Friends and Scottish Country Dancers,
I'd
like to play a little Piobaireachd from "The Desperate Battle" for
you on my Scottish Small Pipes ... and then share a little something about a little big project
called World University and School I'm working on ...
I've been developing Creative Commons' licensed World University and School -
http:// worlduniversityandschool.org/
- which seeks to make university degrees (Bachelor, Ph.D., Law, M.D. and I.B.) available on the internet for
free, accrediting on MIT OCW and Yale OYC in many large languages, for
example, - since 2008, (in addition to having written a 400 page actual
/virtual ethnographic book manuscript about Harbin Hot Springs for
which I'm continuing to look for an academic publisher).
On World
University and School's wiki side - which are editable web pages, we
want to create a platform for open teaching and learning in all nearly
8000 languages, each a school.
For example, there's a Scottish Country Dance wiki subject / school -
http://worlduniversity. wikia.com/wiki/Scottish_ Country_Dancing -
for open teaching and learning, and there are also beginning wiki pages
probably for every musical instrument we play here in the Open Band ...
hop into a Google hangout to jam teach and learn (e.g. via the Music
School - http://worlduniversity.wikia. com/wiki/World_University_ Music_School - planned for all languages and all instruments) .
Startup World University and School is like Wikipedia with best STEM-centric OpenCourseWare.
We
want to accredit in California and begin to hire and grow. All this
costs money. For example just the initial accreditation fee with the
state of California's BPPE costs $5000 and WUAS has the green light that
we can submit this.
So I'm coming to ask you ... inspired by the TED
Talk by Amanda Palmer on "The Art of Asking" (http://www.ted.com/talks/amanda_palmer_the_art_of_asking) - if you could possibly
please give or make 501 c 3 tax deductible donations to WUaS to help
this worthy cause get off the ground and begin to grow.
WUaS will help so
many people, both in California as well as in the developing world.
And now I'd like to play the "Battle of Waterloo" to say thank you ...
Thank you,
Scott
- Scott MacLeod - Founder & President
- 415 480 4577
- http:// worlduniversityandschool.org
- World University and School - like Wikipedia with best STEM-centric OpenCourseWare - incorporated as a nonprofit university and school in California, and is a U.S. 501 (c) (3) tax-exempt educational organization, both effective April 2010.
- 415 480 4577
- http://
- World University and School - like Wikipedia with best STEM-centric OpenCourseWare - incorporated as a nonprofit university and school in California, and is a U.S. 501 (c) (3) tax-exempt educational organization, both effective April 2010.
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A video version of a musical outreach talk {for WUaS} which I gave yesterday evening to Scottish Country Dancers in Berkeley at St. Clement's Episcopal Church to follow.
The text of the little talk itself is above.
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