The Information Literacy Weblog http://information-literacy.blogspot.com/