On the east coast in winter with snow, it's nature, art, beauty, family and friends that facilitate presence {'now' in a sense} ... as well as the relaxationresponse.org/steps
The world is snowy on both sides of Pennsylvania. Much travel is limited, so I couldn't make it to my Uncle's memorial service ... Farewell to my Uncle Bruce ... relaxationresponse.org/steps
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And eliciting loving bliss in the cold world of the east half of the U.S. in winter? How? Music? Dancing?
A healthy bodymind through much dancing and movement ...
Flax seed oil {Omega Fatty Acids} for some people, with a good diet, and enough sleep?
And practices for eliciting loving bliss:
scottmacleod.com/LovingBlissPractices.htm
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Troopbonding (Money 1988 'bonding together in troops in ancestral environments' - what our primate ancestors did) among humans is families and friends, in many ways, as I see it. With one's family, where some people may have learned some aspects of eliciting loving bliss, doing so at holidays can be complicated, especially having lived separately.
So, how to elicit loving bliss in families, when people want to bond, and where loving bliss emerged naturally, but where exploring explicitly this with language seems unfamiliar? Good rest, healthy neurophysiology, and let it happen naturally? Use language occasionally?
A cold climate seems to me to close things down, and can increase potential challenges between people, especially people living, for example, in a city over decades. {Harbin Hot Springs' pool area opens things up, by contrast, in winter, too}.
Engaging {and generating} code which works for individuals seem to be sensible, in the context of modernity ... such as music ... communities which foster caring ... individuals which foster caring ... troopbonding in certain ways ... generating codes, on the internet, for example, which are enjoyable and facilitate this ... all make sense to me ...
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Re-evaluation counseling, as one kind of counseling among many, offers specific ways to understand challenges that might interfere with eliciting loving bliss ...
http://www.rc.org/class/fundamentals/index.html
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http://www.canada-photos.com/data/media/16/polar-bear-winter-snow-storm_4239.jpg
http://www.jeffsweather.com/archives/bear.jpg
(http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2009/12/bear-in-snow-nature-art-beauty-family.html - December 20, 2009)
Sunday, December 20, 2009
Bear in Snow: Nature, Art, Beauty, Family and Friends Facilitate Presence, Eliciting Loving Bliss in Winter & Approaches to Challenges Socially
Saturday, December 19, 2009
Pride of Lions: 'Food' Class Video-Streaming at World Univ & Sch?, Teaching at WUaS is Learning Process, WUaS Great for Professional Skill Development
On the BART train to the airport today, I met some high school kids, around 15 years old, who were from Oakland, California. They were good kids, and looked like they were from the 'hood. One said to me something like: "You look like you're a busy man." (I had all my bags with me and was on the BART line to the airport). I said I was heading home for xmas. "Where are you heading," I asked? "Wherever BART will take me," he said, sounding like his world was the SF Bay Area for the foreseeable future. I asked if these kids had web access, and began to tell them about World University & School, where they could teach (and learn anything), but we're all going to shape it. The two kids I was talking with both had cell phones, and at least one had internet access on his. "World University and School is in seed form now, but it's the open, free university and school idea," I said. "Streaming video for teaching and learning on mobile phones isn't 'there' yet, but a free open teaching and learning school and university, which we all shape will be very cool when we have video-capable web streaming." The kid sitting across from me joked to his friend, in an open way, that he was going to become a singing cook. I asked him what he would learn at World University & School, if he could learn anything he wanted? He said "Food." When they got off the train, they both shook my hand; I'm not sure why. So, I added soon a 'food' subject: worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Food
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Another young man, of Asian background, was working a Rubik's cube very rapidly with his hands, while listening to music. A Rubik's cube is six sided, with 9 faces on each side, and every face is rotatable on three axes. One challenge in this puzzle is to make each side the same color, after mixing up the sides.
I asked him while he was listening to music how fast he could do it, but he didn't hear me. I observed to the other kids I was talking with how there were strategies for doing Rubik's cubes, as well as mathematics for understanding what was happening.
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As we were getting off the train, the Asian American kid, also around 15, and I started talking. He said he could make each of the 6 sides their own color in 5-6 seconds, so doing it now was a rote exercise in manual dexterity for him. He said he never thought about doing it in terms of algorithms, nor as math or statistics. He was really quick with his hands. He made doing it look fun.
We didn't talk about the potential for World University & School to help shape ways to think about puzzles like Rubik's cubes, but there are many ways it could help. Perhaps he'll teach and learn about Rubik's cubes at WUaS.
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World University will help a lot of kids, and professionally, too. And teaching at WUaS will be a learning process for kids.
