“Peace Corps and the Alamo. I never thought I’d hear that combination.” That was the reaction of a professor several years ago when I mentioned where I had worked. In March, when I attended the Symposium on Informal Learning, sponsored by the
Read More
This week’s readings (Week 12) focused on what can broadly be called “citizen history” or “crowdsourcing”–inviting public participation in the process of creating knowledge, not just waiting to receive the end product. The four articles, Roy Rosenzweig on Wikipedia, Jeff Howe’s Wired
Read More