Scott MacLeod's Anthropology of Information Technology & Counterculture

Pandea rubra: Curious how open, free WUaS can innovate with social networking sites such as G +

2012-01-26T04:00:00.000-08:00

... is curious how open, free World University & School - like Wikipedia with MIT Open Course Ware - can innovate with social networking sites such as G + . Here's the 'You at World University & School' wiki, subject page - http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/You_at_World_University - where you will be able to join the WUaS community, and orchestrate your education - either toward a free degree, or by openly teaching, learning and creating - in ways that are potentially flourishing and innovative. (See, too, WUaS's Music School - http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/World_University_Music_School - potentially in ALL 3,000-8,000 languages and around 200 countries).

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How to become an online Stanford University (excellent and relaxed) at World University and School, like Wikipedia with MIT Open Course Ware - in 3,000-8,000 languages and 200 countries - http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Research and http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/World_University? (see also ... http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2012/01/quaker-neopithecops-zalmora-zalmora.html ) ... and with MIT?

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Eubalaena glacialis: Innovate with free public education at the University level, FREE Syllabi & WUaS, Washington DC and Internet Law, Corporations

2012-01-25T08:21:00.000-08:00

How to innovate with free public education at the University level? ... UC Berkeley and U Michigan are expensive, for example, and it's open to debate whether they are innovating. How to innovate with a MIT OCW, free-degree, online, university, public education here - http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/World_University - with the developing internet, is a fascinating question ... Wiki is one way to anticipate such ongoing developments, open to all, and for editing ...

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"My Internet is broken today. Hitting that “all known thought” button on my toolbar gives me a quick, maddening glimpse of Wikipedia that is then overtaken by a black screen that asks me to “Imagine a world without free knowledge.” I just did and I didn’t like it, now can I have my Wikipedia back?" ... http://mediadecoder.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/01/18/how-im-surviving-or-trying-to-without-wikipedia-at-my-fingertips/ ... Here's World Univ & Sch's wiki, "Wiki," subject page - http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Wiki - for open teaching and learning about wiki, with an invitation to YOU, to edit a WUaS page, and to which I'm adding the above article ...

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... will add this Wikipedia entry - ... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia ... to WUaS's wiki, "Wiki," subject page - http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Wiki ...

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This distributed set of connections, partly for worldwide communication, called the internet, is changing things, and in Washington ... See Rebecca MacKinnon's germane, recent article on this the web and legal non-developments, and why …

http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/why-doesnt-washington-understand-the-internet/2012/01/17/gIQAGPzWEQ_story.html

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Aaron Shaw's "A modest academic fantasy: free syllabi" (http://fringethoughts.wordpress.com/2012/01/09/modest-academic-fantasy/)

Please check out World University & School's main Subjects' page ... with its many, extensible, academic subjects: http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Subjects. Each subject has a 'Select Syllabi' section, - see, for example, the WUaS Subject Template - http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/SUBJECT_TEMPLATE - which is also how anyone can begin their own, new subject at WUaS. (Wiki http://webnographers.org/ had a number of "Society and Information Technology" syllabi but it was possibly trashed (censorship) and has seemed to move away from the Creative Commons side of things, now wanting monies to start up again). Wiki World University and School is like Wikipedia with MIT Open Course Ware, with free degrees planned, accrediting on MIT OCW.

If you know of already existing syllabi projects, WUaS is another good place to link their URLs.

Thanks for initiating this great idea and project!

Best regards,
Scott

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Colbert on "Corporations are People" ... http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=Ns_VX02HeJk ... apropos ...

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Western bluebird: "Will Free Benefit the Rich? How Free and Open Education Might Widen Digital Divide," What's Learning? Symbols. Singing as learning?

2012-01-24T09:26:00.000-08:00

Harvard talk, recently: "Will Free Benefit the Rich? How Free and Open Education Might Widen Digital Divides" ... http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/events/luncheon/2012/01/reich ... (interesting implications for WUaS - http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/World_University).

What's a general, fruitful definition of learning at the high school level that you engage? ...

possibly

... doing 'cognitively difficult work'

... so, possibly, symbolic problem solving?

Two related WUaS wiki pages -

Theories of Learning
http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Theories_of_Learning and

Proof of Educational Information Technologies' Effectiveness
http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Proof_of_Educational_Information_Technologies%27_Effectiveness ...

World University and School would particularly like to develop this WUaS page ... "Proof of Educational Information Technologies' Effectiveness" ... http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Proof_of_Educational_Information_Technologies%27_Effectiveness ... with great evidence ...

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For students we most care about, according to Justin Reich ... we may want to think about technologies that are "more structured, designed and targeted" ... makes sense

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Thanks, Justin Reich ... I wonder about your last comment that upper class people, drawing on the idea of the Atheneum, for example, helped create the free public library system in Boston ... I'm wondering if a reading of the free American Public Education K-12 system would suggest that it emerges out of American history/socioculture (as place), with its "We the People ..." trajectory, rather than from an 'upper class" ... What do you think?

"Singing" what you learn might be another fruitful definition ...

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Curlew Sandpiper: Homage to Bach, Let your mind go at the JS Bach, Complexity Theory, and Goedel, Escher, Bach, wiki pages at WUaS, Mullova plays Bach

2012-01-23T05:22:00.000-08:00

Let your mind go around the

JS Bach - http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Johann_Sebastian_Bach - the

Complexity Theory - http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Complexity_Theory - and the

Goedel, Escher, Bach - http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/G%C3%B6del,_Escher,_Bach -

wiki pages at World University & School ...

MMMmmmmm ... :)

(Virtual Scores are emerging - Bach, J.S.. 2012. [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y76uH2xu670 Johann Sebastian Bach's, Fugue in G minor BWV 578 piano solo sheet music - Video Score]. Virtual Sheet Music. ... which I've added to the above WUaS J.S. Bach page, using the AAA citation form I've been using)

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Hey Scott MacLeod you may enjoy this homage to Bach :)

http://www.brainpickings.org/index.php/2012/01/17/mandala-daniel-starr-tambor/

Here's further homage to JS Bach ... http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Johann_Sebastian_Bach ... the World Univ & Sch, wiki, JS Bach page ... listen to the music here :)

and ...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cW1WXZqiQCM

Bach. BWV 1004. Chaconne violin solo. Viktoria Mullova.

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Honeycreeper: "Big Study Links Good Teachers to Lasting Gain," WUaS longitudinal research approaches with live MIT OCW, WUaS Great Universities-focus

2012-01-22T13:05:00.000-08:00

"Big Study Links Good Teachers to Lasting Gain" - http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/06/education/big-study-links-good-teachers-to-lasting-gain.html - WUaS hopes to incorporate such longitudinal research approaches into its offering of free Bachelor, Ph.D., Law and MD degrees. Let WUaS know if you're interested in designing such studies. WUaS plans to offer its first, free MIT High School class for credit this fall, as a feed in to its matriculating Bachelor's degree class in 2014.

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And, ideally, World University & School in its early years of matriculation (2014 for its first Bachelor's degree class), would choose to stream MIT professors live into virtual spaces, like G + Hangouts with group video chat, with WUaS-hired graduated students, as online instructing aides.

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BB:

Hey Scott MacLeod have you heard of this tuition-free university UotP?

http://www.uopeople.org/

Scott:

Hi, BB ... Here's my letter to the Chronicle of Higher Education - http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2011/07/machu-pichu-letter-to-chronicle-of.html - (unpublished) characterizing World University & School and its differences from UotP, and others. And here are the free (UotP charges 'fees'), open universities at WUaS (http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Courses#Course_listings.27_aggregates), and here are the 'great' universities for Open Educational Resources that WUaS wants to come into conversation with, in particular - http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Courses#University_course_listings. And WUaS is focusing on accrediting on MIT OCW for free degrees. Thanks, Scott

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Swift: Film on 'Play' called "Seriously," WUaS Play subject, Comedies - Birds of Britain, O Canada the beautiful ... :)

2012-01-21T17:57:00.000-08:00

... will look to add this film on play, called "Seriously," - http://vimeo.com/34233390 - to World Univ & Sch's wiki (which is playing) "Play" subject - http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Play ...

... simply mustn't add this

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

to the WUaS's Comedy page - http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Comedy - What is that last bird-in-a-hand?

Hmmm ... O Canada the beautiful ... :)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BrhA0sEkuaM

Temperate Rainforest: Great, cello lesson with Yo-yo Ma, World Univ & Sch's wiki, Cello, subject page, And Music School

2012-01-20T20:09:00.000-08:00

Great, cello lesson with Yo-yo Ma -

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

... added to World Univ & Sch's wiki, Cello, subject page - http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Cello - accessible from the Music School: http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/World_University_Music_School.

... lots to learn from this besides cello playing ...

Space Nebula - Hubble: "In the space between ... home at Harbin," Wild and beautiful Fibonacci art & mathematics' animation, Loving bliss dance?

2012-01-19T10:49:00.000-08:00

'In the space between, among warm water molecules, home at Harbin' ... http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2012/01/in-space-between-among-warm-water.html ... { ~~~ Harbin Hot Springs - http://harbin.org/} ... some new Haku-ish ... :) (see also Watsu - water shiatsu at WUaS - http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Watsu_-_water_shiatsu)

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beautiful ... :)

dis, quand reviendras-tu ~ martha wainwright

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m_qg_itL6-Y

seulement 'a head shot,' n'est-ce pas? ... pas mal ...

(just a head shot, right? ... not bad ... )

To Art ...

Street Art Utopia
http://www.streetartutopia.com/?p=5982

... will add to World University and School's Art subject -

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

where you can make art, or teach it, or learn about it, or create ...

Heartsong! ... wild and beautiful Fibonacci and mathematics' animation ... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aBzAO72NuIc ... will look to add to World University & School's 'Mathematics' and 'New Age' subjects http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Subjects :)

... love it, and very amusing -

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8grzRgQ_AWY -

will add to World University & School's wiki Dance subject page ...

http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Dance :)

Weightless by Erika Janunger ...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iiJhRjBEm6o

... kind of wild ... and beautiful ... how did she do this? ... intend to add to WUaS's Dance subject ... http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Dance ...

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Art ... and loving bliss?

{http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Loving_Bliss_%28eliciting_this_neurophysiology%29}

... with dance? with music? with Harbin? ... what are some musical scores, or choreographies, for our, bodymind musical instruments?

Bonxies: Bagpiping, New, 'Pibroch, Piobaireachd or Ceòl Mór,' wiki subject at WUaS, Scottish Country Dancing, Piping, Arts for bliss elicitation?

2012-01-18T14:45:00.000-08:00

New, Pibroch, Piobaireachd or Ceòl Mór wiki subject at WUaS -

http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Pibroch,_Piobaireachd_or_Ce%C3%B2l_M%C3%B3r

linked to WUaS's Bagpipe Tutorials -

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

where I hope we can link great recordings of most Piobaireachds, over time. Kenny MacLean's "The Desperate Battle," is the first piece on this new page.

Very nice :) "The Desperate Battle" played by Kenny MacLean ...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sVJG2pUw3gY ... "Is this the same kenneth maclean who won the gold for piobaireachd in oban in 1974?" ... will add to upcoming Piobaireachd wiki subject at WUaS linked from here - http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Bagpipe_Tutorials - Would like to wiki-link great recordings of most Piobaireachds, over time.

Thunderstruck - by Gordon Duncan - anew - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y4T0813Wtrc ... Fresh Cut Memory: Andrew Forbes (borderpipes), Mason Brown (guitar) and Scott Parker Mast (percussion) performing Gordon Duncan's "Thunderstruck" at the Laughing Goat in Boulder, Colorado.

Fred Morrison, The Hard Drive, Glasgow - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QdCaeVWB9t8 - no description available

... new improvisation subject in the Bagpipe Tutorials' subject at WUaS?

Scottish Country Dancing in Edinburgh ... RSCDS Edinburgh Branch Demonstration Team Jan'08

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z4GkIWVn4M0 ... looking for SCD to live bagpipe, but this is nice ... will add to upcoming WUaS Scottish Country Dance wiki subject ... http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Subjects ...

Just learned of the music library on Leeandsonsbagpipes.com. These were all recorded my Jack Lee (who has won every major prize in piping) on the pipes in the last few years and include some real gems, such as the Fiddler's Rally, David Ross of Rosehall and others. They now have over 1,400 tunes on our site available for download. This is quite a treasure! ... will add this as reference to WUaS to http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Bagpipe_Tutorials and http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Pibroch,_Piobaireachd_or_Ce%C3%B2l_M%C3%B3r pages. Looking forward to Jack Lee's upcoming course, beginning on January 19th, "Bagpipe Sound Essentials"... http://www.dojouniversity.com/classes# ...

... continuing to think about how to elicit bliss, and loving bliss, particularly vis-a-vis these Scottish arts ...

Violetears: Yoga, MIT's "A Meditation on Mediation: A Close Reading of Olivier’s Cough," Questioning Yoga & Meditation, Relaxation Response

2012-01-18T07:58:00.000-08:00

Yoga & Happiness {http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Yoga

and http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Happiness}

... healthy bodymind from exploring, playfully even, all the asanas

... and turn on your favorite musics for neural cascades of pleasure, whenever you like ...

http://pandora.com ...

{and Play: http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Play} ... sounds good :)

... just added MIT OCW resource on 'meditation' -

"A Meditation on Mediation: A Close Reading of Olivier’s Cough"

(http://ocw.mit.edu/courses/comparative-media-studies/cms-796-major-media-texts-fall-2006/assignments/ford2.pdf)

to World Univ & Sch's 'Meditation,' wiki subject -

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

to extend the concept of meditation here,

and in the direction of MIT ...

... will probably add to WUaS's wiki Yoga page - 'Shit Yogis Say' ... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IMC1_RH_b3k ... :) ... http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Yoga ... right on ...

