Дополнительная информация для учителя к пособию St Petersburg

[Алексей Конобеев]

Уважаемые коллеги, собрал для вас поурочный каталог дополнительной информации для учителя к пособию St Petersburg. Каталог планирую дополнять (например, добавить больше ссылок на видео), так как тема огромнейшая: тут и архитектура, и история, и люди Петербурга и поистине надо или жить в этом городе, или обладать энциклопедическими знаниями, чтобы уверенно чувствовать себя на уроках о петербурге. Само пособие очень помогает, и я надеюсь, что с этой информацией работать по нему станет еще интереснее даже для тех учителей, которые живут в совсем других городах и регионах.

 

St Petersburg

Unit 1 A Look at the Geography of St Petersburg

Lessons 1-2 Welcome to St Petersburg!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint_Petersburg - encyclopeadia entry about St Petersburg

http://www.saint-petersburg.com/ - travel and event guide to St Petersburg

http://www.sptimes.ru/ - website of the newspaper The St Petersburg Times

http://www.rusmuseum.ru/eng/museum/complex/mih_palace/ - the history of the Mikhailovsky Palace

http://panoramas.classic-ru.org/museum/rusmuseum.html - panoramic views of the interiors of Mikhailovsky Palace/the Russian Musuem

http://www.saint-petersburg.com/virtual-tour/admiralty.asp - a brief description of the Admiralty

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_Admiralty - encyclopaedia entry about the Russian Admiralty

http://it.stlawu.edu/~rkreuzer/pete17/pete17.htm - history and pictures of the Admiralty

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Physical_geography - encyclopaedia entry about physical geography

http://www.slideshare.net/dk120/geography-...ps-presentation - online slideshow about different kinds of maps

http://www.socialstudiesforkids.com/articl...y/mapsavvy1.htm - fun explanation of maps for children

 

Lesson 3 Some Geographical Features

http://petersburgcity.com/map/ - online map of St Petersburg

http://www.lonelyplanet.com/maps/europe/ru.../st-petersburg/ - interactive tourist map of St Petersburg with tourist guide

http://historic-cities.huji.ac.il/russia/p...mous_1737_b.jpg - a 1737 map of St Petersburg

Lessons 4-5 What’s the Weather Like?

http://www.cityvision2000.com/city/weather.htm – weather conditions in St Petersburg

http://www.weather.com/outlook/travel/busi...?locid=RSXX0091 – a 10-day weather forecast for St Petersburg

http://countrystudies.us/russia/24.htm - climate in Russia

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cypripedioideae - encyclopaedia entry about slipper orchids

http://www.slipperorchid.org/ - slipper orchid alliance: information and photos of different types of slipper orchids

 

Unit 2 What Makes St Petersburg’s Looks so Distinctive

Lessons 1-2 The Venice of the North

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amsterdam - encyclopaedia entry about Amsterdam

http://www.iamsterdam.com/en/visiting - the official website of the Amsterdam tourism and convention board

– video: Amsterdam Information video tour

http://www.swamppolitics.com/news/politics...petersburg.html - a foreign tourist tells about a trip along the canals of St Petersburg

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venice - encyclopaedia entry about Venice

http://www.comune.venezia.it/flex/cm/pages...L/EN/IDPagina/1 - official website of the Municipality of Venice, in English

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giethoorn - encyclopaedia entry about Giethoorn

– video about Giethoorn

– video about the Venice of Holland

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruges - encyclopaedia entry about Bruges

http://www.brugge.be/internet/en/index.htm - official website of the city of Bruges

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-2...16031370280027# - video: historical walk through Bruges

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stockholm - encyclopaedia entry about Stockholm

http://www.visit-stockholm.com/ - visitor’s guide to Stockholm

– video: Stockholm< the capital of Scandinavia

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=seFDvnoLI5o – video: travel guide to Stockholm

 

Lesson 3 Historical Influences

http://www.encspb.ru/en/article.php?kod=2804019726 – heraldic description of St Petersburg’s Coat-of-Arms

 

