Friday, February 28, 2014

Mother bear with cubs: In taking an all languages' approach (7,105) to online, wiki schools, and a large languages' approach to MIT OCW-centric university degrees ... WUaS will probably have to plan for differences in cultural learning practices, comparatively, even as WUaS engages MIT OCW courses translated into many languages as our academic standard ... and later as we construct courses vis-a-vis learning in different countries ... United Nations' languages, as large languages, first, Receiving Applications at WUaS for this autumn 2014



In taking an all languages' approach (7,105) to online, wiki schools, and a large languages' approach to  MIT OCW-centric university degrees ... http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Languages.

WUaS plans to begin accrediting in United Nations' languages, as large languages, first.

You'll find MIT OCW translated courses, including Spanish here -


WUaS will probably have to plan for differences in cultural learning practices, comparatively, even as WUaS engages MIT OCW courses translated into many languages as our academic standard ... and later as we construct courses vis-a-vis learning, also, in different countries ... http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Nation_States


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In exchange for free (C.C), MIT OCW-centric, online degrees, WUaS is planning to study how students learn across languages. (See other entries in this blog about this).


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Receiving Applications at WUaS for this autumn 2014 - http://worlduniversityandschool.blogspot.com/2014/01/receiving-applications-at-wuas-for-this.html - Students will be taking 32 of these courses over 4 years in English -
http://ocw.mit.edu/courses/audio-video-courses/




















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Thursday, February 27, 2014

Rhesus macaque mother with baby: The initial development of wiki, Creative Commons' licensed, MIT OCW-centric World University and School with the Wikidata Toolkit, in Semantic MediaWiki, or related, and in Wikidata, as a 'concrete task use case,' and especially for structuring WUaS's upcoming wiki for SQL querying of data, - and multilingually (WUaS is planned for all 7,105 languages as wiki schools)?, A Hackathon opportunity here? In what ways



Hi M, L, F, J, and M (and DK?),

As I emailed yesterday, I'm writing to follow up on the following, M, vis-a-vis the Wikidata Toolkit -

"You are invited to contribute code/feature requests/use cases. If you have a concrete task that you would like to solve, please let us know, and we will see what we can do " -

vis-a-vis WUaS.


I'm writing to inquire if you could please help with the initial development of wiki, Creative Commons' licensed, MIT OCW-centric World University and School with the Wikidata Toolbox, in Semantic MediaWiki, or related, and in Wikidata, as a 'concrete task use case,' and especially for structuring WUaS's upcoming wiki for SQL querying of data, - and multilingually (WUaS is planned for all 7,105 languages as wiki schools, and with a planned universal translator - http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/WUaS_Universal_Translator) - over time?

At the bottom of this page - http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/ - you'll find links to the main pages, and planned, accredited, C.C., MIT OCW-centric, online, university degrees (and planned for large languages eventually) in the existing, current, 647, WUaS, wiki pages, thus far, as a kind of beginning template with which to build from with the Wikidata Toolbox.

And here are "Three, main, I.T. foci at World University & School, Music School, Universal Translator, Virtual Harbin Hot Springs/Earth as 'classroom'," with WUaS's 9, main, wiki, area pages - http://worlduniversityandschool.blogspot.com/2012/02/three-main-it-foci-at-world-university.html - in the WUaS blog.

And, lastly, here's one example, by Kingsley Idehen, of engaging Semantic Wiki in terms of 'Semantic Web & Identity' vis-a-vis WUaS's main, 'You at WUaS' page -
http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2014/02/wild-cosmos-im-excited-for-potential-of.html - from my personal blog.

The Wikidata Toolbox is great, and hoping here for a positive reply. Thank you!

best,
Scott


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Hi Universitians,

As a FYI: After emailing with Gantt yesterday about my email to Markus and Wikidata and SemanticWiki, Gantt asked about the concrete task I had asked them to do per their invitation, as well as WUaS's all-languages' plans, goals and approaches vs. focusing on English. Here's what I wrote:


"Perhaps I should have made this explicit, but I think the setup aspect of WUaS with Wiki Toolkit in Wikidata / SMW is also quite concrete (and invaluable), and Wikidata has been designed for Wikipedia's 287 languages, so languages should be central concretely from the beginning ... Markus and Daniel K are 2 of the 3 core developers of Wikidata, - and SemanticWiki is Markus's baby, and very pioneering looking ahead vis a vis WUAS as a use case."

