Portal:Learning Projects: Wikis

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Study guide

Up to date as of January 14, 2010

From Wikiversity

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The Learning Projects Portal

Extrasolar planet

Welcome to the portal for Learning Projects.

A major part of Wikiversity learning is organized around Learning Projects and Learning Groups. Wikiversity encourages a "learn by doing" model for education. Wikiversity contributors develop learning activities on a wide variety of topics. Wiki technology promotes collaborative editing of "learning projects". Participants are encouraged to learn by exploring topics of interest and editing the wiki pages.

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General interest projects

Community service projects - Wikiversity provides scholarly services to Wikimedia sister projects.
Wikiversity the Movie - community-wide project to produce a promotional video.
Wiki-based learning - The implications of wiki technology for online learning.
Bibliography and Research Methods - How to find and cite verifiable sources.
Learning materials projects - Find and evaluate existing learning resources or develop new ones.
Reading Groups - learning projects around specific books, texts, videos, or entire oeuvres.
Wikiversity translations - Community service project to support Wikiversity Beta.
Outreach - collaborations with other institutions and projects.

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Selected picture

Guernica by Pablo Picasso

Guernica was inspired by Picasso's horror at the bombing of Guernica, Spain on April 26, 1937 during the Spanish Civil War. What roles do the reactions of artists and journalists play in our perception of war? Can a single painting express more than any single photograph? Participate at the Art and War seminar.

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Selected research

Intermediate filament proteins
Participants explore gene databases and the molecular evolution of cell proteins.

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Did you know...

Supernova SN 2006sr, discovered by amateur astronomer Doug Rich in December 2006, is so distant that it has taken 325 million years for the light from this stellar explosion to reach earth. It is the ninth supernova discovery that he has made. [1] See the Wikiversity Supernova project.

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Related portals

Browse learning projects in these portals: Reading groups · Advanced General Studies · Humanities · Physical Sciences · Life Sciences · Practical Arts and Sciences · Mathematics · Engineering and Technology · Interdisciplinary Studies · Social Sciences · Education · Media · Professions · Other portals

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Content development projects

Content development projects exist on pages in "School:" or "Topic:" namespaces.

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Quotes

Active learning
"Learning is the product of the activity of learners." - John Holt

"When I examine myself and my methods of thought, I come to the conclusion that the gift of fantasy has meant more to me than my talent for absorbing positive knowledge." - Albert Einstein

"I suppose it is because nearly all children go to school nowadays, and have things arranged for them, that they seem so forlornly unable to produce their own ideas." - Agatha Christie

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Learning projects

ALISON is a FREE [Advertisement Funded] learning resource of interactive certification-based learning, focusing on proprietary software.
Aquaculture - Economic, Political, Social and Scientific Perspectives
Astronomy Project - Project participants access public astronomy databases and explore outer space.
Bloom clock project - an attempt to create a language for discussing the bloom times of wildflowers and other plants that is neutral in respect to climate, region, and hemisphere.
Composing free and open online educational resources - The course reading and the assignments of this class will familiarize the participants with the main concepts related to open education resources and to the historical and philosophical ideas behind them.
CAD - Computer Aided Design and Analysis for engineers. Learn how to design and analyze systems, machines, parts in 2D and 3D.
Cell biology improvement drive - service-oriented project.
Chain mail - How to make a suit of chain mail armour. Involves actually making a suit from simple materials.
Collaborate and Create In-service- a professional development collaborative for teachers interested in computer technology integration aligned to relevant curriculum with a focus on OLPT[[[OLPT]]]
College Algebra - Basic mathematics on a college level.
Designing a Free GPL / VPL - To design and create a Graphical or Visual programming language thats freely available under GNU license.
Flycatcher - How to make a custom fly rod.
Glossary of Geology Terms
Elasticity - An introductory course on elasticity theory for all engineers, mathematicians, physicists, and biologists who are interested in stresses and deformations of elastic solids.
History of Europe to 1648 – A comprehensive survey of European history.
History of Ireland through Song - Irish History, the fun way.
Hitler's Germany - A brief study into the workings of the Third Reich.
Homeschooling - Building resources for parents and children who teach and learn outside of the compulsory public education systems.
Human Genetic Uniqueness Project - students search for genes that make humans different from other mammals.
International Relations - Help create an introductory course.
Institutional ethnography - Introduction to a social research method for the study of everyday life and group organization.
Learning to learn a wiki way - An action research project to investigate ways of learning using a wiki.
Little Space Games -- A community project of the learning trail A Hands-On Introduction to Game Design and Production Processes which uses primarily open source software tools to create free licensed materials to be published at Wikiversity and other free online archives. Participants also work on other projects. All are welcome to come help learn and document techniques to accomplish the production tasks need for high quality (fun and educational) games.
Lunar Boom Town - Want to get rich settling the moon? Come help us figure out how. Excellent business planning practice for budding entrepreneurs of all types and ages.
Microsystems for molecular analysis -- Includes DNA integrated circuits and the capillary electrode array.
Public Policy Debate Learn to effectively develop and present public policy positions persuasive to enemies and sovereigns and useful to allies. Attempt to establish appropriate grounds, boundary conditions, usefully specific and general definitions and other attributes useful in a learning community.
Quiz -- learn about using the quiz extension in your pages; discuss the educational use of wiki quizzes; develop pages with quizzes.
Reading Clubs
Reading Groups
Self Paced Reading Labs - A project to develop a set of reading exercises that can be used for self managed reading practice and evaluation.
Strategic Simulations - Help develop strategic level simulations for the purposes of learning and teaching military strategy.
VoIP activity group - Learn to communicate over the Internet in realtime using Voice over Internet Protocol
Web 2.0 for Professional Use - A Web writing class learns how to write, design and effectively use new media in the academic and professional spheres.
Wikiversity Distributed Virtual Supercomputer - support for group computing projects and mathematical simulations.
War Seminar - discussions about the history of war as a cultural practice and current wars in the world.
Writing Discipline Specific Research Papers - Resources for students learning to write university level research projects.