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Search Wikinews News stories from Wikinews
Search Wikiversity Learning resources from Wikiversity
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2.How would it woks for education?
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Search Wiktionary Definitions from Wiktionary
ReplyDelete1.What it is..
Wiktionary is a collaborative project to produce a free-content multilingual dictionary, also a wiki, which means that you can edit it. Wiktionary has grown beyond a standard dictionary and now includes a thesaurus, a rhyme guide, phrase books, language statistics and extensive appendices. The purpose is not only the definition of a word, but also enough information to really understand it. Thus etymologies, pronunciations, sample quotations, synonyms, antonyms and translations are included.
2.How would it woks for education?
It is very useful if we want to learn the different languages because we just type “Thank you in Russian” in the text box which is provided in the page, the pages will explain about what is thank you and how to pronounce it in Russian and how it spells. So that’s this wiktionary give us chance to learn the languages by self studying.
Search Wikibooks Textbooks from Wikibooks
1.What it is?
Wikibooks is a wikimedia community for creating a free library of educational textbooks that anyone can edit. It is also for collaboratively writing educational content on various subjects. Wikibooks has two sub-projects; Wikijunior which is aimed at children and the Cookbook which is our collection of recipes and culinary topics. Anyone can feel free to browse around the growing number of steadily improving books and be sure to check out the collections of featured books. Wikibooks is very much a community effort, so anyone can improve the existing content or add new books or modules, and join project related discussions in the Wikibooks reading rooms.
2.How would it woks for education?
It is just like a library so that’s why whenever we need a book to find, we can go there and get it according to categories. And also we can create our own worksheet for the students, we can just type in the box which is provided there and just simply save it to the website.
Search Wikiquote Quotations from Wikiquote
1.What it is..
Wikiquote is a free online compendium of sourced quotations from notable people and creative works in every language, translations of non-English quotes, and links to Wikipedia for further information.
2.How would it woks for education?
Students can learn the culture, nature of work, nature of people by studying the quotes which are provided by nationality, film, occupation, etc.
Search Wikisource Source texts from Wikisource
ReplyDelete1.What it is..
Wikisource is an online library of free content publications, collected and maintained by our community. They now have 137,352 texts in the English language library.
2. How would it woks for education?
We can contribute what we have known by publishing on the page. We can write about authors, works, anything could be resources for others so that people can see and get the reference for their study or we can make the references which are contributed by others as well.
Search Commons Images and media from Commons
1.What it is..
Wikimedia Commons is a repository of free images, sound and other multimedia files. Uploaded files can be used as local files by other projects on the Wikimedia servers, including wikis pages. It acts as a common repository for the various projects of the Wikimedia Foundation, but you do not need to belong to one of those projects to use media hosted here. The repository is created and maintained not by paid-for artists but by volunteers.
2.How would it woks for education?
It is making available public domain and freely-licensed educational media content (images, sound and video clips) to everyone, in their own language.
Search Wikinews News stories from Wikinews
1.What it is..
Wikinews is a news source written entirely by its users. It is built on certain core values: about news, focused, written from a neutral point of view, factual, relevant, both global and local, and collaborative.
2.How would it woks for education?
The page said that anyone can be reporter and also encourage the people to be aware of their environment and can let the world know what is going on around them. Even though we are in Thailand, the students can be aware of the situation of global warming, economic crisis etc.
Search Wikiversity Learning resources from Wikiversity
1.What it is..
Wikiversity is a Wikimedia Foundation project devoted to learning resources, learning projects, and research for use in all levels, types, and styles of education from pre-school to university, including professional training and informal learning.
2.How would it woks for education?
It is very clear that this wiki is like a university, anyone can learn, get the learning resources and get the teaching resources. Anyone can also contribute by posting the discussion about any learning methodologies and curriculum.
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1. Definitions from Wiktionary
- (Uncountable) A collaborative project run by the Wikimedia Foundation to produce a free and complete dictionary (lexicon and thesaurus therein) in every language.