Lessons 4-5 The Museum in the Open Air

http://www.encspb.ru/en/article.php?kod=2804006829 – a short overview of architectural styles of St Petersburg

http://www.cartage.org.lb/en/themes/arts/a...tPetersburg.htm - short article about Baroque architecture of St Petersburg, with pictures

http://www.lomography.com/magazine/locatio...f-st-petersburg - an article about constructivist architecture of St Petersburg

http://architecture.about.com/cs/historicp.../a/timeline.htm - world’s architectural timeline

http://www.geographia.com/russia/rusart01.htm - a short overview of Russian art and architecture

http://www.saint-petersburg.com/museums/marble-palace.asp - short article about the Marble Palace and its history

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stroganov_Palace - encyclopeadia entry about the Stroganov palace

 

Lesson 6 Unforgettable Images

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bronze_Horseman - encyclopaedia entry about the Bronze horseman

http://www.saint-petersburg.com/monuments/...ze-horseman.asp - a short history of the Bronze Horseman monument

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Column - encyclopeadia entry about Alexander column

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Summer_Garden - encyclopaedia entry about Summer Garden

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Summer_Palace...t_Petersburg%29 – encyclopaedia entry about Summer Palace

http://www.saint-petersburg.com/parks/index.asp - parks and gardens of St Petersburg

 

Unit 3 Glimpses into St petersburg’s history

Lessons 1-2 getting a Feel for History

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Poltava - encyclopaedia entry about the Battle of Poltava

http://militaryhistory.about.com/od/battle...0/p/poltava.htm - summary of the Battle of Poltava

http://www.newworldencyclopedia.org/entry/Decembrist_Revolt - encyclopaedia entry about the Decembrists’ revolt

http://www.thenagain.info/webchron/easteurope/decrevolt.html - a short scientific article about the Decembrists’ revolt

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aleksandr_Danilovich_Menshikov - encyclopaedia entry about Alexander Menshikov

http://www.saint-petersburg.com/virtual-to...ikov-palace.asp - Short article about the Menshikov Palace

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yekaterina_Ro...ntsova-Dashkova - encyclopaedia entry about Yekaterina Vorontsova-Dashkova

http://www.alexanderpalace.org/palace/catherine.html - article about Catherine the Great

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catherine_II_of_Russia - encyclopaedia entry about Catherine the Great

http://100megsfree4.com/rusgeneral/suvorov.htm - story about Alexander Suvorov’s battles and victories, with pictures

http://www.ganesha.org/hall/suvorov.html - famous quotations by Alexander Suvorov

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Suvorov - encyclopaedia entry about Alexander Suvorov

http://www.carpenoctem.tv/military/suvorov.html - Alexander Suvorov’s life in a nutshell

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dmitri_Mendeleev - encyclopaedia entry about Dmitri Mendeleev

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smolny_Institute - a short history of the Smolny institute

http://www.lindsayfincher.com/russia/smolny.html - a foreign tourist tells about her visit to the Smiolny institute

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francesco_Bartolomeo_Rastrelli - encyclopaedia entry about Francesco Bartolomeo Rastrelli

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ivan_Betskoy - encyclopaedia entry about Ivan betskoy

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dmitry_Levitzky - encyclopaedia entry about Dmitry Levitsky

 

Lessons 3-4 Sending a Message

http://www.2-clicks-stamps.com/article/pos...nd-origins.html - general history of postal service

Lessons 5-6 Landmarks in the 20th-Century History

http://www.cityvision2000.com/history/silverage.htm - Silver Age in St Petersburg

http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/RUSsunday.htm - history and background of Bloody Sunday

http://www.angelfire.com/pa/ImperialRussia...ussia/1913.html - story about the tercentenary of the Romanovs dynasty in 1913

http://www.cityvision2000.com/history/petrograd.htm - St Petersburg/Petrograd in WWI

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_Revolution_%281917%29 – encyclopaedia entry about Russian revolutions of 1917

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_Civil_War - encyclopaedia entry about the Russian Civil War

http://www.historylearningsite.co.uk/russian_civil_war1.htm - history of the Civil War explained for children

http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/RUScivilwar.htm - a summary of the events of the Civil War

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Winter_War - encyclopaedia entry about the Soviet-Finnish Winter War

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siege_of_Leningrad - encyclopaedia entry about the Siege of Leningrad

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint_Petersburg_Metro - encyclopaedia entry about St Petersburg Metro

