I was surprised to learn that Wikipedia had other online collaborative wiki projects such as Wiktionary, Wikiquote, Wikibooks, Wikisource, Wikimedia Commons, Wikispecies, Wikinews, Wikiversity, Wikimedia Incubator and Meta-Wiki. All of the projects provides content for educational purposes.
I chose Wikibooks and Wikiquotes to look at a little closer. The content is available to freely distributable and reproduce. I think these two are great resources to use as an educator. Students will not have to worry about getting permissions to use the content and can focus on their research.
I like to use quotes to inspire my readers. Wikiquotes are categorized in several ways including; people, films, proverbs, themes, holidays and lists. This makes it easy to find the right quote to back up the idea or expression you want to convey.
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