Saponaria: Dear Angela & Victor, P, A & L, Yoga, For a kind of bliss generation, I'm looking forward to music-making in the New Year, Loving bliss label in my blog, Harbin ethnographic manuscript, Liking your blog posts Angela and Victor ... http://www.angela-victor.com

Dear Angela & Victor, P, A & L, 

Happy Holidays! I just returned from Pennsylvania and Christmas with my mother, which was great.

For a kind of bliss generation, I'm looking forward to music-making in the New Year (on Monday evenings, playing kind of second piano - mostly bass lines with thirds presently - to the main piano player who is great , and often with about 10 other musicians) for Scottish Country Dancers on in Berkeley in a beautiful Episcopal Church hall near the Claremont, as well as on the Scottish small pipes with this open band, and in other ways as well.

Here's the loving bliss label in my blog -
http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/search/label/loving%20bliss ...

I'm waiting to hear back from Stanford University Press about my first actual / virtual Harbin Hot Springs' ethnographic manuscript.

World University and School is coming along with baby steps ... talking at Reed about online f/Friendly-informed MIT OCW-centric wiki WUaS planned for
7,106 languages and 242 countries in mid-January ...

Here's an updated version of my holidays' greeting letter ... 

http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2014/12/asiatic-lion-happy-holidays-and-poetry.html.

Liking your blog posts Angela and Victor ... http://www.angela-victor.com !

Happy New Year!

Love,
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http://scottmacleod.com/yoga.htm

San Francisco Bay Area - East Bay Hills

World University and Schoo's wiki, 'Yoga,' subject page - http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Yoga  - with an invitation to 'edit this page' and explore yoga.

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http://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Såpnejlikor_(växter)

http://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saponaria

http://ceb.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saponaria

http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seifenkräuter

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Ribes species: Instruction for graduate students to become teachers, and now online in group video conferencing, (and even with developing A.I. information technologies?), Reed College's conference method extended ... to all academic courses, including and especially STEM and science courses?, Music performance classes too? WUaS would like to explore doing this online in group video and explicitly for a) science courses, b) the interactivity with teachers, and c) especially for the connecting with faculty

Instruction for graduate students to become teachers, and now online in group video conferencing, (and even with developing A.I. information technologies?) ...

In my experience, this doesn't really exist at the graduate level in a broad way at most universities around the world ... and, instead, graduate students learn by doing as graduate student instructors ...


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In what ways could World University and School offer new opportunities for learning to teach via

Reed College's conference method extended ...

http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Conference_Method_of_Teaching_and_Learning - and -

http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Humanities?


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Could WUaS offer a series of Youtube videos focusing on teaching the initial Hum 101 courses (based on Reed's Hum 110 and focusing on the ancient Greek world, as well as on writing, reading, critical thinking and learning as conversation - i.e. conferencing)

...  in addition to the online course-long videos of actual Hum 101 lectures by faculty

... and then facilitate teaching graduate students to teach in Google + group video Hangouts (for up to 9 students) interactively and as conversation?


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Reed extends the ideas and approaches learned via the conference method - beyond the required first year Hum 110 year-long course to all academic courses - to include especially STEM and science courses ... http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/STEM_Education_-_Science,_Technologies,_Engineering_and_Mathematics.

WUaS would like to explore doing this online in group video and explicitly for the science, the interactivity with teachers and especially for the connecting with faculty.

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In what ways could WUaS do this at the WUaS music school for performance and in other ways ...

http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/World_University_Music_School?

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Rhamnus: Thank you so very much for your $ tax-deductible donation to MIT OCW-centric World University and School. What a nice surprise yesterday! I've added your name to "Acknowledgement of Giving to WUaS" ... Tourism Studies at WUaS

Dear NG, 

Thank you so very much for your $50 tax-deductible donation to MIT OCW-centric World University and School. What a nice surprise yesterday! 

To say thanks in another way, I've added your name to 

"Acknowledgement of Giving to World University and School" ...  

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

Please let me know whether you would rather have just your initials, the word "anonymous," or nothing at all, here instead.

