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==WUaS Idea- and Academic Resources==
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blair1q. 2011. [http://news.slashdot.org/story/11/04/23/1955202/Solar-Panels-Increase-Home-Value Solar Panels Increase Home Value]. April 23. news.slashdot.org
 
cartechboy. 2014. [http://hardware.slashdot.org/story/14/01/23/1831208/will-electric-cars-and-solar-power-make-gasoline-and-utilities-obsolete Will Electric Cars and Solar Power Make Gasoline and Utilities Obsolete?]. January 23. hardware.slashdot.org.
 
Chandler, David. 2010. [http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2010/self-healing-solar.html Solar cell, heal thyself: New self-assembling photovoltaic technology can keep repairing itself to avoid any loss in performance.]. Cambridge, MA: MIT News.
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Cylonlover. 2011. [http://hardware.slashdot.org/story/11/04/13/1837203/Google-Invests-In-Worlds-Largest-Solar-Power-Tower-Plant Google Invests In World's Largest Solar Power Tower Plant]. April 13. hardware.slashdot.org
 
FACT SHEET: White House Announces Executive Actions and Commitments from Across the Country to Advance Solar Deployment and Energy Efficiency. 2014. [http://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2014/09/18/fact-sheet-white-house-announces-executive-actions-and-commitments-acros FACT SHEET: White House Announces Executive Actions and Commitments from Across the Country to Advance Solar Deployment and Energy Efficiency]. Washington, DC: whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2014/09/18/fact-sheet-white-house-announces-executive-actions-and-commitments-acros .
 
Farrell, John. 2012. [http://thinkprogress.org/climate/2012/07/01/509117/four-charts-provide-distributed-solar-lessons-from-california/ Four Charts Provide Distributed Solar Lessons From California]. July 1. thinkprogress.org
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Harvey, Fiona. 2011. [http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2011/05/09-6 Renewable Energy Can Power the World, Says Landmark IPCC Study: UN's climate change science body says renewables supply, particularly solar power, can meet global demand]. May 9. commondreams.org.
 
Hirsch, Jennifer. 2010. [http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2010-09/miot-mrc090110.php MIT researchers create new self-assembling photovoltaic technology that repairs itself]. September 5. Cambridge, MA: Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
 
Hosman, LJ. 2011. [http://ict4dviewsfromthefield.wordpress.com/2011/08/15/successful-solar-installation-in-lascahobas-haiti-to-charge-500-laptops/ Successful solar installation in Lascahobas, Haiti to charge 500 laptops!!!!!]. August 15. ict4dviewsfromthefield.wordpress.com.
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liqs8143. 2011. [http://tech.slashdot.org/story/11/05/15/223206/Solar-Powered-Airplane-Completes-First-International-Flight Solar-Powered Airplane Completes First International Flight]. May 15. tech.slashdot.org.
 
Lucas123. 2015. [http://tech.slashdot.org/story/15/03/12/0247252/new-solar-capacity-beats-coal-and-wind-again New Solar Capacity Beats Coal and Wind, Again]. March 12. tech.slashdot.org/story/15/03/12/0247252/new-solar-capacity-beats-coal-and-wind-again .
 
Lucas123. 2014. [http://hardware.slashdot.org/story/14/11/19/0030229/rooftop-solar-could-reach-price-parity-in-the-us-by-2016 Rooftop Solar Could Reach Price Parity In the US By 2016]. Nov 18. hardware.slashdot.org/story/14/11/19/0030229/rooftop-solar-could-reach-price-parity-in-the-us-by-2016 .
 
Lundgren, Kari and Lars Paulsson. 2011. [http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-09-29/utilities-giving-away-power-as-wind-sun-flood-european-grid.html Utilities Giving Away Electricity as Wind, Sun Overwhelm European Network]. Sep 30. New York, NY, Bloomberg News.
 
McKie, Robin. 2014. [http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2014/sep/28/solar-energy-sunflower-ibm-airlight-electricity Solar energy: a sunflower solution to electricity shortage: A new piece of solar technology from IBM not only provides electricity – it can desalinate water for sanitation and drinking]. September 27. theguardian.com/environment/2014/sep/28/solar-energy-sunflower-ibm-airlight-electricity.
 
mdsolar. 2013. [http://hardware.slashdot.org/story/13/11/22/1716216/a-war-over-solar-power-is-raging-within-the-gop A War Over Solar Power Is Raging Within the GOP]. November 22. hardware.slashdot.org.
 
