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Welcome to Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia that anyone can edit.

Wikipedia is an online, dynamic encyclopedia, which anyone can add or edit content. One of the exciting things about this site is that history is documented within minutes of an event occurring. Additionally at UCF, faculty members have made assignments asking students to rewrite poorly or sparsely written entries. Questions have arisen about Wikipedia's accuracy; Henry Jenkins from MIT discussed its uses and validity at the 2008 Annual Meeting for Educause Learning Initiative. To view his lengthy presentation, go to http://tinyurl.com/2cjxrf/ and select the What Wikipedia Can Teach Us About the New Media Literacies topic.

Google Scholar is a freely-accessible Web search engine that indexes the full text of scholarly literature across an array of publishing formats and disciplines.

Google Scholar is a Web site used to search for scholarly literature. If you are on the UCF network, Google Scholar will automatically search for UCF Resources for Full Text SFX@UCF. We encourage you to check out the preferences area of Google Scholar as well as search from some topics of interest to you.

Broadcast Yourself

YouTube has video and lecture resources for current events that may be useful in a classroom environment. For example, some faculty members have found video clips to explain a difficult concept and have integrated them in their classes. Below is a link to a video that a UCF professor created and placed on YouTube to promote his class as well as a video series he created. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sogU0DZFxiQ Search YouTube to find videos that you can use to supplement your class.