Thank you again, and looking forward to seeing you at the Tourism Studies Working Group (http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Tourism_Studies) at UC Berkeley in the New Year!

Best regards, 

Scott

http://worlduniversityandschool.org/

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Melaleuca species: How to best incentivize the main "Research" focus - http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Research - and in all 7106+ languages and 240 + countries at MIT OCW centric WUaS?, Really making a difference with their research and publishing, Stanford Economics' Professor Nicholas A. Bloom, WUaS seeks to model the development of its various online accrediting universities on unprogrammed Quaker Meetings' distributed monthly meeting process ... worldwide ... so not very hierarchical at all, yet also where clerks of these WUaS meetings play a facilitating role, including in incentivization for research

How to best incentivize the main "Research" focus - http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Research -  and in all 7106+ languages and 240 + countries at MIT OCW centric WUaS? See - http://worlduniversityandschool.org/ - for WUaS's approximately 12 main foci. 

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If some faculty at US universities are really making a difference with their research and publishing, and others are just on the funding-cycle band wagon year after year (from the NSF, for example), how to incentivize the former in particular?

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Just added Stanford Economics' Professor Nicholas A. Bloom resources, 

such as 

Lee, Louise. 2014. Nicholas Bloom: Innovation Requires Delegating Authority - An economics scholar examines ways firms create flexible structures and why some do not. August 18. Stanford, CA: gsb.stanford.edu/insights/nicholas-bloom-innovation-requires-delegating-authority .

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Economics 

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

Business Management (yay, Sloan School of Management at MIT OCW here)

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

Innovation 

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

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Per Bloom's work, how hierarchically and how flat an organization might WUaS be in each language in terms of delegation and incentivization? 

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And WUaS seeks to model the development of its various online accrediting universities on unprogrammed Quaker Meetings' distributed monthly meeting process ... worldwide ... so not very hierarchical at all, yet also where clerks of these WUaS meetings play a facilitating role, including in incentivization for research. 

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How do MIT and Harvard  incentivize research in comparison, say, with Cambridge and Oxford, and further in comparison with National Tsinghua University China / 清华大学 and Shanghai Jiao Tong University / 上海交通大学 , and then in comparison, too, with Stanford and Berkeley?

Examples of greatest universities (attracting highest academic achievers) from western Europe, for similar approaches to incentivizing research, for example?

And other universities here at WUaS's wiki list of great universities - http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Courses#University_course_listings ?


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And drawing from http://academia.edu/ and https://www.researchgate.net/ and http://scholar.google.com/, for example, among many other social networking academic research web sites, how best to incentivize WUaS's main "Research" focus?


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How could WUaS facilitate inter-lingual research innovatively with artificial learning and machine learning to incentivize research?

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Verticordia plumosa and species: What is most fun in music-making fun? And how to build on this? video examples of this? ... eventually ... * And how to build on this explicitly for eliciting loving bliss neurophysiology in many many qualities of bodymind biochemistry ... ?

What is most fun in music-making fun in my own experience? And how to build on, or grow, this?


~ playing piping tunes from sheet music that are more beautiful or lyrical (to my ear) than other piping tunes ...

~ playing Scottish Country Dancing sheet music - this music can be most lyrical and melody-rich ...

~ for dancers ... (in Scottish Country Dancing)

~ playing harmony with other musicians ...

~ making music when the vision of musicianship and "leadership" is open and is somehow great
(Jerry Garcia of the Grateful Dead?, Ravi Shankar?)


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And in your experience?

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video examples of this? ... eventually ...


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And how to build on this explicitly for eliciting loving bliss neurophysiology in many many qualities of bodymind biochemistry ... ?


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Pears and blossoms: Exploring guiding an a cappella singing group of friends somewhat improvisation-ally and heading explicitly even toward exploring eliciting loving bliss neurophysiology via music-making?, Continuing to explore thinking out of the box ... with a focus of inquiry on eliciting loving bliss neurophysiology, here, for example ... And online, in real, real time, with time? Here are some virtual choir examples from composer Eric Whitacre ...

http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2014/12/pears-and-blossoms-exploring-guiding-a.html


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Some wiki schools for this ...