... added this article

"How Yoga Can Wreck Your Body"

(http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/08/magazine/how-yoga-can-wreck-your-body.html),

and the author of this NYT's article William J. Broad's forthcoming book on the Science of Yoga

to World University & School's wiki, Yoga, subject page -

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

(WUaS is like Wikipedia with MIT Open Course Ware, with free Bachelors, Ph.D., Law and M.D. degrees planned, accrediting on MIT OCW).

SM: MK - did you see this? :)

MK: Yes, it's been making quite the rounds in yoga circles

SM: http://bernadettebirney.com/2012/01/oh-fer-crying-out-loud.html :)

Oh, Fer Crying Out Loud | Bernadette Birney: It's about yoga (sort of)

JL: yikes I've been doing Iyengar Yoga for a couple of years now

SM ‎... glad for a diversity of perspective such as Broad (and Glaser) articulate ... hope your body isn't too wrecked :) ... am interested in looking at Broad's upcoming book ...

JL well, running marathons did more damage.

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From the land where yoga originated:

What to make of this?

"India: The Curious Case of Draping Statues to Ensure Fair Elections" ...

http://globalvoicesonline.org/2012/01/11/india-the-curious-case-of-draping-statues-to-ensure-fair-elections/

Ah, socioculture ...

... will add to World Univ & Sch's 'India,' subject page, -

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

which is the beginning of the India World University and School ...

Check out the video news story ... Youtube in India ...

... still enjoying the Relaxation Response ... http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Relaxation_Response ... especially in the Harbin warm pool :)

I'm so glad people are rigorously, and sceptically, questioning yoga and meditation, as well as practicing them, ~ and that both approaches are part of, and inform, World University & School.

Orchids?: Looking for Sal Khan informed-approach to Remedial Math & English drawing on MIT OCW High School, Growing WUaS Music-Making, flourishingly

2012-01-17T11:19:00.000-08:00

… looking for a Salman Khan informed-approach (http://www.khanacademy.org/) to Remedial Math and Remedial English drawing on MIT OCW High School ... (that would help students become MIT overachievers - probably not this last bit) for the fall, for C.U., and in general.

WUaS would like to offer one MIT OCW High School (http://ocw.mit.edu/high-school/) course this autumn, as a kind of 'feed-in' for its first, matriculating Bachelor's class in 2014, and to start facilitating teaching, as well. I don't think WUaS will seek accreditation at the high school level, at least early, but will do so for Bachelor, Ph.D., Law and M.D.

And looking to grow music-making, flourishingly, online and interactively, as well (http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/World_University_Music_School).

Nice to be in touch.

Best regards,

Scott

Dragonflies: New, 'Complexity Theory,' wiki subject at WUaS, Great interview: MITX Fireside Chat w Joi Ito-MIT Media Lab, WUaS All Languages Media Lab

2012-01-16T13:24:00.000-08:00

New, 'Complexity Theory' Wiki subject at WUaS - http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Complexity_Theory - with 3 MIT OCW courses, plus ...

Great interview: MITX Fireside Chat with Larry Weber & Joichi Ito, MIT Media Lab ... http://digitalinfluencegroup.com/2012/larry-weber-joi-ito/ ... worth listening to ... I enjoyed it here when Joi was asked to comment on a number of different companies off the top of his head, and Joi suggested, about MIT and Stanford, that he was most interested in these as learning and innovation places (about which I'm interested vis-a-vis World Univ & Sch, especially as wiki ... Here's a subject page about Wiki at wiki WUaS http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Wiki) ... with an invitation to edit ... (see also http://singularityhub.com/2012/01/10/whos-donating-to-wikipedia-everybody-latest-drive-raises-20m-from-1m-donors/).

One main goal of the INTERNET-CENTRIC Media Lab at World University and School is to allow people to innovate and play online, and not only eventual graduate students at also TECHNOLOGY-CENTRIC WUaS ... http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Media_Lab_at_World_University_and_School ... (also recently updated) ... with an invitation to YOU to 'edit this page.' WUaS is planning to be in 3,000-8,000 languages, and in around 200 countries, with an online Media Lab at WUaS in many ...

Rainbow lorikeets: Remembering the Rainbow Gathering, How to generate love?

2012-01-15T16:39:00.000-08:00

Remembering the Rainbow Gathering, in this not so bleak mid-winter, ...

'Lovin' you, sisters & brothers' ...

is something you hear a lot in those woods,

and a lot of people FEEL the love there, in my experience -

maybe it's just the gathering/communitas/(counter)culture.

Curious how to generate cultures of love,

vis-a-vis World Univ & Sch,

an online, startup university,

which hopes to come into rich conversation with MIT, Stanford, Princeton, Harvard, Yale, Cambridge and other great universities, especially.

It's possible to generate cultures of love

(e.g. my earliest years thanks to my folks, Grateful Dead concerts, Scottish Country Dancing, Ceilidh, etc., all, in some ways).

In what myriad ways is this possible, building on MIT OCW & wiki?

See, for example, the Loving Bliss Neurophysiology Eliciting wiki subject at WUaS - http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Loving_Bliss_(eliciting_this_neurophysiology) ...

as one starting place, or perhaps the WUaS's "Singing Harmony" wiki subject, - http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Singing_Harmony - or add a new subject, or develop an existing one, here - http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Subjects ... :)

How to generate love?

The Quaker - Neopithecops zalmora zalmora: A Stanford / Haverford / Swarthmore (Quaker/Friendly) academic excellence ETHOS at WUaS, Quaker Network

2012-01-15T07:03:00.000-08:00

How to facilitate a Stanford University / Haverford College / Swarthmore College (Quaker/Friendly) academic excellence ETHOS for World University & School, especially informing WUaS Research (e.g. medicine, computer science, Media Lab, etc.) ... http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Research ... at WUaS?

Hire Quaker researchers with an undergraduate / graduate degree from these great universities -

http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Courses#University_course_listings -

esp. MIT, Stanford, Harvard , Yale, Princeton, Cambridge, etc.?

That would do it ...

Anecdotally, people I know who have graduated from the Quaker, Earlham College, in Indiana, have seemed to love their experience / time there, more so even than at the other Quaker colleges of Haverford and Swarthmore. I wonder why this is; my sample is very small. But might this be because Earlham creates greater community, and communitas, drawing on its Quaker history, and as a fairly rural school, compared with Swarthmore and Haverford?

... would like to 'roll out' wiki World University & School, internationally, especially for accreditation in 50-100 countries, through a network of unprogrammed Quaker Meetings (e.g. in Seoul, Tokyo, Stockholm, Amsterdam, Beijing, Hong Kong, Johannesburg, Sydney, Auckland, Buenos Aires, Toronto, Mexico City, Cambridge, Berlin, Paris, etc. ), in conjunction with the great universities, here ... http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Courses#University_course_listings ...

Yea, JR! "Public strength" (affirming public education) - http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/12004/1201049-110-3.stm ... World University & School is public education, worldwide, extending MIT Open Course Ware / MITx ... as well as via wiki ... http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/World_University ... and planned for 3,000-8,000 languages and 200 countries (Wikipedia is in 281 langugages, by way of comparison).

How to generate a loving ethos, where students flourish, in an educational environment, a school, online in the case of WUaS, drawing on the histories of relatively relaxed and excellent, easy-going Stanford, Haverford and Swarthmore (due to financial stability and California/Quaker/excellence - orientations?), which seem to draw academically overachieving students?

Shell life: Highlights from the 28th Chaos Communications Congress, Internet as Human and/or Civil Right, OLPC

2012-01-14T19:51:00.001-08:00

Highlights from the 28th Chaos Communications Congress ... http://advocacy.globalvoicesonline.org/2012/01/05/highlights-and-videos-from-the-28th-chaos-communications-congress/ ... including a 1.5 hour video on how governments have tried to block TOR ... will add to WUaS's Hacking wiki, subject page - http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Hacking_-_Computers_(certified,_ethical) ... and WUaS's Security subject, perhaps, as well ...

There are a lot of fascinating videos here, offering insight into the web today, from a lot of programmers.

The internet as a Human and/or Civil Right, by Vint Cerf (vis-a-vis telephone as 'universal service' in the U.S.) ... (the picture is apropos, too) http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/05/opinion/internet-access-is-not-a-human-right.html. World Univ & Sch would like to extend this to all 3,000-8,000 languages and 200 countries ... education as a universal service ... (http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/If_There_Beyond :)

Important video, please spread widely. PROTECT IP / SOPA Act Breaks the Internet ... http://t.co/bit3V8Gw ... http://fightforthefuture.org/pipa/ ...

"Why we need One Laptop per Child in the U.S." - http://blog.laptop.org/2012/01/10/why-we-need-olpc-in-the-us-img/ ... will add to wiki World University and School's One Laptop per Child subject page: http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/One_Laptop_per_Child_-_XO_Laptop_-_$100_Laptop_-_MIT and the new XO Tablet , the OLPC XO-3 unveiled at CES 2012 - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wBin1tc4T5c ... with solar panel and hand crank, etc. Nicholas likes to say "The warranty is void until you take it apart" :) (WUaS invites you to edit a page, as well).

Thoughtful retrospective on One Laptop per Child - http://www.miller-mccune.com/education/one-laptop-per-child-redux-38589/ - which will airdrop olpcs next week, some in African countries ... will http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/One_Laptop_per_Child_-_XO_Laptop_-_$100_Laptop_-_MIT ...

Jamaican students making poetry about the OLPC in OLPC News - '''OLPC Jamaica'''

Derndorfer, Christoph. 2011. [http://www.olpcnews.com/countries/jamaica/when_me_see_di_xo_jamaican_student_poetry.html "When Me See Di XO" - Jamaican Student Poetry About the XO]. November 18. Cambridge, MA: OLPC News.

... adding to WUaS's OLPC - http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/One_Laptop_per_Child_-_XO_Laptop_-_$100_Laptop_-_MIT - wiki subject page.

Solar-Powered Internet Connectivity a Reality in Lascahobas, Haiti! ... will look to add to WUaS's OLPC http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/One_Laptop_per_Child_-_XO_Laptop_-_$100_Laptop_-_MIT and Solar Energy http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Solar_Energy wiki Subjects

Great UC Berkeley Globetrotter interview of Manuel Castells, with video ...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0GBB7U5mv0w

which I've posted before in this blog, and in the course I teach ...

Inca Trail Begonia: The Grateful Dead rock here, Dickey Betts jamming with Jerry Garcia, Gr@teful De@d Scarlet Begonias Greek Theater

2012-01-13T13:13:00.000-08:00

The Grateful Dead rock here -

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bD_36cuiXvU ...

...may add some of these here ~ http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Grateful_Dead ...

Dickey Betts jamming with Jerry Garcia during the Grateful Dead & Allman Brothers show at RFK Stadium ...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rA2jGRkaR6s ... nice

... will look to add to -

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

Gr@teful De@d Scarlet Begonias Greek Theater 1988 ...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LUTtdnr42Gs

... right here in Berkeley in the Bay Area, just a few years ago ...

hard to handle 2-14-70 fillmore east ... grateful dead ...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xdNiKbe_1QI

... around valentine's day in nyc :)

I'm curious why Friday the 13th resonates superstitiously through history.

Why is superstition part of humans?

I hypothesize that it's a meme - a 'replicating, cultural unit' - which is associated with a number and day in this case, with some kind of negative experience. People repeat this, and talk about, and somehow the idea passes from brain to brain, bodymind to bodymind, possibly making some people feel bad.

It seems best to me to mimimize, or inhibit, its signifiance, if it has any significance, for anyone, (even as a kind of coping strategy).

And why not celebrate such days in a kind of reversal of this curious, negative Friday the 13th meme, as a creative opportunity, and, for example, go to a Dead concert online, and rock out. :)

How to learn to create concerts online? :)

PawPaw - three part flower: NEW, WUaS 'Reading,' 'Neurophysiology,' and 'Entrepreneurship,' wiki subjects

2012-01-12T16:45:00.000-08:00

‎... will begin a new Neurophysiology wiki-page at World Univ & Sch soon and will add this article on Teens and hormones - http://mobile.nytimes.com/2011/12/27/science/now-we-are-six-the-hormone-surge-of-middle-childhood.xml - which also includes a focus on the neurophysiology of Omega 3 fatty acids, as well as MDMA, and their significances for this WUaS conception of neurophysiology. See also Neurobiology for more MIT OCW course focused, related conceptions - http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Neurobiology - at WUaS.

Here's the NEW, WUaS, Neurophysiology, wiki subject -http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Neurophysiology :)

New MIT OCW Global Entrepreneurship course - http://ocw.mit.edu/courses/sloan-school-of-management/15-389a-global-entrepreneurship-lab-asia-pacific-fall-2010/ - added to NEW WUaS 'Entrepreneurship,' wiki, WUaS subject - http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Entrepreneurship, with many updated, Economics' subjects - http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Special:WikiActivity plus more .... what makes academic subjects (think MIT OCW) fun or inviting for you?

With this, NEW, WUaS 'Entrepreneurship,' wiki subject, with 4 MIT OCW courses -

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

you can innovate a lot in entrepreneurialism ... here, now, at WUaS and in your life ...

New 'Reading' subject at WUaS - http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Reading ... and new Entrepreneurship wiki WUaS subject, as well - http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Entrepreneurship, with many updated, economics' subjects - http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Special:WikiActivity.

Curious about synthesizing Reading (new subject at WUaS?) and the Relaxation Response (http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Relaxation_Response), in terms of biology (symbolic processing for flow experiences, concentration, and bodymind releasing) :) Focusing on reading, how to, in terms of thinking, etc., would be interesting and edifying, especially vis-a-vis the NEW WUaS Neurophysiology subject - http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Neurophysiology :)

So,

NEW, WUaS 'Reading,' 'Neurophysiology,' and 'Entrepreneurship,' wiki subjects - http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Reading, http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Entrepreneurship, http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Neurophysiology, with many updated, Economics' subjects - http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Special:WikiActivity plus more ...

