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Intelligence Quotient

An intelligence quotient, or IQ, is a score derived from one of several different standardized tests designed to assess intelligence.

An intelligence quotient (IQ) is a total score derived from several standardized tests designed to assess human intelligence. The abbreviation "IQ" was coined by the psychologist William Stern for the German term Intelligenz quotient, his term for a scoring method for intelligence tests at University of Breslau he advocated in a 1912 book. Historically, IQ is a score obtained by dividing a person's mental age score, obtained by administering an intelligence test, by the person's chronological age, both expressed in terms of years and months. The resulting fraction is multiplied by 100 to obtain the IQ score. When current IQ tests were developed, the median raw score of the norming sample is defined as IQ 100 and scores each standard deviation (SD) up or down are defined as 15 IQ points greater or less, although this was not always so historically. By this definition, approximately two-thirds of the population scores are between IQ 85 and IQ 115. About 2.5 percent of the population scores above 130, and 2.5 percent below 70.

Scores from intelligence tests are estimates of intelligence. Unlike, for example, distance and mass, a concrete measure of intelligence cannot be achieved given the abstract nature of the concept of "intelligence". IQ scores have been shown to be associated with such factors as morbidity and mortality, parental social status and, to a substantial degree, biological parental IQ. While the heritability of IQ has been investigated for nearly a century, there is still debate about the significance of heritability estimates and the mechanisms of inheritance.

IQ scores are used for educational placement, assessment of intellectual disability, and evaluating job applicants. Even when students improve their scores on standardized tests, they do not always improve their cognitive abilities, such as memory, attention and speed. In research contexts they have been studied as predictors of job performance, and income. They are also used to study distributions of psychometric intelligence in populations and the correlations between it and other variables. Raw scores on IQ tests for many populations have been rising at an average rate that scales to three IQ points per decade since the early 20th century, a phenomenon called the Flynn effect. Investigation of different patterns of increases in subtest scores can also inform current research on human intelligence.

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Talk:Introduction to Computers

Although most of the subpages are marked as 100% complete, I am not completely sure it is true. Even if in wikis the "complete" word is very relative, more should be done before it is marked with "100%". Things I noticed: WP links written as external links, external links without description, missing images, too many subheadings in some cases. I feel also that more can be written for a 100% ready topic - I am not an IT expert however. I will probably also dig through this more in detail, when my time allows... --Gbaor 06:13, 14 August 2008 (UTC)

Regarding the "Things To Do" section: "Many of the pages need breaking up into smaller subpages. This has already been done with the introduction." I find that the break-ups are a lot harder to navigate & make sense of -- the longer pages seem easier to deal with, so I disagree with that "todo" item. Since nothing's happened here in the last year, perhaps we should re-compile the introductory section so it matches the rest of the resource.

Eyespot Podcasts
Many of the original eyespot podcasts (perhaps all of them) are now dead links. They should be removed or replaced with alternatives. Lysander89 03:19, 26 October 2009 (UTC)

 * ✅. Finally. Omphalographer (discuss • contribs) 18:43, 24 April 2023 (UTC)

Rethinking the Syllabus
The more I attempt to complete what was left behind by Areill and his students the more I feel that the project is broken is some serious way. I believe this is to do with the lack of consistency between subtopics and a badly designed syllabus. We need to come up with a better syllabus than the one currently provided here. Many of the topic subpages are not needed in my opinion, and should be cut. Ideally this page should attempt to limit itself to covering:

 * The basic hardware of a computer
 * What are the components inside a computer case?
 * What are the peripherals attached to a computer?
 * The average software found on a computer
 * What is the BIOS?
 * What is the Operating System?
 * What are desktop applications?
 * Networks
 * What is a network? How does your computer interact with other computers around it?
 * The internet

By keeping the syllabus short and to the point, we can avoid putting casual learners off, while allowing more keen learners to consider looking into the Introduction to Computer Science course.

I would gladly like to hear some comments regarding this proposal.

Lysander89 04:16, 16 November 2009 (UTC)

looks are everything
this is likely the first course the a prospective compsci student is going to take. it should be very understandable, look good, and make a student say "okay this isnt something i can't learn" (in comparison to something like http://en.wikiversity.org/wiki/Computer_Architecture_Lab . talk about trial by fire; thats not by any means an introduction to processor architecture.) - (02:03, 11 August 2011 by Joshua.thomas.bird)

Unofficial Degree
I added a header and category on this page for thethe Unofficial Computer Science Degree. -- Azotochtli (talk) 19:07, 11 August 2012 (UTC)

 * k whats the  need of this? - (07:33, 18 June 2014 by 117.208.239.161)

 * There was no need. It's been removed.  There is no Unofficial Computer Science Degree, as Wikiverisity is not a degree (or even unofficial degree) granting institution.  -- Dave Braunschweig (discuss • contribs) 13:01, 18 June 2014 (UTC)

A new beginning ...
When I first joined Wikiversity, it was an interesting place. I wasn't sure how everything fit together, but thought it had great potential. Someone, or a group, had tried to organize things, but as most with most things in life, things tend naturally to chaos. Others saw Wikiversity as a place to repackage textbooks.

I see it as a learning journey. Some people learn by reading. Some people learn by class or lectures. Others learn best by doing. I think Wikiversity should be all of these things.

You should begin at the beginning, and I echo previous commenters ... this should be the first exposure someone who is doing something with computers is exposed to. I'm going to propose things should be done differently, more clearly, and with more options for learners. I intend to "BE BOLD", to move quickly (once I get started), and to accept, incorporate, and solicit feedback. Buckle up kids, this could be a bumpy ride! ;) Historybuff (discuss • contribs) 00:11, 6 December 2015 (UTC)

 * Welcome back! I agree that some learn best by reading, some by watching, and some (or even most) by doing.  Wikiversity can and should be all of these things.  See IT Fundamentals for a course on similar content that tries to include / support a variety of learning styles.  I look forward to your renewed participation.  -- Dave Braunschweig (discuss • contribs) 01:49, 6 December 2015 (UTC)

Chapter 2
A potential Chapter 2 was added that included:
 * 1) Codes
 * 2) Convert theory into practice issues
 * 3) Chemical elements and Electrical Current

Questions have been raised about the quality of Chemical elements and Electrical Current at and. I also question the usefulness of Codes, which seems to duplicate the content in the existing lessons. I have removed the Chapter 2 links from the course, pending further discussion on what content should be included in an introductory course, vs. what might be more appropriate as See Also links or a follow-on course.