Loving_Bliss_(eliciting_this_neurophysiology) -
http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Loving_Bliss_(eliciting_this_neurophysiology)

Great_Highland_Bagpipe - 

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

Scottish_smallpipes_and_borderpipes -
http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Scottish_smallpipes_and_borderpipes

Scottish_Country_Dancing -
http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Scottish_Country_Dancing

Piano -
http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Piano

Singing -
http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Singing

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Radula jonesii and species: MELTDOWN AT THREE MILE ISLAND, Documentary Of 1979 Three Mile Island Nuclear Accident, where my father had been installed as Secretary of Health 12 days earlier, WUaS's Nuclear Science and Engineering, World University Law School

Just received an email from my mother with this documentary film ...

"MELTDOWN AT THREE MILE ISLAND"
(Documentary Of 1979 Three Mile Island Nuclear Accident)
... where my father had been installed as Secretary of Health 12 days earlier ...
(haven't watched this yet to see if my father is mentioned)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0J7kHfBBBmk


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Added to WUaS ...

 WUaS's Nuclear Science and Engineering - http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Nuclear_Science_and_Engineering - planned for large languages and most of 242 countries


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World University Law School
http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/World_University_Law_School - planned also for large languages and most of 242 countries ... 

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Pears and blossoms: Exploring guiding an a cappella singing group of friends somewhat improvisation-ally and heading explicitly even toward exploring eliciting loving bliss neurophysiology via music-making?, Continuing to explore thinking out of the box ... with a focus of inquiry on eliciting loving bliss neurophysiology, here, for example ... And online, in real, real time, with time? Here are some virtual choir examples from composer Eric Whitacre ...

Ja, Would you be up for exploring guiding an a cappella singing group of friends somewhat improvisation-ally (perhaps meeting once a month to begin) and heading explicitly even toward exploring eliciting loving bliss neurophysiology via music-making (we'd have to figure this out as we go - a bunch of us are Deadheads I think, fore xample, as a start :) ? 

Scott


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And online, in real, real time, with time? 


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(Here are some virtual choir examples from composer Eric Whitacre ...

Eric Whitacre's Virtual Choir - 'Lux Aurumque'

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D7o7BrlbaDs

     Eric Whitacre's Virtual Choir 4: Fly to Paradise   

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y8oDnUga0JU )



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In a variety of ways, I continue to explore thinking out of the box ... with a focus of inquiry on eliciting loving bliss neurophysiology, here, for example - http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Loving_Bliss_(eliciting_this_neurophysiology) - and here - http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/search/label/loving%20bliss ... I haven't yet found the 'on/off switch,' the 'cello bow stroke,' or the dial, but listening to music is a beginning. 


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Merry, merry and happy, happy!

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Anigozanthos manglesii: Helping set up our families Xmas tree yesterday, Photos

Helping set up our family's Xmas tree yesterday was fun ...

Rediscovered kinds of family folk art in the ornaments from different times of our lives ...

There's a playdough Yale guy with a Y on his jersey (from when my family lived in New Haven, Connecticut from about 1966-1972, and when my father was on the faculty there), who now, with age, seems to be doing a yoga back bend of all things thanks to how he's been stored from year to year ... his head golden, and his back body fluorescent orange and pink ...

Here are some photos ...

Kite flyer (from a Cuttyhunk CYC cake in the mid-1970s - creative process)

Little xmas tree in front of the sheet music cabinet

Xmas ornaments including a playdough orange VW bug

Piano and xmas tree

(playdough Yale guy is at bottom left of tree)

(MacLeod Christmas Tree scott-macleod.blogspot.com 2014)

Our tree wasn't a blue spruce this year as it often has been, and it was much smaller than in the past ... and we had yellow beeswax candles for the first time (ever I think) and there was a golden cloth below it from India, making the whole thing appear somehow golden, instead of somehow silver ... but it's a fun creative process every year which also involves giving gifts after it's set up ... :)

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Asiatic lion: Happy Holidays, and Poetry from 2014, too!

Holiday Greetings, and Poetry from 2014, too!


Dear friends,

Happy Holidays and Happy New Year!

I hope this finds you well and enjoying this season wherever you are.