World University & School simply EXTENDS Wikipedia (now in around 281 languages), and MIT Open Course Ware (with < 2000 MIT courses, in English) to all 3,000-8,000 languages, and 200 countries, in terms of open, free teaching and learning resources, wiki-wise, where you can teach to your web cam, for ex., or in a Google + Hangout ... http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Subjects ... which will benefit so many people, and AUGMENTS our current conversation about education, world wide, because, like Wikipedia, we can all teach to each other. WUaS also BUILDS on MIT OCW as a great, knowledge-oriented, academic standard. Please edit a WUaS page, in ways you'd like to teach or learn.

What makes academic subjects (think MIT OCW) fun or inviting for you?

Heard 3 inspiring talks today about internet freedom & innovation, in one way or another, - by Rebecca MacKinnon about her new book 'Consent of the Networked,' at Stanford, by Marissa Mayer from Google at the CHM, and by FTC commissioner Julie Brill at Stanford ... The internet's future is in open innovation. See WUaS ... http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Innovation ... in this respect, as well.

Flying Animals: Android Icecream Sandwich - Google's E. Schmidt, Robotic jumping, gliding & leaping, Top 10 University Anthropology, Science & Virtual

2012-01-11T16:43:00.000-08:00

Android Icecream Sandwich: Google's Eric Schmidt and Hugo Barra present a demo of new Android Icecream Sandwich in Paris -

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1l4EGstuCzs ...

and ... CNET's review of Ice Cream Sandwich - http://reviews.cnet.com/8301-19736_7-57325419-251/android-4.0-ice-cream-sandwich-review-cool-confident-chaotic/ - cool ...

New forms of Robotic jumping, gliding and leaping - http://hardware.slashdot.org/story/11/12/27/2347236/experimenting-with-robotic-movement (in French-speaking Lusuanne, Switzerland) - cool ... will add to World University & School's wiki subject http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Robotics.

Which are the Top 10 University Anthropology programs in the world? The anthropology departments at these great Universities - http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Courses#University_course_listings - which include Columbia and the Univ. of Chicago? (World University & School is like Wikipedia with MIT Open Course Ware, and is planning free degrees (Bachelors, Ph.D., Law and M.D.) with its first, matriculating, Bachelor's class in 2014, accredited in California. Academic, wiki, Subject pages, such as this Anthropology page - http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Anthropology - will become departments, as well). How to make this wiki, Anthro page a great department, is a question I'm focusing on. What makes an academic department great? Quality of writing, and media generation, anthropologically, by faculty and students, as well as generating new approaches to anthropological research? (http://scottmacleod.com/)

Science in Virtual Worlds -

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FB33pV2L0Vo -

Great ... will add to World University & School's wiki, Science - (http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Virtual_Worlds), and Virtual Worlds' (http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Science) subject pages.

Milky way: Great news - Wikipedia's financial base is stable, $20 million, WUaS would like to grow similarly, Wikimedia Foundation 2011-12 Annual Plan

2012-01-10T10:18:00.000-08:00

Great news - Wikipedia's financial base is stable ...

See:

"Who’s Donating to Wikipedia? Everybody. Latest Drive Raises $20M from 1M+ Donors"

http://singularityhub.com/2012/01/10/whos-donating-to-wikipedia-everybody-latest-drive-raises-20m-from-1m-donors/ (with its "State of Wikipedia" video) and

"Wikipedia will survive for another year, reaches $20 million fundraising target"

http://sociable.co/web/wikipedia-will-survive-for-another-year-reaches-20-million-fundraising-target/

Here's its Wikimedia Foundation 2011-12 Annual Plan

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/foundation/3/37/2011-12_Wikimedia_Foundation_Plan_FINAL_FOR_WEBSITE_.pdf

... World University & School - like Wikipedia with MIT Open Course Ware - is planning free, online Bachelor, Ph.D. Law, and M.D. degrees, accrediting on MIT OCW - and would like to grow similarly ... ( http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/World_University_Foundation )

And here's WUaS's "Wiki," wiki subject page with the above resources, and more ...

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

Lynx: U.S. states that don't have a Medical School, Maine, Online Medicine at WUaS

2012-01-09T16:57:00.000-08:00

A number of states in the U.S. don't have a Medical School. Maine is one of them. World University and School's beginning Medical School - http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/World_University_Medical_School, - and WUaS's planned membership business model, may make online Medical School, as well as online Medicine (http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Hospital) collaborations possible, with U.S. states, as well as with countries around the world. WUaS Membership wiki-page to come ...

Hummingbird: Growing number of 'singing' links for open teaching and learning resources, Singing Harmony & Bass Lines, INTERACTIVELY & ONLINE at WUaS

2012-01-08T10:21:00.000-08:00

The number of 'singing' links and resources on World University and School's wiki, 'Singing' page for open teaching and learning resources, (about kinds of singing which are really fun, in my experience), is growing - http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Singing#World_University_and_School_Links - and open ended.

I'm interested in helping them 'come alive,' in terms of open and skillful learning and teaching via the web.

For example, I'm facilitating an open Playing / Practicing Music Space (http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Practicing_-_Playing_a_Musical_Instrument) on Wednesday evenings from 9 - 10 pm PT - where people can play what they're learning in a Google + group video chat hangout, or simply play, as one example - openly, freely, in a friendly way and easily.

A few people have come so far.

And I'd like to learn to Sing Walking Base Lines skillfully and improvisationally - http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Singing_Walking_Bass_Lines - but haven't figured out this one, yet, :)

... and similarly with "Singing Harmony" ... http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Singing_Harmony.

The most recent, WUaS singing page is

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

Let's explore music-making in fun and creative ways ...

... and especially with kids at Meeting, in schools, and all around.

Keep an eye out for video examples of people making and teaching music to (or learning from) kids, that we might improvise on (e.g. Bobby McFerrin).

Here's a great teaching and learning video with Bobby McFerrin at Davies Hall in San Francisco -

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OS26WY2PG8Q

which I've added to WUaS Singing Harmony page above ...

Nagamali flower: {Open} Business Meeting - Agenda, World University and School Saturday, January 14, 2011, 9 am, Pacific Time

2012-01-07T15:19:00.000-08:00

{Open} hour-long Business Meeting - Agenda

World University and School

Saturday, January 14, 2011

9 am, Pacific Time

Want to participate? ... add a note here below ...

- Recent developments

- Accreditation

- Finance & Budget

- Quakers

- A MIT OCW High School WUaS course in the Autumn

- MIT

- Closure

(December 10, 2011 Meeting Agenda - http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2011/12/gloriosa-lily-world-university-and.html)

(October 29, 2011 Meeting Agenda -

http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2011/10/henderson-island-south-seas-uk-open.html)

Pelicans and Flying Rays: New subject at WUaS - "New Orleans Jazz," Muppet Ad for Jamming in Google +, WUaS Musical Jamming page

2012-01-06T13:21:00.000-08:00

New subject at WUaS - "New Orleans Jazz" - as wiki page -

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

Check out the Black Eagles and Duke Ellington's versions of "The Mooche" on the above page ...

sizzling ...

add some of your own, by recording to youtube ... start a jam :)

This goes right 'there,' as well -

Tight Like This: New Black Eagle Jazz Band

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h3l2YEwWpaA :)

and tuba-wise, to be sure :)

Louis Armstrong and his All Stars. 1962. [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ncXtUml7M6M LOUIS ARMSTRONG Canal Street Blues ... World University & School's new, New Orleans Jazz wiki subject: http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/New_Orleans_Jazz :)

very nice ... Dr. Michael White - Give it up (gypsy second line) ... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ApfqeUWpTmk ...

Trumpet soars here - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_NI5gtt5RR4&feature=fvwrel :)

Musical Jamming in a Google + Hangout ...

great Muppet Ad from Google about this, and, well, just hanging out ...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=BSsJtzPng5U ...

Here's the WUaS Musical Jamming, wiki, subject page -

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

at WUaS, for to jam ...

Irrawaddy dolphin: Very nice ... 'Descant singing Hallelujah,' New, "Singing Descant," wiki, subject page at World Univ & Sch, Listen to videos :)

2012-01-05T16:27:00.000-08:00

Very nice ... 'Descant singing Hallelujah' -

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bq73c-Rzs-0 ...

(Austin College Descant at Fall Concert) ...

... new, "Singing Descant," wiki, subject page at World University & School -

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

... descant singing, - very beautiful, very beautiful :)

{listen to some of the videos :) }

The number of "Singing" pages at WUaS is growing ... http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Singing#World_University_and_School_Links ... singing is {very} enjoyable, and potentially very easy, and in groups, via the web ...

Here's a good example of how people might teach a descant line to their web camera ...

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

... for learning ...

not perfect, but singers could learn the line pretty clearly from home ...

... and nice Descant here :

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

In the space between, among warm water molecules, home at Harbin.

2012-01-04T22:04:00.000-08:00

In the space between,

among warm water molecules,

home at Harbin.

Fluid, water suit

fits all, in all ways,

connectingly.

Warm pool symbiosis,

unfolds fluently,

this water is live.

Encompassed in warmth,

releasing inside,

warm pool surrounds,

now.

Tao is,

in Harbin's warm water,

one-now.

Naked women are pretty,

Harbin pool area-wise, ~

biology.

People become

water birds,

soaking at Harbin.

One with nature,

Harbin's waters' warmth serene,

come again & again.

People wax water primates,

nature-returning,

warm pool nude oneness.

January sunshine,

people walk naked

in watery light.

Harbin's hippies

un-commune communally,

warm pool-wise.

No hippies here,

in Harbin's warmth ~

just naked, h2o be-ins.

Berkeley, Claremont wildflowers: Tolkien knew how to tell stories, and explain them ... Happy birthday, J.R.R. Tolkien :)

2012-01-03T19:42:00.000-08:00

Tolkien knew how to tell stories, and explain them ... Happy birthday, J.R.R. Tolkien :)

“I have claimed that Escape is one of the main functions of fairy-stories, and since I do not disapprove of them, it is plain that I do not accept the tone of scorn or pity with which ‘Escape’ is now so often used. Why should a man be scorned if, finding himself in prison, he tries to get out and go home? Or if he cannot do so, he thinks and talks about other topics than jailers and prison-walls?”

— J. R. R. Tolkien, born January 3, 1892 — 120 years ago today!

