One of the issues that frustrates History professors is the use of Wikipedia. I have been debating with students about the merits of open source information like Wikipedia constantly. Recently, in a moment of blinding clarity (or stupidity), I decided I would stop fighting with the students and start thinking about ways to get them to consider the implication of living in a information saturated society. I hit upon a project that required them to create wikipedia entries. The Olin Library provided the primary and secondary sources for these entries. In an effort to connect this project to other research area, my only restriction was to concentrate their efforts on topic related to West Winter Park. Here is a sample of their efforts.



http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seminole_Hotel

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mount_Moriah_Missionary_Baptist_Church

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rollins_College_Interracial_Committee