Love in this holiday season in the context of this old world we live in ... 

"Moehringia: "Love" in loving bliss - and generatively? ... Some characteristics of love in its best senses, Here are some wiki schools for this at WUaS - Caring and Loving - and Loving Bliss (eliciting this neurophysiology), {And how would agency as intentional causation (in philosophical senses) work vis-a-vis generating the "love" in loving bliss and in contemporary society and with information technology?}" ...

http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2014/12/moehringia-love-in-loving-bliss-and.html.

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Scottish economic pragmatism over identity?

Scotland voted not to secede this year ... a win for British Isles' pragmatic economics of the Westminster establishment, now scrutinized even more closely by its northern neighbor, over Scots' identity and nationhood? Perhaps ... long complex history there. Glad this was done with a vote ...

Here are the beginning Scotland World University and School - http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Scotland - along with the Scots' Gaelic World University and School - http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Scottish_Gaelic - and planned as wiki schools for other languages in Scotland ...

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World University and School – http://worlduniversityandschool.org - has grown over the course of 2014, but WUaS’s wee craft is still only just floating, and not yet running before the wind, in full sail.  

WUaS’s Music School - http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/World_University_Music_School - planned for all instruments in all languages, each a wiki subject page to begin, is exciting to develop ... 

And MIT OCW-centric wiki WUaS is excited about adding A.I. machine learning, and semantic web as WUaS moves from Wikia to Wikidata/Wikibase {and especially vis-à-vis a Universal Translator - http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/WUaS_Universal_Translator}.

WUaS plans to send in the initial state of California BPPE accreditation documentation in January 2015. In seeking to become a MIT / Harvard of the Internet, WUaS’s free, C.C., online, university degrees in all 7, 106 + languages and 242 + will benefit so many people, - and is also a fascinating conversation and process to develop. 

WUaS is also planning to become a significant employer worldwide, perhaps double the size of IBM at 426,000 employees, for example. Online MIT OCW-centric and free (since C.C.) universities and schools in 7,106 + languages and 242 + countries is a large university. 

Quaker-informed WUaS holds open hour-long electronically-mediated online monthly business meetings on the second Saturdays - http://worlduniversityandschool.blogspot.com/search/label/Business%20Meeting - and you are welcome to join in to help make decisions and grow WUaS. 

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I’m waiting to hear back from Stanford University Press about publishing my first actual / virtual Harbin 400 page ethnographic manuscript. I find Harbin inspiring and fascinating, emerging from the 1960s and 1970s as it does, and especially its pools-centric milieu and influences therein, and am planning further books and virtual Harbin in the context of virtual earth building as ethnographic field site - and as a 3D interactive movie-realistic build-able world, while planning for MIT OCW-centric digital linguistic and brain research with brain-wave head sets, for example. 




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I taught again a course, the free, open, online "Information Technology, the Network Society and the Global University," on behalf of World University and School on Harvard's virtual island, as well as in a Google + group video Hangouts to participants in the U.S., Germany and Kenya this autumn. 





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I continue to give bagpipe lessons in video in the SF Bay Area, about half of this in Skype or Google + Hangouts video conferencing, as well as take Skype bagpipe lessons from a teacher via the College of Piping in Scotland.  

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And in a variety of ways, I continue to explore thinking out of the box ... with a focus of inquiry on eliciting loving bliss neurophysiology, here, for example - http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Loving_Bliss_(eliciting_this_neurophysiology) - and here - http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/search/label/loving%20bliss ... I haven't yet found the 'on/off switch,' the 'cello bow stroke,' or the dial, but listening to music is a beginning. 

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My home in the east bay hills of the San Francisco Bay Area, and in the city of Oakland's watershed, in the community of Canyon, above a redwood forest, continues to be inspiring in so many ways.

Canyon, California

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And I continue to blog daily - http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/ - which I've been doing now for about 7 years, and which is a way to share ideas as a kind of conversation, and which I find inspiring in a variety of ways. Read some poems in the ‘Poetry’ label here - http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/search/label/poetry - for example.





Here are a few of the poems I've written this year, which I think you'd enjoy ...  