"WUaS's all-languages' plan is potentially a tremendous 'growth story' for Wikidata, SemanticWiki, WUaS itself, (c)and(y) even to the world, but we're basically only in English so far, (if and until we're able to collaborate with Wikipedia's 287 languages and Wiki commons, etc. :)"

Hoping for a positive reply.

best,
Scott



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Wednesday, February 26, 2014

Red elderberry: Alpha Farm, (Quaker Process) and Intentional Communities (and hippie communes :)


Hi Donald,

Some recent info about Alpha Farm, including a Youtube video :) ...

Alpha Garden -

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PxCDDQxu_VM

It looks like Mary Lou Goertzen (born 1929) lives near Alpha and still hosts Quaker Meeting on 5th Sundays in the Deadwood Valley - http://members.pioneer.net/~alpha/index.htm - and Caroline Estes (http://alphainstitute.org/presenters.html), is one of Alpha's visionaries who still does workshops on consensus (Quaker-informed, and nontheistically Friendly, in a sense, too), I think.

Alpha Farm, Deadwood
http://autonomecollective.org/ollie/community/alpha-farm-deadwood/

Deadwood, Oregon -
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deadwood,_Oregon


Did you ever visit Olompali Park in the early '70s after the Grateful Dead, as well as "The Chose, Family" were there? ...
http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2014/02/smoketree-flowers-hippie-communes.html  ... the 60s and early 70s are a fascinating time ... :)

Scott


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1960s, wiki, subject page at world university and school, with links -

http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/1960s#World_University_and_School_Links
















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Tuesday, February 25, 2014

American Bison: UC Berkeley talk "The Representation of Native America in German Museums" Critics of museums as constructors and planners of their future are an interesting potential / possibilities - and now, complementarily, in virtual worlds. Possibilities with virtual world museums lie in our ability to envision and create them anew, and all even build them together with relatively low barriers to access and relatively easily.



Hi Andre,

Thanks for a very engaging Tourism Studies' Working Group talk yesterday at UC Berkeley (http://www.tourismstudies.org/news_archive/Zittlau2013.htm), and it was very nice to meet you and share a meal afterward with everyone together.

I'm curious to explore a conversation in email with you about where museums on the internet in Germany are / might be heading vis-a-vis "THE REPRESENTATION OF NATIVE AMERICA IN GERMAN MUSEUMS" and vis-a-vis concepts of hauntology and especially the virtual, over time, - and perhaps as a response to some of the 'tensions' / conversations in your talk.

Here's MIT OCW-centric World University and School's beginning 'Museums,' wiki, Subject page - http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Museums - for aggregating museums with free, open, online content, and planned for many, many languages +. World University and School is like Wikipedia (now in 287 languages) with MIT OCW (in at least 8 languages - http://ocw.mit.edu/index.htm and http://ocw.mit.edu/courses/translated-courses/), with plans for Creative Commons' licensed degrees, beginning with our first matriculating, online, undergraduate class this autumn 2014, in English, taking these courses - http://ocw.mit.edu/courses/audio-video-courses/ - with MIT faculty and meeting in Google + group video Hangouts. Free and MIT (in the U.S. and around the world) will be very attractive to some -
http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Admissions_at_World_University_and_School#World_University_and_School_Links.

Concerning the theorizing of the 'virtual,' do you know the book "Multimedia: From Wagner to Virtual Reality" (http://books.google.com/books/about/Multimedia.html?id=LKEECCdHLqQC), with its many 'avant garde' examples of creating 'the virtual' over the past century? It might be interesting for us to consider this book together and vis-a-vis Derrida's conception of the virtual.

In terms of contributing to your studies of America, it might be fun to exchange ideas about the 1960s and 70s, and vis-a-vis academia, as well.

What questions interest you vis-a-vis what we talked about yesterday?