(http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2009/12/pride-of-lions-food-class-video.html - December 19, 2009)
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Another young man, of Asian background, was working a Rubik's cube very rapidly with his hands, while listening to music. A Rubik's cube is six sided, with 9 faces on each side, and every face is rotatable on three axes. One challenge in this puzzle is to make each side the same color, after mixing up the sides.
I asked him while he was listening to music how fast he could do it, but he didn't hear me. I observed to the other kids I was talking with how there were strategies for doing Rubik's cubes, as well as mathematics for understanding what was happening.
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As we were getting off the train, the Asian American kid, also around 15, and I started talking. He said he could make each of the 6 sides their own color in 5-6 seconds, so doing it now was a rote exercise in manual dexterity for him. He said he never thought about doing it in terms of algorithms, nor as math or statistics. He was really quick with his hands. He made doing it look fun.
We didn't talk about the potential for World University & School to help shape ways to think about puzzles like Rubik's cubes, but there are many ways it could help. Perhaps he'll teach and learn about Rubik's cubes at WUaS.
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World University will help a lot of kids, and professionally, too. And teaching at WUaS will be a learning process for kids.
(http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2009/12/pride-of-lions-food-class-video.html - December 19, 2009)
Friday, December 18, 2009
Sow and Pigs: No Windmills in Cuttyhunk's Back Yard, Please
Here's a letter to Cuttyhunk Island's Board of Selectmen, about a proposed windmill farm off Cuttyhunk's west end, which this letter opposes.
Dear Town of Gosnold (Cuttyhunk) Selectmen,
I'm writing to give voice to putting any possible wind farms far, far from Cuttyhunk or Sow and Pigs (a small, nearly underwater reef of rocks off Cuttyhunk's West end, with very good fishing).
What does Cuttyhunk stand to gain from a huge wind factory farm off Sow and Pigs? Any Windmill company, or investors, in conjunction with the State of Massachusetts, wouldn't necessarily give any money or energy to Cuttyhunk, - unless investors live on Cuttyhunk itself. Such a Windmill company might use Cuttyhunk as a staging ground, although they probably can install industrial wind machinery from barges.
So, what does Cuttyhunk stand to gain? A big, possibly very noisy, radical change of the land- and sea-scape, due to an industrial, wind factory close to Cuttyhunk, which might interfere dramatically with fishing?
And all or most of the financial and energy benefits would go elsewhere. Why not put any windmill farm 20 miles off Cuttyhunk's shore, and have the Windmill company pay the costs of extra underwater cable to transport the energy?
In my experience, the Town of Gosnold has never taken an entrepreneurial role, and is unlikely, for example, to try aggressively to get low cost power from energy utilities and any local windmills in perpetuity, using many legal avenues to strategize how to do this, and getting involved in the planning process every step of the way, over decades. (But this would be a most sensible approach ... ). Instead, for example, the Town of Gosnold didn't want to buy the hookup for the windmill in the 1970s, which Twig Spaulding built at his own expense, just as it didn't accept free solar power to Cuttyhunk, which Allen B. mentioned in a recent email to me. Historically, Cuttyhunk has gotten most revenue from the Cuttyhunk Marina and from property taxes. I don't see this likely to change very much.
I could even envision a scenario where Cuttyhunk energy costs go up to help cover paying for 66 new, 480-feet-high (higher than 3 times higher than the highest point on Cuttyhunk) windmills - a wind farm factory - in a prime striped bass fishing area close to Sow and Pigs. I wonder, too, if fishermen who have come to Cuttyhunk to hire striped bass fishing guides, for decades, might choose to go elsewhere in the future, because "fishing under the windmills just isn't what it used to be." I see many reasons to conserve what Cuttyhunk has and put the windmills far, far from Cuttyhunk. By installing them near No Man's Land, and/or far out to sea, the State of Massachusetts will still be making significant strides in reducing carbon production contributing to global warming.
No windmills in Cuttyhunk's back yard, please,
Scott
Scott MacLeod
Dear Town of Gosnold (Cuttyhunk) Selectmen,
I'm writing to give voice to putting any possible wind farms far, far from Cuttyhunk or Sow and Pigs (a small, nearly underwater reef of rocks off Cuttyhunk's West end, with very good fishing).
What does Cuttyhunk stand to gain from a huge wind factory farm off Sow and Pigs? Any Windmill company, or investors, in conjunction with the State of Massachusetts, wouldn't necessarily give any money or energy to Cuttyhunk, - unless investors live on Cuttyhunk itself. Such a Windmill company might use Cuttyhunk as a staging ground, although they probably can install industrial wind machinery from barges.
So, what does Cuttyhunk stand to gain? A big, possibly very noisy, radical change of the land- and sea-scape, due to an industrial, wind factory close to Cuttyhunk, which might interfere dramatically with fishing?
