Island from Space: Talking About World University & School, Recent Postings in Social Networking Sites for WUaS and Webnographers

I've been talking about World University & School with folks here in Berkeley, California.


*

Here are some highlights from my recent postings in some social networking sites, - often first to http://twitter.com (140 character limit), which is then forwarded to http://facebook.com:


Some examples of World University & School -

Music: worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Music (lots of music teachers here, and with web cameras and this will grow) &

Economics: worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Economics & interactivity in virtual worlds like Second Life - Invitation to Teach, Learn and Add ...


Added Harvard Univ's "Yochai Benkler: After Selfishness - Wikipedia 1, Hobbes 0 at Half Time" to
worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Economics wiki


first significant day of rain in the SF Bay Area - feels like Reed College (in Portland, Oregon) ... consensus decision making to inform worlduniversity.wikia.com


About World Univ & School - worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/World_University - Teach and Learn via video (e.g. Youtube) and interactively in virtual worlds
(e.g. Second Life), & via rich, real time, multilingual and other
integration with Google Wave's platform, - with great universities & for OLPC countries & everyone http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/World_University


What's protocol in Bohemia? Internet protocol - let's teach this at worlduniversity.wikia.com ...


free Doctor of Education Degree at Harvard (for 25) in Fall 2010 - worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Courses & WUaS is student teaching opportunity


added 'Haptics" with MIT Touch Lab bibliography as a new subject at worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Subjects - where you can add subjects also


Looking for native speakers to befriend in Facebook in all 3000-8000 languages. Let friends know: worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Languages


Musicians: Check out Audacity & Lame for recording music, and MuseScore for composition at http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Educational_Software FREE Education Software


Back to the Harbin pools ... (is Harbin an ongoing Rainbow Gathering?) Could people teach "Harbin Hot Springs" at worlduniversity.wikia.com?


How to teach and learn about this 'extraordinaire instrument de musique' - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ozSHXkCLM8U - at World University & School ... Post a course: worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Courses
, - Add a subject: worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Subjects
What is this instrument, by the way? :)


Page of abundant fruits at World Univ & Sch educational FREEware: worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/educational_software - invitation to add


free Doctor of Education Degree at Harvard (for 25) in Fall 2010 - worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Courses
& WUaS is student teaching opportunity


started to define World Univ & Sch's 'Nation States' by adding online textbooks (Calif) to U.S. worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Nation_States

Added Python and 'programming languages' section to EDUCATIONAL FREEWARE at worlduniversity.wikia.com

& California digital flex textbooks to LIBRARY RESOURCES


posted Academic Jobs Wiki to World Univ & Sch - worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Library_Resources#Academic_Jobs_Wikis


added Scots' Gaelic BBC lessons to World Univ 'Languages' and Malawi videos to 'Nation States' - worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Languages


TURN ON your computer, TUNE INto the URL (web page) you want, DROP OUT anytime to worlduniversity.wikia.com to create your own ideas


Students of the World, please create worlduniversity.wikia.com in the ways you want & would like education to be, - a link and an idea at a ... time


added Harvard Page Delivery Service to worlduniversity.wikia.com - Ex. pds.lib.harvard.edu/pds/view/14115881?n=1&imagesize=1200&jp2Res=0.125 - Nicholas Statham's 1490 "Abridgement of cases to the end of Henry VI"


Added 'Discover Second Life' to http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Library_Resources#Second_Life_Teaching_and_Learning_Resources for cool links


wonders whether Berkeley and other students from great universities may extraordinarily create http://worlduniversity.wikia.com a wiki w MIT


wonders whether a great universities' student movement will shape worlduniversit.wikia.com creatively thru their own teaching at WUaS


Just added a new Music Education section w practice tools and tutorials to World Univ & Sch worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Music_Education


Here's a free, online 'iPhone Application Programming' course (from Stanford - 18 weeks), which I've posted to worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Courses. There's also a free Harvard Doctor of Education (for 25 people admitted for fall 2010) here, too.

World University & School's new Mission Statement: worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/World_University_Foundation


: free Doctor of Education Degree at Harvard (for 25) in Fall 2010 - worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Courses

& added SL assessment roundtable



will add compilers and scaling FREEWARE to worlduniversity.wikia.com's educational software soon


just added webcast.berkeley.edu to worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Courses#University_course_listings, -an open, wiki Univ & Sch, all languages


How might World Univ facilitate kinds of chamber music betwn people besides in the music school? worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Music Bliss?