Dave Braunschweig (discuss • contribs) 13:44, 18 March 2016 (UTC)

Old examples
It's a nice, easy course but why most of photos shows old or even archaical computers? I think there should appear some nowaydays (not necessarily the most modern!) examples. Especially everybody can take some photos of own computer and its components during cleaning it up. What do you think? SilesiaGirl (discuss • contribs) 21:32, 23 June 2018 (UTC)

 * Great idea! Be bold! You should be able to find free images to use at . -- Dave Braunschweig (discuss • contribs) 23:39, 23 June 2018 (UTC)

 * I'll do it. Maybe I'll do some photos, too. By the way I'm thinking about edition a chapter "Types of computers". According the definition of computer, calculators, "traditional" mobile phones, controllers in household appliances etc. are computers, too. Should it be mentioned? SilesiaGirl (discuss • contribs) 09:20, 24 June 2018 (UTC)

 * When in doubt, I always check Wikipedia for what should be included. It's a much larger community, and by definition has public support for the ideas shared. See Classes of computers for ideas. -- Dave Braunschweig (discuss • contribs) 13:03, 24 June 2018 (UTC)
 * With due respect, teachers used to warn me agains treating Wikipedia as a concludive source. When I was visiting a Museum of Computers and IT ,a guide told us, that computer is an electronic device, which runs calculation and/or controls oder device(s). I asked him if a simple calculator is a computer and he confirmed. Is it possiple, that European definition and/or its interpretation is wider than American one? SilesiaGirl (discuss • contribs) 20:19, 24 June 2018 (UTC)

 * Wikipedia is the first place many people look to learn or validate information, and this is supported by Google displaying Wikipedia ledes as the definition in response to many searches. If Wikipedia is incorrect or lacking, it should be updated by correcting the information and citing relevant sources. According to Computer, yes, calculators are computers. Wikipedia and Wikiversity are English resources, not American resources. They may reflect an English world view, and they could note geographic differences, but they shouldn't exclude or favor one area over another. -- Dave Braunschweig (discuss • contribs) 23:01, 24 June 2018 (UTC)

Existing articles not present at the main page
There are a lot of articles in "Introduction to Computers" but are otherwise not present at the main page, why is that? Nebenmond (discuss • contribs) 12:51, 28 December 2018 (UTC)

 * See . In 2011, a user made changes in the main page design. Feel free to revise this and restore links to whatever you find useful. Be bold! -- Dave Braunschweig (discuss • contribs) 22:35, 28 December 2018 (UTC)

Getting Started
Where can i start doing the course

Neo kgamelo Mwaigwitya (discuss • contribs) 13:14, 23 June 2019 (UTC)

 * Start wherever you like. Also see Computer Skills and IT Fundamentals for related content with hands-on activities. -- Dave Braunschweig (discuss • contribs) 18:34, 23 June 2019 (UTC)

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User:MandaG/Tutorial 1

Tutorial One

The first tutorial was not bad as far as first tuorials go. I found the icebreakers to be a lot of fun particularly given some of the poor ones that are out there. I appreciated that instead of saying a verb that starts with the same letter of our name (Oh yes those in my psych 101 tute last year know what tht was like!) we got to learn things about others and were at times a little out of our comfort zone. Getting into groups on eye colour or number of sibblings seemed simple enough, it started to get interesting when we had to group according to religion and politics, as far as I knew they were public taboo topics! My particular tute though was very open about ourselves and we all had a bit of a giggle. The one that I found most interesting was when asked to line up according to whether we believed actions to be largely a result of situational cicumstances or a result of the individual. I found myself standing alone at the individual end while the others were largely fencesitters with a few strongly on the situational end. I have yet to think of a good reason as to why that may be...

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Power Generation/Nuclear Power/Intro

Review: Lesson 4

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This Lesson is about Nuclear Power station. The student/User is expected to understand the following at the end of the lesson. Definition components that make up a Nuclear power station. How this station measures up
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Introduction: Nuclear Power station

A Nuclear power station uses nuclear energy for generating electrical energy.

This power station is generally located far from populated areas. This kind of power station can be used to produce large amounts of electrical energy. In most countries these power stations are used as Base load power stations. This is because they can take several days to be warmed up and brought on-line.

Operation

Heavy elements such as Uranium ($$U^{235}$$) or Thorium ($$Th^{232}$$) are subjected to nuclear fission in a reactor to produce steam at high temperatures and pressure.

Steam runs a steam turbine which converts this energy into mechanical energy.

The turbine drives the alternator which converts mechanical energy into electrical energy.

Pros & Cons: what this power station presents

Future generations will want to depend more on this type of electricity generating power station (and other renewable energy sources), due to a fast increasing depletion of fuels(Coal). There are a number of construction projects currently underway for this kind of power station around the world.

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Wikiversity talk:101 things to do with your class on Wikiversity

User prefixes
The idea was to recommend class members to use usernames with recognizable prefixes/suffixes. The idea was put forward that the prefix/suffix might not be suitable if the user became a long-term user. A response to this is that "tame communities" (i.e. classes) pretty well never become long-term users. If they do stay, they can always create a new account. --McCormack 08:21, 14 August 2008 (UTC)

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Wikiversity:Learning models

This pages covers ideas and approaches put forward over the years on the topic of how to use Wikiversity for teaching, learning and research. It could be used as a shortcut to understanding the hundreds of pages and thousands of edits devoted to this topic over the years.

A historical listing of concepts of learning for Wikiversity
There may be inaccuracies in the following account. Please correct them.

Pre-2006
in order to teach we must learn. in order to learn we must teach
 * Early influences: the University Model
 * One of the earliest concepts of learning for Wikiversity was the "university model", in which it was attempted to model Wikiversity as exactly as possible on a university. This university was to have faculties (or schools), courses (with course ID's following the US system), staff members (qualified?), the ability to grant degrees, and so on. Swathes of pages were created in accordance with this concept, which was nevertheless quickly rejected by the Wikimedia Foundation. Many of these pages (confusingly) survive today, while the board's rejection of the "university model" left an unclear state-of-play as regards defining the content of Wikiversity.
 * Early influences: educational egalitarianism
 * The history of the resource Learning shows that as early as 2005, well before Wikiversity's official launch, there was a school of thinking which promoted non-hierarchical or leaderless "learning groups". A similar approach, also stemming from 2005, can be found in User:Cormaggio's Learning community. The egalitarian model contrasts with the University Model.