- (Countable) Any of the dictionaries resulting from this project.
2. It helps translate words in many languages, just by using this website. Definitions will appear, useful to learn different languages.
Wikibooks
1. It is open-content textbooks with over 30,100 modules. It is a Wikimedia community for creating a free library of educational textbooks that anyone can edit. It provides educational content on various subjects in other language besides English. Just type in the name of the book or use key words to search and the list of the collection will appear.
2. Educational resources; various educational contents on different subjects can be searched. It is helpful for doing a research or information gathering. It can be edited by members. It can grow larger through collaborative writing and volunteers who want to help create textbooks in Wikibooks.
Wikiquote
1. It is a collection of quotations which come in other languages besides English. The goal of this project is to produce a large references of quotations and give details about them. Its difference from other online quotation source is that it provide an opportunity for visitors to contribute.
2. It allows users to search, create, and share quotations and meanings or the origin behind the quotations. A good source to learn about culture, history, attitude from different categories and people.
Wikisource
1. It is an online library of free content textual sources. It collects and stores in digital format previously published texts. The texts are either free of copyright or released under the law of license.
2. Users can contribute and search for information in digital format useful for their study and work for example as it is a free library.
Wikimedia Commons: Commons Images and media
1. It is the repository for free images. Uploading an image on Commons once, it will be stored on Wikimedia’s servers and can be used anywhere without having to upload an image to every Wikipedia language or sister project that wants to use an image.
2. Besides being useful to find and store images, helpful and convenient storing images on servers, it stresses effort and awareness to be organized and not be wasteful of server space.
Wikiversity
1. It is a project that aims to set learning free by providing free learning resources, learning projects and research for use in all levels, types and styles of education from pre-school to university, including professional training and informal learning. It is a collaborative learning community as teachers, students and researchers can join in creating this open educational resource.
2. Teaching and learning resources for everyone.
Wikinews
1. It is a free-content news source where members can write article as a news story regarding its neutral-point-of-view policy. It has had issues and been criticized about its credibility to be neutral or include only the verified and true information
2. It allows users to write original work under the form of original reporting and interviews. It is like an online newspaper where anyone in the world can write and share news and in different languages. It can be a good educational resource.
Search Wiktionary Definitions from Wiktionary
ReplyDelete1. What is it?
Wiktionary is a multilingual, Web-based project to create a free content dictionary, available in over 151 languages. It is written collaboratively by volunteers using wiki software, allowing articles to be changed by almost anyone with access to the Web site. Most of Wiktionary's language editions provide definitions and translations of words from many languages. The English Wiktionary includes Wikisaurus, a category that serves as a thesaurus, and slang words.
2. How would it woks for education?
People can find the words in Wiktionary in various languages plus theaurus and slang words.
Search Wikibooks Textbooks from Wikibooks
1. What is it?
Wikibooks is a Wikimedia community for creating a free library of educational textbooks that anyone can edit. Wikibooks is for textbooks, annotated texts, instructional guides, and manuals.
2. How would it woks for education?
It can be used in a traditional classroom, an accredited or respected institution, a home-school environment, as part of a Wikiversity course or for self-learning. As a general rule only instructional books are suitable for inclusion. Most types of books, both fiction and non-fiction, are not allowed on Wikibooks, unless they are instructional. The use of literary elements, such as allegory or fables as instructional tools can be permitted in some situations.
Search Wikiquote Quotations from Wikiquote
1. What is it?
Wikiquote is a free online compendium of sourced quotations from notable people and creative works in every language, translations of non-English quotes, and links to Wikipedia for further information.
2. How would it woks for education?
Students can learn the proverbs, themes through the productions such as films, literary works and television contributed by notable poeple.
Search Wikisource Source texts from Wikisource
1. What is it?
Wikisource is an online library of free content publications, collected and maintained by wiki community. It now has 137,977 texts in the English language library.