And all or most of the financial and energy benefits would go elsewhere. Why not put any windmill farm 20 miles off Cuttyhunk's shore, and have the Windmill company pay the costs of extra underwater cable to transport the energy?
In my experience, the Town of Gosnold has never taken an entrepreneurial role, and is unlikely, for example, to try aggressively to get low cost power from energy utilities and any local windmills in perpetuity, using many legal avenues to strategize how to do this, and getting involved in the planning process every step of the way, over decades. (But this would be a most sensible approach ... ). Instead, for example, the Town of Gosnold didn't want to buy the hookup for the windmill in the 1970s, which Twig Spaulding built at his own expense, just as it didn't accept free solar power to Cuttyhunk, which Allen B. mentioned in a recent email to me. Historically, Cuttyhunk has gotten most revenue from the Cuttyhunk Marina and from property taxes. I don't see this likely to change very much.
I could even envision a scenario where Cuttyhunk energy costs go up to help cover paying for 66 new, 480-feet-high (higher than 3 times higher than the highest point on Cuttyhunk) windmills - a wind farm factory - in a prime striped bass fishing area close to Sow and Pigs. I wonder, too, if fishermen who have come to Cuttyhunk to hire striped bass fishing guides, for decades, might choose to go elsewhere in the future, because "fishing under the windmills just isn't what it used to be." I see many reasons to conserve what Cuttyhunk has and put the windmills far, far from Cuttyhunk. By installing them near No Man's Land, and/or far out to sea, the State of Massachusetts will still be making significant strides in reducing carbon production contributing to global warming.
No windmills in Cuttyhunk's back yard, please,
Scott
Scott MacLeod
Thursday, December 17, 2009
Brain - Left Hemisphere: Water World Univ & Sch with the Wetware of your Mind, 'Harbin Think,' Relaxation Response in Lotus Pose in the Warm Pool
Worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Subjects is a garden - plant a web link seed.
Let's make it flourish,
~ water World University & School with the wetware of your mind.
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'Harbin Think' is partly about 'no think,' ~ about not thinking. Instead this hot springs' retreat center is about the moment - now. 'Now,' and the pools, inform its culture, and they have an effect.
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I'm making a case for culture, in general, in this blog, and it is 'tangible' as counterculture at Harbin, in my experience (to make a case for subjectivity, as well).
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Harbin is pretty content as it is, I think ... and it's pretty cool ...
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When meditating in the Harbin warm pools {which is the relaxation response in lotus pose, naked, for me}, your arms will float up if you let go, that is, if you allow them to. This gravity-less warm-watery experience allows you to explore kinds of spaciousness in your own body, - between, for example, each joint in your body, {vis-a-vis Zhuangzi, and Angela and Victor?}.
This milieu refocuses my experience of the relaxation response and meditation, and is very releasing and enjoyable.
(http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2009/12/brain-left-hemisphere-harbin-think.html - December 17, 2009)
Let's make it flourish,
~ water World University & School with the wetware of your mind.
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'Harbin Think' is partly about 'no think,' ~ about not thinking. Instead this hot springs' retreat center is about the moment - now. 'Now,' and the pools, inform its culture, and they have an effect.
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I'm making a case for culture, in general, in this blog, and it is 'tangible' as counterculture at Harbin, in my experience (to make a case for subjectivity, as well).
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Harbin is pretty content as it is, I think ... and it's pretty cool ...
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When meditating in the Harbin warm pools {which is the relaxation response in lotus pose, naked, for me}, your arms will float up if you let go, that is, if you allow them to. This gravity-less warm-watery experience allows you to explore kinds of spaciousness in your own body, - between, for example, each joint in your body, {vis-a-vis Zhuangzi, and Angela and Victor?}.
This milieu refocuses my experience of the relaxation response and meditation, and is very releasing and enjoyable.
(http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2009/12/brain-left-hemisphere-harbin-think.html - December 17, 2009)
Wednesday, December 16, 2009
Cat Ba Leopard Gecko: How to 'Google-ize' & 'Del-i-c-ious-ize' World University & School, and Teach and Learn What We Want?
How to 'Google-ize' & 'Del-i-cious-ize,' {"Keep, share, and discover the best of the Web ~ (World University & School) ~ using Delicious, the world's leading social bookmarking service"} specific educational links (e.g. MIT OCW, 'Courses') to find what you want, e.g. loving bliss?
How to do this 'deeply,' with all of the disparate links, and teaching and learning content, on the World University & School wiki?
I added the subjects like 'fun,' 'enjoyment,' and 'love' here: worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Subjects.
