Wikinews is a website that facilitates collaborative authorship of news articles. When visiting the page, users can browse through articles that are already published or collaborate on a new news article. Wikinews strives to present information in an unbiased way and from all angles. This tool is much like Wikipedia in how it functions and how it looks, but the main difference is that the content is news focused and Wikipedia is reference focused. Wikinews can be displayed in a wide variety of languages, making it accessible for students that are English language learners.
Wikinews is useful in the classroom in many ways and the website encourages teachers to use it in their classroom. With a short welcome video and an overview of Wikinews’ core principals, teachers are given a broad overview of how to incorporate news writing into their classroom. The site offers possible goals to consider when creating a lesson using Wikinews as well as possible classroom topics. The Wikinews Writing Guide written by Laura Hale provides an overview of everything a teacher would need to know to incorporate Wikinews in the classroom.
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