Thank you again for your fascinating talk.

best regards,
Scott


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Hi Andre,

I enjoyed the picture of the avatar in the painting on your web page link -  http://www.gk-kulturkontakt.uni-rostock.de/. Such avatars and their interactions may become very interactive, and newly communicative, in virtual worlds in fascinating ways - and even with academic critics, conversants and thinkers, in them - both with individuals 'behind' the avatar (as in OpenSim and Second Life), as well as digital bots, eventually - and, visually rich, with kinds of film realism ... and as / in digital and virtual world museums online (?)  I'm thinking primarily in terms of the interactive and free 'Open Simulator' and 'Second Life' virtual world programs, which are still a little cartoon-esque, but suggestive of what's to come in terms of interactive virtual worlds, - and also stimulating for people's imaginations. Have you checked out such virtual worlds, and in terms of museums? They're all still in their infancy, but they will develop a lot, and quickly, in the years ahead, - complementing on-the-ground museums, I think. One could create the painting on your web page, for example, and then make each of its figures come 'alive,' digitally, - with you and I controlling their movements and interactions, for example, from our different locations. (Here are some SL museums - http://secondlife.wikia.com/wiki/List_of_museums_and_galleries_in_Second_Life).

Here's a friend of mine, living on the California coast, who produces many Machinima (virtual world movies) which can give you an idea of virtual worlds, such as Second Life (http://www.youtube.com/user/draxtordespres). And here's one good example -

"Michelangelo, Ceiling of the Sistine Chapel, 1508-12" ...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gqrgWXAS9O8 -

and - 'Second Louvre Museum'  (but without avatar interactivity) ... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IX8HskHNSIc.

Are builds in virtual worlds such as these already kinds of museums, and which may already have their own critics in them, who are academic too? I would think so.

Packer and Jordan's "Multimedia: From Wagner to Virtual Reality" (2000), which I mentioned in my last email, identify this aspects of Multimedia as unique and new, theoretically - INTEGRATION, INTERACTIVITY, HYPERMEDIA, IMMERSION AND NARRATIVITY - and I think they still characterize well what may inform museums online, for example, and differentiate them from on the-ground museums, critically, and virtually.

The WUaS 'Museums' page may eventually connect all these works of art in different museums, and in different languages, in one big, 3D, interactive, somewhat realistic, virtual world.

(As a contribution to your study of Americanistics, and vis-a-vis the 1960s and 1970s, here's are some aspects of the 1960s and America, I find fascinating (and which is the also time that Harbin Hot Springs, my anthropological field site, kind of emerges from 'culturally' - or 'counter-culturally' in my ethnographic book) - http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2014/02/smoketree-flowers-hippie-communes.html. Glance at the blog entries before and after, as well as the blog's labels, this one for some further thoughts about World University and School - perhaps also as an aspect / expression for the study of Americanistics (?).

Nice to get your email and glad we are writing together about some of these questions. I'll explore writing in German at another time, but here are some further words for bliss I found ... die Glückseligkeit - bliss, felicity, rapture; die Seligkeit - bliss, salvation, happiness; das Glück - happiness, luck, fortune, bliss, chance, good luck; die Wonne - bliss, delight, joy, ... per our dinner conversation, and another focus of inquiry for me. :)

Critics of museums as constructors and planners of their future are an interesting potential / possibilities - and now, complementarily, in virtual worlds. Possibilities with virtual world museums lie in our ability
to envision and create them anew, and all even build them together with relatively low barriers to access and relatively easily.

Scott


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Hi Andre,

Thanks for your email. Per your definition of the function of museums, I'm curious to contextualize questions of understanding museums 'academically,' and now vis-a-vis the internet, within readings of Modernity, Postmodernity, Advertising Discourse and now the Internet, as kind of 'conditions' for interpreting them. I explored some of these themes in a student paper I wrote in Nelson Graburn's course "Tourism, Art and Modernity" in 2001, "Gazing at the Box: Tourism in the Context of the Internet and Globalization (Internetity)," which you'll find here - http://scottmacleod.com/anth250v.htm - and here - http://scottmacleod.com/papers.htm - and here - https://www.academia.edu/6205263/Gazing_at_the_Box_Tourism_in_the_Context_of_the_Internet_and_Globalization_Internetity_. I see your 'definition of museums' functions' questions as emerging in some ways of a discourse about "Modernity," and wonder if analytical approaches from postmodern, understanding advertising's significance, and internet-informed perspectives (in the context of seeking to understand tourism, theoretically, in a way) might yield different questions and ideas about museums. I address some approaches to thinking about museums themselves, vis-a-vis tourism, explicitly in this paper. And while art is one key aspect of what is represented in museums, I also think understanding the significance of representation itself, in terms of museums, sheds new light on the physical or on-the-ground aspect of museums, vis-a-vis online museums, even as they become more realistic and 'authentic' as well as on the art/fiction--nonfiction dichotomy implicit in your thinking about the 'virtual'.