Add some teaching and learning links.
Teach to your web camera :)
To be able to have good, effective courses in these subjects, for example, would be novel indeed, in the history of education.
:)
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Cat Ba Leopard Gecko is a new species, one of 94 recently described: http://www.treehugger.com/files/2009/12/94-new-species-described-by-the-california-academy-of-sciences-in-2009.php :)
(http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2009/12/cat-ba-leopard-gecko-how-to-google-ize.html - December, 16, 2009)
How to do this 'deeply,' with all of the disparate links, and teaching and learning content, on the World University & School wiki?
I added the subjects like 'fun,' 'enjoyment,' and 'love' here: worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Subjects.
Add some teaching and learning links.
Teach to your web camera :)
To be able to have good, effective courses in these subjects, for example, would be novel indeed, in the history of education.
:)
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Cat Ba Leopard Gecko is a new species, one of 94 recently described: http://www.treehugger.com/files/2009/12/94-new-species-described-by-the-california-academy-of-sciences-in-2009.php :)
(http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2009/12/cat-ba-leopard-gecko-how-to-google-ize.html - December, 16, 2009)
Figian Iguana: AMAZING OpenCourseWare Consortium Course Links, Bleak Perspective?-Change Code ~ Music? Relaxation Response is Tenderizing
added AMAZING OpenCourseWare Consortium educational links to worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Courses#Course_listings.27_aggregates's 'Course Listings' Aggregates' - with many Languages. This is an impressive seed in the garden of World University & School, especially as it grows. It's great to have a multi-country approach to institutional opencourseware.
ocwconsortium.org/use/use-dynamic.html Institutions can share their opencourseware here.
{Thanks to a friend who is on World University & School's Board of Clerks}.
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A friend in FB writes:
is on the greyhound, crawling back to the Bay.
Scott:
The Green Tortoise doesn't have a north south run any more that I can see, but it does have some interesting trips north that might get you there part way:) http://www.greentortoise.com/adventure-bus-tours-california.html
'Arrive Inspired, Not Dog Tired" is the Green Tortoise's motto ...
The Tortoise is inspiring ... it's the culture they create i.e. it's a hippy bus ... and it's 'countercultural' in a way, and hippie travelers have fun ...
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A FB friend, also someone who went to Reed, writes:
Bleak perspective from a bleak place, so take it with a grain of salt: It seems to me that the world we have created functions in accordance with money, numbers, and the arbitrary structure we have fabricated to support it all. Nothing is real. The artists are the only ones doing anything pure, the rest of uphold the lie that supports the illusion of order.
Scott:
Time to explore the hippie thing on the margins? Modernity can be challenging ... Sleep and some possibilities here: http://scottmacleod.com/LovingBlissPractices.htm ?
Change the code when things are bleak? Put on music you like ... e.g. Grateful Dead? Mozart?
Friend:
Thanks for the advice. Per usual the Reed oikos ('household' in ancient Greece) comes through ...
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... would like please the two manuscripts (ethnography and poetry) back that were stolen with laptop and knapsack from his car in SF on June 23.
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The evening (before) is clear in berkeley. holiday lights in elmwood along the shops sparkle. two men chat on a street corner near the bakery collective ...
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Relaxation response at home is 'tenderizing' in a Friendly (Q) way for humans. Is it for Pan? Kanzi? Koko? What say you? Jerry is playing - Dancing (A Twitter/Facebook post)
Expanded:
Relaxation response at home is 'tenderizing' in a Friendly (Quaker) sense for humans. Is it for Pan - chimpanzee? What say Kanzi and Koko? Why not ask Kanzi (a bonobo chimpanzee, a friend of primatologist Sue Savage-Rumbaugh, who 'has exhibited advanced linguistic aptitude')? or Koko (a lowland gorilla, and friend of primatologist Francine 'Penny' Patterson, who 'is able to understand more than 1,000 signs based on American Sign Language, and understand approximately 2,000 words of spoken English')? What say you? Jerry Garcia is playing on a CD as I wrote this ... I was dancing ...
As this music was playing, and moving me - the Grateful Dead are great - I learned that my uncle died ... saw some synchronicities with what I was thinking, experiencing, and hearing, during this time.
Farewell, Bruce. I mourn your passing.
(http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2009/12/figian-iguana-amazing-opencourseware.html - December 16, 2009)
ocwconsortium.org/use/use-dynamic.html Institutions can share their opencourseware here.
{Thanks to a friend who is on World University & School's Board of Clerks}.
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A friend in FB writes:
is on the greyhound, crawling back to the Bay.