2006-2007
This section covers concepts and approaches which emerged in the 6 months or so following Wikiversity's official launch.

 * The original learning model
 * This resource is largely based on ideas developed by User:JWSchmidt in August 2006 at Portal:Education, a couple of weeks after Wikiversity was official launched. It reacts to the board debates about Wikiversity's mission, setting out a learning by doing model in response to this. Possibly the emergence of this concept reflects the success of the "educationally egalitarianist" school of thought after the rejection of the University Model. The concept "learning project" emerged at about this time, describing a kind of leader-free collaborative learning process in which the "teacher" was the act of resource creation itself rather than any authority.
 * Learning to learn a wiki way
 * This intensive and large discussion was contributed to by a wide variety of users between September 2006 and December 2007. It contains little self-reference, except by implication. The project has many external resources, but otherwise does not seem to have progressed beyond a planning phase in which the participants introduced themselves and explored their motives and goals.
 * Wikiversity as narrative
 * User:Mystictim and User:Executivezen were reading Derrida in January 2007. Is this con-structive?
 * Developing Wikiversity through action research
 * Despite the technical title, this resource marks a simple turning point in Wikiversity thinking about itself, refocussing on an empirical approach to defining teaching and learning at Wikiversity. It contrasts with the prescriptive statements made around the time of the board proposals and mission formulation. Rather than asking "what form should Wikiversity learning have", the question became "what form(s) of learning are in fact being used by editors". The resource is coordinated by User:Cormaggio with editing phases in early 2007 and again in early 2008. This resource does not lay down any particular model for Wikiversity learning; instead it proposes an approach to finding a model. It spawned extensive subpages and discussions: reading group, discussion group, talk page, about the project, agenda, intended outcomes, uses of Wikiversity, participants, theories, Wikiversity identity. A better title for this resource might be "rethinking Wikiversity learning models".
 * Learning by doing
 * This resource was developed by User:JWSchmidt and User:Cormaggio in March 2007. The talk page discussion of this resource is useful. The resource reveals a tension between the learning by doing model and the action research approach.
 * Content development
 * This was a help page created by User:JWSchmidt in early 2007, following his learning by doing and "learning projects" concept for Wikiversity.
 * Pre-tertiary portal
 * A discussion about more boldly extending or refocussing Wikiversity on the primary and secondary educational sectors was initiated by User:McCormack in May 2007. The discussion led to action and a redesign of Wikiversity in April 2008.

2008
''There was renewed interest in a concept of learning for Wikiversity starting at the beginning of 2008. Much of this focussed around a revival of User:Cormaggio's Developing Wikiversity through action research.''

 * Learning projects
 * Originally a small supporting page for the early concept of "learning projects", this resource was reworked by User:McCormack in January 2008 into a rather general help page about creating educational resources. This is practical help rather than a learning concept.
 * Being educational
 * This resource reacted to savage criticism of the educational vapidity of some Wikiversity learning resources. Created by User:McCormack in February/March 2008, it tries to refocus on the most basic characteristics of what makes a resource educationally valuable. Rather than adopting an empirical approach, it sets up criteria by which actual resources can be judged as educationally valuable or not.
 * Personal learning environment
 * This page was developed by User:Cormaggio and others in early 2008 as an addition to any learning model for Wikiversity. It explores a new avenue of Wikiversity usage.
 * Building successful learning communities
 * Started by User:Cormaggio in early 2008, this resource was developed further by User:McCormack drawing on an empirical (action research?) approach and especially on the newly catalogued list of "successful" projects listed at Featured. User:McCormack produced a typology of communities, but argued that experience showed that the success of learning communities depended on their having a coordinator rather on than anything inherent in the communities themselves. The coordinator is often a teacher adopting a non-didactic managerial role.
 * Help:Resource types
 * Styled as a help page, this resource was created in June 2008 by User:McCormack drawing in part on an action research approach to Wikiversity and drawing in part on experiences of external projects. The resource looks at what existing editors have been creating at Wikiversity, produces a typology of resources, and presents this as a help page for future editors. Associated pages include: Help:How to write an educational resource, Help:101 things to do with your class on Wikiversity.

Other resources related to Wikiversity learning

 * Wikiversity teachers
 * A practical FAQ-like page with very detailed information for teachers about using Wikiversity. This is practical help rather than a learning concept.
 * Adding content
 * This is an outdated help page for creating content. It does not contain or favour any learning concept.
 * Portal:Learning Projects
 * Unmaintained listing of "learning projects" from the early days of Wikiversity.
 * Portal:Learning Materials

Technology issues
The debates over a "concept" or "model" of learning for Wikiversity have been accompanied by and closely associated with issues of technology support. It has been widely recognized that in order to provide a full learning experience, Wikiversity must provide a stronger multimedia environment and greater interaction than other Wikimedia projects.

See:
 * Interactive learning resources
 * Technical needs

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 * Business
 * Entrepreneurship
 * Social entrepreneurship
 * Social Entrepreneurship Study Programmes

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User:A.rajora

Abhishek Rajora
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Power Generation/Gas Turbine Power/Part1

Introduction: Gas Turbine Power station

A Gas-turbine power station uses gas turbines as prime mover for generating electrical energy.

This power station is generally used in conjunction with Steam Power station. This kind of power station can be used to produce limited amounts of electrical energy. In most countries these power stations are used as peaking power stations.

Operation

This power station is run with natural gas as fuel. The turbines draw in air at the front of the unit and then compress; mix with fuel and ignite the mixture at high pressure. The hot gas released expands through the turbine blades connected to the turbine shaft. The shaft turns thus developing mechanical energy which is converted into electrical energy by the generator.

Industrial Gas Turbines for Electrical Generation

As noted earlier this type of power station is usually used in conjunction with Steam Power station, in a combined cycle configuration or cogeneration  configuration. Both method are useful in increasing the overall Generating efficiency of the generating plant.

Future generations will want to depend more on this type of electricity-generating power station (and other renewabke energy sources), due to low green house emmissions.