Vielen Dank für Ihre E-Mail. Per Ihre Definition der Funktion von Museen, ich bin neugierig auf die Fragen zu verstehen, Museen kontextualisieren 'akademisch', und jetzt vis-a-vis dem Internet, Lesungen innerhalb der Moderne, Postmoderne, Werbung Diskurs und jetzt das Internet, als eine Art "Bedingungen" für die Interpretation von ihnen. Ich erforschte einige dieser Themen in einem Studenten Papier, das ich in Nelson Graburn-Kurs "Tourismus, Kunst und Moderne", schrieb im Jahr 2001, die Sie hier finden "Gazing at the Box: Tourism in the Context of the Internet and Globalization (Internetity)", - http://scottmacleod.com/anth250v.htm - und hier - http:/ / scottmacleod.com / papers.htm and here - https://www.academia.edu/6205263/Gazing_at_the_Box_Tourism_in_the_Context_of_the_Internet_and_Globalization_Internetity_. Ich sehe deine 'Definition der Museen'-Fragen-Funktionen als Schwellen in gewisser Weise von einem Diskurs über "Moderne", und frage mich, ob analytische Ansätze von postmodern, Bedeutung Verständnis Werbung, und Internet informiert Perspektiven (im Rahmen der Suche nach den Tourismus zu verstehen, theoretisch, in einer Weise) können unterschiedlich Fragen und Ideen über Museen ergeben. Ich wende mich an einige Ansätze zum Nachdenken über sich selbst Museen, vis -a-vis Tourismus, ausdrücklich in diesem Dokument. Und während die Kunst ist ein wichtiger Aspekt dessen, was in Museen vertreten, ich denke auch, das Verständnis der Bedeutung der Darstellung selbst, in Bezug auf die Museen, wirft ein neues Licht auf die physische oder on- the-ground Aspekt der Museen, vis- a-vis Online-Museen, selbst als sie realistischer geworden und "authentischen" sowie auf der Kunst / fiction - Sachbücher Dichotomie implizit in Ihrem Denken über die "virtuelle".

Nice to be in communication with you.

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Monday, February 24, 2014

Gibbons: To become the "Harvard/MIT of the Internet," World University and School plans eventually to attract an online, matriculated, student body of best students and high achievers for free and MIT-centric courses - and in large languages, to begin; And, similarly, a faculty of top students / problem solvers



To become the "Harvard/MIT of the Internet," World University and School plans eventually to attract an online, matriculated, student body of best students and high achievers (i.e. students at the top of their class), and innovative students, - partly through a focus on the enjoyment of scholarship and thinking, as 'flow' (Csikszentmihalyi 1990) - who might have applied to and got into MIT or Harvard or Stanford (and, in particular, for example, any of these universities in this wiki list - http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Courses#University_course_listings) - for free and MIT-centric courses - and in large languages, to begin; and, similarly, a faculty of top students / problem solvers. It's great to begin with MIT faculty in video - http://ocw.mit.edu/courses/audio-video-courses/. I'll share with you some other ways when we perhaps next meet in person.


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"Press Release in Interview-Format Article for World University and School - Artificial Intelligence Readers, MIT OCW-centricity, STEM-centricity, Accreditation"

http://worlduniversityandschool.blogspot.com/2014/02/press-release-in-interview-format.html

http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2014/02/papilionoidea-butterfly-superfamily.html









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Sunday, February 23, 2014

Papilionoidea - butterfly superfamily: Press Release in Interview-Format Article for World University and School - Artificial Intelligence Readers, MIT OCW-centricity, STEM-centricity, Accreditation


Press Release in Interview-Format Article for World University and School - Artificial Intelligence


AA: I understand World University and School (WUaS) has just opened and is accepting, undergraduate applications. What is exactly is WUaS and who's involved?

SM: The College at World University and School (http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/The_College_at_World_University_and_School) is a MIT OCW-centric, accrediting, free (since Creative Commons' licensed), undergraduate program. Our goal is to offer an online, MIT-centric, undergraduate education, first in English, then in large languages. I am the founder, president and developer, having taught 'Information Technology and Society' on Harvard's virtual island in Second Life for about 8 semesters - http://scottmacleod.com/.  WUaS has a board, it incorporated in California in 2010, and a wiki community of some editors. 

