Listen to Wikipedia

Learning Outcomes
Computing (KS2)- Understand computer networks including the internet: how they can provide multiple services such as the world wide web, and the opportunities they offer for communication and collaboration
Functionality
This asset may be useful as an introduction to Wikipedia and crowdsourcing on the internet. Each time a change is made to Wikipedia, this asset announces it with a chime sound and a bubble, sized relative to the size of the edit/amount of new content. Users can click through to read the page that has been edited.
It is interesting to observe this for a few minutes and consider the magnitude of activity on the site, and perhaps to use as a random topic generator for writing exercises.
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