Wikipedia

What it is called 'the free encyclopedia', Wikipedia has a great deal of users (Wikipedia, 2009). I have used how many times for my research.

My first teaching area is Japanese, the second area is Mathmatics.
Useful resources that I found are:

Japanese language;

• Japanese counter word
• Honorific speech in Japanese

Mathmatics;

• Trigonometric functions
• Logarithm

These four topics above are all complecated. I found that they are useful for Maths, but not very useful for learning Japanese language. So, I may use these resources for quick review and reading for students as a home work because every resouce in Wikipedia has related topics that connect to hyper link at the end of the page. A number of linkings on a both side of the page as well. It is not exaggerated to say we can research whatever we need on Wikipedia.

I believe that Wikipedia helps students understanding paticular topic of basic to deep knowledge. Many of them are provided with graphic resources, clear definitions and important points. It also good for group work to collaborate the information based on their investigation . However, the contents and the use of word are difficult, so it suits for higher grades at secondary students and university students.

Regards,

Shiho

References

Wikipedia. (2009). Retrieved August 18, 2009, from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page