As the fit takes me —

~~~

Egrets stroll: Watsu, Tablets, in designing virtual Harbin, Screens on 4 sides? "Lifelong Kindergarten | MIT Media Lab," where you can play online NOW

2012-01-03T16:01:00.000-08:00

‎... is excited to plan for tablets, in designing virtual Harbin, but also for unexpected developments in virtual worlds ... I would guess it won't be long before some rooms have screens on all 4 sides, and that this could later become a kind of virtual immersive pool, for example. Will such projections be self-standing, not needing walls or screens, eventually? ... interesting Water Dance / Water Shiatsu School potentials ... http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Watsu_-_water_shiatsu ~~~ Check out the videos here ... :)

‎(.... and, as ethnographic field site for actual/virtual comparison, and a first, World University & School 'classroom' - idea exchange spaces ...)

Very nice glimpse into virtual world developments, with mesh technologies ... and holiday message, from Bernhard Drax :)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q5eL_0vHvm0

Just added "Lifelong Kindergarten | MIT Media Lab," where you can play online NOW -

http://www.media.mit.edu/research/groups/lifelong-kindergarten ...

"Many of our online interactions take place in community spaces. We keep track ... You can sketch musical instruments on paper and play them with your finger. ... " ... to the Media Lab at World University and School - http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Media_Lab_at_World_University_and_School , where YOU can begin to innovate, in ways you create, WIKI-wise.

Stempel thinks companies want to innovate ... http://blog.media.mit.edu/2011/11/how-does-society-react-when-technology.html ... and open, free World Univ & Sch will be open to innovators in them, as well ...

Sep Kamvar's presentation, and all of them, are wild -

here http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SaONPh4C4j0

and here:

http://www.media.mit.edu/events/movies/video.php?id=nun-2011-10-13-6 (not sure where this page went - there were three presenters at this event, I think).

Media Lab at World University & School is planned potentially for 3,000-8,000 languages ... that's a lot of playing :)

Elephant seals: Santa Cruz, on New Year's Day

2012-01-02T13:59:00.000-08:00

Santa Cruz, on New Year's Day

People on the street,

with backpacks

and long hair,

colorful clothes,

a little down & out, -

that western, freedom thing, -

and sunny, comfortable weather,

I'm heading for

Dance Church of Santa Cruz, ~

first time ever.

The trip is fast

from the S.F. Bay,

on Sunday morning,

on a Spare the Air Day,

per the radio,

to this still alternative city.

The winding road,

17 South,

begins, and

the world changes

into Santa Cruz,

northern California.

Getting to the dance late,

exploring a little,

I may head to see the

elephant seals

at Año Nuevo,

later today.

It's breeding season.

The front door

is getting locked,

and the man wearing a Fez, says

'Want in?'

And I say 'Is this Dance Church?'

'Yea, it's just over,' he says.

'Can I just see the space?' I ask.

'Yea,' he says,

'but another class is just coming in.'

I walk in the front door

of 418 Front Street,

passing among the dancers, -

all relaxed, chatting, happy,

alternative types,

in colorful, loose clothing, -

and out the main, side door.

I may try to camp

the night before,

and come

another time.

I walk into downtown Santa Cruz,

from Front, along Cathcart Street,

to Pacific Ave., with all its businesses, -

Latino ones, especially.

There are a lot of

alternative types here, too.

The revolution is happening,

in a low-key way,

and, from the 1960s,

both business- ... ,

and California-wise,

in this beach city.

I imagine business practices

in Santa Cruz are humane,

and compassionate,

and people-friendly, -

yet with still a lot of

street people on-the-ground.

The weather is great today.

I hear

nice guitar, with slide,

by that old long-hair,

sitting on a bench on Pacific Ave.,

on such a beautiful, sunny day.

I walk

down to the Town Clock,

which looks like a bell tower,

at the end of Pacific, -

it seems like the nicest part

of this avenue,

but few people are here.

Sunday motorcyclists

roll in, dressed in black,

two by two,

revving their engines, -

on a New Year's ride.

I head into the

great bookstore,

Bookshop Santa Cruz,

and am transported,

into the world of words,

and exploration.

O, the relaxation response, ~

with books!

I head on, exploring,

via the Quaker Meeting House,

which I've never visited before,

with a large peace sign

under its eaves,

toward Año Nuevo.

Stopping at Whale City Bakery,

north of Santa Cruz, -

it's crowded, ...

"Crazy," the waitress says
about this.

The warmth in the air

feels like Global Warming.

Will this coastline

diminish 20 feet in my life time,

as the oceans rise?

Año Nuevo,

with its breeding,

elephant seals,

costs $10 to park,

and all the tours,

with rangers,

are booked for the day,

so I continue northward,

detouring to

Pigeon Point Light House,

with its Youth Hostel,

with hot tub.

A lot of people are visiting today.

A frowsy group of motorcyclists,

their black leather all asunder,

are waddling back to their hogs,

from their tourist stop;

don't know if they're the same

folks as above.

First time it hasn't rained

in eight years

on New Year's Day,

per the cashier in the gift shop,

(who enjoys the Half Moon Bay sailing club

with Cal 20s and Lasers :)

some motorcyclists told her, earlier.

I walk in toward the coast,

past the Youth Hostel.

A great docent,

in the hall

with the restored, Fresnel light,

a radiant jewel -

picture all those lenses,

beaming beehive-like

in your mind -

is giving a talk.

With a slight, English accent,

and possibly the training of an actor,

he engages his listeners,

as raconteur,

talking of this gem

of a beacon light,

to help with ocean navigation.

Back to Canyon,

and a call from

a dear, old friend ...

a birthday exploration,

the day after,

in beautiful California ...

yea to travel ... :)

Dugongs: 4 New Years' Eve poems, In the night... , Bonobo Loving Bliss, I do choose to write the muse of bliss... , How different it is to soak

2012-01-01T08:00:00.001-08:00

Four New Years' Eve poems from the last four years ...

In the night I traveled north to Harbin

(Wednesday, December 31, 2008)

http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2008/12/in-night-i-drove-north-to-harbin.html

Bonobo Loving Bliss

(Thursday, December 31, 2009)

http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2009/12/bonobo-kiss-poetry-of-loving-bliss.html

I do choose to write the muse of bliss unfolding

(Friday, December 31, 2010)

http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2010/12/dugong-and-calf-i-do-choose-to-write.html

How different it is to soak at Harbin, than to realize it virtually

(Saturday, December 31, 2011)

http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2011/12/amboseli-how-different-it-is-to-soak-at.html

Puffins: Scotland got political independence from England in 1997 after 700 years +, Scottish Parliament's Auld Lang Syne, WUaS's Financial Resolution

2011-12-31T23:59:00.000-08:00

Scotland got political independence from England in 1997, after trying in 1976-77, and after 300-700 years +. Scots built a new parliament building at the bottom of the Royal Mile in Edinburgh, near the Palace of Holyroodhouse, as one practical outcome, where Scots make their own decisions as a nation state.

Here are members of the Scottish Parliament singing Robbie Burns' "Auld Lang Syne" together, holding hands:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vu8hwvvmEhc.

I hope World University & School will continue to develop toward independence, in a similar way. Here are two, related WUaS subjects - http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Scots and http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Scottish_Gaelic.

World University & School is curiously an enormous university vision (the biggest?), in ALL 3000-8000 languages and around 200 countries, as wiki, with free Bachelors, Ph.D.s, Law and M.D. degrees, - and with the smallest financial resources perhaps of any university in existence.

WUaS's resolution for 2012 is to develop significantly its financial operations.

Scottish independence article, in Wikipedia:

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

Amboseli: How different it is to soak at Harbin, than to realize it virtually

2011-12-31T19:48:00.000-08:00

How different it is

to soak at Harbin,

than to realize it

virtually,

or in bodymind,

by reading,

thinking,

or viewing

multimedia,

interactively.

Writing in Maine,

over a Christmas visit, -

with long walks on beaches,

and family friends,

and red brick Portland,

and the Wadsworth-Longfellow house,

which invited me

in,

to Longfellow's poetry,

'Often I think of the beautiful town

That is seated by the sea ... '

virtually, -

I hearken

to Harbin's waters,

and warmth,

and wholeness

of being there,

from afar, ...

but, while traveling,

I'm not present,

in that place,

in those

warm

waters,

in that milieu.

As I return

west coast-wise,

I draw closer,

but Harbin's

presence,

and oneness,

are in that

fluid,

geothermal

emergence

from the earth,

in that valley,

remote from the metropole, ~

and yet still far.

A virtual Harbin

is emerging, -

like Harbin's waters, -

to generate warmth,

in multimedia,

from your bathtub,

from home,

developing with the internet, ...

but emerging organically,

as process,

in writing an

actual / virtual Harbin ethnography.

Waters of wholeness, ...

an inner immersion,

in bodymind fluids,

with relaxation response, -

and at times deeply -

is happening, all the time,

yet unparalleled,

and still awaiting,

the concert

of the Harbin pool.

Olduvai Gorge Hippos: In what ways, and how fulsomely, can we go 'there' in our bodyminds? as kids do with children's books, when 'there' is bliss

2011-12-31T08:43:00.000-08:00

In what ways, and how fulsomely, can we go 'there' in our bodyminds, as kids do with children's books, for example, (and with agency and intention), exploring the 'virtual'? ... Here's wiki World University & School's "Children Literature and Wisdom" with great stories - http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Children%27s_Literature_and_Wisdom.

Just re-reading Manuel Castell's chapter on "The Culture of Real Virtuality" (from his "Rise of the Network Society" - 2000) where he theorizes these questions vis-a-vis media and the emergent internet ... (here's a so-so encapsulation: http://www.emayzine.com/infoage/lectures/part_ii_cuture_of_real_virtuality.htm) ... 'Virtuality' is far-reaching. ... let's explore :) (This is relevant here too: http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Practicing_-_Playing_a_Musical_Instrument ... 'there' could be 'narratives,' or anywhere we want, or ? :)

But 'there,' here, might especially be eliciting loving bliss neurophysiology ...

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

and as forms of practices, that might come as easily as soaking in a warm pool like Harbin's.

Marsh Henna: Exciting - Online, wiki, virtual World University & School to STUDY HOW students learn

2011-12-30T08:42:00.000-08:00

Exciting: Online, wiki, virtual World University & School, with its first, matriculating, Bachelor's degree class in 2014, and with its free degrees (Bachelor's, Ph.D., Law and M.D.), accrediting on MIT Open Course Ware, will be able to STUDY HOW students learn, quite rigorously, - http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Research - because this will be mediated by the web. (Reed College undergraduate degrees - required humanities/junior qualifying exams/senior thesis - plus required freshman biology, with widespread computer programming, the equivalent of 32 MIT/great (and rigorous) courses over 4 years, and with a significant engineering/technology focus - are one model for WUaS's undergraduate degrees). And, by beginning to offer free, online MIT OCW High School (http://ocw.mit.edu/high-school/) courses in fall 2012 - for free in Google + group video conference Hangouts partly - WUaS will be able to design research paradigms for studying higher education learning, {as well as FUN in learning, especially:}. WUaS hopes to collaborate richly with MIT OCW (http://ocw.mit.edu/) as well as possibly with MITx (http://www.mitx.org/). (And here's MIT Blossoms - http://blossoms.mit.edu/)

BB:

‎Scott MacLeod - seems you're on the right track with your open World University and School , cheering for you! ty Amy :)

The Intelligent University

http://www.neurope.eu/blog/intelligent-university

Francisco Jaime Quesado is the general manager of the Innovation and Knowledge Society in Portugal

India to eliminate Animal Dissection, and use computer simulations instead ...

http://science.slashdot.org/story/11/12/20/1659221/india-to-cut-out-animal-dissection ... will add to World Univ & Sch's Ahimsa/Nonharming wiki subject page - http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Ahimsa_-_Nonviolence_-_Pacifism_-_To_avoid_harming ... and perhaps the India wiki, subject page ... http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/India ... which is the starting place for the India World University & School.

... and perhaps to the WUaS Research subject page ...

‎... lots of implications for World University and School with these predictions for computing ... http://hardware.slashdot.org/story/11/12/20/1459248/ibms-five-predictions-for-the-next-five-years ... http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/World_University ...

WUaS wants to develop with the internet, as it changes, as well as becomes more interactive, immersive, integrative of media elements, develops new forms of narrativity, and extends hypermedia (Packer & Jordan).

In the developing design of WUaS, WUaS is planning to wiki facilitate creativity in interacting with it ... check out this page, as one example of web page design, in a Grateful Dead vein ... http://www.deadheadland.com/2011/12/ddhnm-tom-ponds-memorial-12-19-at-ashkenaz-rip-tom-ride-on/ ... but there's so much creative artistic possibility here ... http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Design and here ... http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Arts ... and :)

This is really beautiful ... http://cache.reverbnation.com/widgets/swf/18/facebook_widget.swf?id=artist_1152520 ... 'Willin' and all of them ... Patti Cobb :)

Uncle John's Band here ... with harmony :)

I wanna sing harmony like this ... http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Singing_Harmony ... or even learn eventually how to teach singing like this :)

UC Berkeley Professor of Anthropology Nancy Scheper-Hughes on the Crisis of the Public University ... http://chronicle.com/article/The-Crisis-of-the-Public/130135/ ... World University & School ... http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/World_University ... plans to be a solution to some aspects of this crisis, but still, significantly, needs monies to do so ... please donate here - http://scottmacleod.com/worlduniversityandschool.htm - Thank you! and students will also thank you for this opportunity to study, teach (at wiki WUaS) and learn, - engaging MIT Open Course Ware.

Inspiring "Festival of Learning" video -

- about January 27-28, 2012, MIT gathering - http://civic.mit.edu/event/festival-of-learning ! ... thinking about adding each subject in the video to the wiki, Subjects' page - http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Subjects - at World University & School, but I think it's better if the teachers in this Festival of Learning video add their subjects. I will, however, add this video itself to the above WUaS Subjects' page itself in its references. The MIT Media Lab's 'Festival of Learning' this January 2012 reminds me of Reed College's Paideia festival, also in January, where people teach to each other (and like at wiki World Univ. & Sch., too - here in conjunction with MIT Open Course Ware, with free Bachelor, Ph.D., Law, and M.D. degrees planned) :)

Pelican dive: Alan Watts and Zhuangzi, 1960s, Friends/Quakers, Freedom, Meditation, Harbin Hot Springs

2011-12-29T15:40:00.000-08:00

Alan Watts and Zhuangzi

{May add as reference to World University & School's "1960's" wiki subject page - http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/1960s and ? - ( and Quakers are mentioned, interestingly: http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Quakers_-_Religious_Society_of_Friends ) }

Alan Watts and Zhuangzi

Alan dares to question both Western and Eastern spirituality.

Alan Watts

from "The Way of Liberation"

... You see, we are still talking about the same old problem but we have put it one step up. "How can I improve myself?", was the first problem, and the second problem is, "How can I accept grace?", but they are both the same problem because in each case you have got to make a move that will put yourself out of your own control into the control of a "better." And if you do not believe in the Christian kind of a God you can believe in the Hindu kind of a God who is your inner self. You have a lower self that you call your ego - that is that little scoundrelly fellow that is always out for "me." But behind the ego there is the atman, the inner self, or the inward light, as the Quakers call it; it is the real self, the spirit that is substantially identical with God. So you have to meditate in such a way that you identify with your higher self.

But how do you do that? Well, you start by watching all of your thoughts very carefully. You watch your feelings, you watch your emotions, and you begin to build up a sense of separation between the watcher and what is watched. In this way, you are no longer carried away by your own stream of consciousness. You remain the witness, impassively, impartially suspending judgment and watching it all go on.

