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K12 Open Ed - Kids Open Dictionary

2009-10-14T18:48:06Z

Kfasimpaur: Created page with '{{Organization |Organization Name=K12 Open Ed - Kids Open Dictionary |Location=Portal, AZ, USA |Language code=en |Contact=Karen Fasimpaur |Email=karen AT k12opened DOT com |Mainu…'

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|Organization Name=K12 Open Ed - Kids Open Dictionary
|Location=Portal, AZ, USA
|Language code=en
|Contact=Karen Fasimpaur
|Email=karen AT k12opened DOT com
|Mainurl=http://dictionary.k12opened.com/
|Tag=dictionary, glossary, k-12, primary, secondary, esl, ell
|Open or Free Statement=yes
|OER Statement=yes
|License provider=public domain
|License short name=PD
|License=http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/
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The Kids Open Dictionary is a public domain dictionary with simple English definitions for young readers, as well as others looking for simple, easy-to-understand explanations of word meanings.

The site includes a build-your-own-glossary tool that allows users to construct glossaries for their own books, units, courses, or web sites and export them to text, html, rtf, pdf, or wikitext. Over time, we will be adding other new features, such as audio pronunciations, pictures, support for additional languages, and a wide variety of export functions. We see this as a fundamental building block for many OER projects and hope that it will be used by teachers, students, publishers, hardware manufacturers, VARs, and others.

The dictionary currently has over 6,500 words defined. Over time, as more words are completed, they will be reviewed for quality and appropriateness and ultimately "frozen" for export into a variety of formats, including text, PDF, ebooks, wikis, web, etc., for use on a variety of devices.

This is a mass collaboration project, and we hope that many people around the world will join us and contribute a definition or two. If you have a project that could use this resource and would like a particular list of words to be prioritized for completion, contact us at info AT opened DOT com.

We hope to see you at the dictionary at http://dictionary.k12opened.com and thank you for helping to spread the word to others.

Kids Open Dictionary

2008-08-06T18:59:59Z

Kfasimpaur: New page: {{ContentDirectory |mainurl=http://dictionary.k12opened.com |format=Text }} This is dictionary intended for kids, though it can be used for adult learners as well. As words are completed, ...

{{ContentDirectory
|mainurl=http://dictionary.k12opened.com
|format=Text
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This is dictionary intended for kids, though it can be used for adult learners as well. As words are completed, they will be reviewed for quality and appropriateness and ultimately "frozen" for export into a variety of formats, including text, PDF, ebooks, wikis, web, etc., for use on a variety of devices.

This work is being licensed as a public domain resource that anyone can use for any purpose. We see this as a fundamental building block for many OER projects and hope that it will be used by teachers, students, publishers, hardware manufacturers, VARs, and others.

The site includes a build-your-own-glossary tool that allows users to construct glossaries for their own books, units, courses, or web sites and export them to text, html, rtf, pdf, or wikitext. Over time, we will be adding other new features, such as audio pronunciations, pictures, support for additional languages, and a wide variety of export functions.

This is a mass collaboration project, and we hope that many people around the world will jump in and add a definition or two.

K-12 Open Minds Conference

2008-08-06T18:45:34Z

Kfasimpaur: New page: {{Event |Mainurl=http://www.k12openminds.org/ |EventType=Conference |date=2008/09/25 |Location=Indianapolis, IN, U.S. |EventCategory=Open Education |public=Yes }} This is an international ...

{{Event
|Mainurl=http://www.k12openminds.org/
|EventType=Conference
|date=2008/09/25
|Location=Indianapolis, IN, U.S.
|EventCategory=Open Education
|public=Yes
}}
This is an international event specifically for K-12 educators designed to make OPEN SOURCE software and OPEN SYSTEMS more available and easier to use.