AA: So how does it work?

SM: Students will be taking 32 of these free, online, MIT-centric courses over 4 years: http://ocw.mit.edu/courses/audio-video-courses/. Courses will be in English, and other languages later (http://ocw.mit.edu/courses/translated-courses/). We will offer bachelor degrees initially, (and Ph.D. and other degrees later, including law, International Baccalaureate diplomas, and, eventually, as a long-range goal, M.D. degrees, - thus contributing to defining the field and practice of online medicine; telemedicine has a long history).

AA: Why MIT? What about other MOOCs, like Cousera?

SM: World University and School's MIT OCW-centricity offers not only a well-thought out, online, university curriculum of about 2,150 courses - now with about a 15 year history - but also the remarkable STEM-centricity of MIT (e.g. http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/STEM_Education_-_Science,_Technologies,_Engineering_and_Mathematics#World_University_and_School_Links) - for free. MIT OCW courses have already been translated into at least 8, non-English languages, with many more languages in the MIT OCW, and WUaS, pipelines. MIT OCW is also Creative Commons' licensed (as is WUaS and Wikipedia, - and WUaS, significantly, is also a wiki, planned for all 7,105 languages, each a wiki school) remarkably opening accessibility to people in all countries around the world, with an internet connection. (edX and Coursera, by way of comparison, don't appear to be planning to offer degrees, just certificates, are not C.C., and don't appear to be in other languages). 

Check out the MIT OCW courses, for example, on this 'Artificial Intelligence' wiki, Subject page at WUaS, as an example of an editable, subject page - http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Artificial_Intelligence

AA: So why shouldn't students just study on their own? What's the value-added?

SM: World University and School is planning to accredit, first to offer online, free (since C.C.), undergraduate and graduate degrees - and eventually in many languages - thus adding the value of degrees as a recognition of knowledge generated and learned, in a particular, academic discipline. (WUaS may organize online tutoring, for fees, in addition to fundraising from governments around the world for these MIT OCW-centric degrees). MIT-centricity also adds remarkable STEM-centric value compared with edX and Coursera, for example. WUaS also plans to hire graduate student instructors to teach to the MIT faculty in MIT OCW audio and video, - i.e. MIT and other graduate students from great universities - thus generating a STEM-centric, knowledge conversation, and creating good academic jobs, as well as expanding STEM-centric, academic and people networks in most languages. 

AA: Wait, so WUaS will be accredited? Seriously? How will that work?

SM: WUaS plans to accredit first with the state of California's Bureau of Private Postsecondary Education (BPPE), meeting its legal requirements, and then with WASC senior (Western Association of Schools and Colleges), which, for example, accredits Stanford and UC Berkeley and some universities internationally, and which also just accredited UC Hastings' law school at the Ph.D. level. Accreditation with WASC senior involves a three stage process, - with full accreditation at the undergraduate level, with WASC senior, occurring only after WUaS graduates its first undergraduate class, probably in 2018; WUaS has received the 'green light' from both organizations.

AA: So how do we sign up?

SM: The first, undergraduate class (no transfer students at this stage), in this 4 year, accrediting, bachelor's degree program, will matriculate in autumn 2014 (an historic, first class). Classes will initially meet in Google + group video Hangouts, and virtual worlds. We plan for the first classes to start in September. Prospective, first year students should apply to WUaS as if applying to MIT, - http://mitadmissions.org/apply/freshman/dates - and email their applications, with related, application materials, to worlduniversityandschool@gmail.com. For more information about applying to WUaS, see 'Admissions at World University and School' -





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Saturday, February 22, 2014

Smoketree flowers: Hippie Communes, Grateful Dead bassist Phil Lesh's autobiography "Searching for the Sound," Olompali State Park, Marin, California, "The Chosen Family" commune, Alpha Farm, another commune, in the Oregon coastal range, which continues to operate on Quaker-informed consensus process


Welcome home, Donald (you may still be underway :)...

How are/were your Oregon travels?

... enjoying Phil Lesh's "Searching for the Sound" book a lot in audio ... it would be inspiring me to read more highest quality writings in this genre (Cassidy, Jack London?,  etc.), from the '60s, - but what Grateful Dead book next?

