Saturday, August 3, 2019

Syringa (lilac): Creativity-wise re Old Norse and Scots Gaelic esp. ... I seek to head in inspiration-oriented directions ... and seek for World University and School to become wiki inspiring too (with some parallels to the ever growing Wikipedia-movement) * * * Brainstorming-wise, am curious how I or you would add excellent free open interactive and conversation resources to this ESL page, in a way that would be helpful for people, and then to build out toward students interested in matriculating in English at WUaS until their first languages' universities at WUaS are up and running for example. Searched on "Best free ESL on youtube



old Norse language
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Old_Norse
-https://www.omniglot.com/writing/oldnorse.htm
-https://norse-mythology.org/learn-old-norse/
-The Sound of the Old Norse Language (Völuspá) https://youtu.be/SHk7wGwPlic
-https://youtu.be/_ASsCH17cbA
-https://youtu.be/J0XGOX_87yg
-http://thehistoryofvikings.com/old-norse-snorri-sturluson-the-realm-of-j%C7%ABtunheimr-with-dr-jackson-crawford/
@Norsebysw > https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Languages ~

https://twitter.com/sgkmacleod/status/1157706097005699072
https://twitter.com/WorldUnivAndSch/status/1157706863451836416
https://twitter.com/scottmacleod/status/1157711325528649729


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Heralding Realistic Virtual Earth For Languages
#RealisticVirtualEarthForLanguages Think Google Street View w TIME SLIDER w group-buildable Second Life w avatar bots (but realistic)
#RealisticVirtualEarthForHistory
#RealisticVirtualEarth Talk in Old Norse https://twitter.com/sgkmacleod/status/1157706097005699072?

https://twitter.com/WorldUnivAndSch/status/1157708256799678464
https://twitter.com/scottmacleod/status/1157711409905451008




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Enjoyed the sounds and hints of Old Norse thinking here ...

The Sound of the Old Norse Language (Völuspá)

https://youtu.be/SHk7wGwPlic



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Enjoyed too the hints of Old Norse 'philosophy' embedded in this (even if a bit grim:)

What Old Norse Sounded Like

https://youtu.be/_ASsCH17cbA



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Heralding Realistic Virtual Earth For Old Norse & Scots' Gaelic
#RealisticVirtualEarthForLanguages Think Google Street View w TIME SLIDER w realistic avatar bots
#RealisticVirtualEarth Talk in Old Norse or https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Scottish_Gaelic_language @Norsebysw @_morphologist https://twitter.com/sgkmacleod/status/1157706097005699072?

https://twitter.com/WorldUnivAndSch/status/1157710790314491904
https://twitter.com/sgkmacleod/status/1157711040483692544
https://twitter.com/scottmacleod/status/1157711596262551552


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Hi Tom,
Heralding Realistic Virtual Earth For Scots' Gaelic
#RealisticVirtualEarthForLanguages Think Google Street View w TIME SLIDER w realistic avatar bots. Talk in https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Scottish_Gaelic_language Scott (scottmacleod.com https://twitter.com/WorldUnivAndSch)

https://www.linkedin.com/in/thomas-w-stewart/
http://lsa2017.uky.edu/users/thomasstewart
http://www.medievalists.net/2013/07/lexical-imposition-old-norse-vocabulary-in-scottish-gaelic/
https://louisville.academia.edu/ThomasStewart/CurriculumVitae
https://www.jbe-platform.com/content/journals/10.1075/dia.21.2.06ste



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Hi Bede,

Thanks so much for your email. Many thoughts here, and partly per what we talked about on Cuttyhunk (esp. re Languages, and old Norse re last 4 letters in my name 'Leod').

Did you ever get into reading Ursula K Le Guin - http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2019/06/atlantic-cod-appreciating-ursula-k-le.html? ... which blog post mentions too that "Leod in old Norse is Ljótr." (Tolkien, which 4 books I read about 9 times as a teen, draws much on these languages - and creates a new language too "Elvish"!)

Am curious about Old Norse linguistically (and how it might have intermingled with the Gaelics) and how too one might represent this with avatar bots in a realistic virtual earth even - am thinking Google Street View with time slider with Second Life - but with realistic avatars (not cartoon-esque ones) ... and based on evidence, and unfolding academic research iteratively.

See yesterday's Tweets below creativity-wise re Old Norse and Scots Gaelic esp ... I seek to head in inspiration-oriented directions ... and seek for World University and School to become wiki inspiring too (with some parallels to the ever growing Wikipedia-movement).