Now, this seems to be something like progress - at least you are taking an objective view of what is happening, and you are beginning to be in a position to control it. But just wait a minute! Who is this self behind the self, the watching self? Can you watch that one? It is interesting if you do because you find out, of course, that the watching self, or the observing self, behind all your thoughts and feelings is itself a thought. That is to say, when the police enter a house in which there are thieves, the thieves go up from the ground floor to the first floor. When the police arrive on the first floor, the thieves have gone up to the second, and so on to the third and finally out onto the roof. Just so, when the ego is about to be unmasked, it immediately identifies with the higher self. It goes up a level, because the religious game version is simply a refined and high-brow version of the ordinary game: "How can I outwit me?" So if I find, for example, that in the quest for pleasure, the ordinary pleasures of the world - food, sex, power, possessions - become a drag and I think, "No, it is not that," and then I go in for the arts, literature, poetry, and music, and I absorb myself in those pleasures, then after awhile I find that they are not the answer either. So then I go in for psychoanalysis, and I find out that is not the answer, and then I turn to religion, but I'm still seeking what I was seeking when I wanted candy bars! I want to get that goodie.

Only I see now that it is not going to be a material goodie because all material goodies fall apart; but maybe there is a spiritual goodie that will not. Still, the spiritual quest is no different than the quest for the candy bar. Same old story, only you have refined the candy bar and made it abstract and holy and blessed and so on. So it is with the higher self. The higher self is your same old ego, but you sure hope it is eternal, indestructable, and all-wise.

[end of excerpt from "The Way of Liberation"]

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Brilliant writing imo.

Thanks, R.S.!

... :)

The Complete Works Of Chuang Tzu

Translated by Burton Watson

http://terebess.hu/english/chuangtzu.html

The Complete Chuang Tzu

Based on James Legge's Translation

http://oaks.nvg.org/ys1ra5.html

In this Harbin Hot Springs' Quarterly from 2008, meditation, Harbin as 'psychedelic university,' Alan Watts and Harbin's founder, Ishvara's birthday, are all celebrated:

http://www.harbin.org/magazine/magazineSP08.pdf

Harbin Hot Springs' Quarterly Magazine is going online ... http://www.harbin.org/magazine.htm ... http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/search/label/Harbin%20Hot%20Springs ... great ...

Polar Fox: To a Finnish friend and academic, Finnish & Finland World Univ & Schs, Plagiarism as Hacking?, Innovation, Himanen's 'The Hacker Ethic"

2011-12-28T06:40:00.000-08:00

To a Finnish friend and academic (whom I met in England in 2004), in a social networking site: Interesting to learn the gist of your conversation, idea-sharing wise, here - http://translate.google.com/. Is plagiarism a form of hacking? Good citation practices still obtain all these decades into the information technology revolution. Have any of you read Pekka Himanen's, (with Linus Torvalds and Manuel Castells) "The Hacker Ethic and the Spirit of the Information Age"? You'll find the reference here at wiki World University & School's 'Hacking,' subject page: http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Hacking_-_Computers_%28certified,_ethical%29, with an invitation to start the Finnish WUaS in Finnish. WUaS is like Wikipedia with MIT Open Course Ware.

In Finnish:

T.V.:

on joutunut / päässyt plagioinnin kohteeksi. Rauman museonjohtaja kirjoittaa kaupunkilehden sivuilla sanasta sanaan, vain lyhennettynä, vuonna 2007 julkaistun artikkelini sanoin ilman mitään mainintaa lähteestä. Puhelu päätoimittajalle.

A.L.:

No oho! Mulle kävi kerran niin, että yksi luennoitsija luki kirjoittamaani lehtitekstiä pitkät pätkät sanasta sanaan mainitsematta lähdettä. Että pitäiskö nämä ottaa kohteliaisuutena...

T.B.:

Mitä suurinta imartelua!

T.V.:

Asia korjataan, tekstini oli lähtenyt "tausta-aineistona" lehdistölle, ilman mainintaa lähteestä, josta lehti sitten otti sen suoraan sivuilleen.

M.H.:

Onnittelut!

Scott

Interesting to learn the gist of your conversation, idea-sharing wise, here - http://translate.google.com/. Is plagiarism a form of hacking? Good citation practices still obtain all these decades into the information technology revolution. Have any of you read Pekka Himanen's, (Linus Torvalds and Manuel Castells) "The Hacker Ethic and the Spirit of the Information Age"? You'll find the reference here at wiki World University & School's 'Hacking,' subject page: http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Hacking_-_Computers_%28certified,_ethical%29 , with an invitation to start the Finnish WUaS in Finnish. WUaS is like Wikipedia with MIT Open Course Ware.

E.V.:

Ohhoh! Joko tulette kuhmoon

Here's where the beginnings of the Finland World University and School, as well as the Finnish WUaS are ...

WUaS Nation States:

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

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

Promote creativity? Encourage copying: To deny people the right to copy from others is to deny the essence of what it is to be a creative person

by William Patry

http://www.todayonline.com/Commentary/EDC111229-0000015/Promote-creativity

Eastern Box Turtle: MITx - exciting development, World Universitian Letter per these developments, MIT OCW letter on MITx, MITx Letter to MIT Alumnae

2011-12-27T10:24:00.000-08:00

MITx - exciting development ... World University & School continues to plan to offer free (Bachs., Ph.D., Law and M.D.) degrees, with its first matriculating class beginning in 2014, accrediting on MIT Open Course Ware's < 2000 courses, and looks forward to collaborating with MITx's research focus in studying education, as it, MIT OCW, and WUaS, grow (here, for example: http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Research).

Longitudinal studies spanning decades are possible, paralleling, for example, 'The Framingham Study' (on heart disease), because WUaS will be mediated by the internet.

Hi, Universitians,

I'd first here like to introduce G.C., a UC Berkeley Professor of A, but actually a sociologist there. I met G at a recent Reed College gathering in Berkeley (with Ga & Da, too! :), and G and I both have taken courses from the same social science professors at Reed, sociologist John Pock and anthropologist Gail Kelly, - some years ago. Welcome, G! Glad to have your female 'energy' involved in WUaS, per your asking to be part of this WUaS, email, developing conversation.

I'd also invite you to read MIT Open Course Ware Cecilia d'Oliveira's letter below about their new MITx initiative. I would read this letter as MIT OCW having WUaS in mind.

Per a recent WUaS Meeting for Business, and Cecilia's personal letter to me with an invitation to meet her in person, potentially in Boston, I'm still planning to seek a letter from MIT OCW per World University & School's seeking accreditation based on MIT OCW's < 2000 free, open, online courses (for free Bachelor, Ph.D., Law and Medical degrees), with first, matriculating, Bachelor's class in 2014.

My first choice, in 2014, would be for WUaS to stream MIT professors to the web, with WUaS-hired, graduate students (from great universities like MIT, Harvard, Stanford, Berkeley, Princeton, Yale and Cambridge, and ) in Google + Hangouts facilitating the conference method (http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Conference_Method_of_Teaching_and_Learning - like Reed College's, and in many ways), for undergraduate, matriculated students, taking for-credit classes, toward free degrees. As WUaS becomes financially operational, we'd like to hire faculty from these great universities (http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Courses#University_course_listings), with a long view in mind.

The next, hour-long Meeting for Business online is on Saturday, January 14, 2012, at 9 am PST, in a Google + Hangout, ... so Prasanna, in Chennai, India, can participate potentially, if he wishes to, around 10 pm his time, (or by free conference call, as a fallback, and as we've done, so far). (Please get a gmail address, and the easy Google + profile, if you don't have them already, to make this face-to-face, free, group, video chat hangout possible).

Welcome, G, to our friendly group of WUaS clerks, - in a friendly/Friendly/Quaker sense of facilitators of group consensus process and decision-making.

Dear Scott,

You may have already seen this morning that MIT announced the initiation of a new interactive online learning program, internally called MITx, which will seek to build a virtual community of online learners and allow them to earn certificates for demonstrating mastery of MITx subjects at modest cost. MITx will also serve as a cornerstone of MIT's research into digitally supported teaching and learning. For this initiative, the Institute will develop new online materials to support MITx users, including MIT students. Everything on MITx short of credentialing will be free of charge, and MITx will be built using open-source software made freely available to the world.

MIT OpenCourseWare will continue to be MIT's free and open effort to share the curriculum used at MIT, and the Institute remains fully invested in the program. OCW will publish MIT course materials for free, as we always have, and continue to explore the possibilities of free, open education. OCW will also be enriched by the materials created for MITx programs, which will be shared openly on the OCW site.

We realize there is the potential for confusion regarding these two programs, but the differences are very straightforward.

MITx includes:

a limited number of subjects specifically designed to support the MITx learner
development of a custom online learning platform
interactivity with other students and the MIT community
MITx certificates for demonstrated mastery of subject matter at modest cost to users
a significant online learning research effort.

OCW remains:

a publication of MIT course materials
a broad compilation of materials from across MIT programs and departments
an offering of content without certification or access to MIT faculty or students
free and open to the world.

We are thrilled to support the MIT community in taking the new step into online learning that MITx represents, and look forward to the innovative content that program will bring to the OCW site. At the same time, we want to assure our many supporters around the world that this announcement strengthens MIT's commitment to OCW and its mission to provide free and open resources to improve teaching and learning worldwide, and that we are here to stay.

Sincerely,

Cecilia d'Oliveira
Executive Director
MIT OpenCourseWare

Dear MIT Alumni,

Enclosed with this email is a message that Provost Rafael Reif just sent to the MIT on-campus community. We are pleased that the Institute and the Association partnered to ensure that all alumni are informed of this new initiative concurrently with the announcement to the community and the press. If you have questions or comments, please reply to this email or send a message to mitaa_evp@mit.edu.

We wish you all the best for the holiday season and hope you enjoy a peaceful and prosperous new year.

Sincerely,

Greg Turner
President

Judy Cole
Executive Vice President & CEO

MIT Alumni Association

To the Members of the MIT Community:

I am writing to share an important announcement released by MIT today. We are launching an online learning initiative with the expectation that MIT can both enhance the educational experience of its on-campus students and eventually host a virtual community of learners around the world. The text of our announcement appears below. You can also find the announcement and related FAQs at http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2011/mitx-education-initiative-1219.html

This initiative builds upon a decade of MIT dedication to online education begun with OpenCourseWare in 2001. MIT faculty have been working in recent years on the integration of online technologies into the MIT campus learning experience, as well as on reaching learners worldwide through online technologies. The 2009 Institute-Wide Planning Task Force Final Report also urged us to explore scalable educational platforms that use online tools to afford new learning opportunities.

Moreover, in the last couple of years, an MIT-Online Study Group chaired by Professor Dick K. P. Yue, the MIT Council on Educational Technology co-chaired by Professor Hal Abelson and Dean Daniel E. Hastings, and the OCW Faculty Advisory Committee chaired by Professor Shigeru Miyagawa have been exploring a variety of online concepts. We are now advancing these various efforts through the online learning initiative that we internally call "MITx".

We are confident that the inspired creativity of the MIT community will shape this initiative in ways that we have not yet dreamed of. I look forward to working with all of you in building something truly special for MIT and the world.

Sincerely,
L. Rafael Reif
Provost

MIT launches online learning initiative
"MITx" will offer courses online and make online learning tools freely available

The Massachusetts Institute of Technology today announced the launch of an online learning initiative internally called "MITx". MITx will offer a portfolio of MIT courses through an online interactive learning platform that will:

organize and present course material to enable students to learn at their own pace
feature interactivity, online laboratories and student-to-student communication
allow for the individual assessment of any student's work and allow students who demonstrate their mastery of subjects to earn a certificate of completion awarded by MITx
operate on an open-source, scalable software infrastructure in order to make it continuously improving and readily available to other educational institutions.

MIT expects that this learning platform will enhance the educational experience of its on-campus students, offering them online tools that supplement and enrich their classroom and laboratory experiences. MIT also expects that MITx will eventually host a virtual community of millions of learners around the world.

MIT will couple online learning with research on learning

MIT's online learning initiative is led by MIT Provost L. Rafael Reif, and its development will be coupled with an MIT-wide research initiative on online teaching and learning under his leadership.

"Students worldwide are increasingly supplementing their classroom education with a variety of online tools," said Reif. "Many members of the MIT faculty have been experimenting with integrating online tools into the campus education. We will facilitate those efforts, many of which will lead to novel learning technologies that offer the best possible online educational experience to non-residential learners. Both parts of this new initiative are extremely important to the future of high-quality, affordable, accessible education."

Offering interactive MIT courses online to learners around the world builds upon MIT's OpenCourseWare, a free online publication of nearly all of MIT's undergraduate and graduate course materials. Now in its tenth year, OpenCourseWare includes nearly 2,100 MIT courses and has been used by more than 100 million people.

MIT President Susan Hockfield said, "MIT has long believed that anyone in the world with the motivation and ability to engage MIT coursework should have the opportunity to attain the best MIT-based educational experience that Internet technology enables. OpenCourseWare's great success signals high demand for MIT's course content and propels us to advance beyond making content available. MIT now aspires to develop new approaches to online teaching."

OCW will continue to share course materials from across the MIT curriculum, free of charge.

MITx online learning tools to be freely available

MIT will make the MITx open learning software available free of cost, so that others—whether other universities or different educational institutions, such as K-12 school systems—can leverage the same software for their online education offerings.

"Creating an open learning infrastructure will enable other communities of developers to contribute to it, thereby making it self-sustaining," said Anant Agarwal, an MIT Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science and Director of MIT's Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory. "An open infrastructure will facilitate research on learning technologies and also enable learning content to be easily portable to other educational platforms that will develop. In this way the infrastructure will improve continuously as it is used and adapted." Agarwal is leading the development of the open platform.

President Hockfield called this "a transformative initiative for MIT and for online learning worldwide. On our residential campus, the heart of MIT, students and faculty are already integrating on-campus and online learning, but the MITx initiative will greatly accelerate that effort. It will also bring new energy to our longstanding effort to educate millions of able learners across the United States and around the world. And in offering an open-source technological platform to other educational institutions everywhere, we hope that teachers and students the world over will together create learning opportunities that break barriers to education everywhere."

A set of Frequently Asked Questions about MITx can be found here.

"MITx is beginning of sweeping new online push" (MIT's The Tech Online - est 1881)

http://tech.mit.edu/V131/N59/mitx.html

"M.I.T. Game-Changer: Free Online Education For All" (Forbes Magazine)

http://www.forbes.com/sites/jamesmarshallcrotty/2011/12/21/m-i-t-game-changer-free-online-education-for-all/

Eastern Box Turtle:

http://www.ct.gov/dep/lib/dep/wildlife/images/nongame/amphibian_reptile_book/turtles/easternboxturtle.jpg