Necro81. 2011. [http://hardware.slashdot.org/story/11/05/17/1912239/Capturing-Solar-Power-With-Antennae Capturing Solar Power With Antennae]. May 17. hardware.slashdot.org.
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===Select Video Conferences===
 
 
===Select Videocasts and Podcasts===
 
 
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Solar cooking: http://solarcooking.wikia.com/wiki/The_Solar_Cooking_Archive_Wiki
 
 
===Select Writers, Researchers, etc.===
 
 
===Subject's Social Networking Sites===
 
 
===Tutoring===
 
 
===Wikimedia Commons===
 
Wikimedia Commons: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Main_Page
 
 
===Wikipedia===
 
Wikipedia: https://www.wikipedia.org/
 
 
===Wikiquotes===
 
Wikiquotes: https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Main_Page
 
 
===Wikisource===
 
Wikisource: https://wikisource.org/wiki/Main_Page
 
 
===Wikivoyage===
 
Wikivoyage: https://www.wikivoyage.org/
 
 
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Battery Technologies: http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Battery_Technologies
 
Building Green Houses and Dwellings: http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Building_Green_Houses_and_Dwellings
 
Energy Courses: http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Energy_Courses
 
Energy Technologies: http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Energy_Technologies
 
Engineering: http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Engineering
 
Geothermal Energy: http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Geothermal_Energy
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Wind Energy: http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Wind_Energy
 
World University Engineering School: http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/World_University_Engineering_School
 
 
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==WUaS Navigation==
 
New WUaS in MediaWiki:
 
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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 course catalog===
 
Digital course catalog
 
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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: 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===
 
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Geohash keys
 
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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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WUaS International Baccalaureate Diploma and Programme: http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/WUaS_International_Baccalaureate_Diploma_and_Programme
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===In Virtual World===
 
(Search on the word 'lists' here, too: http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Virtual_Worlds)
3D Learn. 2013. http://www.learningin3d.info/
 
Active Worlds Educational Universe (AWEDU). 2012. http://www.activeworlds.com/edu/
 
Alice. 2012. http://www.alice.org/
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ISTE – SIGMS. 2013. http://sigms.iste.wikispaces.net/secondlifeplayground2010
 
Kaneva. 2014. http://www.kaneva.com/
 
Open Cobalt. 2013. http://www.opencobalt.org/
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Quest Atlantis. 2012. http://atlantisremixed.org/ (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SZoT3pilNPI).
 
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/
 
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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Teach and Learn using free Social Networking software to share what courses, etc., you find edifying, what you enjoy learning ....
 
 
About Me - World University and School -
http://about.me
 
 
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Twitter.com's World University and School - http://twitter.com/WorldUnivandSch
 
 
Wer Kennt Wen - World University and School - http://www.wer-kennt-wen.de/
 
 
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Yahoo Groups' World University and School: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/worlduniversityandschool/
 
 
===Linked Open Data===
 
Linked Open Data, Linked Data for artificial intelligence and machine learning, with a focus on privacy and security.
 
 
 
===List of Wikipedias===
 
List of Wikipedias. 2015. [https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/List_of_Wikipedias List of Wikipedias]. meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/List_of_Wikipedias .
 
 
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===Tutoring===
 
===Save this page for download in the following formats===
 
atom
 
GeoJSON
 
csv.csvm
 
map.html
 
csv
 
xls
 
rdf
 
klm
 
 
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Livestream TV - http://www.livestream.com
 
 
MIT UnHangouts - https://unhangout.media.mit.edu/
 
 
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AnyMeeting - http://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/ .
 
 
 
 
 
 
MIT OCW Creative Commons' licensing and endorsement clarifications
 
a) MIT is not affiliated with, and does not endorse, World University and School b) MIT does not offer credit to WUaS students, and c) All MIT OpenCourseWare materials are available for free through http://ocw.mit.edu
 
 
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Volunteers at World University and School: http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Volunteers
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