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Drawing things together
I've made a start on trying to draw together over 2 years' of relatively uncoordinated material on this subject. Quite a number of page moves, name changes and redirects will be needed, to say the least. However on the whole I will try and preserve older pages, if only for historical reference, except where they are obviously redundant. --McCormack 09:52, 14 August 2008 (UTC)

I'm not really very happy with this page. I've spent over a year struggling to try and understand the vague and conflicting declarations and debates about Wikiversity learning models - and had especial difficulties with that page which said there was only one model (which almost nobody was paying attention to anyway). However hopefully people will point things out to me which I have missed, and I will reflect on this and update it anyway. --McCormack 04:34, 15 August 2008 (UTC)

Early history
I found the following quote from User:WiseWoman on Beta Wikiversity, dated December 2006. "We just barely got started when an army of well-meaning but clueless people steamrolled the entire construction, setting up "departments" and "faculties" and "curricula" and "suggested courses" and setting up the "one true way to do X" when we were interested in having the MULTIPLICITY of views and materials collectd." I think that this probably reflects the two main models which I found in the early Wikiversity - namely, the university-model and the egalitarian-model. Some of the egalitarians appear to have been one-true-wayists who thought the board decision about the university model favoured them rather than opening the way up to multiple alternatives. --McCormack 14:49, 27 August 2008 (UTC)
 * see for more info beta and de.Wikipedia, Erkan Yilmaz uses the Chat (try) 18:30, 27 August 2008 (UTC)

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Power Generation/Gas Turbine Power/Intro

Review: Lesson 5

The previous Lesson was about Nuclear Power station. The student/User is expected to remember the following from the lesson 5. Definition components that make up a Nuclear power station. How this station measures up
 * Basics:
 * Arrangements:
 * Advantages & Disadvantages:

Preview: Lesson 6

This Lesson is about Gas turbine Power station. The student/User is expected to understand the following at the end of the lesson. Definition components that make up a Gas turbine power station. How this station measures up
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Power Generation/Variable Load/Intro

Review: Lesson 6

The previous Lesson was about Gas turbine Power station. The student/User is expected to remember the following from the lesson 6. Definition components that make up a gas turbine power station. How this station measures up
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 * Arrangements:
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Preview: Lesson 6

This Lesson is about Variable loads on Power stations. The student/User is expected to understand the following at the end of the lesson.
 * Definitions
 * Load Curves
 * Types of loads on a power station
 * Selecting generation units for a power station
 * Base & Peak loads
 * Methods of meeting load

To begin this lesson we look at definitions that will be used. learn these well.

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Wikiversity:Learning resources

When first conceived Wikiversity was proposed to become the Wikimedia wiki project devoted to the collaborative creation of learning resources. At that time, Wikipedia and Wikibooks already existed and those projects have specific types of learning resources: encyclopedia articles and textbooks. Wikiversity is for all the many types of learning resources not found at other Wikimedia websites. See: the approved Wikiversity mission.

Types of learning resources
Wikiversity learning resources exist as Wikiversity website files. Some of the files exist as static learning materials in the : images, sound files, etc. Other Wikiversity learning resources are wiki pages, like this page, where Wikiversity participants can collaboratively edit the content of the page.

Wiki pages can be static learning materials or provide a work space for collaborative learn-by-doing projects. Examples of static learning materials might include a quiz or a lesson plan that can be downloaded from Wikiversity and used as a learning resource outside of Wikiversity, perhaps in a conventional classroom.

The Wikiversity terminology for describing different types of learning resources is given at Help:resource types.

Learning projects
The Wikiversity model for online learning emphasizes active collaborative learning. Wikiversity learning activities can be organized as learning projects, collections of collaboratively edited wiki webpages where Wikiversity participants learn by engaging in activities.

Active learning
The fundamental type of Wikiversity learning activity is collaborative webpage creation. At Wikiversity we learn by participating in the process of creating and editing wiki pages that help us explore our personal learning goals. Some Wikiversity learning projects are research projects where participants collaboratively explore a particular subject (example). Wikiversity learning projects can take many forms including help forums, discussion forums, tutorials or debate clubs.

Wikiversity welcomes scholarly learners who actively participate in collaborative learning projects hosted at Wikiversity. We are all learning how to use wiki technology to facilitate our learning. Click the "edit" button and share your ideas for how to create and develop Wikiversity learning projects.

External resources

 * Supporting students to self-direct intentional learning projects with social media - pdf
 * Integrated E-learning Projects in the European Union - pdf

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This page now has its original purpose. Older discussion of another topic was moved to another page; see Wikiversity talk:Being educational. --JWSchmidt 14:56, 17 June 2010 (UTC)

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User talk:Nikky16

 Hello Nikky16, and welcome to Wikiversity! If you need help, feel free to visit my talk page, or contact us and ask questions. After you leave a comment on a talk page, remember to sign and date; it helps everyone follow the threads of the discussion. The signature icon in the edit window makes it simple. To get started, you may

 * Take a guided tour and learn to edit.
 * Visit a (kind of) random random project.
 * Browse everything on Wikiversity, or visit a portal corresponding to your educational level: pre-school, primary, secondary, tertiary, non-formal education.
 * Find out about research activities on Wikiversity.

 * Read an introduction for teachers and find out how to write an educational resource for Wikiversity.
 * Give feedback about your initial observations
 * Discuss Wikiversity issues or ask questions at the colloquium.
 * Chat with other Wikiversitans on #wikiversity-en.

And don't forget to explore Wikiversity with the links to your left. Be bold to contribute and to experiment with the sandbox or your userpage, and see you around Wikiversity! --Gbaor 12:17, 14 August 2008 (UTC)

 Hi! My name is WikiversityJack. I am a pumpkin and a Wikiversity mascot. My aunt told me that fun + learning = Wikiversity. Let me know if I can help you out.

Hello to you. Hope all is fine ? Anything you need ? Erkan Yilmaz uses the Chat (try) 16:46, 14 August 2008 (UTC)

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User talk:A.rajora

 Hello A.rajora, and welcome to Wikiversity! If you need help, feel free to visit my talk page, or contact us and ask questions. After you leave a comment on a talk page, remember to sign and date; it helps everyone follow the threads of the discussion. The signature icon in the edit window makes it simple. To get started, you may

 * Take a guided tour and learn to edit.
 * Visit a (kind of) random random project.
 * Browse everything on Wikiversity, or visit a portal corresponding to your educational level: pre-school, primary, secondary, tertiary, non-formal education.
 * Find out about research activities on Wikiversity.

