Now more than ever in this Age of Information it is critical that we teach students appropriate researching skills so they can get exercise their skills and critical thinking in discerning accurate information from erroneous information. I wouldn't take a paper that is entirely based on a Wikipedia article. I don't discourage the use of wikipedia. I find it is a useful way to gather quick (as their name implies, wiki) knowledge on a particular subject. Perhaps students could use it as a startup point rather than as their ultimate source of knowledge.

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Check out the information on argument mapping at http://www.austhink.com/
They sell software to make it easy to diagram a concept with words and pictures, but they also explain what argument mapping is and how to use the technique, even if you don't buy their software.

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thecasefiles.org carries a good template for generating group-think work

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Another great presentation product that can be downloaded freely, is Microsoft producer/Addin for Powerpoint which can create audio/video to run along side your PPT. You can stream as a Windows Video File

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