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Line 24: ===Ideas=== This is the beginning of the Bookstore / Computer Store / Robotics' Store & Hospital Technologies' Distribution Centers (New & Used) at World University and School. The online World University and School bookstore is planning to be in the 6 United Nations' languages plus Portuguese, a lingua franca for a significant part of Africa, for the I.B. and bachelor degrees, to start, and perhaps eventually on the ground, as bookstore/computer store / informal student center / and possibly also as wired classroom for 40 people, in a nice neighborhood, perhaps near a Quaker Meeting, and in a major city (with a culture of learning?) of that language: Arabic -Tehran/Riyadh/Dubai? Chinese (Mandarin) - Beijing, English - London/Cambridge, French-Paris, Russian-Moscow/St. Petersburg, Spanish-Madrid? Line 55: ===Select Books=== Add an ISBN. https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Wikibooks <nowiki>'</nowiki>'''<nowiki>Select Chapters'</nowiki>''' Line 93 ⟶ 101: ===Select Idea Competitions / Conversations / Dialogues=== Reed College Alumni. 2015. [https://www.linkedin.com/groupItem?view=&item=5968008557642215425&type=member&gid=59769&trk=eml-b2_anet_digest_weekly-group_discussions-2-grouppost-disc-0&midToken=AQHBPZDhU4RywA&fromEmail=fromEmail&ut=3cd9vi0x8a-mA1 Reed College Alumni: Amazon Makes a Push on College Campuses]. inkedin.com/groupItem?view=&item=5968008557642215425&type=member&gid=59769&trk=eml-b2_anet_digest_weekly-group_discussions-2-grouppost-disc-0&midToken=AQHBPZDhU4RywA&fromEmail=fromEmail&ut=3cd9vi0x8a-mA1 . Line 154 ⟶ 164: ===Select References=== Bensinger, Greg. 2015. [http://www.wsj.com/articles/amazon-makes-a-push-on-college-campuses-1422825521 Amazon Makes a Push on College Campuses: Co-Branded Websites Created for Purdue, UMass Amherst, and UC Davis]. February 1. wsj.com/articles/amazon-makes-a-push-on-college-campuses-1422825521 . Manjoo, Farhad. 2014. [http://www.nytimes.com/2014/12/18/technology/personaltech/amazon-not-as-unstoppable-as-it-may-appear.html Amazon Not as Unstoppable as It Might Appear]. December 17. New York, NY: nytimes.com/2014/12/18/technology/personaltech/amazon-not-as-unstoppable-as-it-may-appear.html . Menand, Louis. 2011. [http://www.newyorker.com/arts/critics/atlarge/2011/06/06/110606crat_atlarge_menand LIVE AND LEARN: Why we have college]. JUNE 6. New York, NY: The New Yorker. Line 230 ⟶ 244: WUaS International Baccalaureate Diploma and Programme: http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/WUaS_International_Baccalaureate_Diploma_and_Programme Line 264 ⟶ 273: Admissions' Department: http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Admissions_at_World_University_and_School Flyer seeking degree-oriented, WUaS students: 'Quaker-informed World University & School seeks friendly, undergraduate students for free, online, ~~MIT~~Greatest ~~OCW~~Universities-centric, bachelor’s degrees to apply in the autumn of 2013, for matriculation in autumn 2014' - http://scottmacleod.com/WUaSFriendsFlyerforProspectiveStudentApplicants.pdf - and accessible here, also - http://scottmacleod.com/WUaSNoticeArchive.html. WUaS holds open, electronically-mediated, hour-long, monthly business meeting on the second Saturdays at 9 am Pacific Time, in the manner of Quakers - email worlduniversityandschool@gmail.com if you'd like to participate. Digital and Print catalog ===Assistive Technologies=== WUaS plans to anticipate numerous developing assistive technologies for sight-impaired, hearing-impaired, and similar - Assistive Technologies: http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Assistive_Technologies Line 283 ⟶ 303: ===Calendar (Schedule what you'd like to teach)=== Calendar: https://www.google.com/calendar/ Join the World University and School Google + Group to add to its wiki-like calendar to teach an open, free class or course, converse about ideas, and jam (e.g. musically or theater improvisation): https://plus.google.com/u/0/b/108179352492243955816/ . Line 302 ⟶ 324: ===Coordinates=== Geodetic datums such as WGS84 or GPS Geohash keys ... in a virtual world Line 323 ⟶ 349: Broadcast to radio ~~frequency~~frequencies Broadcast to TV / television Line 333 ⟶ 359: Digital Text to Audio file