Wikipedia

With less than two weeks before departure I am desperately trying to gather educational resources for my service as an education and community recourse specialist. We are only allowed 80lbs so this makes bringing books impractical. I have found some interesting ways of utilizing Wikipedia to develop education resources for use when internet is not available. You can create a book of specific wiki pages and download the book as a pdf. here is an instructional video.

 Wikipedia Book Generator YouTube Video

I am working on creating these Wikipedia books for biology, chemistry, physics, HIV/AIDS and South Africa (history, culture, politics). If I have access to a power source for my laptop I should be able to refer to these books to help with lesson development. 

Example of Wikipedia Book for South Africa

Wikipedia can also be downloaded in its entirety on to your hard drive! I am still debating if this is a good idea. This would be a great resource to have but would take a very long time and might clog up my computer. The problem is that you cant just download all of the science or math portions, you must download everything. There is so much junk (anything with Justin Bieber as an example)

iTunes has many free resources for an educator. Its called iTunes U. Numerous educational institutions post complete course lectures in podcast and video formats. 

I might just be going crazy with all of this! I'm sure I will have access to various educational resources (and possibly internet) but doing this makes me feel better :)