... and to search for the sound in music-making myself

... as well as to incorporate aspects of his thinking into my Harbin ethnographic book :)

I may explore developing World University and School, as a Friendly service project, in the new emergent very little Quaker Meeting, under the care of SFFM.

... was able to prepare my talk for a UC Santa Cruz philosophy class recently on World University and School and race (glad to be talking in the UC system about WUaS) for Tuesday, February 18th, significantly ...

... heading to write and make music and bagpipe soon (yea for daily playing) ... wanting to make this social (in real, real time, eventually in a Google + Hangout?) and fun like the Grateful Dead seemed to make music-making ...:)

Hoping your travels are ongoingly illuminating.

:)
Scott


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Please get the Grateful Dead bassist Phil Lesh's autobiography "Searching for the Sound" autobiography in audio and digital text versions from your library.

Although the Grateful Dead shared a lot of their music out of the sphere of copyright, allowing recording in their concerts, for example, I haven't found Phil's book in an online digital public library yet.

Enjoy - it's an inspiring 'read' about a lot of musical creativity out of the fascinating '60s!).

Scott


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Hi Donald,

Stopped at Olompali State Park (http://www.roadsideamerica.com/story/38103 and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olompali_State_Historic_Park) yesterday off 101 north of Novato in Marin on the way back from up north and saw that the Grateful Dead (http://www.dead.net/tags/rancho-olompali) had hung out there (as well as the Coastal Miwok for 1000s of years), but what caught my eye on a park sign was that 'The Chosen Family' commune (http://sixties-l.blogspot.com/2009/09/rancho-olompali-and-chosen-family.html and http://scahome.org/publications/proceedings/Proceedings.25Fernandez.pdf and ) also found a home there from about '67-69 ... curious about Marin / SF Bay and communes in general in the '60s / '70s, and, especially, exploring their freedoms and parties in bodymind today even (virtually) :) ... Know of a history or good resources about this? Am listening for this in Phil's enjoyable GD autobiography :)

How was your trip up north?

Scott


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Hi Scott,

I don't know if there's a central reference for communes -- obviously google/amazon worth looking at...  I can think of Whole Earth Catalog and CoEvolution Quarterly, a book about Esalen from the 80s, one I was interested in was the Kerista Community in the Haight, Family Dog, Diggers, a friend who lived in a (famous?) commune in Komche (west of Ukiah). Endless, I think, but maybe someone's done the work.

Nice trip north, rain but enough clear hours to visit the beach and go for a short hike at Oswald West State Park (S. of Cannon Beach).

Leaving right after M on Sunday for a family do, but will say hi if I see you.

Donald


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Hi Donald,

Your trip to Oregon sounds fun, and thanks for the inspiring commune resources. I visited Alpha Farm (http://members.pioneer.net/~alpha/index.htm), another one, in the Oregon coastal range, a number of times in the first half of the '80s (and with S, whom I miss sometimes). It continues to operate on Quaker-informed consensus process, I think - and since around '71.

I'm going to celebrate my best friend's birthday party this morning in the Botanical Gardens here near Berkeley in the East Bay instead of coming to QMeetings in both Corte Madeira and then SF, as was my plan yesterday.

Friendly greetings,
Scott


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Some further 1960s' resources ...

O'Neill, William L. 1971. Coming apart: an informal history of America in the 1960s. Quadrangle Books.




1960s - 

http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/1960s#World_University_and_School_Links


Grateful Dead - 

http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Grateful_Dead#World_University_and_School_Links












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Friday, February 21, 2014

Western Amazonia: Open Educational Resources' Conversation in Google + group video Hangout earlier, mostly with high school teachers around the U.S. with an interest in digital learning, "The "Why do Open Educational Resources Matter?" Roundtable," Text transcript, Some main, WUaS links in the text chat

Here's an interesting Open Educational Resources' Conversation in Google + group video Hangout earlier, mostly with high school teachers around the U.S. with an interest in digital learning.