World Univ & Sch Planning Wiki on the way - stay tuned here: worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/World_University - open like Wikipedia w MIT OCW


there's a growing list of educational FREEWARE here at World Univ worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Educational_Software to which we can add




Languages around the world, as they get the web, will benefit from an open teaching & learning worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Courses wiki

Papua New Guinea has around 670 languages, and the Democratic Republic of Congo has around 240. :) We need video capable hand held computers.

Friend who studies Welsh: I've commented on similar things b4; this would be of huge benefit. 150 or so indigenous langs. are still spoken in the U.S., though most are highly endangered if not moribund. California is blessed (or "cursed", depending on how you look at it) w/ many many langs that are individually distinct, not even related by family, yet have so very few (mostly elder) speakers. For obvious reasons "master-apprentice" teaching is the order of the day there, vs. full scale immersion schools, & yet it seems what you suggest could be immensely helpful w/ seemingly little "investment" needed. I think also of start-from-scratch "revival" efforts w/ langs. that were considered "dead" for decades or even centuries; e.g., Wampanoag in Mass. What a blessing to be able to "legitimize" these and other langs. in as visible and accessible a medium as the web.



Me: Yes, yes, yes ... another focus I'll add to the developing WUaS planning wiki, the url I'll let you know about ... Thanks ... :)




and how might we who have never been modern (Latour) cultivate the neurophysiology of loving bliss naturally, as moderns, when and as we want it?

And how might anyone teach something like this at World University & School ~ worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Loving_Bliss_%28eliciting_this_neurophysiology%29?


added UC Berkeley's AnthroHub to World Univ & Sch's library resources: worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Library_Resources - a Wiki w MIT OCW



Added the open National Science Digital Library & Applied Math & Science Education Repos - worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Library_Resources +



Why isn't open World Univ & Sch (worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Courses) yet taking off the way Wikipedia (70 langs & 13 million arts) has?


Friend: The links often end up being more sensational then the content?

Me: What are you looking for? There's a lot of great content on the web already. For example, check out MIT OCW and youtube.com/edu for academic subjects, and instructables for how-to. Finding people who want to aggregate it is one interesting possibility at WUaS. But so is creating it - how to connect with large numbers of students from great universities who teach to their handhelds (not yet possible) as they're walking between classes? I've added a lot of similar links (written entries and edited, as well) to Wikipedia. ... Finding great content out there, or teaching to one's web cam, is like an egg or treasure hunt, or creative opportunity. Further thoughts, Rob? :)

Friend: seems like I don't need to go to world university to get to the MIT content. Wikipedia is a destination, not a clearinghouse

Me: I hope people will teach to their web cams at WUaS, like people add entries to Wikipedia. I hope that will lead to a fascinating unique learning opportunity. It will hopefully aggregate much of the great teaching and learning content on the internet, and then borrowing and articulating may occur, making already great material greater. Wikipedia is a remarkable example of group knowledge production, which I hope WUaS will become, as well.




Why not free world Degrees at http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Courses? Here's a Free Harvard Doctor of Education http://tinyurl.com/mkzl7n (for the 25 in program), also posted above at WUaS. Check out the huge amount of courses already the...re, including other sites that aggregate teaching and learning material.



Here's World University & School - http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/World_University ... and an invitation to join the WUaS Google Group: groups.google.com/group/World-University-and-School & the Facebook group: http://www.facebook.com/home.php#/group.php?gid=48753608141&ref=ts. World Univ & Sch - like Wikipedia with MIT OCW - is potentially in all languages, nation states, subjects and levels, for everyone. Scott :)



Here's a free 18 week "iPhone Application Programming" course I've posted to the open World University & School - like Wikipedia with MIT OCW - from Stanford http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Courses. Does anyone know of any online courses that show you how to write a FB app?




Join the World University & School Facebook Group - facebook.com/group.php?gid=48753608141 - I just messaged the group with A LOT of AMAZING free Teaching and Learning content, - e.g. free Harvard Doctor's degree, free MUSIC SCHOOL instruction, FREE iPhone Application Programming course from Stanford :)




Benjamin Zander inspirationally instructs a 15 year old cellist playing Bach - poptech.org/popcasts/popcasts.aspx?lang=&viewcastid=211

Added new CELLO section to World Univ & Sch with the above instruction - worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Cello - THE ART OF THE POSSIBLE :)



there's great educational FREEWARE here at World Univ & Sch worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Educational_Software a wiki to which we can add

And these resources at World Univ & Sch will grow in unexpected ways, since it's a wiki and all of us can add to it. Wikipedia, for example, has 13 million articles in 70 (175 I've since read) languages :)



added free Stanford "Computer Musings by Professor Donald E. Knuth - over 100 video lectures to worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Courses Wiki



is excited to explore Google Wave's implications for http://worlduniversity.wikia.com for wiki, multilingual conversations educationally, +



is excited to combine Google Wave w translators for http://worlduniversity.wikia.com for multilingual conversations educationally



