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19 Oct 09

Wikipedia for Language Learning – a guide for teachers - AvatarLanguages.com

"How to use Wikipedia and Wikitravel in Language Lessons

Wikipedia is well-known and has become a main source for initial research. Yet its interactive nature allows language learners to play a more active role, to gain an online voice and focus on accuracy and quality in their written work."

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24 Jun 09

Wired magazine editor falls into controversy over similarities between his new book, Free, and Wikipedia | World news | guardian.co.uk

  • The editor-in-chief of the magazine for techno geeks, Wired, has fallen into a controversy over alleged plagiarism after it was discovered that passages of his forthcoming book bear an uncanny resemblance to entries to the online encyclopaedia Wikipedia.
11 Jan 09

Welcome to VisualWikipedia!

VisualWikipedia is a visual, intuitive, and interactive web interface to encyclopedic knowledge/information. It is designed to provide a fun place to learn stuff in an efficient manner. Please watch the following video to get a good sense of how to use it.

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10 Jan 09

Googlepedia :: Firefox Add-ons

Shows you a relevant Wikipedia article along with your search results. Clicking links in the article will trigger new Google searches, making it a very useful research tool.

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13 Dec 08

NIBIPEDIA : Together We Learn

Watch, Learn, Research, Teach.
That's pretty much the gist. This is our "View Only" Beta. You can't add nibs yet, but you can watch nibbed videos. (below) We launched Nibipedia to promote OLPC's Give One Get One Campaign. (www.laptop.org). Be sure to tell your friends that they can get the XO now and give one to a kid who needs it. We're working on more features and content in the background.

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13 Sep 08

Five Free Online Research Sites (Besides Wikipedia) | Ace Online Schools

Let’s face it, it’s the 21st century and textbooks are annoying. They’re heavy, expensive, and it can take forever to find what you’re looking for. For the student in a hurry, online research is the fastest and easiest way to fill up that research paper. Here are 5 of the most useful (and fun) subject-oriented online research Web sites.

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