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Education:  The Trunity Universal Website Service is first of its kind Internet-based resource for the World’s students, teachers, and schools.

In addition to meeting the needs of existing communities of knowledge, such as schools, Universities and civic groups, it has been built to house The Earth Website.

Over 1000 of the world's most active and recognized earth scientists in 50 countries have worked for four years to build The Earth Website as a proof of concept for the Digital Universe project.

Today, it stands unprecedented as proof of concept for institutionalized collaboration across the World in any discipline. It is the most complete, organized up to date on-line resource for Earth Science.

We believe knowledge should be free and freely accessible.  By putting your class, school, or department of college on this platform, you add to that vision and become pioneers in a new public  education service.

The Trunity Cooperative Education Network enables people to explore and share knowledge of their world. This system enables educational and scientific research institutions to collaborate in the development of shared knowledge libraries, educational curricula, and science entertainment while all resources remain organized within an intuitive and coherent navigational taxonomy.

Trunity has established an open process by which new bodies of knowledge, curricula and learning adventures may be linked within the Education Network. Over time, the Trunity Cooperative Education Network may evolve the broadest and deepest aggregation of world-class education and science entertainment in existence, supplying a ‘21st century Library of Alexandria’ to people worldwide.

Now, we give the same technology to the world in order to translate this knowledge into action and change.

We invite you to join the Earthwebsite Community AND build your own website or network of websites.  This simple act will generate real revenue that supports continued funding of the Earth Website and Encyclopedia of Earth.

Build and manage your own social network, community action website for your group.

Trunity enables any student, teacher or school to easily and simply build Web Websites with powerful authoring, publishing and community building tools.

These websites may be as simple as a one-page personal web-site and as extensive as major Web website with tens of thousands of web pages and thousands of members.

Each website is maintained independently and mapped together by mutual consent into a coherent multidimensional navigational taxonomy.

There are two Website types to choose from:

1. Personal Websites  include sophisticated content management, web authoring and publishing tools, including articles, blogs, news stories, events, links, image & video galleries.                                   
2. Community Websites  include all the functionality of Personal Websites, plus robust publishing work flow and member/enterprise management features.

Member Features

Unlimited Websites per Account

Every registered user may built an unlimited number of websites and manage their entire eco-system of content and associations in a centralized account.

Each registered (whether or not they create a website) receives their own free Trunity My Account, which features powerful messaging, social networking, calendaring, content tracking and bookmarking tools.

If you are confused at this point, that is because we have given anyone the ability to build something like their own MySpace.

My Account Features

This is a public platform. Students (and teachers) can take their websites with them from grade to grade or school to school and on to College.

Website Features

All Websites

• Public or Private
  
• Each registered users may built an unlimited number of websites
  
• User or group moderated
  
• Seamless Permission-Based Data Sharing and collaboration
• Perfect for publishing the school newpaper.

Articles

Participation on this platform means publishing knowledge for the world in a permanant ISO Standard digital archive.

Easy-to-use authoring, colaboration and publishing tools with multiple copyright protection.

Simple re-publishing under Creative Commons Derivative license.

Blogs

Every Community and Personal Website features its own blog: it's a great way to engage your community and foster an open & and free exchange of ideas & information...

Events

Maintain class schedules and events. Send notices and integrate with other website calendars.

Members

Multiple User-Roles (member, contributor, editor, publisher, admin, owner) allow for

Privilege-based group management and moderation means kids, classes, schools, districts can collaboratively build and Manage their own protected social networks.

Invite Colleagues and Friends to become Members of your Community website. Give individual Members specific privileges to help collaboratively build and Manage the website...

Image Galleries

With the Gallery Tool, you can upload an unlimited number of images, re-order them, add captions and choose from different playback options. Publish galleries on your Website to share them with the community and allow others to add comments, ratings and tags...

 Benefits

Students can take their websites with them from grade to grade or school to school and on to College.

Students can make unlimited number of separate websites with independent associations. For instance, a more formal website for class, teacher and school websites, but another website for the soccer team or friends outside of school.

Independent user/website association on a public Internet platform means parents can become involved too.  Parents can organize car pooling for the soccer team on the same platform as their book club, PTA or  family website.

Favorites

Build and automatically organize your own personal online scrapbook by simply clicking “Add to Favorites” next to any item. Share your Favorites with anyone in your network...