How to bring together the best of the info revolution has generated for an open http://worlduniversity.wikia.com e.g. See educational software



will use the VERY COOL Google Wave with World Univ: worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Educational_Software#Personal_Communication_and_Collaboration_Tool



Added free Gimp to photo editing software at World Univ & Sch's Educational FREEWARE: worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Educational_Software


worlduniversity.wikia.com welcomes you to the planning group by joining groups.google.com/group/World-University-and-School a wiki w MIT OCW




Why not free Degrees worldwide at http://worlduniversity.wikia.com?

Let's create a worldwide, open, free university and school on the internet. It's often costs which inhibit access to high quality education.

For example, here's a free Harvard Doctor of Education degree - tinyurl.com/mkzl7n (for the 25 people admitted to theprogram).




Why not free world Degrees at worlduniversity.wikia.com? Free Harvard Doctor of Education http://tinyurl.com/mkzl7n (for the 25 in program)



added the Library of Congress to the free, "Edit this page," open http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Library_Resources -like Wikipedia with MIT OCW/ There are a lot of resources on this wiki ... Teach, Learn, Add and interactivity in virtual worlds.



The weather is great, here, Tori. And I'm making some progress on World University & School (like Wikipedia with MIT OCW), but not yet in growing a community of Universitians, - like Wikipedians. You're nice to ask ... How is your locale, university, motherhood? And happy birthday :)



added 'Nature Precedings,' and 'PubMedCentral' to worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Library_Resources and SmashWords and GapMinder to FREEWARE



added FreeBase, Mendeley to new Collaborative Knowledge Bases section & other Libraries to worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Library_Resources



added Vid Hosts 'SciVee,' 'Viddler,' & 'BioScreenCast' -worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Educational_Software#Video-Streaming_Hosting_Services



Here's a good place to begin seeing some learning opportunities at World Univ & Sch - scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2009/09/bramble-patch-greetings-world.html . How to elicit bliss (this neurophysiology), naturally, is an interesting question I hope to explore and develop at WUaS, as well. :)

WUaS is developing. Feel free to teach, add content, or learn. There's a lot there already. I'd like to grow significantly Universitians, like Wikipedians. I hope a lot of people will "Edit the Page."



Seeking videos that teach abt "Beings Enjoying Life" - Teach a 4 minute video to your web cam, or a many hour series, post it to the web, and link it to World Univ& Sch at this "Subject" - worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Beings_Enjoying_Life Any and All other creative approaches to teaching and learning this via the Web are welcome too :) (There's a budding music school at World Univ & Sch as well - worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Music - as some possible examples:). How to teach how Beings can Enjoy Life vis-a-vis a musical instrument?




added 'Index Investing' as Subject to World Univ & Sch wiki - worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Subjects & Jack Bogle interview w Steve Forbes


And here's the rationale for socially conscious index investing, vis-a-vis index investing - scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2008/12/american-dipper-nontheist-friends.html

And here's the interview with Vanguard Mutual Funds' founder - forbes.com/2009/01/09/intelligentinvestingbogle.html


Added free Doctor of Education program from Harvard University beginning in 2010 to World Univ & Sch - worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Courses#Free_Degree_Programs



A friend just told me about BrightTalk which allows people (Teachers) to record up to 30 minutes of video (for academic talks, for example), as well as ustream, another video site. I added them to World Univ & Sch's FREE educational software... - worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Educational_Software#Video-Streaming_Hosting_Services - an editable wiki where you can teach, learn and add content

Both video streaming sites are free



added new 'Open Access Funding' Subject at World Univ & Sch worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Open_Access_Funding - Teach, Learn, Add courses



Re-visit the rationale (part way down) for index investing with Jack Bogle, founder of
Vanguard Mutual Funds in an interview with Steve Forbes -
http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2008/12/american-dipper-nontheist-friends.html




World Univ & Sch's mission: worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/World_University_Foundation Teach, Learn, Add. A wiki w great Univ for OLPCcountr

http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/World_University_Foundation

Mission: World University & School's (http://worlduniversity.wikia.com - like Wikipedia with MIT Open Course Ware) - mission is to facilitate all levels of teaching and learning opportunities (and potentially degrees, eventually) through an open, editable wiki in all languages, nation-states and subjects with great universities, and for One Laptop per Child countries and everyone.