 * Read an introduction for teachers and find out how to write an educational resource for Wikiversity.
 * Give feedback about your initial observations
 * Discuss Wikiversity issues or ask questions at the colloquium.
 * Chat with other Wikiversitans on #wikiversity-en.

And don't forget to explore Wikiversity with the links to your left. Be bold to contribute and to experiment with the sandbox or your userpage, and see you around Wikiversity! --Gbaor 12:17, 14 August 2008 (UTC)

 Woof! My name is Jack(Russell). I am a dog and a Wikiversity mascot. I am pretty new around Wikiversity. Perhaps we can learn together! Tail wag...

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User talk:Gears is awesome

 Hello Gears is awesome, and welcome to Wikiversity! If you need help, feel free to visit my talk page, or contact us and ask questions. After you leave a comment on a talk page, remember to sign and date; it helps everyone follow the threads of the discussion. The signature icon in the edit window makes it simple. To get started, you may

 * Take a guided tour and learn to edit.
 * Visit a (kind of) random random project.
 * Browse everything on Wikiversity, or visit a portal corresponding to your educational level: pre-school, primary, secondary, tertiary, non-formal education.
 * Find out about research activities on Wikiversity.

 * Read an introduction for teachers and find out how to write an educational resource for Wikiversity.
 * Give feedback about your initial observations
 * Discuss Wikiversity issues or ask questions at the colloquium.
 * Chat with other Wikiversitans on #wikiversity-en.

And don't forget to explore Wikiversity with the links to your left. Be bold to contribute and to experiment with the sandbox or your userpage, and see you around Wikiversity! --Gbaor 12:17, 14 August 2008 (UTC)

 Hi , I am Percy. Nice to meet you. I love the beach, swimming, fishing, and I am currently doing some research at Wikiversity on oceanography. I am also learning to play piano. What do you like? Can I be your mascot?

Game design
Hi,

You are listed as a participant in School:Game design, but you haven't been around for a while. Are you still interested? Regards, Guido den Broeder 15:32, 3 February 2011 (UTC)

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User talk:Charhapmhi

 Hello Charhapmhi, and welcome to Wikiversity! If you need help, feel free to visit my talk page, or contact us and ask questions. After you leave a comment on a talk page, remember to sign and date; it helps everyone follow the threads of the discussion. The signature icon in the edit window makes it simple. To get started, you may

 * Take a guided tour and learn to edit.
 * Visit a (kind of) random random project.
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The developer team at Wikimedia is making some changes to how accounts work, as part of our on-going efforts to provide new and better tools for our users like cross-wiki notifications. These changes will mean you have the same account name everywhere. This will let us give you new features that will help you edit and discuss better, and allow more flexible user permissions for tools. One of the side-effects of this is that user accounts will now have to be unique across all 900 Wikimedia wikis. See the announcement for more information.

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Power Generation/Variable Load/Part2

Objectives of a Power station:

The power station is constructed, comissioned and operated to supply required power to consumers with generators running at rated capacity for maximum efficiency.

we saw in lesson one that the fundamental problem in generation, transmission and distribution of electrical energy is the fact that electrical energy can not be stored. It must be generated, transmitted and distributed as and when needed.

This lesson looks at problems associated with variable loads on power stations, and discusses the complexities met in deciding the make, size and capacity of Generators (Generating units) that must be installed in a power plant to successfully meet these varying energy demands on a day to day basis.

Variable load:

The load on a power station varies from time to time due to uncertain demands of consumers. Energy demand of one consumer at any given time is distinct/differs from the energy demand of another consumer. This results in the total demand on the power station to vary over a given period of time and may necesitate the following:

 * Additional equipment/Generating units to meet demand

 * Increase in production cost to recuperate use of more material/equipment

In order to study the pattern and effect of the varying load, station engineers use load curves.

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Power Generation/Variable Load/Part3

A load curve is a graph showing the variation of load on the power station with respect to time. the following load curves are used in power stations:

 * Daily load curve: -- Load variations captured during the day ( 24Hrs ), recorded either half-hourly or hourly.

 * Monthly load curve: -- Load variations captured during the month at different times of the day plotted aginst No. of days.

 * Yearly load curve: -- Load variations captured during the Year, this is derived from monthly load curves of a particular year.

Information obtained from load curves:

 * Area under load curve = Units generated

 * Highest point of the curve = MD

 * (Area under curve) ÷ (by total hours) = Average load

 * (Area under load curve) ÷ (Area of rectangle containing load curve) = LF

 * Helps to select size & number of generating units.

 * Helps to create operating schedule of the power plant.

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Power Generation/Variable Load/Part4

Selecting generating units:

The following must be considered when selecting the number and size of Generating units (Generators):

 * Number and size of units to aproximately fit the annual load curve.

 * Units to be of different capacities to meet load requirements.

 * Atleast 15 - 20% of extra capacity for future expansion should be allowed for.

 * Spare generating capacity must be allowed for to cater for repairs and overhauling of working units without affecting supply of minimum demand.

 * Avoid selecting smaller units to closely fit load curve.

Meeting Load:

The best method to meet load requirements on power station is to Interconnect two different power stations in paralell as follows:

-- Generally thermal & Nuclear power stations.
 * More efficient Plant → Carries Base load( The unvarying load on the load curve ).

-- Generally Hydro, Pumped storage & gas turbine power stations.
 * Less efficient Plant → Carries Peak load ( Various load peak demands on the load curve ).

Careful study of load curves must be undertaken before deciding which type of station will be used for what purpose as this is greatly dependant on enviromental issues and availability of fuel used by a particular power station.