Scott:
The Green Tortoise doesn't have a north south run any more that I can see, but it does have some interesting trips north that might get you there part way:) http://www.greentortoise.com/adventure-bus-tours-california.html
'Arrive Inspired, Not Dog Tired" is the Green Tortoise's motto ...
The Tortoise is inspiring ... it's the culture they create i.e. it's a hippy bus ... and it's 'countercultural' in a way, and hippie travelers have fun ...
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A FB friend, also someone who went to Reed, writes:
Bleak perspective from a bleak place, so take it with a grain of salt: It seems to me that the world we have created functions in accordance with money, numbers, and the arbitrary structure we have fabricated to support it all. Nothing is real. The artists are the only ones doing anything pure, the rest of uphold the lie that supports the illusion of order.
Scott:
Time to explore the hippie thing on the margins? Modernity can be challenging ... Sleep and some possibilities here: http://scottmacleod.com/LovingBlissPractices.htm ?
Change the code when things are bleak? Put on music you like ... e.g. Grateful Dead? Mozart?
Friend:
Thanks for the advice. Per usual the Reed oikos ('household' in ancient Greece) comes through ...
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... would like please the two manuscripts (ethnography and poetry) back that were stolen with laptop and knapsack from his car in SF on June 23.
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The evening (before) is clear in berkeley. holiday lights in elmwood along the shops sparkle. two men chat on a street corner near the bakery collective ...
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Relaxation response at home is 'tenderizing' in a Friendly (Q) way for humans. Is it for Pan? Kanzi? Koko? What say you? Jerry is playing - Dancing (A Twitter/Facebook post)
Expanded:
Relaxation response at home is 'tenderizing' in a Friendly (Quaker) sense for humans. Is it for Pan - chimpanzee? What say Kanzi and Koko? Why not ask Kanzi (a bonobo chimpanzee, a friend of primatologist Sue Savage-Rumbaugh, who 'has exhibited advanced linguistic aptitude')? or Koko (a lowland gorilla, and friend of primatologist Francine 'Penny' Patterson, who 'is able to understand more than 1,000 signs based on American Sign Language, and understand approximately 2,000 words of spoken English')? What say you? Jerry Garcia is playing on a CD as I wrote this ... I was dancing ...
As this music was playing, and moving me - the Grateful Dead are great - I learned that my uncle died ... saw some synchronicities with what I was thinking, experiencing, and hearing, during this time.
Farewell, Bruce. I mourn your passing.
(http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2009/12/figian-iguana-amazing-opencourseware.html - December 16, 2009)
Tuesday, December 15, 2009
Frog Emerges: World Univ's 'Computer Music' Section, with Orchestras!, Translators in Second Life, Courses' Anytime - Lessening Exam Pressure?
added World University's 'Computer Music' section (with Orchestras! :) to webnographers.org/index.php?title=Papers#Music_and_Virtual_Ethnography
and here: worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Computer_Music
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added two, new, free, Second Life translators to worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Educational_Software#Translation_Software_-_Virtual_Worlds
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Courses Anytime - Lessening Exam Pressure?
Staggering courses and exams - if they were virtual, for example - seems like it would be more reasonable than current academic calendars, where exams are all in one week, and is now very doable with the web.
What would be the most enjoyable and optimal class scheduling for you, if studying?
What would you love to learn? And how? Add a subject ...
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Harbin Hot Springs soon ... relaxation response in warm water ... MMmmm ...
(http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2009/12/frog-emerges-building-universitian.html - December 15, 2009)
and here: worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Computer_Music
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added two, new, free, Second Life translators to worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Educational_Software#Translation_Software_-_Virtual_Worlds
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Courses Anytime - Lessening Exam Pressure?
Staggering courses and exams - if they were virtual, for example - seems like it would be more reasonable than current academic calendars, where exams are all in one week, and is now very doable with the web.
What would be the most enjoyable and optimal class scheduling for you, if studying?
What would you love to learn? And how? Add a subject ...
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Harbin Hot Springs soon ... relaxation response in warm water ... MMmmm ...
(http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2009/12/frog-emerges-building-universitian.html - December 15, 2009)
Monday, December 14, 2009
Valley Dayrise: Tuning to the Valley, A Musical Sunrise Which Rocks with Sound & Light
In the evening:
hard to fathom the shades and hues of dark and light over the dark, obscured mountains to the east, but fun to observe them as they change.
In the morning:
treo (handheld telephone and internet device) as a musical instrument? redwood valley in a cloud - big & obscuring - percussive treo keys here with Grateful Dead as musical score ... dancing.
redwood ridge valley is showing light & whipple-mus clouds, around little ridge in-between ... waxing neurophysiology - amazing valley.