2. How would it woks for education?
People can contribute anything in wikisource and also take the source as reference.
Search Commons Images and media from Commons
1. What is it?
It is a repository of free content images, sound and other multimedia files. The files uploaded to the Commons repository can be used like locally uploaded files on all other projects on the Wikimedia servers in all languages.
2. How would it woks for education?
It is making available public domain and freely-licensed educational media content (images, sound and video clips) to everyone, in their own language.
Search Wikinews News stories from Wikinews
1. What is it?
Everything you read here is written by volunteers. As well as starting your own articles, you can edit any page you see — expand it, fix spelling mistakes, correct facts, make policy suggestions, talk to other Wikinews contributors, and more.
2. How would it woks for education?
Wikinews promotes the idea of participatory journalism because of the belief that citizens know what is news like no others. Anyone can contribute, and articles are written collaboratively for a global audience. It strives at all times to meet the policy of using neutral point of view, ensuring our reporting is as fair as possible.
Search Wikiversity Learning resources from Wikiversity
1. What is it?
Wikiversity is a Wikimedia Foundation project devoted to learning resources, learning projects, and research for use in all levels, types, and styles of education from pre-school to university, including professional training and informal learning. It invites teachers, students, and researchers to join us in creating open educational resources and collaborative learning communities. To learn more, try a guided tour or start editing now.
2. How would it woks for education?
People can get and contribute any level of educational methods and resources.
1. Search Wikitionary Definitions from Wiktionary
ReplyDeleteWikitionary is a free multilingual dictionary, available in over 151 languages. It provide defitinions and translations of words from many language. The content of Wikitionary is written by "Wiktionarians", a group of volunteers, using wiki software. We might familiar with the web-based or online dictionary, but Wikitionary includes range of different vocabulary such as lists of slang words.
How would it woks for education?
Students can learn vocabulary by translating the words in many languages.
2. Search Wikibooks Textbooks from Wikibooks
Wikibooks is a collection of open-content textbooks, for creating a free library of educational textbooks that anyone can edit. Now it include over 38,528 pages. Wikibooks includes textbooks, annotated texts, instructional guides, and manuals. These materials can be used in a traditional classroom, an accredited or respected institution, a home-school environment, as part of a Wikiversity course or for self-learning. As a general rule only instructional books are suitable for inclusion. Most types of books, both fiction and non-fiction, are not allowed on Wikibooks, unless they are instructional. The use of literary elements, such as allegory or fables as instructional tools can be permitted in some situations.
One interesting part of Wikibooks is Wikijunior (http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Wikijunior). It includes the category titles such as Discovery and Innovation, The natural world, our world of people, school time. For Pre-Readers books are intended to be read by parent/guardian or teacher. Wikijunior The aim of this project is to produce age-appropriate non-fiction books for children from birth to age 12.
How would it woks for education?
- For students
Help write articles and books, Start a class project to write a book or article, Fact-check an article, Suggest a new book title, Check articles for grammar, style and spelling.
- For Teachers
In ‘Featured books’ page, it includes the range of quality books that the community believes to be the best of what Wikibooks has to offer and should inspire people to improve the quality of other books.
For example in social science category, there is a book related to Learning Theories (http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Learning_Theories) which is a useful downloadable guide for both students and teachers to the problem of how to convey learning such as learning theories, organizational learning, and knowledge management.
3. Search Wikiquote Quotations from Wikiquote
Wikiquote is a collaborative vast reference of notable quotations collection. It stored sourced quotations from notable people and creative works in every language, translations of non-English quotes, and links to Wikipedia for further information. Wikiquote has quotes from range of different people, literary works, proverbs, films, TV shows, memorials, epitaphs, etc. As of January 1, 2010, twenty one versions each have more than 1,000 articles
How would it woks for education?