(See, too, WUaS's blog - http://worlduniversityandschool.blogspot.com/2014/02/open-educational-resources-conversation.html)

The "Why do Open Educational Resources Matter?" Roundtable"


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y586ZCBuB3I


The "Why do Open Educational Resources Matter?" Roundtable G+ page -
https://plus.google.com/u/0/events/cm5g19snt793lhoe7k4ehd6kjd0

Organizing document for this -
http://bit.ly/openroundtable


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Here's about World University and School from this Roundtable -

12:00 - 15:00 minutes ...

28:00 - 29:00

50:45 - 51:15



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The College at WUaS (with first matriculating, undergraduate class planned for this autumn 2014) - 

Admissions' page at WUaS - 



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Thanks for hosting this OER conversation.

You may have saved this already, but here below is the text chat.

Scott


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    Sorry I was slow getting in...Hangouts , I found are still blocked in my district in my school account.
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    so to speak :)
    yes, Jennifer

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    hmmm I no idea why?

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    Jennifer - just add some lens flare!

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    Diana Laufenberg
    11:40 AM
    on Wisconsin!

    Erik Hanson
    11:41 AM
    I am assuming that someone is talking?

    Jennifer Maddrell
    11:41 AM
    yes :(

    me
    11:41 AM
    Megan is

    Jennifer Maddrell
    11:41 AM
    I can hear her

    Bill Fitzgerald
    11:41 AM
    I have been a huge fan of Siyavula, for years. Love the community-based approach.

    me
    11:41 AM
    Moi aussi

    Bill Fitzgerald
    11:43 AM
    Megan - I'd also love to hear more about the mechanics of Siyavula's community events.

    me
    11:44 AM
    Here is an example of a Open Educational Resource I'm sharing - MIT OCW-centric 'The College at World University and School' ... http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/The_College_at_World_University_and_School#World_University_and_School_Links . WUaS is like Wikipedia with MIT OCW, with free, C.C., online, university degrees planned.
    Thank you

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    Diana Laufenberg
    11:46 AM
    Ben def. missed the 1960s
    He might have even missed the 70s too.

    me
    11:47 AM
    Welcome!

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    Jane Park
    11:48 AM
    Hello -- I am joining for Cable Green who can't make it

    me
    11:49 AM
    I just would add that WUaS would like to aggregate most of the OER resources everyone has mentioned, and in all languages.

    Ben Wilkoff
    11:49 AM
    Thank You, Jane.

    me
    11:52 AM
    Is Curriki (sp?) working on this?

    Diana Laufenberg
    11:52 AM
    I wish Curriki had a better interface.

    me
    11:53 AM
    :)
    Wikis, with references, can add quality to the collaborative, when they're engaged.

    Bill Fitzgerald
    11:54 AM
    I also dislike how Curriki blocks access to non-members. It makes the site close to unusable.

    me
    11:55 AM
    ... student wikis, especially ... can anyone think about of examples of this?
    Bill: I like the openness of wikis, in a complementary way

    Ben Wilkoff
    11:56 AM
    Would someone try and go to the event page and try to submit a question to the Q&A.

    me
    11:57 AM
    yes

    Bill Fitzgerald
    11:58 AM
    Ben - just asked question.

    Ben Wilkoff
    11:59 AM
    Thank you!

    Diana Laufenberg
    12:01 PM
    Todd-well said.

    Bill Fitzgerald
    12:01 PM
    What tensions do you see between the licensing terms of iBooks and openly licensed content?

    me
    12:01 PM
    Here's WUaS's beginning High School resources ... http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Courses#High_School_Course_Material_.28Free.29 ... which will be a basis, as we move, to a new wiki will allow many people to add resources.
    It's the main 'Courses' page at WUaS (only in English presently)
    Can't get into the Q&A tool in this browser ...

    Diana Laufenberg
    12:03 PM
    not a huge fan of TPT

    Jane Park
    12:03 PM
    CC follows the Hewlett Foundation's definition of OER: http://www.hewlett.org/programs/education/open-educational-resources

    Erik Hanson
    12:03 PM
    Heard TPT is used more than I would have imagined in the elementary world

    me
    12:04 PM
    Yes, in terms of Creative Commons' licensing - a useful sphere for defining free, in my view - and especially for the developing world ...

    Diana Laufenberg
    12:04 PM
    When I work for the public, what I create is in the public sphere. That is my general feeling.

    Ben Wilkoff
    12:04 PM
    Jane, does your mic work?

