Well, it's Wednesday again, and I've been so busy writing papers (or not writing papers, as the case may be) that I haven't written a post since last Wikipedia Wednesday. I promise, this trend won't last. Anyway, onward and upward. Today's entry was inspired by a suggestion from my good friend Ben Lighter. He's got a podcast or some deal that I'll probably link from here in the future.
Simple English Wikipedia
This is a really cool idea and an example of how people are using the internet and wiki-tools for education. The Simple English Wikipedia is a version of Wikipedia wherein the articles are only written using the 2000 most common words in the English language and more basic sentence structure. Some articles, of course, require more than 2000 different words, and in these cases, the more complex words are explained in their own articles.
People have been using this useful off-shoot of Wikipedia as a tool for teaching people who have different needs such as children, adults with learning disabilities and people who are learning English as a second language.
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Wednesday, March 4, 2009
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I had a writing class in College that required us to use one or two syllable words for the entire semister. It was much harder to do than i expected, but it taught us to think is clean simple terms so we would not sound like psudo-intellectuals.
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