The Site:
Scholarpedia is a great website, it takes the positive attributes from Wikipedia and makes the articles more reliable. Scholarpedia is an online encyclopdia just like Wikipedia, but has assigned "curators" to each topic who are responsible for the information that is on their topic's page. Anyone is able to suggest changes to an article, but unlike wikipedia, the information is first review by the curator, then approved or denied for posting. Scholarpedia is completely free and open for everyone made possible with funding from the National Science Foundations and amazon.com. It lets everyone collaborate on topics, ideas and subjects but there is a filter and fact checkers that guarantee the information provided is true. However, I don't think that there is enough information on the site to use it exclusively. It is a good site if the topic you are looking for is available.
Two ways for this site to be used in the classroom:
1. This is reliable site funded by the NSF and I would allow students to use this a a resource for projects and research.
2. Scholarpedia says they are kept current and up to date, so I would feel comfortable using it myself to review a subject area that may not be my strongest teaching area.
How could the site be used to extend learning opportunities beyond the classroom:
As long as the students have access to the Internet, they are able to use scholarpedia anywhere! Parents can allow their child to explore scholarpedia knowing that the articles are factual.
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