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Welcome Wikiversity is a Wikimedia Foundation project devoted to learning resources, learning projects, and research for use in all levels, types, and styles of education from pre-school to university, including professional training and informal learning. We invite teachers, students, and researchers to join us in creating open educational resources and collaborative learning communities. To learn more, try a guided tour or start editing now. Today's Featured Project The Basics of Filmmaking A well designed course on writing scripts, storyboards, and other aspects of narrative Filmmaking. The purpose of this course is to learn how to make a short motion picture starting with pre-production. As you walk through all the steps of making this movie, you will prepare yourself for entering film school. This course is one of several in the Film School project. Visit this resource · see more featured content view · discuss Community Start editing, join the discussion (on the colloquium) and become part of the Wikiversity community! For real-time advice or assistance, you can join our Wikiversity's IRC channel, or our mailing list, or add learner questions on our help desk. The community portal is a listing of notices, projects, activities, guidelines and resources, and learn more about us through the history of Wikiversity. Educational Picture of the Day Languages of North America This is a historical map of North America showing the original distribution of Native American language families, so far as can be reconstructed. Click on the image for a full size version which you can freely re-use and modify. Print it and use it for your lessons, integrate it into your pages on Wikiversity, or use it in other learning resources and websites. Use the links below to find more images like this one. From The Wikimedia Commons Atlas of North America See also: Native American languages This image is a part of the Educational Media Awareness Campaign, raising awareness among educators about the availability and usage of millions of free internet media in education. view · discuss Development At Wikiversity we are committed both to conventional learning patterns and resources, and to innovation and experimentation. Wikiversity is open to reconceptualising how web education can occur and how open educational resources can be made, and we are open to new ideas about the use of the Mediawiki environment for learning and research. Check out and help develop our learning projects and how learning works on Wikiversity, see how Wikiversity can help you, and explore how to get involved and start adding content. The sandbox server project is also a centre of learning experimentation. Explore Wikiversity Catalogue | Guided tours [+] Schools [+] Resources by type [+] Learning projects [+] Resources by level [+] Resources by who participants are [+] Resources by completion status News 2012 RCC2012 preparations, University of Canberra 2011 (see all here): Fall 2011: Principles of Engineering Analysis 1, University of Florida August 2011: Motivation and emotion, University of Canberra April 2011: OER for School Teachers from Developing Nations January 2011: Psycholinguistics Political Simulation + Gaming Composing free + open OER Complex socio-ecological systems Help Creating educational content at Wikiversity (teacher-oriented tour). Starting out at Wikiversity (student-oriented tour). [+] Help

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