Tuning-to valley - big, thin cloud grows, lightness dims - ongoing developments of clouds, light, valley, redwood forest & blue sky - the valley is 'showing.'
Grateful Dead - Fillmore 1969 - Dark Star ... is traveling ... now .. o my ... listen closely, relaxedly - to life - cloud striations on the redwoods.
like a blanket but ephemeral ... cloud rises up over ridge & fills in ... can't see trees ... nature in the change ... ecological beauty - 3.5 billion years of life - valley is gone - little in-between ridge remains ... love that is positively trippy - communitas - let's grow it.
for a moment, one tree, like a tam, was jauntily visible on the little in-between ridge in thick cloud totally obscuring valley.
so much change and movement ... close my eyes and after image of tree line sawtooth remains ... valley totally obscure except for hint of high ridgeline
now little in-between ridgeline is visible - iguana's back - or is it a cloud dragon? one tree below stands out in cloud & ridge line above, under hint blue sky - very California 'taoist' landscapes, or {friendly hippie?}
I look away, then back & lots of tree tops are there in soft white clouds - can I go dance in them? Pretty valley. Son et lumiere - the Dead & valley - Grateful Dead and Canyon's redwood valley :)
and out to the east, the mountains in the distance have appeared as the day grows and the deep cloud moved on - a light mist hangs over the 1st 'moor.'
(http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2009/12/valley-dayrise-tuning-to-valley-musical.html - December 14, 2009)
hard to fathom the shades and hues of dark and light over the dark, obscured mountains to the east, but fun to observe them as they change.
In the morning:
treo (handheld telephone and internet device) as a musical instrument? redwood valley in a cloud - big & obscuring - percussive treo keys here with Grateful Dead as musical score ... dancing.
redwood ridge valley is showing light & whipple-mus clouds, around little ridge in-between ... waxing neurophysiology - amazing valley.
Tuning-to valley - big, thin cloud grows, lightness dims - ongoing developments of clouds, light, valley, redwood forest & blue sky - the valley is 'showing.'
Grateful Dead - Fillmore 1969 - Dark Star ... is traveling ... now .. o my ... listen closely, relaxedly - to life - cloud striations on the redwoods.
like a blanket but ephemeral ... cloud rises up over ridge & fills in ... can't see trees ... nature in the change ... ecological beauty - 3.5 billion years of life - valley is gone - little in-between ridge remains ... love that is positively trippy - communitas - let's grow it.
for a moment, one tree, like a tam, was jauntily visible on the little in-between ridge in thick cloud totally obscuring valley.
so much change and movement ... close my eyes and after image of tree line sawtooth remains ... valley totally obscure except for hint of high ridgeline
now little in-between ridgeline is visible - iguana's back - or is it a cloud dragon? one tree below stands out in cloud & ridge line above, under hint blue sky - very California 'taoist' landscapes, or {friendly hippie?}
I look away, then back & lots of tree tops are there in soft white clouds - can I go dance in them? Pretty valley. Son et lumiere - the Dead & valley - Grateful Dead and Canyon's redwood valley :)
and out to the east, the mountains in the distance have appeared as the day grows and the deep cloud moved on - a light mist hangs over the 1st 'moor.'
(http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2009/12/valley-dayrise-tuning-to-valley-musical.html - December 14, 2009)
Sri Lanka Frogmouth: Building a Universitian Community, Generate Cultures of Loving Bliss?, How can Bodyminds Generate Omega 3s Naturally?
At this point, building an Universitian community - like Wikipedians, who have produced around 14 million articles in 175 languages since 2002 - is my greatest interest. If, for example, students and learners all over the world begin to teach to their web cameras and post to World University & School, we'll help ...the internet develop in significant ways, as well as learn. Please spread the word, and let's converse about this.
Scott
http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/World_University
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How to generate cultures of loving bliss, and naturally? And so that the State becomes irrelevant a disappears? Modernity rewrites a lot e.g. Amish, an Anabaptist protest movement expressly against modernity. Are India and spirituality, which leads to goodness, examples - with the comforts of modernity?
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How can bodyminds generate omega 3s naturally, besides through the related processes of movement and music?
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Various groups in World University & School as improvisational, chamber musicians or raga or rock musicians - over decades ... :) ?
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would like Stanford & Cal to be key sources for in-class courses (streamed to web & virtual worlds) as the free, open World Univ & Sch grows
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Batrachostomus moniliger
birdwatchingtours.co.uk/gallery/pix/Sri%20Lanka/Done-Pix/sri_lanka_frogmouth_l.jpg
arkive.org/media/A2/A2CE896C-73F3-4895-B722-141AADB4942A/Presentation.Large/photo.jpg
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sri_Lanka_Frogmouth
Sri Lanka Frogmouth
(http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2009/12/sri-lanka-frogmouth-building.html - December 14, 2009)
Scott
http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/World_University
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How to generate cultures of loving bliss, and naturally? And so that the State becomes irrelevant a disappears? Modernity rewrites a lot e.g. Amish, an Anabaptist protest movement expressly against modernity. Are India and spirituality, which leads to goodness, examples - with the comforts of modernity?
