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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 ⟶ 274: Flyer seeking degree-oriented, WUaS students: 'Quaker-informed World University & School seeks friendly, undergraduate students for free, online, Greatest 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 303 ⟶ 324: ===Coordinates=== Geodetic datums such as WGS84 or GPS Geohash keys ... in a virtual world Line 324 ⟶ 349: Broadcast to radio ~~frequency~~frequencies Broadcast to TV / television Line 334 ⟶ 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 380 ⟶ 411: WUaS International Baccalaureate Diploma and Programme: http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/WUaS_International_Baccalaureate_Diploma_and_Programme </br /> (beginning with United Nations' languages - Arabic, Chinese (Mandarin), English, French, Russian, Spanish) Line 588 ⟶ 619: 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/ . Line 620 ⟶ 666: ===World University and School Licensing=== World University and School - like Wikipedia with Greatest Universities' OpenCourseWare ~~(not endorsed by MIT OCW)~~ - incorporated as a nonprofit effective April 2010 and ~~has been~~is a 501(c)(3) tax-exempt, educational organization charity ~~through November 12, 2012, and is re-instating its 501(c)(3) tax-exempt status, as of September 2013, effective 2010~~.▼ ▲World University and School - like Wikipedia with Greatest Universities' OpenCourseWare (not endorsed by MIT OCW) - incorporated as a nonprofit effective April 2010 and has been a 501(c)(3) tax-exempt, educational organization charity through November 12, 2012, and is re-instating its 501(c)(3) tax-exempt status, as of September 2013, effective 2010. 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 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0) - ~~https~~http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/ . ~~The World University and School program is not endorsed by MIT or MIT OpenCourseWare.~~ Line 663 ⟶ 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 673 ⟶ 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!