“Crank, crank, crank”**, the sound of gears inside a hand-crank laptop are heard from outside a shack in India. A man in New Delhi who connects to the Internet for the first time is greeted by the Hindi Wikipedia homepage.
This is part of the opening montage for the documentary film Truth in Numbers: The Wikipedia […]
There is only 2 weeks before the first education.au seminar for 2007 Challenging how knowledge is created - and the keynote speaker for the seminar, Jimmy Wales, is attracting a lot of attention with lots of conversations really starting to liven up.
Today, Saturday April 7, 2007 there is a full page feature article in the […]
On Wednesday 4 April, Garry Putland had the opportunity to chat with Jimmy Wales in San Francisco about what he will be talking about when he comes to Australia. You can access the interview from here. http://media.educationau.edu.au/JimmyWalesInterview.mp3
In this short interview Jimmy talks about a range of issues from the use of technologies in the […]
Join in the discussion about the phenomenon of Wikipedia and the use of wikis in education.
http://groups.edna.edu.au/educationau_challenging is an edna Group that has been set up to enable discussion related to the Wikipedia phenomenon and the use of wikis in education. This is a public group, accessible without login. However, if you would like to contribute […]
If you hadn’t heard - Jimmy Wales, the man behind Wikipedia, is visiting Australia for the first time in April 2007 at the invite of education.au. He will be the keynote speaker at the first seminar for 2007 - Challenging how knowledge is created. The seminar will be held in:
Adelaide 23 April
Perth 24 April
Sydney […]
