Blog Assignment 3

Professor Michael Bess's view of Wikipedia was interesting. As complete and all encompassing resource for a paper he found it unreliable. But as a teaching resource he found it very valuable. He discovered that instead of Wikipedia giving merely a quick answer to complex questions it allowed ordinary citizens the opportunity to get down in the trenches and theorize and philosophize. I think it is very interesting how Professor Bess took something that was seen as a teacher's worst enemy and showed how if used properly it can be their greatest ally. I, myself, find that Wikipedia is not always a very reliable resource but more often than not when I examine the archives I find different points of view that help me see things from a perspective I would never have seen on my own.