FreeRice
FreeRice is a non-profit website whose users simultaneously learn English vocabulary and can donate grains of rice for the hungry. It is funded and their donations through advertising, and the rice distributed by the World Food Programme ( WFP) of the United Nations to the needy.
According to WFP ranging from 20,000 grains of rice to feed an adult for a day. In the first eleven months since its commissioning on 7 October 2007, more than 43 billion grains of rice have been donated over the side, or about 2.15 million days rations. By early February 2008 by the website owner 213,000 U.S. dollars were handed over to WFP and first paid from these funds rice supplies have been distributed in Bangladesh.
Game rules
Visitors to the website get a vocabulary and definitions for four displayed. Choose from the right of it, so FreeRice.com donates 10 grains of rice to WFP. Then the next word is presented. The end of the game, the user determines. The visitor can also choose other tasks belong to the:
- Art: Famous Paintings ( the visitor gets a painting displayed and must choose who painted it )
- Chemistry: Chemical Symbols
- English: Grammar
- Geography: world capitals or ( the visitor gets a map section displayed and must choose which is the country indicated )
- Languages: ( French, German, Italian or Spanish)
- Mathematics: multiplication table or knowledge
Learning effect
The difficulty of the vocabulary is measured on a scale from 1 (very easy) to 60 and updated continuously from the detailed answers of all users. The first four answers each game are used to determine a tailored to the user level of difficulty. By its fifth question, the difficulty level is increased after every three consecutive correct responses by 1, decremented each time an incorrect answer to 1. Through this system, an individual learning is possible. In addition, contributes to successful learning that the target word can be heard as an audio file.
Game format
The visitor gets a job with 4 possible answers. If an answer is right, FreeRice donates 10 grains of rice to the WFP. There are graphically displayed on a plate 10-100 grains of rice. Then the visitor sees his right 100 grains of rice, and it will be shown again the rice grains from 10 to 100 on the plate, if one has donated 200 grains of rice, you can see the right, 100 grains of rice again a hundred rice grains. The whole is repeated until 1000, after which the visitor sees 1,000 grains of rice left. The whole is repeated again to 10,000 grains of rice, followed by the image area is cleared and it starts again from the beginning. If the visitor has donated 10,000 grains of rice, he gets a message from Free Rice: "You have donated 10,000 grains of rice Wow Now THAT is impressive. ! ". From 20,000 grains of rice this message: " You have donated 20,000 grains of rice Wow We're speechless. ! ". From 30,000 grains of rice this message: " Wow We're STILL speechless! ". The last message appears when a donation of 100,000 grains of rice, this is: ". You have donated 100,000 grains of rice May you have a lifetime of happiness ... ".
Award
FreeRice has been awarded by Yahoo as "Find of the Year" 2007 in the category Charities.