Abalone: "Deciphery ... Our nest ... your poem writes," Riffing with Angela and Victor's 'Who are we anyway? ~ Who am I?,' "Who am I? I am maker of, we are makers of, World University and School As wiki ... as MIT ... in all languages"

http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2014/11/abalone-deciphery-our-nest-your-poem.html

Down feather: Soaked, floated down

http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2014/11/down-feather-soaked-floated-down.html

Bee orchids: Two most recent poems are kinds of 1) a glow poem and 2) very loosely a potentially parallel with Meeting poem, Where o where is the generation of abundant love and joy and freedom in the world (think envisioning in India ... possibly?), Let's all melt into encounter groups and domes as young 20 year olds in Palo Alto (at Stanford) or talking with friends, bicycle commuting and living in communal houses Portland, OR (while studying at Reed), How to generate such neurophysiology abundantly these days?

http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2014/10/bee-orchids-two-most-recent-poems-are.html

Green-winged orchid: Melting in warm water harmonizing releasing oneness ~ Yes

http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2014/10/green-winged-orchid-melting-in-warm.html

Grass of Parnassus: Sun glow rose over golden mounts under blue sky brilliance

http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2014/10/grass-of-parnassus-sun-glow-rose-over.html

Space: Traveling ... to the waters

http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2014/09/space-traveling-to-waters.html

Rainbow from a desert thunderstorm: Glancing, rainbow streamers Soared

http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2014/08/rainbow-from-desert-thunderstorm.html

Cardinalidae: Green starboard night light

http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2014/07/cardinalidae-green-starboard-night-light.html

Fireflies in the night

http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2014/07/fireflies-in-night.html

Rosehip-honeysuckle: In the Storm the Honeysuckle Danced

http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2014/07/rosehip-honeysuckle-in-storm.html

In the Storm the Honeysuckle Danced

http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2014/07/in-storm-honeysuckle-danced.html

Catherine Creek, OR: Forests and grasslands, Glistening June day, Walking in Oregon dream

http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2014/06/catherine-creek-or-forests-and.html

Old growth forests: The ones who walked away from the 7/11 near Reed College, or "Near, To, From"

http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2014/06/old-growth-forests-ones-who-walked-away.html

Manitoulin species: Idea comes to mind

http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2014/05/manitoulin-species-idea-comes-to-mind.html

The fruit pickers at Stanford with their basket-topped long poles ...

http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2014/04/the-fruit-pickers-at-stanford.html

spiral stars: Wanting to explore writing a haiku-ish inspired by the Harbin pools with words from my Dalton Friends' letter ... which is loving and caring, and about love and care …

http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2014/03/spiral-stars-wanting-to-explore-writing.html

supernova: loving Care ... haiki-ish

http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2014/03/supernova-loving-care-haiki-ish.html

Glen Aulin High Sierra Camp: Playing with sound waVes in front of Stanford, tforward unfolding bliss eliciting ... :)

http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2014/03/glen-aulin-high-sierra-camp-playing.html

Eastern Great Egret: Sounds in the night in Kolkata (Calcutta), India, Tagore's "A Moments Indulgence", I lie in my bed in the home of the parents

http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2013/12/eastern-great-egret-sounds-in-night-in.html

Flowers on the sea ~ Holiday greetings 2013 !

http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2013/12/wildflowers-by-sea-holiday-greetings.html

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I'm glad too to say I'm teaching a short course about World University and School at Reed College's Paideia in January 2015 as a kind of outreach.


"Pleurotus nebrodensis: Reed College's Paideia in Jan 2015, Teaching a course about WUaS there, WUaS is planning to go the CC free route as a CC MIT OCW-centric wiki, "This Country Just Abolished College Tuition Fees""

http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2014/12/pleurotus-nebrodensis-reed-colleges.html

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Creative Commons' licensed World University and School is becoming a growing garden of wiki (editable web pages) flourishing learning conversations for open teaching and learning ... Enjoy too the abundance and the free, MIT OCW-centric diplomas to come, and in many languages and countries.

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All the best to you in the New Year and beyond, 

Scott




Scott MacLeod

http://scottmacleod.com 

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