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How can bodyminds generate omega 3s naturally, besides through the related processes of movement and music?
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Various groups in World University & School as improvisational, chamber musicians or raga or rock musicians - over decades ... :) ?
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would like Stanford & Cal to be key sources for in-class courses (streamed to web & virtual worlds) as the free, open World Univ & Sch grows
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Batrachostomus moniliger
birdwatchingtours.co.uk/gallery/pix/Sri%20Lanka/Done-Pix/sri_lanka_frogmouth_l.jpg
arkive.org/media/A2/A2CE896C-73F3-4895-B722-141AADB4942A/Presentation.Large/photo.jpg
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sri_Lanka_Frogmouth
Sri Lanka Frogmouth
(http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2009/12/sri-lanka-frogmouth-building.html - December 14, 2009)
Sunday, December 13, 2009
Malachite Kingfisher: Richest, Current Resources at World Univ., Stanford iPhone Orchestra to be World Univ's Orchestra?, iPhone as Musical Instrument
World University & School pages with richest Teaching & Learning Resources:
Courses: worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Courses
Library Resources: worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Library_Resources
FREE Educational Software: worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Educational_Software
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added Free CompTIA A+ and Network+ learning resources here: worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Computer_Engineering - Invitation to add more free, open courses and certifications
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Besides all the remarkable, open content at World Univ, where YOU can teach, I wonder how further to generate GREAT engagement with WUaS?
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wants to facilitate weaving in, for 2.8 million U.S. college-age students (actually all), great teaching & learning materials to enhance current learning possibilities through WorldUniversity.Wikia.Com - Invitation to add and teach. Invitation to make idea sharing really enjoyable :)
*****
Saturday morning live Hawaiian-ish music at Nabolom's Bakery collective in Berkeley is rolling along preetily like ocean waves - it's a happening.
******
California Academy of Sciences 415 379 8000 in the Golden Gate Park in San Francisco is free this Wednesday (3rd Weds.) calacademy.org, SF, CA 94118
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Miriam:
Scott, I apologize for putting this on your wall.
For some reason, I can't send you a message.
His e-mail is apoil@aol.com.
He's an amazing man and could be a great resource.
It just depends if he has time to discuss the university with you.
He also has a blog: http://artpearlagainsttheworld.blogspot.com/
Just mention my name.
Hope this helps,
Miriam
Scott:
Thanks! I posted this to his blog just now: http://artpearlagainsttheworld.blogspot.com/2009/10/democratic-education-or-rescuing-public.html
Hi Art,
Thanks for an interesting posting. Marianne Marquez suggested I contact you about a project I'm developing - World University and School, like Wikipedia with MIT Open Course Ware - http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Courses. It's democratic, because it's wiki (editable web pages). Let's talk further about it. Please add teaching and learning content, as well. People can teach to their web cameras, as well as add links. It's potentially in all languages, nation states, subjects and languages. Please spread the word....
To open, free, democratic education,
Scott
http://scottmacleod.com
http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/World_University
********
'Open Source Hardware References' section, and "Make's Open source
hardware 2009" link to worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Hardware_Resource_Possibilities Hardware Resources -
also here: worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Hardware_Resource_Possibilities#Open_Source_Hardware_References
*********
Might we be able to attend any talk at any time in any university through World University & School? Let's make it so. Speakers often talk with web cameras ...
Let's extend invitations ...
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Scott: MIT Open Course Ware and youtube.com/edu are abundant with learning possibilities - worlduniversity.wikia.com - curious about courses about India
Miriam: Maybe a way to incorporate UCLA's US stream?
Scott: They're here at youtube.com: worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Courses#Course_listings.27_aggregates - search on UCLA - and here, too: youtube.com/education?b=400 or you add them as a separate 'channel.' Thanks!
************
People are making a lot of beautiful art at the Sawtooth Building/8th St. Studios in Berkeley. It's a makers' space.
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woke up - flax - relaxation response - grateful dead 1969 fillmore west from berkeley public library - canyon home dancing - blissing
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Let's make World University & School { worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/World_University } very useful, like this - "So how on Earth does Craig's List maintain its ridiculous
popularity and growth? Very simply, because it works. It lets users
initiate and advance a transaction with an absolute minimum of time,
expense, hassle, rules, or oversight. And many times, this is exactly
what we want."
