[DDN] Jimmy Wales announces Wikipedia/$100 laptop alliance, Wikiversity, Wikiwyg

Today at the second annual Wikimania conference, Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales announced that MIT's $100 laptops will all include a copy of Wikipedia. He also announced the launch of Wikiversity, an online community for generating learning materials, and Wikiwyg, a easy-to-use interface for

Re: [DDN] Jimmy Wales announces Wikipedia/$100 laptop alliance, Wikiversity, Wikiwyg

I've posted more info about his presentation, including my notes and a podcast. Notes: http://www.andycarvin.com/archives/2006/08/notes_from_jimmy_wal.html Podcast: http://www.andycarvin.com/archives/2006/08/podcast_of_jimmy_wal.html Andy Carvin wrote: Today at the second annual Wikimania

Re: [DDN] multi-lingual coding issues (resubmission)

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Alan Gerstle [EMAIL PROTECTED] I believe that the refusal of Americans to take second-language learning seriously is at least a part of the problem. While technophiles on all education levels are enthusiastic about learning new coding languages and new software, at

Re: [DDN] Woops! - OLPC says We don't have the 4 million OLPC orders we said we did yesterday

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: http://uk.news.yahoo.com/01082006/152/laptop-child-order-reports-incorrect.html Reports that Brazil, Nigeria, Argentina and Thailand have each committed to buying a million laptops from the One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) programme are incorrect, a spokesperson for

RE: [DDN] FW: Digital divide research

Hi Not sure if you are just after US examples but there is lots of stuff from the UK in our eWell-Being Awards and other work in this area. Check out www.sustainit.org and www.digitalchallenge.gov.uk Regards Simon Hills Head of SustainIT UK CEED [EMAIL PROTECTED] 01733 312286 -Original

[DDN] New: Special Double Issue of the Journal of Community Informatics (Special Section on Learning Communities/Community Learning)

Apologies for duplicate copies! Vol. 2, No. 2 (2006) of The Journal of Community Informatics has now been published online at http://www.ci-journal.net/viewissue.php?id=10 Editorial Enabling the Local as a Fundamental Development Strategy Michael B.

[DDN] [Net-Gold] Kids Build Self-Esteem While Building Their Own Computers

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RE:[DDN] The Commonwealth gets involved

Well, Slowly involved perhaps. Here I sit in in the heart of that Empire trying to make repartions for the sins of our fathers and with 4 submissions since your message, I can conclude: a) Nobody is moderating their forum b) The feedback form doesn't work, it demands an email address

[DDN] creative commons children's story in the news

hi Digital Divide Network community - the takoma gazette newspaper (in takoma park, maryland) has a very nice article this week about a collaborative storytelling project i've been involved with. see http://tinyurl.com/hujkn the article is about a rich media children's story

[DDN] New Resources for Middle School Educators

The New Jersey Consortium for Middle Schools at Kean Univesity is pleased to announce the launch of a special website devoted to topical links for middle level educators. The result of meticulous research into web resources that will of particular value to educators at the middle level, the

[DDN] Digital Divide--The Commonwealth gets involved

Yeah -- it appears they think they can just talk the talk, without realizing they also have to walk the walk. Maybe somebody will explain it to them... SW --- Jeff Mowatt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Well, Slowly involved perhaps. Here I sit in in the heart of that Empire trying to make