Comments on: Charlotte’s Wikipedia

By: NCTE: Old Books — New Journeys « educating alice

NCTE: Old Books — New Journeys « educating alice — Sun, 15 Nov 2009 15:43:13 +0000

[...] Wonderland, and The Wizard of Oz. Among other things I’ll talk about close reading with kids, Charlotte’s Wikipedia, Alice in Comic Land, and debating [...]

By: Whadabout Wikipedia? « educating alice

Whadabout Wikipedia? « educating alice — Sat, 05 May 2007 13:12:53 +0000

[...] fall I did a cool lesson with my students; together we edited The Charlotte’s Web entry (just the plot section) and then watched as other…. I just took a look at the entry and see that it still needs a lot of work — plenty for next [...]

By: Storygeek » Blog Archive » Wikipedia Classroom Ideas

Storygeek » Blog Archive » Wikipedia Classroom Ideas — Tue, 03 Apr 2007 10:57:28 +0000

[...] few weeks ago I ran across this blog entry by Monica Edinger who studies Children’s literature. Her fourth grade class [...]

By: Joyce Valenza’s NeverEnding Search » Effective practice–scouting about in new frontiers

Mon, 04 Dec 2006 23:39:33 +0000

[...] Darren’s work leads me to wonder through what other curricular lenses we could view our world and its powerful images. I want to expand our Flickr art gallery. (Right now we have only one work up, but we are committed to building space for self and peer review.) But can we also annotate and further explore historical or news photos using Flickr notes and comments? And, just last night, my American Memory fellow buddy, Monica Edinger wrote to share her students’ success and excitement about the Charlotte’s Wikipedia project and her new blog, eduating alice. [...]

By: Frances Jacobson Harris

Frances Jacobson Harris — Fri, 01 Dec 2006 03:09:08 +0000

Fabulous, Monica! Much better than my own Wikipedia debacle…

By: Chery

Chery — Thu, 02 Nov 2006 05:59:18 +0000

Great information. I enjoyed reading this blog.

By: medinger

medinger — Mon, 30 Oct 2006 19:39:14 +0000

4th grade.

By: Kathy

Kathy — Mon, 30 Oct 2006 17:28:34 +0000

GREAT lesson. I am getting ready to talk about Wikipedia to my 5th grade students (I am a media specialist) and I might try an abreviated version of this (I only get them for 30 minutes a week!)

What grade was this?

Thanks for the great lesson idea!

Kathy

By: medinger

medinger — Mon, 30 Oct 2006 09:27:26 +0000

Just to note that my lesson was about the workings of wikipedia (particularly the idea that anyone can both create and edit anything in it), not how to write a concise encyclopedia entry. And we were also revising the horrible plot summary that was there (and was left alone as ours was not for some reason) not starting from scratch.

If we weren’t already moving on to other things, I’d have the kids add some new sections to the entry, say on some of White’s research and personal background as it relates to the book’s creation. The current entry has that plot summary (now a truncated version of the one we did on Friday), a section on sales, another on movies, and (of all things) one on video games. If it isn’t any better by next year, I’m definitely going to have them do it when I teach the book!

By: Little Willow

Little Willow — Mon, 30 Oct 2006 02:48:27 +0000

Three cheers for you and your resourceful students!