(blogs.harvardbusiness.org/hbr/mcafee/2009/12/craigslist-in-praise-of-primitive.html)
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Scott: would like the Stanford iPhone Orchestra to be World Univ & Sch's orchestra. Invitation to teach & learn iPhone at WUAS music school
Ned: How about Princeton's laptop orchestra?
Scott: Added 5 computer orchestras, including Princeton's and 2 at Stanford: worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Computer_Music ... Also added 'iPhone as musical instrument' to the Musical Instruments' Teaching and Learning page: worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/IPhone_as_musical_instrument
(http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2009/12/malachite-kingfisher-richest-current.html - December 12, 2009)
Courses: worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Courses
Library Resources: worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Library_Resources
FREE Educational Software: worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Educational_Software
**
added Free CompTIA A+ and Network+ learning resources here: worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Computer_Engineering - Invitation to add more free, open courses and certifications
***
Besides all the remarkable, open content at World Univ, where YOU can teach, I wonder how further to generate GREAT engagement with WUaS?
****
wants to facilitate weaving in, for 2.8 million U.S. college-age students (actually all), great teaching & learning materials to enhance current learning possibilities through WorldUniversity.Wikia.Com - Invitation to add and teach. Invitation to make idea sharing really enjoyable :)
*****
Saturday morning live Hawaiian-ish music at Nabolom's Bakery collective in Berkeley is rolling along preetily like ocean waves - it's a happening.
******
California Academy of Sciences 415 379 8000 in the Golden Gate Park in San Francisco is free this Wednesday (3rd Weds.) calacademy.org, SF, CA 94118
*******
Miriam:
Scott, I apologize for putting this on your wall.
For some reason, I can't send you a message.
His e-mail is apoil@aol.com.
He's an amazing man and could be a great resource.
It just depends if he has time to discuss the university with you.
He also has a blog: http://artpearlagainsttheworld.blogspot.com/
Just mention my name.
Hope this helps,
Miriam
Scott:
Thanks! I posted this to his blog just now: http://artpearlagainsttheworld.blogspot.com/2009/10/democratic-education-or-rescuing-public.html
Hi Art,
Thanks for an interesting posting. Marianne Marquez suggested I contact you about a project I'm developing - World University and School, like Wikipedia with MIT Open Course Ware - http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Courses. It's democratic, because it's wiki (editable web pages). Let's talk further about it. Please add teaching and learning content, as well. People can teach to their web cameras, as well as add links. It's potentially in all languages, nation states, subjects and languages. Please spread the word....
To open, free, democratic education,
Scott
http://scottmacleod.com
http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/World_University
********
'Open Source Hardware References' section, and "Make's Open source
hardware 2009" link to worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Hardware_Resource_Possibilities Hardware Resources -
also here: worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Hardware_Resource_Possibilities#Open_Source_Hardware_References
*********
Might we be able to attend any talk at any time in any university through World University & School? Let's make it so. Speakers often talk with web cameras ...
Let's extend invitations ...
**********
Scott: MIT Open Course Ware and youtube.com/edu are abundant with learning possibilities - worlduniversity.wikia.com - curious about courses about India
Miriam: Maybe a way to incorporate UCLA's US stream?
Scott: They're here at youtube.com: worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Courses#Course_listings.27_aggregates - search on UCLA - and here, too: youtube.com/education?b=400 or you add them as a separate 'channel.' Thanks!
************
People are making a lot of beautiful art at the Sawtooth Building/8th St. Studios in Berkeley. It's a makers' space.
*************
woke up - flax - relaxation response - grateful dead 1969 fillmore west from berkeley public library - canyon home dancing - blissing
**************
Let's make World University & School { worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/World_University } very useful, like this - "So how on Earth does Craig's List maintain its ridiculous
popularity and growth? Very simply, because it works. It lets users
initiate and advance a transaction with an absolute minimum of time,
expense, hassle, rules, or oversight. And many times, this is exactly
what we want."
(blogs.harvardbusiness.org/hbr/mcafee/2009/12/craigslist-in-praise-of-primitive.html)
*
Scott: would like the Stanford iPhone Orchestra to be World Univ & Sch's orchestra. Invitation to teach & learn iPhone at WUAS music school
Ned: How about Princeton's laptop orchestra?
Scott: Added 5 computer orchestras, including Princeton's and 2 at Stanford: worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Computer_Music ... Also added 'iPhone as musical instrument' to the Musical Instruments' Teaching and Learning page: worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/IPhone_as_musical_instrument
(http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2009/12/malachite-kingfisher-richest-current.html - December 12, 2009)
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