Abelialeaf: A free, online North Korean World Univ & Sch?, Translating MIT Open Course Ware, In the manner of F/friends/Quakers? ... Yes, Sok Hon Ham

2011-12-26T06:53:00.000-08:00

North Koreans weeping hysterically over the death of Kim Jong-il

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pSWN6Qj98Iw

(Found this at R.M.'s web S.N. page)

A free, online North Korean World University and School ...

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

in Korean,

(and other north Korean languages),

translating MIT Open Course Ware,

and as wiki,

and in the manner of F/friends/Quakers? ...

Yes, yes, yes ...

World University & School, and open, high quality education,

will / could help North Koreans a lot.

VL:

You could say his greatest accomplishment was the brainwashing and mind control he exhibited over the north Korean people.

Scott:

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/12/19/world/asia/kim-jong-il-is-dead.html

Scott:

Just found this online, from the head of the MacArthur Foundation ...

"What to Do, and Not Do, About North Korea" -

http://www.macfound.org/site/c.lkLXJ8MQKrH/b.4293517/apps/s/content.asp?ct=11557205

{I think Sok Hon Ham's memory, - http://www2.gol.com/users/quakers/taoism_and_quakerism.htm - and his affiliation with Friends/Quakers, might help make WUaS more understandable in both South Korea and North Korea, as well as even, possibly, China}.

Wort: Enjoying the Relaxation Response in the context of evolutionary biology, Nonharming, Loving Bliss Neurophysiology Elicitation, Wiki, Practicing?

2011-12-25T05:58:00.000-08:00

... enjoying the Relaxation Response -

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

and curious about its effects in the context of evolutionary biology -

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

{with a mind to nonharming -

http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Ahimsa_-_Nonviolence_-_Pacifism_-_To_avoid_harming }

... and with a focus on Loving Bliss Neurophysiology Elicitation - http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Loving_Bliss_%28eliciting_this_neurophysiology%29 .

All of these are free, open, WIKI subjects at World Univ & Sch,

where YOU can teach, learn and create,

as well as PLAY / PRACTICE some of this ...

http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Practicing_-_Playing_a_Musical_Instrument ...

Sandwort: Figuring out World University & School, Free degrees & wiki - Quaker-related, Music School

2011-12-24T08:45:00.000-08:00

Scott, I went to the {World University and School} page and couldn't figure it out. Are you one of the founders? Does it have an actual location, or is it all online? What do you teach, bagpipes or also something else? Do you ever get together face to face for classes? Like do they have a Quakerism 101, or an Earlham school of religion class for a week or two on the west coast? Just curious.

Hi, Ro,

Thanks for your email, and sorry it's taken me a little time to respond, - I wanted to reply in some detail.

World University and School (WUaS) is like Wikipedia, so we all make it, by editing a page, or teaching to our web cameras, or learning from what's on a subject page already. And WUaS is planning on offering free, university courses, for credit and degrees, accrediting on MIT Open Course Ware. I'm WUaS's founder and head clerk/president.

WUaS seeks to be as exclusively online as possible, but may, around 2018, need to be on-the-ground, as well, after the first 2 years of its first medical school's class's coursework. But that's a long way off.

I've taught a course on "Society and Information Technology," on Harvard's virtual island in Second Life, for seven semesters, and for one semester on Penn State's virtual island, vis-a-vis long-time UC Berkeley Professor Manuel Castells' 'theorizing' of the Network Society in the information age. Castells' research is fascinating.

Face-to-face teaching and learning, in groups, is now possible with Google + Hangouts via group video conferencing, for free.

Here's the Quaker, wiki, subject page, as one example - http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Quakers_-_Religious_Society_of_Friends - and you'll find here an online class in Quakerism 101.

But in addition to offering free degrees (Bachelors, Ph.D., Law and M.D. beginning in 2014 - and especially for interested Quaker kids), based on MIT OCW, WUaS facilitates free open teaching and learning through this wiki. And if a graduate student (or faculty member) at Earlham wanted to offer a free, online 2 week course, for example, as a way to focus their teaching, or share their current studies/research, they could do so here.

And World University & School is also engaging Quaker Business Meeting practices in its decision-making, significantly. Our next, hour-long Meeting for Business, is on January 14 at 9 am PST, probably in a Google + Hangout using group video chat. It's open. It would be great to welcome a SFFM representative in WUaS's Business Meetings. (I can share with you the two, past, WUaS's meetings' minutes, if you're interested).

I have in mind starting a Harp, wiki, subject page - http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Subjects - and linking it to the WUaS Music School - http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/World_University_Music_School - using the Subject Template - http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/SUBJECT_TEMPLATE - as some further examples of how WUaS works, - if you'd like to explore free, online, teaching and learning Harp resources (or whatever subjects interest you), and teach there.

I'm starting an online Music Playing / Practicing Space for an hour on Wednesday evenings at 9 pm PST, for simply practicing / playing socially (which will probably become part of the Music School) ... more about this here: http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2011/12/egret-music-playing-practicing-online.html - with a focus both on playing and making music-making fun. :)

WUaS is a huge vision, Friendly-related, and will not only help a lot of people, by making high-quality (MIT OCW, education, open and free, it will also facilitate people to people teaching. There's a lot more to WUaS, but I hope this helps explain a little of it.

Friendly regards,

Scott

Interesting concept. I don't think I have the time to particpate now, but maybe in the future. Ro

Appreciate your friendly engagement with WUaS. WUaS is about open teaching & learning ~ in the now, or moment, as wiki ~ so potentially anyone can go there, now, to learn or teach what they want, and in fun ways (in addition to academic MIT OCW et al. for free degrees ) and potentially in all 3,000 - 8,000 languages, and around 200 countries, with remarkable, growing resources ...

To paraphrase a Friendly saying, WUaS is about "What wouldst thou like to teach or learn today?" ...

So, thanks for your interest in figuring it out.

Scott

The beautiful sun just rose, orb-full, in Chicago, from the flying space ... 'Now when the child of morning, rosy-fingered Dawn, appeared, Telemachus rose and dressed himself.' (from Homer's 'Odyssey') ... http://classics.mit.edu ... will add to WUaS's Humanities - http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Humanities - or WUaS's Classics' wiki subject page - http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Classics :)

Lion: Janine Benyus shares nature's designs, WUaS Design, Biological Engineering, Evolution, Media Lab, WUaS Admissions to be, CONVERSATION STARTER

2011-12-23T10:10:00.000-08:00

Fascinating and beautiful ... "Janine Benyus shares nature's designs" ...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n77BfxnVlyc

http://www.ted.com/talks/janine_benyus_shares_nature_s_designs.html

... will add to World University & School's

"Design," wiki subject -

http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Design,

"Biological Engineering,"

http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Biological_Engineering,

and possibly Biology or Evolution,

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

and other, wiki subjects, ... or ... ?,

... so much potential for the Media Lab at WUaS in this video, as well -

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

... Wow :)

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10 Ways to Get Yourself on the Yoga Mat by Megan Keane ~

just added this to World University & School's wiki, yoga subject page -

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

good ideas!

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Joi ( Joichi Ito ) is spinning great tunes as DJ of the MIT Media Lab -

http://bigthink.com/ideas/41508 -

will add this to the Media Lab at World University and School -

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

where we all can become great DJs of information technological innovation,

with an edit, for example,

in conjunction with becoming a great university ...

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World University & School's admission process will engage a similar approach to the one suggested here -

http://tofp.wordpress.com/2011/12/14/stanford-courses-and-college-admissions/ -

... (great, S.C. !) -

where people can 'course in' ...

WUaS is planning on offering some, free, online MIT OCW High School courses

http://ocw.mit.edu/high-school/

in autumn 2012, accessible here -

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

in Google + Hangouts, or similar, for one.

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Google + Hangouts video conference from a status update,

(and therefore from an image or link) ...

this is a CONVERSATION STARTER -

http://mashable.com/2011/12/14/google-hangout-status-updates/ -

where language and dialogue facilitate learning ...

will add this to the "Conference Method of Teaching and Learning" at

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

(and perhaps to the upcoming Dialogue wiki subject page).

Solstice: I sing the praise of extraordinary 'Language,' not Languages, Linguistics, Philosophy of Language, Artificial Intelligence, Universal Trans

2011-12-22T10:43:00.000-08:00

I sing the praise of extraordinary 'Language'

with this new, wiki, subject page at World University & School:

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

This new 'Language' page is not

A) the 'Languages' {All 3,000-8,000} page at WUaS:

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

and it's also not B) the WUaS Linguistics' subject page:

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

(with so many MIT OCW linguistics' courses) and it's also not

C) WUaS's 'Philosophy of Language,' wiki, subject page -

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

This new subject page is also neither

D) about {WUaS's} 'Artificial Intelligence' page -

http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Artificial_Intelligence - or

E) Computer Science languages -

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

F) Programming languages -

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

nor the

F) wiki, WUaS Universal Translator:

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

While it may inform, and articulate with, many of these other WUaS language-subjects,

it's actually for wiki-conversation about the 'extraordinary' in language,

about what might make it harmonizing and so wondrous and so beautiful,

as well as what makes it unique and exceptional,

and how this might be

... and so that we can converse about this.

Bahamas Sponge & Corals: Listen to Ms. Appadurai, WUaS Climate Change, World Uni & Sch as Engineering Powerhouse, Romantic Dance, WUaS Google + page

2011-12-21T16:05:00.000-08:00

Listen to Ms. Appadurai, and youths' voices, on Global Warming at the Durban talks - http://dotearth.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/12/10/young-voices-at-deadlocked-durban-climate-talks/ - will add to World Univ & Sch' Ocean and Climate Change Management Plan ... http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Ocean_%26_Climate_Management_Plan ... a wiki subject page which you can edit, teach to, and converse with ...

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In what ways will online World University & School become an engineering powerhouse, (http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Engineering and http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Engineering_-_Introduction_to) just as Cornell and Stanford are ramping up as engineering powerhouses, (and even as Stanford has backed out of expanding to NYC) - http://www.nytimes.com/2011/12/17/education/stanford-exits-contest-for-new-york-science-school-leaving-cornell-as-front-runner.html ... building on the online advantages of reaching a non-place based student body is a fascinating opportunity.

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Great ... YouTube for Schools - http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=NegRGfGYOwQ - will add probably to World University & School's Courses' wiki, subject page - http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Courses ... or, in each subject (http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Subjects), eventually ?

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To 'Media Lab at World University & School' - http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Media_Lab_at_World_University_and_School - I added Markoff's "Speed of Light Lingers in Face of New Camera" (http://www.nytimes.com/2011/12/13/science/speed-of-light-lingers-in-face-of-mit-media-lab-camera.html). This is your Media Lab to create in, and as it grows, WUaS hopes it will come fully in conversation with MIT's, as well as create learning opportunities for numerous WUaS graduate & undergraduate students ... as a play, innovate and create digital space.

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Pretty shrewd compassion ... "tax me, tax me, tax me" these good millionaires say ...

http://front.moveon.org/some-millionaires-made-a-video-and-this-is-what-they-said

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World University & School will seek to generate numerous doctors, lawyers and teachers as we develop, and begin to offer free degrees. WUaS doctor, lawyer and teacher server computer code is what WUaS will run ... potentially coming into conversation with MIT OCW, Stanford, Princeton, Harvard and Yale, Cambridge and other great universities, in the process, such as these: http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Courses#University_course_listings.

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Romantic, extraordinary dance, very beautiful and impressive ... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bcEq4Qz95i8 ... "Most romantic I ever seen" ... will add to WUaS's Dance, wiki subject ... http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Dance and perhaps others, as well ..

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World University & School is free, open education, like Wikipedia with MIT Open Course Ware (with free degrees planned) ... and WUaS has a new G + 'company' page ... https://plus.google.com/u/0/b/108179352492243955816/ ... The wiki, WUaS idea is to generate an open teaching and learning conversation, so WUaS posts in multiple places, with an invitation to you to teach something you love to youtube.com, for example, and post it at WUaS at Subjects - http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Subjects or elsewhere at WUaS. WUaS welcomes your feedback, and your dialogue.

Relaxed Bonobos: Have long found primatologists' Jane Goodall et al., fascinating, 1960s, Living like the apes they were studying, Bonobos

2011-12-20T16:40:00.000-08:00

I've long found primatologists'

Jane Goodall, Leakey, Frans de Waal, Wrangham, et al.,

fascinating,

because many of them began their careers in the 1960s trying,

in part,

to live like the apes they were studying.

They focused on becoming apes,

and I think Jane tried to raise her son as a chimp,

for a time,

to learn about them.

Partly a 1960's thing,

they were, and have been, also engaged in serious research,

and science,

(and conservation), ever since.

The Primatology, wiki, subject page at World University and School -

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

is one web site where YOU can teach & learn about this.

... just added a new, open-course-ware, primatology course here from

the University of Notre Dame:

http://ocw.nd.edu/anthropology/primate-behavior

... and just added a reference about the National Institutes of Health restricting use of chimps in research -

http://science.slashdot.org/story/11/12/16/1333224/nih-restricts-use-of-chimpanzees-in-labs -

... but check out the videos.

I find Bonobos particularly fascinating.

(WUaS is like Wikipedia with MIT Open Course Ware).

World Univ & Sch also has a Bonobos chimpanzee, wiki subject here -

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

with fascinating, growing, wiki resources.

Dewy Web: 12/7 - What's Wrong with SOPA? ... which could limit the Internet a lot, Nearly 400 web internet domain names have been seized thus far

2011-12-19T13:57:00.000-08:00

"12/7 - What's Wrong with SOPA?" online video conversation on December 7, 2011, and which is accessible here - http://cyberlaw.stanford.edu/node/6770 ... Stanford Law - Center for Internet and Society ... check it out ... SOPA could limit the internet a lot ...

... am adding to the Law School at World University and School -

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

(I think this conversation may become archived and become freely accessible, which it has been ...)

Is a SOPA compromise is emerging? .... http://futureoftheinternet.org/sopa-compromise ... due to 'What's Wrong with SOPA' ...