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Power Generation/Variable Load/Part5

The power grid is constructed by connecting several generating stations together in parallel. This method has helped solve most transmission and distribution problems facing power engineers. Below are the advantages of using a power grid:

Sharing of load among stations allows for more efficient stations to work constantly at high load factors and less efficient stations to be used for peak supply only.
 * Economical operation:

Different stations have different load curves thus the total maximum demand of the system is decreased, thus effectively increasing the diversity factor of the system.
 * Increased diversity factor:

The stand-by capacity required of individual plants is reduced when they are interconnected in a grid.
 * Reduces Plant Reserve Capacity:

If major breakdown occurs on one station, supply is maintained by other stations.
 * Increased reliability:

Excess load can be shared from highly stressed plants to plant with lower peak loads ( Identified from load curves ).
 * Exchange of peak loads:

Older plants which are less efficient can still be used to carry peak loads of short durations.
 * Older plants can still be used:

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Wikiversity:Mentors

A Wikiversity mentor is a person who volunteers to answer questions, provides advice, guides people in their learning and/or helps develop learning materials for Wikiversity. We encourage you to include mentor userboxes on your user page that identify what areas you are willing to mentor in. Mentors are often learners, so you do not need to be an expert in order to help.

The purpose of mentor userboxes is to quickly alert learners what areas you are willing to help out in. Mentor userboxes are an informal agreement to help anyone you can out. A mentor/learner relationship built on mutual sharing, learning, understanding, trust, and respect for one another is one of the most mutually beneficial relationships that can exist in an educational environment.

Mentor Types
There are several types of mentors, with considerable overlap between the types.

Education Mentor
An education mentor is a person who helps and guides learners in their education on Wikiversity. Mentors encourage learners to complete course work and their education objectives. Mentors help learners progress in their learning by offering advice, providing feedback on assignments, and by answering what questions they can. A mentor's ability to help may be limited by their own education.

Mentors often sign up for courses they are willing to take an active role in. Mentors that have chosen to take an active role in courses often help learners without having to be asked first. Mentors who have chosen not to take an active role may not have as much time available to help learners. Learners will often have to ask specifically for help from mentors who have chosen, for whatever reasons, not to take an active role.

Mentors should identify what courses and/or what subjects they are willing to help learners with, by using userboxes on their user page.

Research Mentor
A research mentor is a person who helps and guides Wikiversity participants in their research goals. Mentors help researchers form academic connections in their field of research, offer insight and advice in doing research, and provide feedback to help participants improve the quality of their research.

Content Development Mentor
A content development mentor is a person who helps and guides Wikiversity participants with editing and contributing content. Mentors may be able to help with the wiki markup language for example. Mentors may provide feedback or constructive criticism on your talk page about your editing. This role encompasses the role of a beta reader in nonfiction or fiction writing, and also includes collaborative editing.

WikiEducator hosts a very well-organized content development mentorship program called Learning4Content. It includes regular online courses on the wiki markup language, resources for self study, and levels of certification ranging from WikiApprentice to WikiMaster.

Custodian Mentor
A custodian mentor is a custodian who helps guide and oversees new custodians during their probationary period. Mentors offer advice and feedback to help new custodians understand what the role of a custodian is and what the community's expectations are, or in other words how to be a good custodian. Mentors decide whether or not to recommend probationary custodians for permanent custodianship.

Mentors Gallery
These Userboxes are for people who are interested in becoming mentors in specific fields. By all means, please create new Userboxes if your areas of interest are not represented here! Instructions for creating new Userboxes are at Wikipedia's Userbox Maker page.

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Wikiversity talk:Mentors

This needs a different name. --McCormack 16:47, 14 August 2008 (UTC)

 * I disagree. Wikiversity already have mentors for custodians, and some ways this is inspired by that process. It doesn't make sense to use a different name when Wikiversity already use mentor. --dark[[Image:Yin yang.svg|12px]]lama 17:19, 14 August 2008 (UTC)

 * In what respects - why do you think this article (e.g Wikiversity page) needs a different name, could you explain your reason, at the moment I'm with Dark Lama here. DarkMage  17:39, 14 August 2008 (UTC)
 * Well other pages using that word:
 * List of custodian mentors
 * Category:ATP mentor training
 * find more :-) Erkan Yilmaz uses the Chat (try) 18:41, 14 August 2008 (UTC)

 * Ah, that explains why McCormack wants the article being renamed - if that's the case then it should be renamed, but it's down to Darklama's decision he is the one who's created the article (draft). DarkMage  18:46, 14 August 2008 (UTC)
 * We are just discussing ideas here (btw: we three were already talking about that by chat :-) and moved the discussion to here).
 * In my opinion a page does not belong to one person only (there is certainly also Help:Fork possible).
 * Erkan tags all of you with a sticker where there is written "Mentor" :-) Erkan Yilmaz uses the Chat (try) 18:51, 14 August 2008 (UTC)

 * The ATP mentor training learning project from a quick look seems like it may be talking about the same kind of mentoring as this page, since it appears to be about mentoring in an educational setting. I'd like to think that custodian mentors are one example of mentors that this page could be talking about. Custodian mentors help advice and answer questions of new custodians, which I think is not that far different from say a mentor that helps advice and answer questions about mathematics, programming, biology, chemistry, etc. Custodians could use something like:

 * While a mentor of animal biology might use:

 * --dark[[Image:Yin yang.svg|12px]]lama 19:10, 14 August 2008 (UTC)

Interesting idea and one that I'm all for, name and all. I'm curious about thoughts for actually putting this program into practice, e.g. matching up mentors and mentees. --AFriedman 02:39, 14 January 2009 (UTC)

 * Well my idea is for this to take on the form of userboxes which categorize people by what they are willing to help with. After that the next step would be to use categorytree or DPL to list these users on related topic or portal pages. The mentors page would serve to list the available userboxes that have been created and possibly along with a top categorytree for all mentors. Right now the only things shown are examples. The main point of this is to make it easier for people to find mentors who might be willing to mentor them. --dark[[Image:Yin yang.svg|12px]]lama 10:50, 14 January 2009 (UTC)
 * Many (but not all) course pages already let people sign up as course instructors and many of these people aren't (yet) aware of the mentorship Categories. I like the idea of making Mentorship a Category.  --AFriedman 14:53, 14 January 2009 (UTC)
 * I know that. I would like for this to replace that one day, at least for listing "instructors". Instead of having to find and manually add your willingness to mentor on pages, you would just add a userbox to your user page and the rest is done. --dark[[Image:Yin yang.svg|14px]]lama 17:11, 14 January 2009 (UTC)

We were just playing around with the idea of having advanced mentorship positions, such as professor and director of research, and one of the problems is how to connect a mentor to a learner so that the mentor can claim higher mentorship positions. One possible way is to have the student adopt a user box registering them for a specific mentor. We could create a template that links the user to a specific mentor as part of their user-box something like " I am studying under Mentors Name " There should probably be a registration process that allows the mentor to limit their students before authorization of the box, but this can all be worked out later.--Graeme E. Smith 21:52, 6 March 2009 (UTC)