    Jane Park
    12:04 PM
    yes

    Megan Beckett
    12:04 PM
    Whatever we do/create with the community is open and free.

    me
    12:07 PM
    Engage C.C. on the one hand, and let OER, as a separate sphere, develop in its myriad ways. What do people think of this?

    Bill Fitzgerald
    12:10 PM
    The differences b/w NY State approach and the Utah approach show two different ways that this can work

    me
    12:10 PM
    On a country by country perspective, in terms of OER and CC, WUaS plans to create a university / school (in main languages there) as wiki ... here's the main Nation States' page at WUaS - http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Nation_States ... 242 countries are listed in Wikipedia, and WUaS is planning for these.

    Jane Park
    12:11 PM
    this is a great conversation -- i have to run for a prior commitment. thanks for letting me join!

    Ben Wilkoff
    12:11 PM
    Thank you for coming!

    Jane Park
    12:11 PM
    happy to answer followup questions -- janepark@creativecommons.org

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    me
    12:12 PM
    Here's the beginning, in English, 'Educational Resources' wiki page, as a source for tools - http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Educational_Software - and another one of nine main pages at WUaS, plannned for most of 7,105 languages.
    Thanks, Jane

    Diana Laufenberg
    12:13 PM
    glue.

    Bill Fitzgerald
    12:13 PM
    "adoption" doesn't need to start with authoring. It can start with collecting openly licensed materials that fills a gap.

    Megan Beckett
    12:13 PM
    The online editor which we are going with moving forward: http://oerpub.org/tools/

    Bill Fitzgerald
    12:14 PM
    Megan - I LOVE the Latex transclusion of that editor!

    me
    12:14 PM
    Thanks, Megan

    Megan Beckett
    12:14 PM
    It is awesome! Probably the best feature!

    Bill Fitzgerald
    12:15 PM
    Yeah - the modified Aloha editor is very nice.
    How do you find git as the backend?

    Megan Beckett
    12:16 PM
    It works really well. We have tried it out by pulling in several of our books which are on github.

    Bill Fitzgerald
    12:16 PM
    Yes - I have seen those :)

    me
    12:17 PM
    Is this it ... http://www.net-texts.com/ ?

    Andrew Marcinek
    12:18 PM
    Yes, Scott

    me
    12:18 PM
    thanks
    Here's the main "Library Resources," wiki Subject page at WUaS - http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Library_Resources - which will aggregate online, free, open, (OER) libraries, and in all languages.

    Bill Fitzgerald
    12:19 PM
    Friends don't let friends apply taxonomy prematurely!

    Diana Laufenberg
    12:20 PM
    ;-)

    me
    12:20 PM
    Semantic Wiki has potential here, Bill ... not sure what exactly you mean by taxonomy.

    Bill Fitzgerald
    12:21 PM
    Scott - I'm bullish on https://stanbol.apache.org/

    me
    12:22 PM
    thanks

    Diana Laufenberg
    12:23 PM
    that's a good wisconsiner
    interoperability. is huge.

    Jennifer Maddrell
    12:24 PM
    "we" always have to explain ourselves to others, don't we @diana and @erik

    Andrew Marcinek
    12:24 PM
    In case anyone visits Boston this summer. Dates will follow for 2014 dates http://massdigitalpublication.org/

    me
    12:24 PM
    Languages (7,105) ... where each becomes a wiki school or MIT OCW-centric university .. http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Languages ... with 100s - 10s of thousands of pages.

    Diana Laufenberg
    12:26 PM
    @jennifer we like words, lots of words. :-)

    Erik Hanson
    12:26 PM
    Object interoperability available for subscription and collaboration
    If you silo, allow others to plug in

    me
    12:27 PM
    under one umbrella ... and with an universal translator (building on Google Translate, etc.) ... http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/WUaS_Universal_Translator ...

    Diana Laufenberg
    12:27 PM
    I often say that as well. I am a derivative of my learning space. its a thing. well said, Andy.
    Ben is giving us homework
    boo.
    ;-)

    me
    12:28 PM
    Great and thanks, Ben! Thanks for organizing and hosting this OER conversation.

    Bill Fitzgerald
    12:28 PM
    Can I have my badge delivered with a 6 pack and a pizza?

    Andrew Marcinek
    12:28 PM
    BOO bomework
    it's friday

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    me
    12:29 PM
    I'll save and send you this text chat in an email, Ben.

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