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anatoly_Sobchak - encyclopaedia entry about Anatoly Sobchak

http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/europe/july...anov_7-17a.html - report from the funeral of Nicholas II

Lessons 7-8 We Must Never Forget

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siege_of_Leningrad - encyclopaedia entry about the Siege of Leningrad

 

Lesson 9 Getting Back the Original Name

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geographical_renaming - encyclopaedia entry about geographical renaming

http://www.waytorussia.net/SaintPetersburg/History.html - timeline of St Petersburg’s history

http://www.googobits.com/articles/2069-a-h...petersburg.html - a history lover’s guide to St Petersburg

 

Unit 4 European Ties with St Petersburg

Lesons 1-2 The European Walkway

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_Union - encyclopaedia entry about the European Union

http://europa.eu/ - official website of the European Union

http://www.saint-petersburg.com/history/foundation.asp - story of when and how St Petersburg was founded

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anichkov_Palace - encyclopaedia entry about the Anichkov palace

http://album.physcon.ru/anichkov/ - history and views of Imperial Anichkov Palace

http://www.alexanderpalace.org/palace/mariabio.html - the story of Empress Maria Feodorovna

– video: Empress Maria Feodorovna’s life

http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franz_Anton_von_Gerstner - encyclopaedia entry about Franz von Gerstner

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carlo_Rossi_%28architect%29 – encyclopaedia entry about Carlo Rossi

http://www.encspb.ru/en/article.php?kod=2804003437 – a very short encyclopaedia entry about the Elagin palace

Lessons 3-4 The English and Scots in St Petersburg

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peterhof_Palace - encyclopaedia entry about the Peterhof palace

– video of the Summer Palace in Peterhof

http://www.saint-petersburg.com/peterhof/ - palaces in Peterhof

http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category...stina_Robertson – paintings by Christina Robertson

http://www.slideshare.net/lia275/christina-robertson - online presentation of Christina Robertson’s paintings

http://www.undiscoveredscotland.co.uk/usbi...arobertson.html - a very short biography of Christina Robertson

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adam_Menelaws - encyclopaedia entry about Adam Menelaws

Lessons 5-6 People from St Petersburg in Europe

http://www.bankofengland.co.uk/ - the website of the Bank of England

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royal_Exchange,_London – encyclopaedia entry about the Royal Exchange in London

http://www.royalmint.com/ - the Royal Mint: history and present

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parliament_of..._United_Kingdom - encyclopaedia entry about the Parliament of Great Britain

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyde_Park,_London – encyclopaedia entry about Hyde park

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bethlem_Royal_Hospital - encyclopaedia entry about Bethlehem Royal hospital

http://www.charterhouse.org.uk/ - website of Charterhouse school

http://www.nmm.ac.uk/places/royal-observatory/ - information about the Royal Observatory and an audio guide

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_I_of_Russia - encyclopaedia entry about Peter I of Russia

http://people.cohums.ohio-state.edu/odlin1.../571/peteng.htm - a short story about Peter I’s visit to England

 

Unit 5 St Petersburg, Gateway to the World

Lessons 1-2 What is tolerance

http://www.tolerance.org/ - a website dedicated to teaching tolerance

http://www2.scholastic.com/browse/article.jsp?id=694 – an article about teaching tolerance to young children

http://www.kidsworldtulsa.org/kw06/KWCurri...m_Tolerance.pdf - ideas for teaching tolerance to children

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cross-cultural_communication - cross-cultural communication as an academic discipline

http://www.colorado.edu/conflict/peace/tre...nt/xcolcomm.htm - examples of teaching cross-cultural communication

 

Lesson 3 The City’s Rightful Place

http://www.articlesbook.com/explore-the-cu...-st-petersburg/ - a short article about the cultural significance of St Petersburg

 

Lessons 4-5 Religions in St Petersburg

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trinity_Cathe...aint_Petersburg – encyclopaedia entry about the Trinity Cathedral

http://www.saint-petersburg-hotels.com/nikolskiysobor.htm - encyclopaedia entry about the Nikolsky Cathedral

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint_Isaac%27s_Cathedral – encyclopaedia entry about Sain Isaac’s cathedral

http://www.saint-petersburg.com/cathedrals...Icon-Church.asp - information about Vladimirskaya Church

http://www.saint-petersburg.com/virtual-to...h-of-savior.asp - information about the Saviour on Spilled Blood Cathedral

http://www.saint-petersburg.com/cathedrals...y-Cathedral.asp - information about the Smolny Cathedral

