Caribbean seas: "Good news about WUaS's Google apps acquisition!," A VAST INFRASTRUCTURE or a new SHIP ... or even a warm OCEAN, for All-lingual best STEM-centric universities and wiki schools, A kind of online Stanford campus of the internet, whereas edX might be the online MIT / Harvard campuses of the internet - WUaS would like to build out in both of them, WUaS would also like to build out in a Google made virtual world ... See, for example, these beginning, What would a Watsu school in a virtual Harbin Hot Springs in a virtual world look like, for learning Watsu from home in your bath tub ?

A Quaker friends writes:

Scott: 
Good news about the Google apps acquisition!  I'll check them out!

Do stay in touch, especially if you're through Portland metro area again.  I don't know if I'll be in the Bay Area again anytime soon--it's such a clusterfuck!--but if I am I'll look you up!

Best always!

CT

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{Interesting F/friendly entrepreneurial way even to think about this WUaS and the free Google Apps for Education ... and for WUaS these Apps are VAST INFRASTRUCTURE or a new SHIP ... or even a warm OCEAN ...

Interesting to think through which is acquiring which  ... and also about vast or big and small questions here because Google Apps for Education is small in a sense, but it's distributed on the internet in vast ways thanks to TCP / IP - a very new development in human history and biological history, too}


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Concerning WUaS, I see Google Apps for Education as kind of the online Stanford campus of the internet, whereas I can see edX as kind of the online MIT / Harvard campuses of the internet. WUaS would like to "build out" in both of them, and in all 8,000 languages.

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I'm so glad that World University and School just got an amazing new "CAMPUS" (and potentially inter-lingually) with Google Apps for Education for free -
http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2015/05/fritillaria-wuas-has-just-gotten-vast.html -
which is a very far-reaching development.

Thank you, Google!

Sincerely,
Scott

http://worlduniversityandschool.org


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WUaS would also like to build out in a Google made virtual world ...

See, for example, these beginning virtual worlds -

Ring-tailed lemurs: Your Travels to Africa, New African Universities at WUaS, "Big Data," - "A very short history of big data" - "Big Data and Tourism," Artificial Intelligence and big data, Internet Activism and Big Data, France World University and School, WUaS itself will become big data with Universities/Schools in 9000 languages, Big Data and the emergence of a Virtual Harbin / Virtual World, "Aphilo Scott MacLeod Virtual Harbin Introduction Apr 09," Explore the Ocean in Google Earth with Sylvia Earle (2011)

http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2015/04/ring-tailed-lemurs-your-travels-to.html ...

Aphilo Scott MacLeod Virtual Harbin Introduction Apr 09

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3nhvcHw54GE) / virtual Earth / virtual world, and which would be interactive movie realistic with 7 billion realistic avatars and for doing science and STEM research eg in archaeology, marine biology, urban planning, http://ocw.mit.edu/courses/earth-atmospheric-and-planetary-sciences/, and even virtual realistic space travel etc. Think Google making Google Earth with OpenSimulator / Second Life - including with the oceans, the earth itself, and the cosmos - realistically. See, for example Google's -

Explore the Ocean in Google Earth with Sylvia Earle

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4BpSO5kN8-4 - which you'll find here too - http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2015/03/loggerhead-sea-turtle-installation-of.html. But this isn't yet an interactive virtual world with avatars, such as in OpenSim or Second Life, and these are still cartoonesque etc but they are importantly buildable by us. Such a realistic virtual world to come will indeed be and generate "Big Data," and be important for tourism studies, if we can also do tourism / tourism research in it. How to begin to conceive of such a realistic virtual world for research in terms of  "Big Data and Tourism" is one question I have and am thinking about.


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What would a Watsu school in a virtual Harbin Hot Springs in a virtual world look like, for learning Watsu from home in your bath tub -

http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Watsu_-_water_shiatsu

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caribbean

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