Quotations are what philosophical stance of those who say them, and from whatever country, race, or religion they come; whether they be serious or whimsical; whether the authors are famous or infamous, controversial or celebrated: viewed in the right light quotations are sparkling gems of wisdom in a handful of well-chosen words. They can inspire us to seek to understand the people that uttered them, to consider the course of our own lives, to laugh, or merely to admire their mastery of language. However we use them, they will exist forever as a summary of the collective insights of society, communal knowledge passed on from one generation to the next.
4. Search Wikisource Source texts from Wikisource
ReplyDeleteWikisource is an online library of free content textual sources. Its aims gather free text, in many languages. It also provides translation efforts to this end. Wikisource collects and stores in digital format previously published texts; including novels, non-fiction works, letters, speeches, constitutional and historical documents, laws and a range of other documents.
All texts collected are either free of copyright or released under the Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License. The purpose of Wikisource is quite similar to Wikicommons but it store text rather than media file repository like Commons. For Thai Wikisource (http://th.wikisource.org), currently has total 13,021 content pages and 1,016 users.
How would it woks for education?
Like other Wikis, students and teachers can contribute by sharing their knowledge in Wikisorces.
5. Search Commons Images and media from Commons
Wikimedia Commons is a media file repository making available public domain and freely-licensed educational media content (images, sound and video clips) in many languages. Common has a database of 5,713,774 freely usable media files.
The media files from Commons can be used license free. The author in Wilipedia, the wikimedian, can refer or include the media files from WikiCommons directly.
How would it woks for education?
- For students
Student’s can requesting images from other Commons users in ‘Picture request’ page.
- For Teachers
Teachers could use Commons for producing a class material, or even a worksheet.
6. Search Wikinews News stories from Wikinews
Wikinews is created by a group of volunteers. It contains the present reliable, neutral point of view and relevant news. Like other Wikis, the content is released under a free license. Wikinews consist of synthesis article and original reporting. Synthesis articles are draw from media reports in many sources. Original reporting is the report which was written by Wikinews contributors.
How would it woks for education?
Students at any level could practice how to be a Wikinews reporters, by writing a good article a original reporting. The ‘Wikinews style guide’ how to write a basic news writing or citing the references. It should have the additional benefit of helping the students to practice how to write effectively (http://en.wikinews.org/wiki/Wikinews:Style_guide).
Other interesting section is ‘World news quiz’, this is where the students can test their knowledge on this week’s news.
7. Search Wikiversity Learning resources from Wikiversity
Wikiversity is a Wikimedia Foundation project devoted to learning resources, learning projects, and research for use in all levels, types, and styles of education from pre-school to university, including professional training and informal learning. We invite teachers, students, and researchers to join us in creating open educational resources and collaborative learning communities.
How would it woks for education?
There are portal for every students level (Pre-school Education, Primary Education, Secondary Education, Tertiary Education, and Non-formal Education). Students can browse to the portal that related to them. For example, Preschool education portal
(http://en.wikiversity.org/wiki/Portal:Pre-school_Education). Students can learn from various providing resource such as Early Childhood Mathematics Education. They even have the kids version!
Teachers can use Wikiversity to find the learning resources for their teaching level such as pre-school education, eco toys articles.
Search Wiktionary Definitions from Wiktionary
ReplyDelete1.What it is…
A collaborative project run by the Wikimedia Foundation to produce a free and complete dictionary (lexicon and thesaurus therein) in every language. Wiktionary includes a thesaurus, a rhyme guide, phrase books, language statistics and extensive appendices. In addition, it also includes etymologies, pronunciations, sample quotations, synonyms, antonyms and translations.
2.How would it work for education?
More useful tools with more variety for teachers or students to search for
words rather than just ordinary paper dictionary.
Search Wikibooks Textbooks from Wikibooks
1.What it is…
Wikibooks (previously called Wikimedia Free Textbook Project and Wikimedia-Textbooks) is a Wikimedia community for creating a free library of educational textbooks that anyone can edit.