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Nevsky_Lavra - encyclopaedia entry about Alexander Nevsky Lavra

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kazan_Cathedral,_St._Petersburg encyclopaedia entry about the Kazan cathedral

http://www.saint-petersburg.com/virtual-to...n-cathedral.asp - brief information about the Kazan cathedral

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transfigurati...t_Petersburg%29 – encyclopaedia entry about the Transfiguration (Spaso-Preobrazhensky) Cathedral

http://www.infoplease.com/ce6/history/A0842746.html - information about Russo-Turkish wars

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russo-Turkish...E2%80%931878%29 – information about Russo-Turkish war of 1877-1878

http://english.ruvr.ru/rtvideo/2010/05/18/video_8074870.html - the history of foreign churches in St Petersburg

http://mb-soft.com/believe/txn/armenian.htm - general information about the Armenian church

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grand_Choral_Synagogue - encyclopaedia entry about the Grand Choral Synagogue

http://eng.jewishpetersburg.ru/modules.php...age&pid=270 – history of the Grand Choral Synagogue and the Jewish community of St Petersburg

http://www.marhotin.ru/marhotin-datsan-eng/ - history of the Buddhist temple in St Petersburg

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buddhism_in_Russia - encyclopaedia entry about Buddhism in Russia

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint_Petersburg_Mosque - encyclopaedia entry about the Mosque of St Petersburg

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Islam_in_Russia - encyclopaedia entry about Islam in Russia

 

Unit 6 Honorary citizens of St Petersburg

Lessons 1-2 Honorary Citizens

http://www.encspb.ru/en/article.php?kod=2804017585 – history of honorary citizenship of St Petersburg

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alisa_Freindlich - encyclopaedia entry about Alisa Freindlich

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniil_Granin - encyclopaedia entry about Daniil Granin

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dmitry_Likhachov - encyclopaedia entry about Dmitry Likhachev

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Brodsky - encyclopaedia entry about Joseph Brodsky

http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/vault/art...04896/index.htm - article about Lyubov Egorova from the time when she won the Winter Olympics in Lillehammer

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olga_Bergholz - encyclopaedia entry about Olga Berggolts

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vladimir_Putin - encyclopaedia entry about Vladimir Putin

http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/physics...ov-autobio.html - autobiography of Zhores Alferov

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexy_II_of_Moscow - encyclopaedia entry about Patriarch Alexius II

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yuri_Tyukalov - encyclopaedia entry about Yuri Tyukalov

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tamara_Moskvina - encyclopaedia entry about Tamara Moskvina

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mikhail_Anikushin - a very short encyalopaedia entry about Mikhail Anikushin

http://www.encspb.ru/en/persarticle.php?kod=2803951205 – short information piece about Mikhail Bobrov

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natalia_Dudinskaya - encyclopaedia entry about Natalia Dudinskaya

 

Lessons 3-4 Famous People

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vladimir_Kondrashin - encyclopaedia entry about Vladimir Kondrashin

http://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/a...ogacheva-1.html - sports results of Irina Bogacheva

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Igor_Spassky - encyclopaedia entry about Igor Spassky

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vladimir_Alexandrov - encyclopaedia entry about Vladimir Alexandrov

 

Lessons 5-7 Famous People and Monuments

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%89tienne_Maurice_Falconet – encyclopaedia entry about Etienne Falconet, the author of the Bronze Horseman

http://www.saint-petersburg.com/monuments/...l-shemiakin.asp - information about the monument to Peter the Great by Mikhail Shemyakin

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monument_to_P...l%27s_Castle%29 – information about the monument to Peter the Great by Bartolomeo Rastrelli

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strelna - information about the Konstantinovsky Palace in Strelna

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mikhail_Lomonosov - encyclopaedia entry about Mikhail Lomonosov

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vera_Komissarzhevskaya - encyclopaedia entry about Vera Komissarzhevskaya

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Blok - encyclopaedia entry about Alexander Blok

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feodor_Chaliapin - encyclopaedia entry about Feodor Shalyapin

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pyotr_Ilyich_Tchaikovsky - encyclopaedia entry about Peter Tchaikovsky

http://www.tchaikovsky-research.org/ - a website dedicated to research of Tchaikovsky’s life and works

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ilya_Repin - encyclopaedia entry about Ilya Repin

– video: the works of Ilya Repin

[Владислав]

Алексей Васильевич, спасибо большое за информацию!

