Sometimes the better tact is “If you can’t beat ‘em, join ‘em.”

That’s what University of Washington-Bothell professor Martha Groom discovered when she came up with a unique way of tapping into the colossal online encyclopedia, Wikipedia. Now one of a few teachers embracing this mammoth, web-based resource, professor Groom now requires her environmentat history students to either write an original Wikipedia article or do a major edit to an existing one, instead of turning in the usual big term paper at the end of the semester. (more…)

Are you tired of the same old boring book reports or book reviews? Sure, educators try to make them more exciting with posters, diaramas, or other creative alternatives to the hand- or type-written version, but they’re still not very exciting. Why not try what these students did as an option to the regular ‘ol book report? (more…)