Conachair: "Physical and Online St. Kilda: A Comparison of 'Senses of Place,'" Actual / virtual Harbin Hot Springs' ethnographic book chapters, 'History,' wiki, subject page at WUaS here with many, online, C.C. courses from MIT and Yale, While WUaS has begun a 'Scotland,' wiki, subject page (which doesn't yet have any courses), WUaS hasn't yet begun the Canada page, for example, both of which WUaS would like to become universities unto themselves, accessible from WUaS Nation States' wiki page

Hi, KJ,

Thanks for a very interesting talk and conversation around the table yesterday in Berkeley. I found your talk fascinating in terms of how you 'theorized' conceptualizing guest books.

Here's the St. Kilda web site's guest book - http://www.kilda.org.uk/frame10.htm - which is still going strongly nearly 10 years after I left the University of Edinburgh, having written this paper "Physical and Online St. Kilda: A Comparison of 'Senses of Place'" - which you'll find here ... http://scottmacleod.com/papers.htm ... and here ... http://worlduniversityandschool.academia.edu/ScottMacLeod/Papers - and having found informants for my virtual study from this National Trust for Scotland St. Kilda guest book. And here is some of the nascent multimedia - http://www.kilda.org.uk/frame7.htm - which I was examining as early 'virtual place.' I was asking in what ways could this, and other multimedia on this web site, be considered the beginnings of virtual place, or a 'sense of place' online, per what informants said in reply to surveys I emailed. I was also asking with these surveys in what ways people's 'senses of place' of actual and virtual St. Kilda were comparable. It's amazing what data possibilities (including email addresses) there are in an online guestbook.

I'm engaging similar questions in my actual / virtual Harbin Hot Springs' ethnographic book, some draft chapters of which are accessible here - http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/search/label/Harbin%20Book%20Section - with many other Harbin categories in my blog. I'm presently writing the 9th of 9 (draft) chapters.

You'll find the beginning of the 'History,' wiki, subject page at World University and School here - http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/History (accessible from here: http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Subjects ) - with many, online, C.C. courses from MIT and Yale, but which is open and editable. While World University and School has begun a 'Scotland' wiki subject page - http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Scotland (which doesn't yet have any courses) - WUaS hasn't yet begun the Canada page, for example, both of which WUaS like to become universities unto themselves, (but it has begun some other Nation States' pages - http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Nation_States - all of which WUaS hopes will become online, C.C. MIT-centric, accredited universities offering Creative Commons' licensed, MIT-centric degrees, to give you an idea of how WUaS works).

Let's stay in communication.

Best regards,
Scott

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Dear Scott,

It was great to meet you, too. Thanks so much for all of these links and details. I definitely look forward to keeping in touch and especially to hearing about how World University and School progresses.

Warm regards,

K

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