[elenayevg]

Алексей Васильевич, спасибо за создание такой важной и информативной темы. Разнообразие предложенного материала позволит превратить урок в увлекательное путешествие по городу, окунуться в его прошлое и настоящее.

[Алексей Конобеев]

A tourist from India tells about her visit to St. Petersburg:

http://charuavi.sulekha.com/blog/post/2010...s-cathedral.htm - St Isaac's Cathedral

http://charuavi.sulekha.com/blog/post/2010...-petersburg.htm - the Hermitage

http://charuavi.sulekha.com/blog/post/2010...anal-cruise.htm - a canal cruise in St Petersburg

http://charuavi.sulekha.com/blog/post/2010...rg-peterhof.htm - Peterhof

http://charuavi.sulekha.com/blog/post/2010...nd-pavlovsk.htm - Tsarskoye Selo and Pavlovsk

[elenayevg]

Алексей Васильевич, спасибо за ссылки. Особенно мне понравились рассуждения о необходимости использования еще одного слова в английском языке, чтобы было понятно о каких steps идет речь (на сайте о посещении St Isaac's Cathedral).

Я считаю эти ссылки будут интересны не только учителям, но и ребятам: на сайтах выложены очень удачные фото и комментарий того, что посетители думают и как они себя чувствуют в наших городах. На примере этих сайтов можно научить наших ребят вести путевые заметки (память человека зачастую подводит спустя какое-то время, всего не вспомнишь), а то они предпочитают выкладывать просто фотографии, а их комментарий в лучшем случае состоит из одного предложения (когда это было и где).

[Владислав]

A tourist from India tells about her visit to St. Petersburg:

http://charuavi.sulekha.com/blog/post/2010...s-cathedral.htm - St Isaac's Cathedral

http://charuavi.sulekha.com/blog/post/2010...-petersburg.htm - the Hermitage

http://charuavi.sulekha.com/blog/post/2010...anal-cruise.htm - a canal cruise in St Petersburg

http://charuavi.sulekha.com/blog/post/2010...rg-peterhof.htm - Peterhof

http://charuavi.sulekha.com/blog/post/2010...nd-pavlovsk.htm - Tsarskoye Selo and Pavlovsk

 

Ссылки - замечательные! Спасибо огромное!!!

[natpetrovna]

Уважаемые коллеги, собрал для вас поурочный каталог дополнительной информации для учителя к пособию St Petersburg. Каталог планирую дополнять (например, добавить больше ссылок на видео), так как тема огромнейшая: тут и архитектура, и история, и люди Петербурга и поистине надо или жить в этом городе, или обладать энциклопедическими знаниями, чтобы уверенно чувствовать себя на уроках о петербурге. Само пособие очень помогает, и я надеюсь, что с этой информацией работать по нему станет еще интереснее даже для тех учителей, которые живут в совсем других городах и регионах.

Обязательно воспользуюсь ссылками по мере необходимости... Один вопрос, где-то слышала или читала.., что за рубежом Википедию не считают достоверным источником информации...

[Алексей Конобеев]

Обязательно воспользуюсь ссылками по мере необходимости... Один вопрос, где-то слышала или читала.., что за рубежом Википедию не считают достоверным источником информации...

Так ее нигде не считают достоверным источником информации, так как это свободная энциклопедия.

Проводился ряд исследований, который показал, что большинство статей в википедии по достоверности не уступает уважаемым печатным энциклопедиям, а некоторые статьи и превосходят. В частности, нашли ошибки в Британнике, которых нет в википедии. В то же время отчасти прав и Avgust, но только отчасти: ряд статей в википедии, особенно на актуальные политические темы, отражает взгляды ангажированных сторон и становятся жертвами сетевых войн, такое было, например, в статье о российско-грузинском конфликте 2008 года. Но к таким статьям пишется предупреждение о том, что статья может содержать недостоверные данные. Я немного писал об этом в статье Using ICT for teaching English and professional development, завтра как только доберусь до стабильного интернета дам на нее ссылку.

