Tuesday, May 3, 2011

Reliable Sources.

Wiki has some policies that I find odd.

For one, it strikes me as rather ironic that the Wiki, a pinnacle of Web 2.0 itself, doesn't allow reputable blogs on which published articles have been based.

Have you looked at their reliable sources page?

Primary sources are essentially out. (Strange. I get the no original research stuff (to a point), but there are a lot of instances where secondary sources are crap.)

"Questionable sources are those with a poor reputation for fact-checking."

Seems like that's quite a lot of our media sources?

Sunday, May 1, 2011

Around The Campfire


Been interested in school design and how it influences learning for some time. Here's a shot of part of our local school's library, much of it a remnant of its inception as an "open school."