Working with the idea of Mentorship as a role, AFriedman and I came up with the idea of a Mentorship portal Portal:Mentorship and a Marks: namespace that was not searchable (not listed in the search engine) and which might have its edit tag removed so that it could be read but only updated by a template. Unfortunately WikiLanguage does not seem to deal with anything less than a section, so direct manipulation of the marks database is out of the question. Mentors would be given a toolkit associated to their mentorship level, in much the same way we have custodian tools and sysop tools. Because each mentor would have an "Office" in the mentorship portal mentorship could be coordinated. If we could have access to the variable name of the score variable for the Quiz extension, we could then build a marks database, in the Marks namespace, and allow the faculty members to draw marks from the database according to coursename and session number or something. However this would require an extension to the parser. Some sort of marking algorithm could then be used to deal with multiple records from the same test, say reduce the total value of the test according to the number of times it was taken in some manner. The mentor could then prepare a transcript of marks for the students at the end of a session.--Graeme E. Smith 14:33, 27 May 2009 (UTC)

 * I strongly disagree with this idea, and it doesn't work well with what I had in mind at all. There should be no power structure, no specific positions, and no bureaucracy involved. Claims of higher mentorship positions and stuff like that would only make things much more confusing and less helpful for the average person. Not to mention there is no reliable way to prove that someone is more knowledgeable or more experienced, and it would discourage people from wanting to be a mentor. There should be no registration process involved either. The only expectation should be that participants that identify themselves as mentors are willing to help when they can with what they can.
 * What would be better in my opinion and would work better with my original ideas is if mentors would help new mentors become better mentors by offering new mentors feedback, advice and help in how to mentor and if mentors provided learning resources that can help teach new mentors how to be a good mentor. In other words mentor helping mentors as equals. You could also call it a mentoring program for mentors. -- dark lama  14:05, 29 May 2009 (UTC)

I understand your disagreement and I am trying to come up with ways that do not disturb the existing community too much. The question we have to ask ourselves as Mentors, is how much impact do we want Wikiversity to have. Do we want Accredited courses, or are we just amateurs playing at educating. Either is valid. What AFriedman and I are exploring, is how to give WikiVersity the option of being more than just amateur hour. To do that, there has to be some flexibility on how courses are presented. This does not mean that all courses have to take on a patina of respectability, just courses that want to achieve accreditation. It does not mean that all students have to register, just students that want accredited documentation of their courses completion. That is why I thought of the Registration boxen, where a student can elect to register themselves for a course (or not) and receive some sort of marks on completion. We can then fight with the Accreditation bodies for recognition or not if we want. Currently we do not have this option unless we use Moodle, in which case registration is enforced by Moodle itself. Currently the student can work his little butt off, and in the end they will have nothing to show for it, because there is no way to mark their progress, and no way to accredit them for their work. The only students that get accredited for their work are the students that contribute as registered members of a course at another institution. As someone who is not registered at another institution, I personally cannot benefit from courseware on this site, except by the increase in personal knowledge while this is important, I am left with undocumented knowledge that nobody else can even admit that I have, if only because there is no record of me attempting to prove that the knowledge exists. Since this is my normal state, I have not gained much from the relationship with the courses. I don't think you understand the frustration of the undocumented student like I do.--Graeme E. Smith 15:49, 29 May 2009 (UTC)

 * I think the answer is Wikiversity does not want or is not ready for accredited courses right now. Respectability and accreditation does not come from having a bureaucracy, but from recognition that the work meets some standard of quality. That recognition is then what brings about respectability and perhaps makes it possible for courses to be accredited. I have plenty of undocumented knowledge and I think I am in a position to understand the frustration involved, but that has nothing to do directly with mentoring. I think the only role that mentoring could play in making it possible for courses to become accredited would be by mentoring people in how to write quality works that meet certain accredited standards. Again though that does not require bureaucracy to achieve. -- dark lama  16:43, 29 May 2009 (UTC)

I am believe it or not not pushing beaurocracy. Merely pointing out roles/tasks that need to be accomplished in order to achieve some level of QOS as educators. That I use terms that have administrative roles to describe the tasks, is probably a problem for you, but what I am trying to achieve is some grasp on the quality of mentoring. That is why I was beginning to think in terms of "offices" rather than people. For instance the "Chancellors" office would oversee the organization at the school/portal level, not necessarily controlling it, but giving a place to monitor it. So the Chancellors office would contain a page about schools and Portals from a Mentors Perspective. Mentors could check in there to see what the community thinks would be a good idea to start in the way of schools or portals. It would give a place to discuss things out of the general path of students, so we could argue to our hearts content about whether we need a woodshop or a Construction Arts space, or both, to give an example. In the end someone would create the school, but this way they would not be doing it in a vacuum. Once the school was created it could sponsor an office in the Schools and Portals section to argue about what would go into the school Someone like me could flesh out an outline, and someone like you could point out all the problems with it, and perfect it to suit the community. I think that some of us, will be more involved in the project, and some will be less involved but more judging, and that is good since it brings the quality of the system up, while fleshing it out faster. Don't feel I am trying to force anybody into one of the roles, merely trying to express the tasks that need to be done.--Graeme E. Smith 21:16, 29 May 2009 (UTC)

 * Perhaps that is the issue. I think the focus should be on people and tasks, rather then on offices and roles. The first has more of a community feel to it where everyone works together and picks the tasks they want to do, while the later has more of a business feel to it with a lot of red tape, complexity and overhead. Portal:Mentorship seems like a business model rather then a community model of doing things. -- dark lama  23:19, 29 May 2009 (UTC)

Well that is the model that I am most familiar with. I was trying to capture the roles people had to play, call them tasks if you will, and the easiest way was to think of who I had seen doing it, and ask how they would achieve the effect I wanted. By the way I noticed you did away with vandalism monitoring as a task....;)--Graeme E. Smith 01:39, 30 May 2009 (UTC)