Harvard, MIT, Berkeley, Cornell & Dartmouth announced plan for open-access pubs-see DASH: worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Library_Resources.

openaccessweek.org/2009/09/14/five-top-us-academic-institutions-announce-compact-for-oa-publication/



seeking alternative to Robert's Rules of Orders for incorporating World Univ http://worlduniversity.wikia.com Consensus Decision Making URLs?

Friend: Greens often have a "Quaker lite" kind of process where the spiritual/theological element is absent but consensus is still striven for. You check for concerns, and if there are any, ask if any rise to a "blocking concern" that the "concerned one" feels is sufficient to "stand in the way" of passage. If so, then you fall back on a vote w/ a 2/3 threshold.

You always hope, of course, that in the preceding discussion period concerns will be ironed out in how the resolution ends up being worded/tweaked to begin with, so that everyone can already agree with the resolution once finalized and "presented". But often easier said than done, of course... :^D

If you have to make specific (election-type) choices among things, you may want to look at instant runoff voting (IRV) and/or single transferable vote (STV), essentially both the same thing for different contexts. I'm warming up, however, to "approval voting" and (not quite as much) "range voting"; let me know if u want more info.

Friend: consensus.net/

Me: Thanks for your above suggestions. I'm looking to insert a simple, alternative 'rules of order' to Roberts,' into the Nolo Press Guide on 'How to Incorporate a Nonprofit,' with their pragmatic and useful guidelines, for board members who may be somewhat unfamiliar with the consensus process as practice, and where I'd like to be able to reach well formulated decision with expediency. Other suggestions?

Friend: Drat! I thought you'd already compiled the list of URLs--and it just happens to be precisely something I need right now! Please post an update when you get some links; I will be eagerly waiting.





Added 'Dentistry' subject and Univ of Michigan's 609 Dentistry videos to World Univ & Sch's to worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Courses & Subj

World Univ & Sch is for OLPC countries ...

Looking for OLPC country Facebook friends ...




Here's a good place to begin seeing some learning opportunities at World Univ & Sch - http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2009/09/bramble-patch-greetings-world.html . How to elicit bliss (this neurophysiology), naturally, is an interesting que......stion I hope to explore and develop at WUaS, as well. Check out the growing Music Learning opportunities :)




added new Banjo section & Banjo Workshop by Bill Keith to World Univ & School Wiki worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Banjo Teach Banjo here :)



World University & School ~ http://worlduniversity.wikia.com ~ is an editable wiki which has open 'Courses,' 'Subjects,' 'Languages,' (potentially all), 'Library Resources,' 'Nation States,' 'Social Network,' 'Educational FREEWARE,' 'Hardware Resource Possibilities' + more, - like Wikipedia with MIT Open Course Ware ... Add to it, Teach here or Learn at WUaS ... interactivity in virtual worlds



added 'Natural History References' section to World Univ's editable Wiki worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Library_Resources#Natural_History_References and beautiful photos of insects and spiders


(through around September 2, 2009)



**

And http://webnographers.org, where I'm presently a key editor and aggregator, I've added these:


To webnographers.org' syllabi, I listed MIT's 24 undergraduate and 23 graduate course syllabi, and related materials in Science, Tech & Soc


added danah boyd's "Research on Twitter and Microblogging" to Wiki on virt ethnog. - webnographers.org/index.php?title=Papers#Bibliographies


Added 'Opening Up Education: The Collective Advancement of Education. through Open Technology, Open Content, and Open Knowledge.' (MIT) to webnographers.org


added MIT's list of "Comparative Media Studies" Theses (67 & growing) cms.mit.edu/research/theses.php to http://bit.ly/Oa5Cy


Added Harvard Berkman Center for Internet and Center DIALOGUE by Spence, Randy and Matthew Smith. 2009. A Dialogue on ICTs, Human Development, Growth, and Poverty Reduction - to http://www.webnographers.org/index.php?title=Papers#Dialogues



added "Media Worlds: Anthropology on New Terrain" to virtual ethnog wiki webnographers.org/index.php?title=Books, accessible at Google Books





***


is glad the Toyota Prius 2010 has solar technologies - REDUCE CARBON OUTPUT PERSONALLY - Google Art Haines' Solar Car Infinity Miles per Gallon - youtube.com/watch?v=M0JNohHaqM4



****

wonders whether practicing a musical instrument is like sharing a kind of meditation, not quietly on the Scottish Highland Bagpipe

Friend: Och aye, laddy!

Me: via a kind of computer code, as well :)



*****

very funny, very funny :) youtube.com/watch?v=zKH3iemEd-A - A Space Odyessy

Check out this extraordinary clip: http://bit.ly/kunR3 by sand animation artist Kseniya Simonova




(http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2009/10/island-from-space-talking-about-world.html - October 14, 2009)