Well, at the time of enrolling in ALES 204 or even at the start of it all, enrolling in an Agriculture degree at the University, I did not expect to be educating my blog followers about editing a Wikipedia article! Editing a Wikipedia article was a recent assignment which would contribute to our ALES 204 personal ePortfolio at the end of the semester.
Knowing little information about the website Wikipedia and its useful purposes, I found that becoming a Wikipedia editor an experience full of learning. To start of the assignment I, as an editor, had to choose a Wikipedia "stub" to edit. A stub being an article located within the Wikipedia website that is deemed to short to provide encyclopaedic coverage of the subject. Being raised on a cow/calf operation I have accumulated a great interest in the cattle industry. With an adequate background in the cow/calf area of the industry I wanted to use this assignment in order to gather more knowledge about the rest of the industry.
Cannulated Cow |
Screen Capture Of My WIkipedia Page |
Jessica, my ALES 204 teacher designed this assignment for students to easily see how information on WIkipedia can be edited by anyone. Here is Jessica's response to the question "As a teacher, do you recommend the students at the University Of Alberta to use Wikipedia as a resource with the varying reliability of information."
Dr. Jessica Laccetti's response to my tweet |
Thanks for tuning into my blog this week, and feel free to check out some fellow ALES 204 students blogs such as Rosie's blog post on a gelbvieh cattle breed that is relatively new to North America or Jami's blog post on her experience of becoming a Wikipedia editor of a article on blackleg, a disease that effects mostly cattle and sheep.