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===Select References===
 
Cerqueira, Emmanuelle Leroy, and Savannah Goyette (Trans.). 2013. [http://globalvoicesonline.org/2013/02/27/why-are-tourists-not-wanted-at-french-carnival/ Why Are Tourists Not Wanted at French Carnival?]. February 27. Cambridge, MA: globalvoicesonline.org.
 
Foster, Chris. 2015. [http://blogs.oii.ox.ac.uk/policy/why-havent-digital-platforms-transformed-firms-in-developing-countries-the-rwandan-tourism-sector-explored/ Why haven’t digital platforms transformed firms in developing countries? The Rwandan tourism sector explored]. February 10. Oxford, England: blogs.oii.ox.ac.uk/policy/why-havent-digital-platforms-transformed-firms-in-developing-countries-the-rwandan-tourism-sector-explored/ .
 
Hashim, N.H., Murphy, J., Purchase, S., & O’Connor, P (2010) Website and Email Adoption by Malaysian Hotels. International Journal of Hospitality Management, 29(1), 194-196.
 
MacLeod, Scott. 2014. [http://scott-macleod.blogspot.in/2014/01/oriental-pied-hornbill-tourism-guide.html Oriental Pied Hornbill: Tourism guide English instruction in Google + group video Hangouts from-to any language organized via WUaS? Added the following 'English for Tour Guides' resources to the WUaS Hospitality and Tourism, wiki, subject page ... http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Hospitality_and_Tourism]. January 8. Netarhat, Jharkhand, India: scott-macleod.blogspot.in/2014/01/oriental-pied-hornbill-tourism-guide.html.
Nerval's Lobster. 2012. [http://search.slashdot.org/story/12/08/14/1438217/google-acquiring-frommers-in-big-travel-data-play Google Acquiring Frommer's In Big Travel Data Play]. August 14. search.slashdot.org.
 
Nerval's Lobster. 2012. [http://search.slashdot.org/story/12/08/14/1438217/google-acquiring-frommers-in-big-travel-data-play Google Acquiring Frommer's In Big Travel Data Play]. August 14. search.slashdot.org.
 
 
'''English for Tour Guides'''
 
English for Tour Guides. 2014. [http://www.englishclub.com/english-for-work/tour-guide.htm English for Tour Guides]. (Vocabulary, Vocabulary Quiz, Answering Questions, Explaining safety, rules and etiquette, Showing Places of Interest, Sample Tour Guide Speech). englishclub.com/english-for-work/tour-guide.htm
 
Orey, Michael (Yi-Chun Hong). 2005. [http://sh0814.myweb.uga.edu/Portfolio/document/EDIT6400.pdf Lesson Plan: Conducting Tour Guide with English]. Taiwan: sh0814.myweb.uga.edu/Portfolio/document/EDIT6400.pdf.
 
Travel/Tourism. 2013. [http://www.englishformyjob.com/ell_traveltourism.html Travel/Tourism]. (If you work (or would like to work) in the tourism industry (as a travel agent, tour guide, flight attendant, etc.), and want to learn the most useful English terms and expressions used in your field, these exercises are for you! They will help you to speak better English, to use proper words, and to communicate better with anyone you deal with. All of the exercises are free). englishformyjob.com.
 
 
'''Hindi for Tour Guides'''
 
 
 
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===Select Slideshows===
 
20 Best Hostels Around the World for Food Slideshow. 2013. [http://www.thedailymeal.com/moreslideshows/596125 20 Best Hostels Around the World for Food Slideshow]. thedailymeal.com/moreslideshows/596125.
 
 
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===Select Websites===
 
Cornell University School of Hotel Administration. 2014. [http://www.hotelschool.cornell.edu/academics/ Cornell University School of Hotel Administration Academics]. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University.
 
 
===Select Wikis===
 
 
===Subjects' Social Networking Sites===
 
 
===Tutoring===
 
 
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Tourism Studies: http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Tourism_Studies
 
 
 
 
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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, MITGreatest OCWUniversities-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
 
 
 
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===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/ .
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===Coordinates===
 
Geodetic datums such as WGS84 or GPS
 
Geohash keys
 
... in a virtual world
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Broadcast to radio frequencyfrequencies
 
 
Broadcast to TV / television
 
 
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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
 
 
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===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
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WUaS International Baccalaureate Diploma and Programme: http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/WUaS_International_Baccalaureate_Diploma_and_Programme
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(probablybeginning inwith United Nations' languages only - Arabic, Chinese (Mandarin), English, French, Russian, Spanish)
 
 
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===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
 
 
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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
 
 
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===Learning Networking===
 
Teach and Learn using free Social BookmarkingNetworking software to identifyshare what courses, etc., you find edifying, what you enjoy learning ....
 
 
About Me - World University and School -
http://about.me
 
 
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DiggFacebook.com's World University and School - http://diggwww.facebook.com/worlduniversityandschoolgroup.php?gid=48753608141 ('This group may be archived').
 
 
Good Reads - http://www.goodreads.com/group/show/99021-worlduniversityandschool
Facebook.com's World University and School - http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=48753608141 (This group may be archived).
 
 
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
 
 
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LinkedIn's World University and School - http://www.linkedin.com/groups/World-University-School-4024337
 
 
Quora - http://www.quora.com/
 
 
Research Gate - http://www.researchgate.net/
 
 
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Wer Kennt Wen - World University &and School subject- grouphttp://www.wer-kennt-wen.de/
 
 
World University & School 'subject page' group
 
 
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===RSS Feed===
 
 
===Tutoring===
 
 
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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
 
 
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''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/
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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/ .
 
 
'''Select Video with Subtitles for Translation'''
 
Amara.org. 2015. [http://www.amara.org/en/ Amara.org: Captions, subtitles, and translations simplified]. (Amara makes video globally accessible: Captions, subtitles, and translations simplified). amara.org/en/
 
TED Open Translation Project. 2015. [https://www.ted.com/about/programs-initiatives/ted-open-translation-project TED Open Translation Project]. (See - https://www.ted.com/about/programs-initiatives/ted-open-translation-project - and - https://www.ted.com/participate/translate/get-started). ted.com/about/programs-initiatives/ted-open-translation-project .
 
 
===The "Universitian" Newspaper at World University and School===
 
[[The "Universitian" Newspaper at World University and SchoolWUaS]]
 
 
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Wet Paint - http://wikisineducation.wetpaintwikifoundry.com/
 
 
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===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 licenseInternational (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0) - http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/34.0/us/ .
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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World University Foundation: http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/World_University_Foundation
 
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LANGUAGE TEMPLATE: http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/LANGUAGE_TEMPLATE
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MUSEUM TEMPLATE: http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/MUSEUM_TEMPLATE
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NATION STATE TEMPLATE: http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/NATION_STATE_TEMPLATE
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SUBJECT TEMPLATE: http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/SUBJECT_TEMPLATE
 
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Volunteers at World University and School: http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Volunteers
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For questions, or help editing a page, email: worlduniversityandschool@gmail.com
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WUaS's Guidestar.org listing -
https://www.guidestar.org/organizations/27-3105368/world-university-school.aspx .
 
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Please donate through PayPal to tax-exempt - 501 (c) (3) - World University and School at
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