It seems to me that lately I have found myself surprised by the number of
educators who are unaware of Creative Commons. As a result of this I
decided to make my latest post on The Infinite Thinking Machine
www.infinitethinking.org a post to help increase awareness of the philosophy
of and the practical application of Creative Commons for educators
www.CreativeCommons.org (Here is a link to that post
http://www.infinitethinking.org/2006/11/why-do-people-share.html Feel free
to share this post with educators who have struggled with helping their
students find photos and sounds that they can ethically use in school
projects)
Moments before I published that post, one of my co-bloggers on this site,
published a very very practical piece about a similar theme (sharing
knowledge) through Wikipedia --- another area where I find educators have
misconceptions about. HIs post enlightened me on some pieces of Wikipedia
that I didn't know exist. I had no clue that there was a "SIMPLER" version
of Wikipedia. Check out Tom's post, including his comparison of
Thanksgiving entry in 'regular' Wikipedia and Thanksgiving in "simple"
Wikipedia.
http://www.infinitethinking.org/2006/11/consider-simple-english-wikipedia.html
Here is an excerpt from Tom's Post that I hope will entice you to go read
the 'rest of the story" and some of the other great and practical entries on
The Infinite Thinking Machine.
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Of course everyone knows about the main Wikipedia site. It's the one that
always comes up in Google when you search for just about anything these
days. Most people also know that Wikipedia is translated into heaps of
different languages (see the bottom of this page <http://wikipedia.org/>).
What a lot of people don't know about is the Simple English
Wikipedia<http://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page>.
Designed for people with different needs: students, children, and adults
with learning difficulties or of limited English ability. Take a look at
some sample topics with links to both the regular Wikipedia and the same
topic in the Simple English version:
- Steve Irwin in Wikipedia
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Irwin>& in the Simple
English Wikipedia <http://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Irwin>
- Thanksgiving in
Wikipedia<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thanksgiving>& in the Simple
English Wikipedia <http://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thanksgiving>
- Culture in Wikipedia <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Culture> & in the
Simple English Wikipedia
The clever viewer will notice that the only difference in the Web addresses
is "en" or "simple" as the sub-domain (the first bit of the URL). So here
are two ideas:
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