In planning for 50-100 online, interactive, free, accredited law schools in 50-100 countries/nation states, WUaS wants, too, to help facilitate the development of international, internet law, especially Creative Commons' law ... http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/World_University_Law_School ... and http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Creative_Commons_Law ... and much more (e.g. Maritime Law?) ... I hope these will be big law schools employing a big faculty, hired significantly from Stanford, Harvard and Yale, and these other great universities ... http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Courses#University_course_listings.

Nearly 400 web internet domain names have been seized thus far by the U.S. so far, mostly Counterfeiting-related by the Immigration and Customs Enforcement's (ICE) Homeland Security Investigations group and the FBI's Washington field office. Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/scitech/2011/11/28/fbi-seizes-150-websites-in-cyber-monday-counterfeit-crackdown, which is a little scary for free speech, but is also a somewhat small number - http://www.foxnews.com/scitech/2011/11/28/fbi-seizes-150-websites-in-cyber-monday-counterfeit-crackdown/ ...

will add to http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Internet_Studies and perhaps the WU law school.

SOPA is a little scary for 1st amendment reasons ...

(will look to add here ... http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Internet_Studies)

http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20111208/08225217010/breaking-news-feds-falsely-censor-popular-blog-over-year-deny-all-due-process-hide-all-details.shtml

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Law Professors On SOPA and PIPA: Don't Break the Internet

http://yro.slashdot.org/story/11/12/19/1953242/law-professors-on-sopa-and-pipa-dont-break-the-internet

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Here's a related NYT's article by Colleen Chien and Stanford University Law Professor Mark Lemley:

Patents, Smartphones and the Public Interest (December 13, 2011)

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/12/13/opinion/patents-smartphones-and-the-public-interest.html

And here's a further related ...

"The ITC exclusion order against HTC delays implementation for four months to allow a design-around" ...

http://www.usitc.gov/secretary/fed_reg_notices/337/337_710_Notice12192011sgl.pdf

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Here's a White House petition to 'VETO the SOPA bill and any other future bills that threaten to diminish the free flow of information' ...

https://wwws.whitehouse.gov/petitions#!/petition/veto-sopa-bill-and-any-other-future-bills-threaten-diminish-free-flow-information/g3W1BscR

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SOPA and our 2010 Circumvention Study, by Harvard Law Professor John Palfrey -

http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/palfrey/2011/12/22/sopa-and-our-2010-circumvention-study/

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Chimp and Jane: Primatologist Jane Goodall, 77, on chimps & humans' aging, Healing Dance, Media Lab, Flocking birds form wondrous shape shifting forms

2011-12-18T10:17:00.000-08:00

Added this WP article "Primatologist Jane Goodall, 77, talks about how chimps and humans age" -

http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/health-science/primatologist-jane-goodall-77-talks-about-how-chimps-and-humans-age/2011/11/28/gIQAmA7DWO_story.html -

to the WUaS Primatology page -

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

also added this to WUaS's Longevity wiki subject page -

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

added Healing Dance: Arabesque -

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Da9NfpVyEg0 -

to WUaS's Watsu wiki page -

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

... (much of this originating at Harbin ... http://harbin.org/ ) :)

Great piece about innovation in the NYTs by Joi Ito, new head of the MIT Media Lab

... http://www.nytimes.com/2011/12/06/science/joichi-ito-innovating-by-the-seat-of-our-pants.html

... will add to WUaS "Innovation" - http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Innovation - and "Media Lab at WUaS" subjects

... http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Media_Lab_at_World_University_and_School ... I'm glad he's heading the Media Lab to keep generating creative approaches ...

A recent overview of the Digital Public Library of America by John Palfrey -

http://player.vimeo.com/video/32716066 -

which will articulate richly with WUaS's Library Resources -

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

potentially in ALL 3,000-8,000 languages ... (will contact DPLA about this).

great ... will add this Stanford news -

http://news.stanford.edu/news/2011/november/longlife-power-storage-112311.html -

to World Univ & Sch's Battery Technologies' wiki, subject page - http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Battery_Technologies ... with an invitation to add further resources.

nice Brahms, and a glimpse into Paris life in the early '50s ...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nXAKs8fZvxM

added The Power Pipes - PM George Allan - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vVKJuovowd0 - Bagpiping and Rock & Roll in a kind of pick up band ... added here - http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Bagpipe_Tutorials :)

Flocking birds form wondrous shape shifting forms ...

Murmuration from Sophie Windsor Clive on Vimeo.

http://vimeo.com/31158841

... art? nature? fluidity in motion? :)

The Music Button in a Google Hangout for group video, (packet switching for synchronization, given bandwidth?)!!!

2011-12-17T08:31:00.000-08:00

The Music Button in a Google Hangout for group video

(packet switching for synchronization, given bandwidth?)!!!

... may start a Google Hangout for Singing Harmony -

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

thought I saw that Google + has a video music button :)

... We may be able to turn on some voices, and turn off others,

add or sing with this youtube video, that score, invite that music director or singer ...

Just found a few online pianos for getting pitches and singing thirds, for ex. -

http://www.bgfl.org/bgfl/custom/resources_ftp/client_ftp/ks2/music/piano/ -

they're not Steinways yet,

but a decent beginning ...

(for other instruments, as well, see - http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/World_University_Music_School)

Here's an example of

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1_qW3dEyPEM

... not finding the music button right now at Google when I search for it in a G + Hangout ... may have misread "Mute" button ... or?

... and hope to see real time music-making information technologies without lag

The Music button, the music button!

It's a good focus for a metaphor in life ... :)

... and to realize this online, and flourishingly, is a wild idea

Whale song: WUaS universal translator and INTERACTIVE IMAGES & OPERA, Virtual Harbin to develop research approaches for these questions?

2011-12-16T09:48:00.000-08:00

Very nice photo ... looks fun ... would be difficult to translate in any universal translator (Thanks, P. Norvig)

Some of the challenges & opportunities ahead with a WUaS universal translator include IMAGES and OPERA, INTERACTIVELY, and other culturally and symbolically rich, polysemic song and dance.

https://fbcdn-sphotos-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-ash4/s320x320/377310_10150383561203344_514308343_8147248_2110937187_n.jpg

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World University & School plans to be in ALL 3,000-8,000 languages, and develop an universal translator (with a focus on artificial intelligence) ... http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Languages ... and http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Artificial_Intelligence.

In planning for developing an universal translator, building on Google Translate and Sugar Labs' Translator and using Artificial Intelligence programming, in voice, text, video, etc., how to bring together, for example, Scots' language, as a specific example of a language/dialect, with Scottish Gaelic (and Hindi and Bengali and the other 20 official languages in India, etc.), is a fascinating question? (http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2011/12/pinus-sylvestris-scots-language-whats.html).

In what ways can upcoming virtual Harbin (in ScienceSim, or in OpenSim?) be designed to help develop translation of both IMAGES and OPERA, INTERACTIVELY, for WUaS's universal translator (in 3,000-8,000 languages)? (Google Translate is in 58 languages, for example).

Grenada dove: Conversation, empathy and sympathy & demands from the '60s, NYT's 1960's writer, Tom Wicker, dies, WUaS as bigger employer than Military

2011-12-15T17:37:00.000-08:00

Conversation, empathy and sympathy come to protest demands from the '60s ... :) (http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/1960s)

https://fbcdn-sphotos-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-ash4/s320x320/293449_10150501128491978_705211977_11285667_1707296907_n.jpg

New York Times' writer, Tom Wicker, dies ... he covered the 1960s, student movements, civil rights, and the fall of U.S. presidents, in remarkable ways ... was moved by his 1975 book "A Time to Die" about the prison uprising in Attica, NY ... "Speaking at a 1971 “teach-in” at Harvard, he urged students to “engage in civil disobedience” in protesting the war in Vietnam. “We got one president out,” he told the cheering crowd, “and perhaps we can do it again.” " (http://www.nytimes.com/2011/11/26/us/tom-wicker-journalist-and-author-dies-at-85.html)

A Bit of Fry and Laurie...Tricky Linguistics ...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZFD01r6ersw ... :))

... will add to WUaS's Linguistics' subject

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

World University & School (like Wikipedia with MIT Open Course Ware), -

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

in collaboration with the Peace Movement,

(e.g. http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Ahimsa_-_Nonviolence_-_Pacifism_-_To_avoid_harming and http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Nontheist_Friends_%28atheist_Quakers%3F%29)

worldwide,

would like to explore becoming a bigger employer than the US Military ...

Egret: Music playing / practicing online space, Google + Hangout with group video conferencing, What can make playing / practicing very, very fun?

2011-12-15T09:19:00.000-08:00

Had a nice, first "Music playing / practicing online space" with R, where we each just play for an hour developing our own music, in a Google + Hangout with group video conferencing. It's Wednesdays from 9-10 pm PST, and you're welcome to participate in this free video conference, on piano, recorder, voice, or whatever, but it would be pretty late beginning at midnight, EST. :) G+ group video conferencing also worked well, and much better than Skype timing-wise, with less lag.

The idea of this playing / practicing space is not only to make practicing social (we mute each other, but can see each other, but did play together at the end), but also, for me, to think through how to make playing and learning music more enjoyable, and potentially in a kind of conversation with R, or the people who hang out. What works pragmatically? What can make playing / practicing very, very fun? We text chatted a little in silence throughout. Up to 10 people, presently, can be in a G+ hangout.

I'll add further ideas about making this fun and fruitful here at World University & School's Practicing / Playing a Musical Instrument subject page: http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Practicing_-_Playing_a_Musical_Instrument, and, of course, other people can, too, because WUaS is wiki.

I'm initiating this partly to further my own daily hour long practice, and to make it fun, via sociality, and may set up such hour long "Music playing / practicing online spaces" at different times every day of the week soon (so you could potentially practice, as well, if you might like to). R and I will probably practice again next Wednesday. Come hang out, and play.

This will dovetail with the World University Music School - http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/World_University_Music_School.

If you're interested in playing, add me in Google +, Scott MacLeod - sgkmacleod@gmail.com - https://plus.google.com/u/0/112822712931339453961 - and let me know.

Seed head: In building and developing virtual Harbin Hot Springs as ethnographic field site, Relaxation Response

2011-12-14T09:19:00.000-08:00

In building and developing virtual Harbin Hot Springs as ethnographic field site, I'm planning to include Tablets in the design plans, (but probably not handhelds) ... http://blip.tv/scott-macleod/the-making-of-virtual-harbin-hot-springs-as-ethnographic-field-site-in-second-life-open-simulator-2063427 ... so that we can all visit Harbin online, interactively, soak in the pools, head to dances, watch a film, and potentially from our bath tubs (facilitating the relaxation response - http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Relaxation_Response). :)

WUaS would like to make possible, teaching & learning-wise, designing and engineering, but digitally, beginning here - http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Engineering_-_Introduction_to, for one:) (I hope WUaS can make the virtual oceans and the land to engineer on, with avatars, building on Google Earth in OpenSim for Tablets, too, for example).

Ladybug Dew: Nice acoustic version of "Whiskey In The Jar" by Grateful Dead, GD 1968 Film, House of Rising Sun on Peripherals, Virtuoso David Garrett

2011-12-13T17:19:00.000-08:00

Nice acoustic version of "Whiskey In The Jar" ...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=amLungGziP0

... Grateful Dead

(may add to http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Grateful_Dead)

RG:

When I was a roadie for the Lemon Pipers, we opened for the Grateful Dead in Cincinnati. The folks putting on the show asked if we wanted to meet them. At that time, I didn't know who they were as individuals. When we walked into their dressing room, one of them (Lesh or Weir) was playing a tuba. Our base player asked if it was "for fun or for real". The answer was what you would expected from the "Dead" ..." what is the difference?"

The Grateful Dead soar here ...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=87ip0J4SDOo :)

Jamming is wild ...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d1igVj3w8KE ...

this is great. Here's the Musical Jamming wiki subject at WUaS ...

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

... with an invitation to jam, in a G + group video hangout, for example, and link the online, interactive jam above ...

(Check out the WUaS Grateful Dead wiki subject, as well ... http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Grateful_Dead)

Jamming with friends -

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

and playing in the Music School -

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

Yes ... and we all can create them together the way we want ... :)

kinda great and wild ... I wanna play the oscilloscope somewhere between focus and intensity ... :) ... nice tune, too ...

House of the Rising Sun played on Computer Hardware and Peripherals

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w68qZ8JvBds

Grateful Dead Film by Robert Nelson (1968) ...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q0iULSnZUkg

... hmmm ... very interesting :)

The Day Jerry Garcia Died Pt.2/4 ...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?NR=1&feature=endscreen&v=ORcErGMdius

... As Jerry says here

... Dead concerts are fun ... it's really big fun, and real little fun, too ..." :)

... will add to at World Univ & Sch ... http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Grateful_Dead :)

Very nice ... David Garrett&Julien Quentin Paganini-Carnevale di Venezia Live in Bochum am 09.05.2010 ... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hkZ3_skGqRg ... No Paganini wiki subject page at World Univ & Sch, yet, but will add this to the WUaS Violin page ... http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Violin ... what an amazing world of virtuosic violin music to explore :) (http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/World_University_Music_School)

Elaphurus davidianus: Growing American military targeting of China?, WUaS in Chinese for Peace? The Spanish Revolution & the Internet

2011-12-12T09:48:00.000-08:00

What do you think about the possible growing American military targeting of China?

http://learning.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/11/18/u-s-establishes-military-base-in-australia/

In what ways might providing a free, online Chinese World University and School university

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

(and http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Languages) -

with free, online, accredited Law and Medical schools, in Chinese, help in tiny ways to re-focus these tensions toward peace?

See Khan Academy China, for example ...

http://weibo.com/KhanAcademyChina 微群地址是

Jo Pa:

According to Wired, the US Military ran a military wargame involving economics and china came out the winner. With the US position in the world deteriorating in terms of financial clout, this isn't surprising at this point in the ballgame.

Scott:

Can we make a Quaker peace video game for complementary analyses, with similar rigorous and precise parameters vis-a-vis programming, and generate a variety of different analyses? History, socioculture (anthropology) and economics - all social sciences - are unfoldingly difficult to quantify and make precise, especially for the purposes of programming and game building ...

Salman Khan (founder of Khan Academy), Stanford Professor Sebastian Thrun, and Peter Norvig, Director of Google Research, recently participated in a live Google+ Hangout on Air - on Friday, December 9th at 1pm PST, - on the topic of "Reinventing Education". 10 people at a time could join the hangout, and others could watch but not join. Everyone can vote on questions at http://www.youtube.com/eduatgoogle. See you there!