Dogger Bank archaeology site is fascinating ... and will be more so if and as we can visit in a realistic virtual earth (am thinking Google Street View with time slider, and even with Lego robotics for actual-virtual marine archaeology which will develop). My 2004 M.Sc. dissertation was about virtual St. Kilda re Inishmore, and the outer Hebrides ... http://scottmacleod.com/MacLeod%20Physical%20and%20Online%20St%20Kilda%20A%20%20Comparison%20of%20Senses%20of%20Place%20MSc%20Dissertation%20University%20of%20Edinburgh.pdf ...



Am going to get back into editing World University and School's wiki partly per your this email (since both WUaS wikis' 725 wiki pages, in English only so far, have emerged creatively due to such editing ... ) and here, for example:

https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/English_as_a_Second_Language

So, as examples, I just now added as references these two ESL links I shared with you on July 25gh, but as references using this format -

Alan and Paul. 2019. [https://www.fluentu.com/blog/english/learn-english-esl-youtube/ Learn English with YouTube: The 11 Best Channels]. www.fluentu.com/blog/english/learn-english-esl-youtube/

TeachThought Staff. 2018. [https://www.teachthought.com/technology/11-best-youtube-channels-learning-english/ 11 Of The Best YouTube Channels For Learning English]. August 3. www.teachthought.com/technology/11-best-youtube-channels-learning-english/

and in the wiki adding process as a summary wrote: "Added 2 ESL websites each with 11 best ESL Youtube channels"

(How to apply ESL principles to teaching Scots Gaelic as a second language anew - https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Scottish_Gaelic_language < https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Languages - or old Norse?)

Try just clicking "edit this page' eg https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/w/index.php?title=English_as_a_Second_Language&action=edit - to see how this process works. And then brainstorming-wise, if students of yours were hired by WUaS eventually, and in many of their native languages, how would they be best be able to steward / curate such pages? Again, click an edit link to see how WUaS works ...  https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Subjects ... (planned in Wikipedia's 300 languages, and where adding a reference, and thus teaching, in Wikipedia is more automatic, and WUaS will head in this direction).



 ... And since there've been enough "rocking" online talks from MIT, Harvard and Stanford in recent years (all of which I have NOT added to WUaS by any means, but this is partly the idea of WUaS - "rocking" learning and teaching excellence and as wiki conversations we can all add to), am interested at this point in seeing what can emerge more fully in making World University and School rock.



Just learned from Peter Bothe (https://twitter.com/Peter_Bothe - who's no longer doing German or English language Hangouts) yesterday about StreamYard video streaming which facilitates video conferencing conversation, and which records to Youtube too ...

"Google Meet" video conference software ahead for conversation (and which just replaced Google Hangouts on Air, which closed on August 2, 2019) ... talking heads ... learners talking to one another interactively online ... And if you might be interested sometime, World University and School is now holding weekly video conversations on Mondays at 10 am PT, 1pm ET, and here's the first in Google Meet tomorrow:

Hi Universitians, This is the first World University and School in Google Meet video conferencing on Monday, August 5, 2019 at 10 am PT, for idea sharing, conversation, questions and answers (- since Google Hangouts closed on August 2)

World University & School News and Q & A NEWLY in Google MEET > http://www.youtube.com/WorldUnivandSch
Mon Aug 5 '19 at 10 am PT, 1800 UTC
Topic: Your Questions/ideas @WorldUnivAndSch & @WUaSPress Univs in https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Nation_States Hosted by @ScottMacLeod
info @ worlduniversityandschool.org ~

https://twitter.com/WorldUnivAndSch/status/1157735406743408640

- Scott (worlduniversityandschool.org)


Re Garden Party here in Canyon, CA 94516 on Saturday, October 10th, at 5pm PT / 8pm ET, am thinking of streaming it in Google Meet in an innovative way. It's probably too late for you but will send you an invitation nevertheless. We may play live Scottish music at some point :)

Was great to see you as well, Bede, on Cuttyhunk!

All best,
 Scott



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Hi Universitians, This is the first World University and School in Google Meet video conferencing on Monday, August 5, 2019 at 10 am PT, for idea sharing, conversation, questions and answers (- since Google Hangouts closed on August 2)

World University & School News and Q & A NEWLY in Google MEET >http://www.youtube.com/WorldUnivandSch
Mon Aug 5 '19 at 10 am PT, 1800 UTC
Topic: Your Questions/ideas @WorldUnivAndSch & @WUaSPress Univs in https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Nation_States Hosted by @ScottMacLeod
info @ worlduniversityandschool.org ~

https://twitter.com/WorldUnivAndSch/status/1157735406743408640

- Scott (worlduniversityandschool.org)



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August 2, 2019

Hi Scott,

Thank very much for your mails, very interesting reads, I'm glad you found the history of Dogger Bank of interest, it's fascinating to think there's an civilation world waiting to be excavated, and in not-too-deep water!