 * Don't get me wrong I'm not criticizing you for doing your best or for sticking with what you know best. I understand now that this approach was only used because it was the only way you could wrap your head around it and get it typed up. My issues is with the approach, not with you. Now that I think I understand that the reason for the model is purely based on what you could work with and not because its what you wanted all along, I've put some effort in helping to reshape it. I think we might both be on the same page now, if we're not, don't be afraid to criticize anything you don't like about my approach too. I didn't do away with vandalism, so much as I moved and expanded on what the task consists of. See Watch under Portal:Mentorship. I guess you could say the changes reflects a somewhat different opinion of vandalism on Wikiversity compared to other projects. There is a movement in Wikiversity that believes vandals aren't the cum of the earth (like say Wikipedia feels about vandals), but rather people who need guidance, so I got rid of the negative aspect of the language used. -- dark lama  12:22, 30 May 2009 (UTC)

Finding a Content Development Mentor
Hello, I am currently looking for a content development mentor... how can I go about finding one? Thank you. --Spyder212 (discuss • contribs) 18:47, 6 May 2015 (UTC)

 * Maybe someone at the Colloquium could help you. --I8086 (discuss • contribs) 18:56, 6 May 2015 (UTC)

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Moodle
"I am interested in a Moodle Sandbox course for create some resources for on Moodle and how to use it. I would like this course ASAP. Can you let me know if this is at all possible?" <-- Seems possible, particularly is we can find some folks with Moodle experience. I posted this to Colloquium in order to get wider input. --JWSchmidt 01:06, 15 August 2008 (UTC)

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User talk:Mus~enwikiversity

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Electrical protection
Hi there Mus. Thanks for your e-mail. I am currently busy with the following courses that you are welcome to view and help in.

 * Generation of Electrical Power - 75% complete!

 * Electrical Power Economics - 10% complete :-(

I will be starting work on the following some time towards the end of the month.

 * Electrical protection

 * Electrical Machines II

If you are interested in any of the above subjects maybe you would like to revisit the school page:

 * School of electrical engineering

And even add a userbox on your user page( It will help you network with people in the same department)

Happ wiki-life. --Thuvack | talk 06:50, 15 August 2008 (UTC)

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User:JamesReyes

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Talk:Christian mysticism

This might be a copyright violation of http://www.contemplativerudder.com/id14.html. Emesee 05:36, 15 August 2008 (UTC)

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User talk:JamesReyes

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 Hi! My name is WikiversityJack. I am a pumpkin and a Wikiversity mascot. My aunt told me that fun + learning = Wikiversity. Let me know if I can help you out.

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Power Generation/Comparison/Intro

The previous Lesson was about variable loads on power stations. You are expected to remember the following from Lesson 7.
 * Definitions
 * Load Curves
 * Types of loads on a power station
 * Selecting generation units for a power station
 * Base & Peak loads
 * Methods of meeting load

Preview: Lesson 8

This lesson is about comparing of power stations. At the end of the lesson, you should understand how each power station discussed in this course measures up against others with respect to the following:
 * Location & space required
 * Initial & running cost
 * Overal efficiency & stand-by losses
 * Maintenance costs
 * Limit of source of power
 * Cost of fuel & clean emissions
 * Starting
 * Transmission & distribution costs

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Power Generation/Comparison/Part1

Five types of electric generating power stations have been discussed in this course thus far. These being:

 * Steam/Thermal Power station
 * Hydro Power station
 * Diesel Power station
 * Nuclear Power station
 * Gas turbine Power station

There are other types of power stations used around the world besides the big five covered here. The following are not covered here due to the fact that they are strictly dependent on the geography of the area where they can be erected and hence do not find wide use around the world:

  Note that the Pumped-storage scheme and Gas-turbine power stations are not included in this lesson as they are rarely used for base loads .
 * Geo-thermal
 * Wind
 * Solar
 * Tidal

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FLOSS/FLOSS for Education

The types of software which may used in education is extremely broad. The most commonly used FLOSS in education is listed below.

(check for duplication, restructure headings, insert links, add to the list, enhance with narrative about how the software may be used in education, ...)

Administration and Office Productivity

 * OpenOffice.org/Libreoffice
 * OpenOffice.org Writer – WYSIWYG text editor
 * OpenOffice.org Calc – spreadsheet
 * OpenOffice.org Impress – presentation
 * OpenOffice.org Math – equation editor
 * OpenOffice.org Base – database
 * Abiword
 * KOffice
 * KChart
 * Kexi - an integrated environment for creating databases and database applications.
 * KFormula - formula editor for KOffice
 * Kivio - diagramming and flowcharting
 * KPlato - project management
 * KPresenter
 * KSpread
 * KWord
 * OpenProj

3D-modelling

 * Blender 3D – heavy and powerful 3D-modelling software, there are Wikibooks, too
 * POV Ray – Raytracing

raster graphics

 * GIMP – GNU Image Manipulation Program, powerful raster graphics editor
 * Krita – KOffice Paint

vector graphics

 * Inkscape – simple vector graphics editor
 * Karbon14
 * OpenOffice.org Draw
 * QCAD
 * Xara Xtreme – a bit tricky

Desktop Publishing

 * Scribus – semi-professional layout program, needs some training
 * Lyx – easy to use LaTeX (& other) editor without troubles about markup-syntax

Audio/Music

 * Audacity – audio recording/editing with easy access to a bunch of filters/generators/etcpp
 * Rosegarden – MIDI, and note editor
 * Note Editor

Video

 * Cinelara
 * CinePaint
 * Jahshaka
 * Kino
 * Kdenlive – non-linear video editor
 * MythTV
 * MPlayer
 * VLC

Book and Library collections

 * Alexandria
 * Greenstone
 * Koha

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Power Generation/Comparison/Part2

This lesson will compare the four widely used power stations (steam, hydro, diesel and nuclear) with regard to the following aspects:

 * Location & space required
 * Initial & running cost
 * Overal efficiency & stand-by losses
 * Maintenance costs
 * Limit of power source
 * Cost of Fuel & Clean emissions
 * Starting
 * Transmission & distribution costs

For the above comparison, sortable lists will be used with the following key of merit:

1 -- Highest merit (Highly desirable) 3 -- Second lowest merit (Tolerable) 2 -- Second highest merit (Acceptable) 4 -- Lowest merit (Not desirable)

You can click on the sorting icon to sort lists by the item you are interested in. This information is vital in deciding the type of power station that would be suitable in different situations.

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BCP/Sanguisorba tenuifolia

Sanguisorba tenuifolia

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