Dnipropetrovsk WOA session of the ESC was dedicated to the 10th anniversary of the internet resource Wikipedia.
We listened to the message from Wikipedia founder - Jimmy Wales. It was interesting to find out about the impressive statistics on the Wikipedia users around the world. J.Wales urges all users to write articles and correct mistakes if there are any in the encyclopedia, to make it more academic and profound.
The speaker of today’s meeting T.Gavryluik asked people who use Wikipedia to raise their hands. All the present club members raised their hands. Discussion about the recourse was very vivid. Some people love the possibility to work with this free encyclopedia. Others have doubts about the scientific value of it’s articles.
Then the discussion moved to the topic of the difference between information and knowledge. The ways of
collecting information were discussed, as well as the useful and harmful aspects of information.
Every session adds to our knowledge about USA!
3 club members asked the password to use Wi-Fi facility of the Centre and use their mobile phones for looking up new words in the on-line dictionaries.
New club members were introduced to the community and were familiarized with the book collection.
The WOA guest of honor , US citizen Mr. Joseph B., donated to the Centre a copy of the Pimsleur language course CD “English for Russian speakers”.
The number of the visitors – 30 (English teachers – 1, specialists – 15, students – 9, pensioner – 2, pupils – 2, librarians – 1)
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