Silkworm: To Friends, World University & School, Teaching, Virtual Harbin Machinima

To friends in a linguistic's class at the end of the semester at Berkeley,

Greetings. I'm sad to say farewell to all of you, and thanks very much, Guillaume, for a fascinating and far-reaching course! I'm attaching a slightly blurry class photo. Please email around the other photos.

As an aside about a project I'm working on, people continue to update
many of the pages at World University & School -
worlduniversity.wikia.com. As an open and free multilingual university and school - like Wikipedia with MIT Open Course Ware - there are a lot of possibilities here.

If you know another language, you might add online teaching and learning content in that language to WUaS, and begin, at this stage in many ways, your own university and school in that language, - very gradually at first, by just posting links, perhaps. Languages with very small numbers of speakers may greatly appreciate finding online content when they begin to come online, and are able to post to a teaching and learning wiki school with video-capable, web-oriented, handheld phone computers.

If you want to explore teaching a class (45 hours ?), as in a university course, (and/or just something 10 minutes long as you're walking down the street), as graduate students, teach to your web cam, and post this to the WUaS wiki. It can be great experience, and doing so is very open-ended offering a lot of creative potential. (Linguistics, boat building or how to use gps are all potential subjects, for example). Or video a class which you're already teaching, and post this to youtube and then to this WUaS wiki. Interactivity, conversation, and idea exchange can occur in Second Life, for example.

You might find this free, education software at WUaS helpful - worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Educational_Software. It's the best, free software I've found. Please post more, and to other pages.

I see World University and School as a generating a conversation which may go in many, multiple directions, especially as people start adding links to it. Here's a World University and School Facebook page to stay in touch through concerning WUaS - facebook.com/group.php?gid=48753608141. Please join it!

Looking forward to staying in touch with you. Please forward this photo and email list to anyone in the class not on the list.

Here's a 14 minute machinima I just made about my virtual Harbin Hot Springs ethnographic project - scottmacleod.com/papers.htm. It could be a great linguistic field site, because both voice and type chat are recordable and possible. Let me know if you'd like to explore this
possibility.

Thanks again, Guillaume!

Best,
Scott

scottmacleod.com
scott-macleod.blogspot.com
worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/World_University

Silk worms bhimbros.com/images/silk_worm2.jpg and leaves ...


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another way to access this "The Making of Virtual Harbin" machinima (14 mins).












(http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2009/05/silkworm-to-friends-world-university.html - May 8, 2009)