Comments on: Kids simple dictionary…not as simple as I thought http://www.k12opened.com/blog/archives/43 A blog for reflecting on the opportunities and challenges in open education Mon, 01 Dec 2008 22:22:40 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.2.3 By: Nils Peterson http://www.k12opened.com/blog/archives/43#comment-112 Nils Peterson Mon, 05 Nov 2007 03:27:14 +0000 http://www.k12opened.com/blog/archives/43#comment-112 Karen, I added an entry to the Dictionary Team (http://www.k12opened.com/wiki/index.php/Dictionary_team) page. I hope this can get going. Let me know if it gets rolling nils_peterson@wsu.edu Karen,
I added an entry to the Dictionary Team (http://www.k12opened.com/wiki/index.php/Dictionary_team) page. I hope this can get going. Let me know if it gets rolling nils_peterson@wsu.edu

]]> By: One small step for man » Blog Archive » OpenEd Week “X” http://www.k12opened.com/blog/archives/43#comment-108 One small step for man » Blog Archive » OpenEd Week “X” Fri, 02 Nov 2007 14:11:28 +0000 http://www.k12opened.com/blog/archives/43#comment-108 [...] student Karen Fasimpaur has proposed a project that I think fits the notions above when she writes (outside of class!?) about her project idea to create a kids dictionary. This looks like an open [...] […] student Karen Fasimpaur has proposed a project that I think fits the notions above when she writes (outside of class!?) about her project idea to create a kids dictionary. This looks like an open […]

]]> By: karen http://www.k12opened.com/blog/archives/43#comment-107 karen Thu, 01 Nov 2007 16:06:42 +0000 http://www.k12opened.com/blog/archives/43#comment-107 Thanks for the feedback, Mel. Perhaps we could incorporate some of the OLPC language correspondence work into our kids dictionary once the English part is done. Wiktionary has a Simple English dictionary but nothing specifically for kids. As we get going on this, we'd love to have the OLPC content staff and volunteers be a part of our community. Thanks for the feedback, Mel. Perhaps we could incorporate some of the OLPC language correspondence work into our kids dictionary once the English part is done.

Wiktionary has a Simple English dictionary but nothing specifically for kids.

As we get going on this, we’d love to have the OLPC content staff and volunteers be a part of our community.

]]> By: Mel http://www.k12opened.com/blog/archives/43#comment-105 Mel Thu, 01 Nov 2007 02:05:27 +0000 http://www.k12opened.com/blog/archives/43#comment-105 There was (not sure of active status right now) a dictionary project started by some OLPC volunteers; the point was to have a table of correspondence for basic words in as many languages as possible (so instead of having to make thousands of language-a-to-language-b dictionaries you could just reference the table). http://wiki.laptop.org/go/User:ZdenekBroz/OLPC-Dictionary There's also omegawiki (http://www.omegawiki.org/Main_Page) and wiktionary (http://wiktionary.org/) - wikijunior is a subset of wikibooks specializing in books for kids, I'm not sure whether wiktionary has a corresponding subproject (dictionary for kids) but if it doesn't, your idea might fit in nicely here. There was (not sure of active status right now) a dictionary project started by some OLPC volunteers; the point was to have a table of correspondence for basic words in as many languages as possible (so instead of having to make thousands of language-a-to-language-b dictionaries you could just reference the table). http://wiki.laptop.org/go/User:ZdenekBroz/OLPC-Dictionary

There’s also omegawiki (http://www.omegawiki.org/Main_Page) and wiktionary (http://wiktionary.org/) - wikijunior is a subset of wikibooks specializing in books for kids, I’m not sure whether wiktionary has a corresponding subproject (dictionary for kids) but if it doesn’t, your idea might fit in nicely here.

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