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===Ideas===
 
WUaS is seeking volunteer translators from-to all 7,106 languages.
 
 
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Here are important templates for wiki-creating schools or MIT OCW-centric universities in a language or country of your choice, if you would like to do so -
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''''<nowiki>Select Chapters'</nowiki>'''
 
 
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===Select Databases===
 
 
===Select Dictionaries===
 
 
===Select Encyclopedias===
 
 
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===Select Funding Sources===
 
 
===Google + Hangouts, Group Video, etc.===
 
 
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===Select Photos, Pictures, etc.===
 
 
===Select Platforms===
 
edx-platform. 2014. https://www.transifex.com/projects/p/edx-platform/ edx-platform: the edX learning management system (LMS) and course authoring tool]. (edx-platform
the edX learning management system (LMS) and course authoring tool, Studio — http://code.edx.org/). transifex.com/projects/p/edx-platform/.
 
 
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Arellano, Juan (translated by Raquel Marin). 2014. [http://globalvoicesonline.org/2014/07/21/lourdes-sada-active-global-voices-volunteer-translator-author/ Meet Lourdes Sada, a Global Voices Volunteer Who Has Worked on More Than 400 Stories in Two Years]. July 21. Cambridge, MA: globalvoicesonline.org/2014/07/21/lourdes-sada-active-global-voices-volunteer-translator-author/ .
 
Content translation. 2015. [https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Content_translation Content translation]. mediawiki.org/wiki/Content_translation .
 
McLeod, Wilson. 2014. [https://www.academia.edu/8004242/Translation_and_Gaelic_Current_Challenges_and_Controversies Translation and Gaelic: Current Challenges and Controversies]. Edinburgh, Scotland: academia.edu/8004242/Translation_and_Gaelic_Current_Challenges_and_Controversies .
 
 
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===Select Video Conferences===
 
 
===Select Video with Subtitles for Translation===
 
 
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Computer Science: http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Computer_Science
 
English as a Second_Language: http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/English_as_a_Second_Language
 
English as a Second Language for Kids: http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/English_as_a_Second_Language_for_Kids
 
Foreign Languages and Literatures: http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Foreign_Languages_and_Literatures
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Wiki: http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Wiki
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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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
 
 
 
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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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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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'''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 .
 
 
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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 has beenis 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 34.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA 34.0) - httpshttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/34.0/ .
 
The World University and School program is not endorsed by MIT or MIT OpenCourseWare.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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NATION STATE TEMPLATE: http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/NATION_STATE_TEMPLATE
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SUBJECT TEMPLATE: http://worldunivephrsityworlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/SUBJECT_TEMPLATE
 
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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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