In addition, Two major sub-projects, Wikijunior and Wikiversity, were created within Wikibooks before its official policy was later changed so that future incubator type projects are started according to the Wikimedia Foundation's new project policy. Wikijunior is a subproject of Wikibooks that specializes in books for children. The project consists of both a magazine and a website, and is currently being developed in English, Danish, Finnish, French, German, Italian, Japanese and Spanish
2.How would it work for education?
This is really useful especially for Elementary and Kindergarten Teacher as it provides wide variety of children books and users are welcome to edit any books or content created in this Wikis. Therefore readers will have a more precise and accurate use of these books sources and it’s FREE.
Search Wikiquote Quotations from Wikiquote
1.What it is…
Wikiquote is one of a family of wiki-based projects that produce collaboratively a vast reference of quotations from prominent people, books, films and proverbs, and to give details about them. Wikiquote is a free online compendium of sourced quotations from notable people and creative works in every language, translations of non-English quotes, and links to Wikipedia for further information.
2.How would it work for education?
This is useful for students of non-english speaking background to understand more of the quotes, proverbs and others information, translating into their native language in order to enhance understanding. This is especially beneficial for multicultural and multinational school to do a better translation of words for educational purposes.
Search Wikisource Source texts from Wikisource
1.What it is…
Wikisource is an online library of free content publications, collected and maintained by the Wikis community. They now have 138,167 texts in the English language library.
2.How would it work for education?
Teacher or students are free to search for a wide range of publications
that will be useful in the classroom as an extra teaching or learning
materials. Users will find it easy to use as all publications are categorized
according to era, country, subject and etc that provide a more specific and
detailed search for the users.
Search Commons Images and media from Commons
ReplyDelete1.What it is…
Wikimedia Commons is a media file repository making available public domain and freely-licensed educational media content (images, sound and video clips) to everyone, in their own language. Unlike media files uploaded to other Wikis projects, files uploaded to Wikimedia Commons can be embedded on pages of all Wikimedia projects without the need to separately upload them there.
Furthermore, unlike traditional media repositories, Wikimedia Commons is free. Everyone is allowed to copy, use and modify any files here freely as long as the source and the authors are credited and as long as users release their copies/improvements under the same freedom to others.
2.How would it work for education?
These media files can be used as a in-class material that will stimulate student’s learning and students that learn through visual and hearing, will be able to expose more and learn more in their own ways. As it is free to copy and modify, teachers can then copy the media files for their future references or usage and it will then be a beneficial media resources for teachers.
Search Wikinews News stories from Wikinews
1.What it is…
Everything in Wikinews is written by volunteers and everyone is welcome to create articles and edit page reviewed — expand it, fix spelling mistakes, correct facts, make policy suggestions, talk to other Wikinews contributors, and more. Anyone can contribute, and articles are written collaboratively for a global audience. Their aims at all time to meet the policy of using neutral point of view, ensuring all articles and reporting is as fair as possible. Furthermore, everything written in Wikinews is cited in order to maintain the highest standards of reliability.
2.How would it work for education?
Students are able to practice writing skills by writing reliable and down to earth articles then others or the teacher can do the editing online. Students will feel more accomplished in themselves and it will encourage them to be creative, careful and responsible for their own writing.
Search Wikiversity Learning resources from Wikiversity
1.What it is…
Wikiversity is a Wikimedia Foundation project devoted to learning resources, learning projects, and research for use in all levels, types, and styles of education from pre-school to university, including professional training and informal learning.
It is a place where people can find free learning materials and learning projects online. Anyone can participate, learn and teach in Wikiversiry as there are no cost, no advertising and no credentials required but no degree will be awarded.
Everyone can create and revise teaching materials. Anyone can participate in the learning activities.
2.How would it work for education?
This wikis is a good place for educators and learners to exchange ideas and to input new ideas into teaching and learning. It is a good platform for mutual understanding between teachers and learners and it will also provide good insight for both sides as free discussion, sharing of data and material are highly encouraged in Wikiversity.