I have a generalist knowledge of the varieties of Gaelic, but  nothing specific to the Outer Hebrides. I have been to Lewis and Harris, also Inishmore in the Aran Isles off the west coast of Ireland. So gratifying to hear the ancient language continuing to be used, though no monolingual speakers left as far as I know. With your family name, I imagine you have roots in the Hebrides, perhaps you even know the old language? You certainly communicate it through your bagpipes!

I do know about the Lewis Chessman, what great connections they make across cultures and through time. A shame some of them are in private hands, but thankful the majority are on public display, albeit in London... Would be great to represent their history using a slider bar!

Interesting links to ESL Youtube vids. Youtube can help with basic oral skills and vocabulary, but like so many one-way instructional modalities, it's very hard to include two-way interaction which is really at the heart of language use. My own ESL teaching is mostly about academic writing, but I'll have a look around YT and see what I see.

Thank you for the invite to Canyon, I'm afraid I won't be able to make it, though, too much going on here in NY.

Was great to see you, have a fantastic rest of the summer on The Rock!

All best,
Bede



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July 26, 2019

Hi Bede,

More about Dogger Bank, which is new to me, here - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dogger_Bank ... Blogged a bit about this here ... http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2019/07/coarse-woody-debris-opportunity-to.html ...

Please come to a Garden Party on August 10, Sat., in Canyon, CA 94516 ... if you by any chance happen to be around (Aiden is welcome too) ...

Am having a Garden Party on Saturday afternoon August 10th around 5 pm on my porch in Canyon in honor of summer - it may be a baby shower too. Potluck. We’ll have tea and veggies - hopefully from my garden in a box! Please come and partake in some yummies. (And put your musical instruments in the car .... have invited too some SCD musicians ... who may bring pink and blue Scottish Country Dance sheet music books ... perhaps some of us can explore playing some of these tunes slowly and creatively and in an improvisational way even! Dancing allowed... if we find our way to music-making! )

Greetings from Cuttyhunk island, MA! :) And welcome home!

Take care,
Scott



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July 25, 2019

Hi Bede,

Nice to see you again this morning, and I hope you had a great sea voyage back to Long Island. Found this about Doggerland Bank - https://www.nationalgeographic.com/magazine/2012/12/doggerland/ - and will keep looking into it.

Here are some blog posts about marine archaeology (as well as Lego robotics that could be adapted to become marine archaeology robotics) - https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2019/05/witch-hazel-stanford-archaeology-randy.html and https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2019/04/maritime-archaeology-video-of-rover.html and https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2019/04/stanford-talk-connectivity-and.html.

And here's my blog label about 'ethno-wiki-virtual-world-graphy' as well - http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/search/label/ethno-wiki-virtual-world-graphy - and interwoven in here are some about both.

Did you ever do any linguistic work about the outer Hebrides in Scotland, and the time in particular of the Lewis Chessmen 1100-1200s? Here are the Lewis chessmen - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lewis_chessmen - and there's a picture here of a so-called berserker too. (See also https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berserker). There would be a lot of Norse linguistic influence into this time and place (and Leod may be old Norse for both 'light' or shining or bright, as well as ugly:

Leod in old Norse is Ljótr - https://www.geni.com/people/Leod-1st-Chief-of-Clan-MacLeod/6000000002188078500 & https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leod > https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Scottish_Gaelic (& in modern Norwegian https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lj%C3%B3t%C3%B3lfr ?) Could Ljótr also mean light https://www.behindthename.com/names/usage/norwegian & shining, bright, in addition to ugly https://www.nordicnames.de/wiki/Li%C3%B3tr ? @sgkmacleod ~

https://twitter.com/scottmacleod/status/1135243283850915840
https://twitter.com/sgkmacleod/status/1135243997830471680

Am quite active on Twitter. Are you there at all?

Here are World University and School's ESL pages -

https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/English_as_a_Second_Language

https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/English_as_a_Second_Language_for_Kids

(https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Subjects)

Brainstorming-wise, am curious how I or you would add excellent free open interactive and conversation resources to this ESL page, in a way that would be helpful for people, and then to build out toward students interested in matriculating in English at WUaS until their first languages' universities at WUaS are up and running for example. Searched on "Best free ESL on youtube" and found https://www.fluentu.com/blog/english/learn-english-esl-youtube/ and https://www.teachthought.com/technology/11-best-youtube-channels-learning-english/ - which I may wiki-add soon.

Greetings to Aidan, and very nice to see you again.

Cheers, Scott









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