format (Browse Aloud / Read Aloud?) Google Glass MIT OCW Mirror Site Instructions: http://ocw.mit.edu/about/mirror-site-program/mirror-site-instructions/ Oculus Rift Line 360 ⟶ 392: ===Free Degrees / Credit=== MIT OCW Audio Video Courses: http://ocw.mit.edu/courses/audio-video-courses/ Admissions at World University and School: http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Admissions_at_World_University_and_School Line 376 ⟶ 411: WUaS International Baccalaureate Diploma and Programme: http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/WUaS_International_Baccalaureate_Diploma_and_Programme </br /> (~~probably~~beginning inwith United Nations' languages ~~only~~ - Arabic, Chinese (Mandarin), English, French, Russian, Spanish) Line 387 ⟶ 422: ===In Virtual World=== (Search on the word 'lists' here, too: http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Virtual_Worlds) ~~Active Worlds Educational Universe (AWEDU). 2012. http://www.activeworlds.com/edu/~~ 3D Learn. 2013. http://www.learningin3d.info/ Active Worlds Educational Universe (AWEDU). 2012. http://www.activeworlds.com Alice. 2012. http://www.alice.org/ ~~Alice. 2012. http://www.alice.org/index.php?page=what_is_alice/what_is_alice~~ Minecraft. 2012. www.minecraft.net Edusim. 2013. http://edusim3d.com/ Gifted Kids.ie. 2013. http://www.giftedkids.ie/daynuv.html ISTE – SIGMS. 2013. http://sigms.iste.wikispaces.net/secondlifeplayground2010 Kaneva. 2014. http://www.kaneva.com/ Open Cobalt. 2013. http://www.opencobalt.org/ OpenSim. 2012. http://opensimulator.org/wiki/Main_Page (http://www.scribd.com/doc/57959626/OpenSimulator-School-Quick-Start-Guide) Open Croquet. 2012. http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?OpenCroquet and http://www.opencroquet.org/ Open Wonderland. 2012. http://openwonderland.org/ Primary Games. 2013. http://www.primarygames.com/arcade/virtualworlds.php ~~Quest Atlantis. 2012. http://crlt.indiana.edu/research/qa.html (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SZoT3pilNPI).~~ Quest Atlantis. 2012. http://atlantisremixed.org/ (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SZoT3pilNPI). ~~ScienceSim. 2012. http://www.sciencesim.com/wiki/doku.php . Research, teach, learn and share ideas - in voice or in type chat.~~ SimScience. 2012. http://simscience.org/ Second Life - Harvard's virtual island. 2012. http://slurl.com/secondlife/Berkman/115/53/25 - and teach, learn and share ideas - in group voice chat, or in group type chat, and via building. SmallWorlds. 2014. https://www.smallworlds.com/ ~~Unity3D. 2012. unity3d.com/~~ There.com. 2014. http://www.there.com/ Twinity. 2014. http://www.twinity.com/en/choose-your-free-avatar Unity3D. 2012. http://unity3d.com/ WiloStar3D. 2013. https://www.wilostar3d.com/ World of Warcraft in School. 2014. http://wowinschool.pbworks.com/w/page/5268731/FrontPage Line 411 ⟶ 473: Travel to this virtual island to learn building: ===Item Number=== Global ID and Multiple IDs - see https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Requests_for_comment/New_sites_system Bar code Line 422 ⟶ 487: ===Learning Networking=== Teach and Learn using free Social ~~Bookmarking~~Networking software to ~~identify~~share what courses, etc., you find edifying, what you enjoy learning .... About Me - World University and School - http://about.me Line 431 ⟶ 500: Facebook.com's World University and School - http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=48753608141 ('This group may be archived'). Line 437 ⟶ 506: Google + Profiles - worlduniversityandschool@gmail.com (- Scott MacLeod) - https://plus.google.com/115890623333932577910/ Google + Profiles Company page - worlduniversityandschool@gmail.com - World University and School - https://plus.google.com/u/0/b/108179352492243955816/108179352492243955816/posts Line 449 ⟶ 518: LinkedIn's World University and School - http://www.linkedin.com/groups/World-University-School-4024337 Quora - http://www.quora.com/~~Scott-MacLeod-3~~ Line 467 ⟶ 536: Wer Kennt Wen - World University &and School ~~subject~~- ~~group~~http://www.wer-kennt-wen.de/ World University & School 'subject page' group Line 477 ⟶ 549: ===RSS Feed=== ~~===Tutoring===~~ Line 490 ⟶ 559: Teach and learn using free TV-Live Broadcasting software to the web: ~~Livestream TV - http://www.livestream.com~~ Google + Hangouts - https://plus.google.com/hangouts Justin TV - http://www.justin.tv Livestream TV - http://www.livestream.com Line 515 ⟶ 588: ''Free, group video conferencing'' AnyMeeting - http://l.anymeeting.com/homepage/ Google + Hangout - https://tools.google.com/dlpage/hangoutplugin - http://www.google.com/+/learnmore/hangouts/ Meeting Burner - http://www.meetingburner.com/index?page=signup-v2 – up to 15 connection ~~Google + Hangout - https://tools.google.com/dlpage/hangoutplugin~~ ooVoo - http://www.oovoo.com/home.aspx Paltalk - http://www.paltalk.com sifonr - free communication - http://www.sifonr.com/‎ Tokbox \| OpenTok - API - http://tokbox.com/opentok Vyew - http://vyew.com/ Web Huddle - https://www.webhuddle.com/homepage.jsp - http://sourceforge.net/projects/webhuddle/ Zoom.us - Cloud HD Video Meetings - http://zoom.us/ Line 528 ⟶ 613: http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/WUaS_Universal_Translator Google Translate language: Sugar Labs: Translation System language: Region: '''Select Translators''' Babelxl. 2015. [http://babelxl.com/ Babelxl: the best translator]. http://babelxl.com/ . Babylon Online Translation. 2015. [http://translation.babylon.com/ Babylon Online Translation]. (Offering hundreds of dictionaries and translation in more than 800 language pairs). translation.babylon.com/ . Free-translator.com. 2015. [http://free-translator.com/ Free-translator.com]. free-translator.com/ . Google Translate. 2015. [https://translate.google.com/ Google Translate]. translate.google.com/ . SDL Free Translation. 2015. [http://www.freetranslation.com/ SDL Free Translation]. freetranslation.com/ . Word Lingo Free Translation Tools. 2015. [http://www.worldlingo.com/en/products/ Word Lingo Free Translation Tools and Machine Translation Products]. worldlingo.com/en/products/ . ===The "Universitian" Newspaper at World University and School=== [[The "Universitian" Newspaper at ~~World University and School~~WUaS]] Line 544 ⟶ 650: Wet Paint - http://wikisineducation.~~wetpaint~~wikifoundry.com/ Line 560 ⟶ 666: ===World University and School Licensing=== World University and School - like Wikipedia with Greatest Universities' OpenCourseWare - incorporated as a nonprofit effective April 2010 and is a 501(c)(3) tax-exempt, educational organization charity. ~~World University and School incorporated as a nonprofit in April 2010 and is a 501(c)(3) tax-exempt charity, as of 2011.~~ World University & School is a community of learners and teachers who value — and are themselves strengthened by — the rich diversity of its participants. In order to cultivate a flourishing teaching, learning and creating conversation in a diverse and complex world, WUaS welcomes all languages, students, families, faculty, board members, and staff with differences based on (but not limited to) race, color, ethnicity, religion, age, gender, sexual orientation, family structure, and economic background. All content on this site is freely available under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 34.0 ~~license~~International (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0) - http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/34.0~~/us~~/ . Line 603 ⟶ 701: World University Foundation: http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/World_University_Foundation <br /> LANGUAGE TEMPLATE: http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/LANGUAGE_TEMPLATE <br /> MUSEUM TEMPLATE: http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/MUSEUM_TEMPLATE <br /> NATION STATE TEMPLATE: http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/NATION_STATE_TEMPLATE <br /> SUBJECT TEMPLATE: http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/SUBJECT_TEMPLATE <br /> Volunteers at World University and School: http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Volunteers Line 613 ⟶ 718: For questions, or help editing a page, email: worlduniversityandschool@gmail.com <br /> WUaS's Guidestar.org listing - https://www.guidestar.org/organizations/27-3105368/world-university-school.aspx . <br /> Please donate through PayPal to tax-exempt - 501 (c) (3) - World University and School at <br /> http:/~~/scottmacleod.com~~/worlduniversityandschool.~~htm~~org <br /> Thank you!