О достоверности материалов Википедии:

"In response to situations like these and others in its history, Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales has always maintained that the service and its community are built around a self-policing and self-cleaning nature that is supposed to ensure its articles are accurate.

Still, many critics have tried to downplay its role as a source of valid information and have often pointed to the Encyclopedia Britannica as an example of an accurate reference.

For its study, Nature chose articles from both sites in a wide range of topics and sent them to what it called "relevant" field experts for peer review. The experts then compared the competing articles--one from each site on a given topic--side by side, but were not told which article came from which site. Nature got back 42 usable reviews from its field of experts.

In the end, the journal found just eight serious errors, such as general misunderstandings of vital concepts, in the articles. Of those, four came from each site. They did, however, discover a series of factual errors, omissions or misleading statements. All told, Wikipedia had 162 such problems, while Britannica had 123.

That averages out to 2.92 mistakes per article for Britannica and 3.86 for Wikipedia.

Read more: http://news.cnet.com/Study-Wikipedia-as-accurate-as-Britannica/2100-1038_3-5997332.html#ixzz18Qj53pgf" 2005 год

"Wikipedia Accuracy

Though the statistical accuracy of Wikipedia is close to that of the most trusted print encyclopedia, Wikipedia is still not trusted as a source of information for most scholarly applications. An though it isn't as accurate as a traditional student encyclopedia, it does have other uses as a research tool. Because the site requires that all facts be cited with offsite links to credible sources, the bottom of any Wikipedia page is full of useful links that can be used for further study of any subject matter.

While Wikipedia is looked down upon by many, there is a concerted effort to keep the information as accurate as possible. For a free online encyclopedia, it does offer some value for finding quick facts and for finding a quick list of resources on a given topic. And with an accuracy close to Encyclopedia Britannica, the online encyclopedia will continue to be used by those who want fast, free access to information.

Read more at Suite101: How Accurate is Wikipedia? http://www.suite101.com/content/how-accurate-is-wikipedia-a261987#ixzz18QjoZktB" 2010 год

 

"Yaacov Lawrence, an assistant professor in Thomas Jefferson University’s Department of Radiation Oncology in Philadelphia, discovered that only 2 percent of the information on Wikipedia “differed from textbook sources.” In his study, he researched articles on 10 different types of cancer, and then compared the information found on Wikipedia to statistics published in the National Cancer Institute’s Physician Data Query, (a peer-reviewed online database). Lawrence graded each entry according to readability as well as word or sentence length, and found that Wikipedia’s articles were actually “more difficult to comprehend.”

 

“The accuracy [of Wikipedia] was good, but I think that there is more to a good encyclopedia than accuracy,” stated Lawrence. “We found that Wikipedia was better at discussing hard-known facts, but poor at discussing controversial issues.”"

"Also, in 2008, researchers randomly selected ten history terms to study the content and validity of Wikipedia’s articles. The terms that were selected were: American Civil War, Panama Canal, Dust Bowl, California Gold Rush, Pony Express, Great White Fleet, Abraham Lincoln, War of 1812, Louisiana Purchase, and the New Deal.

 

When researchers compared the information to entries in the Encyclopedia Britannica, they concluded that Wikipedia’s articles were longer than the articles found in Encyclopaedia Britannica, but there were very few differences between the two sources. However, the researchers did discover that many of the historical articles on Wikipedia contained biased information." http://www.onlinedegrees.org/how-accurate-is-wikipedia/

 

Отсюда вывод: на фактическую информацию в Википедии полагаться можно, на оценочный компонент - не стоит. Я писал об этом в статье здесь: http://www.englishatschool.ru/archive/2009_3/Journal_27_08_14.rar (а здесь часть 2 статьи: http://www.englishatschool.ru/archive/2009_4/Journal_28_06_13.rar)

[natpetrovna]

Спасибо за подробный ответ! Дело в том, что мы с коллегами поспорили...мне нужен был авторитетный аргумент в защиту Википедии.

[reacnhappy]

Оу, вот это наборчик, спасибо!

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[Ludmila Butina]

Спасибо огромное за подборку сайтов о Санкт-Петербурге. Недавно переехала в этот город, поэтому мне все интересно и хочется побольше

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