Thank you, Bala.
The best way to grab their attention is to switch
off/use sparingly the
powerpoint presentation and talk to them about the articles they understand.
Really interesting - I would have thought that an slidedeck
introduction would work but your point is something I shall
incorporate in to my learnings.
And on the other extreme are the wikimedia editor /
jimmy wales videos -
they are shiny, distracting and IMO ultimately pointless to the Indian
audience
Would 'Indian' videos, so to speak, in multiple languages work better?
Maybe this is something we could work on?
I have found out using live examples works best. I
talked about wikipedia
articles on subjects familiar to them (academic subject articles are an
absolute no no in the beginning).
TASMAC being this one?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TASMAC If so,
hehe. I completely see how it would interesting.
Also, how important does everyone see having say, ten or so, laptops
and data cards to use is?
Best,
Gautam
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