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[[Image:AphiloWorldUniversitySchool5Sep07.jpg|200px|thumb|left|World University and School {in a virtual world}]]
 
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<big>'''Welcome to {{SITENAME}}'''</big><br />
which [[Help:Editing|anyone can add to or edit]].
<br />The Global, Virtual/Digital, Open, Free, {potentially Degree- and Credit-Granting},
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Multilingual University & School
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where anyone can teach or take a class or course
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| Course's Name
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| MIT
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| Browser
| Start anytime
| English
| High School, Undergraduate, Graduate
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| MIT OCW Translated Courses
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| e-Thaksalawa
| http://www.e-thaksalawa.moe.gov.lk/moodle/
| Ministry of Education, Sri Lanka
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| Browser
| Start anytime
| English / Sinhala & Tamil
| High School
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==WUaS Idea- and Academic Resources==
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===Select Books===
 
Thiranagama, Sharika (Foreword by Gananath Obeysekere). 2011. In My Mother’s House: Civil War in Sri Lanka. Philadelphia, PA: University of Pennsylvania Press.
 
Thiranagama, Sharika and Tobias Kelly (eds.). 2010. Traitors: Suspicion, Intimacy and the Ethics of State-Building. Philadelphia, PA: University of Pennsylvania Press.
 
 
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===Select Conferences Online===
 
 
===Select Conversations / Dialogues / Idea Competitions===
 
 
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===Select Humor===
 
 
===Select Idea Competitions / Conversations / Dialogues===
 
 
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===Select Libraries, Archives, Collections, Repositories, etc.===
 
(See also editable World University and School's Library Resources' page: http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Library_Resources).
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===Select Office Hours===
 
 
===Select Papers===
 
 
===Select Photos===
 
 
===Select Poetry===
 
 
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===Select Questions, Inquiries, Problems, FAQs===
 
 
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===Select RSS Feeds, SMS, etc.===
 
 
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===Select References===
 
Azeez, Abdul Halik. 2013. [http://globalvoicesonline.org/2013/04/27/anti-hate-rally-attempts-to-tackle-emerging-racism-in-sri-lanka/ Anti-Hate Rally Attempts to Tackle Emerging Racism in Sri Lanka]. April 27. Cambridge, MA: globalvoicesonline.org.
 
Readings by Session. 2004. [http://ocw.mit.edu/courses/foreign-languages-and-literatures/21f-041-topics-in-south-asian-literature-and-culture-fall-2004/readings/ Readings by Session - Topics in South Asian Literature and Culture]. Cambridge, MA: MIT OCW.
 
 
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===Select Websites===
 
Freedom College (formerly known as Nidahas Vidyalaya) is the Sri Lankan representative for World University and School in Sri Lanka. nidahasvidyalaya.edu.lk
 
===Select Wikis===
 
 
===World University and School Links===
 
India: http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/India
 
===Subjects' Social Networking Sites===
Sinhala language: http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Sinhala_language
 
 
===Tutoring===
 
 
===World University and School Links===
 
South Asia: http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/South_AsiaAsia
 
Sri Lanka: http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Sri_Lanka
 
සිංහල: https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Sinhala_language
Tamil language: http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Tamil_language
 
தமிழ்: https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Tamil_language
 
===Select Video and Audio===
 
 
===Select Video Conferences===
 
 
===Select Videocasts and Podcasts===
 
 
===Select Websites===
 
 
===Select Wikis===
 
 
===Select Workshops===
 
 
===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/
 
 
===World University and School Links===
 
 
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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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Please feel free to hyperlink your name to a location of your choice (or tell WUaS where to link to - worlduniversityandschool@gmail.com). Please do not hesitate to let WUaS know if you think that somebody (including yourself) has been forgotten, now or in the future; please include a URL, which is, of course, one main way identity created on the internet.
 
Freedom College: https://nidahasvidyalaya.edu.lk
 
===Digital To Do===
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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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(beginning with United Nations' languages - 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)
 
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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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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===RSS Feed===
 
 
===Tutoring===
 
 
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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
 
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/
Google + Hangout - https://tools.google.com/dlpage/hangoutplugin
 
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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===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 (not endorsed by MIT OCW) - 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-ShareAlike 3.0 licenseInternational (CC BY-SA 3.0) - httphttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/us/ .
 
 
 
 
 
 
The World University and School program is not endorsed by MIT or MIT OpenCourseWare.
 
 
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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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http://scottmacleod.com/worlduniversityandschool.htmorg
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Thank you!