Thanks to Salman, Sebastian and Peter for this Google + Hangout opportunity! I hope World University & School - like Wikipedia with MIT Open Course (planned for all 3,000-8,000 languages and 200 countries, and with free degrees planned in 50-100 countries) - can become part of this conversation ... http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/World_University ... and looking forward to participating in it, and you're invited, as well.

I added their talk - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LtmdiPUGGe8 - to WUaS's Artificial Intelligence wiki subject - http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Artificial_Intelligence ...

JT:

I was wondering if Salman Khan is related to Jansher Khan who won eight world open championships in squash. The family is world famous. They practiced originally with brooms and cloth balls after sweeping the courts for the Brits back in the day. But the name could be common.

Scott:

I think there are a lot of Khans ... I'll ask if I get the opportunity ...

The Spanish Revolution & the Internet: From free culture to meta-politics ... Harvard online talk, from November, 22 2011 - http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/events/luncheon/2011/11/morell ...

Here are the very beginnings of the Spanish WUaS -

http://es.worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Portada -

which you are invited to develop, as wiki.

Indonesia: Saw "The Yes Men Fix the World" at Harbin recently, very Reed College, Nader-esque, Shakespeare, Rock & Roll ... and Loving Bliss, film?

2011-12-11T08:45:00.000-08:00

Saw "The Yes Men Fix the World" at Harbin Hot Springs

{http://harbin.org/}

recently

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

... love it

... - hi jinx with conscience, conscientious objection ...

Two men, representing big corporations, go to conferences and give speeches about how the corporations they say they are representing are going to give back billions of dollars to victims (satirically with a positive vibe) of these companies' mismanagement, fatal accidents stemming from their primary interest in profits.

Dow chemical, union carbide, Northrup, Halliburton ... are all the focus of their speeches at public, business forums and conferences.

... The film was very Reed College, and also Nader-esque.

Vamos (Mike Bonanno), one of the main Yes Men protagonists, actually went to Reed :)

Film is a great way to learn Shakespeare language in a sitting,

to see the great in Rock & Roll

... not sure about film and eliciting loving bliss neurophysiology

... would like to wiki-explore all of these subjects -

... http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Shakespeare,_William

... and http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Rock_and_Roll

... What are the films you would suggest vis-a-vis eliciting loving bliss? ...

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

this could be fun and flourishing :)

I added an Amazon.com Shakespeare top 10 film list to WUaS, in addition to others, here - http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Shakespeare,_William.

And I've begun to find similar top 10 film lists for great Rock & Roll - http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Rock_and_Roll - which I'll add soon.

What are the films you would suggest vis-a-vis eliciting loving bliss?

My suggestions include a film called "Don Juan" from the 1970s, and Greenaway's "Pillow Book," they only come closest (in my recent experience), but certainly don't yield fulsome bliss.

Eliciting bliss via film, so that we get to MDMA-like neurophysiology regularly, and naturally, is more challenging, than, say, eliciting mirth, or happiness, via comedy (http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Comedy to which I hope to add great classic films, especially vis-a-vis those written in ancient Greece and France), but here's the WUaS Loving Bliss subject which I hope to post good, related films to http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Loving_Bliss_(eliciting_this_neurophysiology). ... :)

... this could be fun and edifying :)

Flying: How to invite people to participate in creating World Univ & Sch? A daily WUaS newsletter to email in-boxes? Yes, Specific WUaS goals, Editor

2011-12-10T09:40:00.000-08:00

Hi Ja,

Why do I post so much, and how might I change this to benefit WUaS? I post so much for information sharing, almost like a daily newsletter, and which I've already posted in a number of other places today. The print out you gave me, Ja, appears to be a newsletter-like email, as well. Thank you. And our projects are similar, although Hurst's online posts are more edited. Importantly, in posting, I'd like it to be quick and easy, and keep the information about WUaS flowing and generating, daily or more frequently. If I could find a way to generate more non-me edits of my posts to a specific WUaS, wiki, academic, subject page through a style change of my posts to this blog, to G +, to FB, to Academia.edu, to LinkedIn, Twitter, etc., I'd certainly consider it. It's the knowledge-generating conversation among many which will make WUaS rock, in a way which parallels Wikipedia.

I welcome your suggestions and thoughts, and in a very fun way - the more fun the better. :)

The overarching WUaS goals are twofold -

1) an engaged, open, teaching and learning wiki, and

2) free degrees with our first matriculating Bachelor's class in 2014.

The other main overarching WUaS goal, and reason for posting, relevant here is 'branding,' or outreach.

The specific WUaS goal the following, posting focuses on has to do with developing a WUaS universal translator.

"Some challenges/opportunities ahead with a WUaS universal translator include IMAGES and OPERA, INTERACTIVELY, and other culturally and symbolically rich, polysemic song and dance.

World University & School plans to be in ALL 3,000-8,000 languages, and develop an universal translator (with a focus on artificial intelligence) ...

http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/WUaS_Universal_Translator ... and

http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Languages ... and http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Artificial_Intelligence.

In planning for developing an universal translator, building on Google Translate and Sugar Labs' Translator, etc., and using Artificial Intelligence programming, in voice, text, video, etc., how to bring together, for example, Scots, as a specific example of a language/dialect, with Scottish Gaelic (and Hindi and Bengali and the other 20 official languages in India, etc.), is a fascinating question? (http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2011/12/pinus-sylvestris-scots-language-whats.html)."

Best,

Scott

WUaS would like to start a daily WUaS newsletter, as a significant form of outreach ...

... and would like, too, to hire an editor for this...

and for this WUaS needs monies ...

Gloriosa lily: World University and School {Open} Business Meeting – Agenda, Saturday, December 10, 2011, 1 pm, Pacific Time

2011-12-10T09:10:00.000-08:00

World University and School

{Open} Business Meeting – Agenda

Saturday, December 10, 2011

1 pm, Pacific Time

(Hour-long meeting)

Three, communication modalities:

- Attend in person in Canyon, California …

- Free Conference Call – 877 482 5838 ... (Email: worlduniversityandschool@gmail.com if interested).

- in a Google Hangout (with group video chat)

(worlduniversityandschool@gmail.com & Scott MacLeod are the email address, and contact info., for the WUaS Google + profile and realted Google Hangouts)

1 Items from last agenda

(October 29, 2011 Meeting -

http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2011/10/henderson-island-south-seas-uk-open.html)

a Letting countries, languages, universities and individuals, et al., know about WUaS

virtual presence ... virtual worlds

b Information technology

MIT-recruiting

c Music school development ... Juilliard liaison?

online, free instruction in many instruments, and all languages, vis-a-vis the Goethe Institute

online jamming

online choruses, symphony, gamelan

2 Business

Financial Reporting

3 Annual Appeal

4 Chatham in the fall 2012

what academic program?

5 WUaS Open Course Ware - High School in autumn 2012

6 Next Meeting in January 2012

7 Closure

Scott MacLeod

(Recording clerk, Founder and President)

December 10, 2011

Gloriosa Lily is the state flower of Tamil Nadu, India

(http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2011/12/gloriosa-lily-world-university-and.html - December 10, 2011)

Saturday's Total Lunar Eclipse: Next World Univ & Sch Meeting for Business is tomorrow and you're invited, WUaS Google + profile & WUaS Annual Appeal

2011-12-09T17:58:00.000-08:00

Next World University & School Meeting for Business

is this Saturday, December 10, at 1 pm Pacific Time.

It's open, and consensus-based.

Please email worlduniversityandschool@gmail.com for conference call phone number,

if you'd like to participate ...

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

(like Wikipedia with MIT OCW) ...

(Google + group video is possible in the future, as well, so email if interested).

World University & School -

http://scottmacleod.com/worlduniversityandschool.htm -

is on Google + and this is its NEW G + address -

https://plus.google.com/108179352492243955816 -

and you can link to the WUaS Google + page from here:

http://scottmacleod.com/worlduniversityandschool.htm ...

with an invitation to edit a WUaS page -

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

Please add WUaS G + page from your Google + profile!!!

World University & School's Annual Appeal letter

(a 501 c 3 tax exempt educational organization / university)

for open, wiki, worldwide education with free degrees,

accrediting on MIT Open Course Ware, is here -

http://scottmacleod.com/worlduniversityandschool.htm

... and here -

http://scottmacleod.com/World%20University%20and%20School%20Appeal%20December%202011.pdf

... creating learning & teaching opportunities for people around the globe.

Dolphin surfing: Whale and dolphin play, "Surfing," wiki subject at World University & School? Pittsburgh Sharers? (not:)

2011-12-09T16:47:00.000-08:00

Whale and dolphin play ... :)

https://fbcdn-sphotos-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-ash4/s320x320/247516_217079688326354_129645007069823_693732_6296803_n.jpg

may add photo to WUaS's Interspecies Communication wiki subject - http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Interspecies_Communications :)

StMe: heart

Scott:

How do these two species communicate the whale nose surfing below? (I've added photo to WUaS's interspecies communication wiki subject page - http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Interspecies_Communication

... Interspecies' sonar?

head butting?

swimming together first, and signaling play by bumping?

Haven't started a "Surfing," wiki subject at World University & School, but may

... surfing will be interesting particularly in developing virtual worlds ... :)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yp3xxfXJvKA

DW: very cool

DW: Scott, I'm going to pirate this. Must be shared!!! Thanks.

Scott:

Consider it shared ... think we could name a baseball team the Sharers, let alone the Pittsburgh Sharers? (not:)

Star: Salman Khan (founder of Khan Academy), Stanford Professor Sebastian Thrun, & Peter Norvig, Dir. of Google Research, Collaboration, Overachievers

2011-12-09T09:41:00.000-08:00

"Salman Khan (founder of Khan Academy), Stanford Professor Sebastian Thrun, and Peter Norvig, Director of Google Research, participated in a live Google+ Hangout on Air on Friday, December 9th at 1pm PST, on the topic of "Reinventing Education". 10 people at a time will be able to join the hangout, and others can watch but not join. Everyone can vote on questions at http://www.youtube.com/eduatgoogle. See you there!"

Thanks to Sal, Sebastian and Peter for this Google + Hangout opportunity! I hope World University & School - like Wikipedia with MIT Open Course (planned for all 3,000-8,000 languages and 200 countries, and with free degrees planned in 50-100 countries) - can become part of this conversation ... http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/World_University ... and looking forward to participating in it, and you're invited, as well.

The Google + Hangout group video worked well, for 10 people plus ... :)

will look to add this Google "Education at Google" link to WUaS ...

In order to find a quality of 'overachieving' student body, first matriculating in 2014, for free, open degrees (Bachs., Ph.D., Law and M.D.), which might otherwise go to Stanford, Yale, Harvard, Princeton, MIT or Cambridge, for example, and thus to bring WUaS further into conversation with these great universities in particular - http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Courses#University_course_listings, - WUaS may have to generate such students itself, beginning in autumn 2012 by beginning to offer these MIT OCW High School courses - http://ocw.mit.edu/high-school/ - interactively online for free, in Google Circles and Hangouts, for example. (See also: http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2011/11/transparent-seahorse-free-online-high.html). Accreditation is a three stage process, and I hope Quaker kids, especially, and all whom matriculate, will be beneficiaries of these opportunities. WUaS will continue to grow as an open, wiki-meta-directory, planned for all languages and countries.

As WUaS begins to develop free, open, interactive, online MIT OCW High School courses for autumn 2012 (http://ocw.mit.edu/high-school/introductory-mit-courses/), to grow a MIT OCW-oriented high school body of problem solvers, engineers, programmers and scientists, among others, - interested in, and in anticipation of, its first, matriculating Bachelor's degree class in 2014, in English, and for U.S. degrees - I wonder how this free, online high school course development process (http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Courses#Free_High_School_Diplomas) will inform WUaS University High School development in other countries and languages, especially vis-a-vis collaboration? Swedish MIT OCW Gymnasium for high school students there, in anticipation of a Swedish WUaS? In Japan for Japanese High Schoolers? In India, yes ...

Which students will matriculate at WUaS in 2014 for online free interactive Bachelors' degrees +, accrediting on MIT OCW, Yale OYC, Stanford i-Programmer, etc.? All are welcome to apply ... will probably be Quaker/Friends' kids, children of Reed College students from the '80s ... and many others, to begin ... http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Master_Plan ... since accreditation is a 3 stage process and WUaS will graduate its 1st Bach. class around 2018, before the state of California finishes the WUaS accreditation process.

Free, online, interactive MIT Introductory Courses beginning in autumn 2012? - http://ocw.mit.edu/high-school/introductory-mit-courses/ - which is MIT High School ... Biology, Chemistry, Computers and Electronics, Engineering, etc., ... World University and School is planning to offer some of these ... http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Courses#High_School_Course_Material_.28Free.29 ... to begin to generate a MIT-course-focused undergraduate student body for matriculation beginning in 2014. Spread the word, and let us know what you or your kids would like ...

What will a World University & School digital classroom look like in autumn 2012 for free, open MIT OCW High School, {besides what you create in your own way with digital technologies when you want to teach something} via this WUaS wiki? Probably something like 28 video chat windows in a Google TV, and OpenSim/SL avatar islands with group voice and group text chat ... Collaborating with open, free Khan Academy (http://www.khanacademy.org/) in the WUaS digital classroom, and not in a physical classroom - http://www.nytimes.com/2011/12/05/technology/khan-academy-blends-its-youtube-approach-with-classrooms.html - will also lead to excellence in teaching & learning. How will these windows into learners brains open flourishing music making possibilities, in the Music School, for example, - http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/World_University_Music_School ? :)

BB:

FREE EDUCATION now there's a thought, and thanks to Scott MacLeod it's a reality. Nice going Scottie!

"Free, online, interactive MIT Introductory Courses beginning in autumn 2012? - http://ocw.mit.edu/high-school/introductory-mit-courses/ - which is MIT High School ... Biology, Chemistry, Computers and Electronics, Engineering, etc., ... World University and School is planning to offer some of these ... http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Courses#High_School_Course_Material_.28Free.29 ... to begin to generate a MIT-course-focused undergraduate student body for matriculation beginning in 2014.

Spread the word, and let us know what you or your kids would like ..."

Rolling Lake County Hills: I ride these hills on my way to the waters

2011-12-08T08:45:00.000-08:00

I ride these hills on my way to the waters

I ride these hills

on my way to the waters,

the warm, daylight, dream

waters of Harbin.

Their contours create

streams, ripples and eddies,

for meditation, on the road,

on this swervy, curvy journey,

via freedom underway.

I travel straight on to Harbin.

Cold, crisp, illuminated evening,

a beautiful, light cat, alone,

outside the Harbin

health food store,

after hours -

kitty paws prancing

on cold, black asphalt -

wants attention,

as I head for the pools.

The warm pool is

just filling up

after alligator day, -

the monthly drain, clean and fill

of the warm, water pool, -

2/3rds full, now,

and the blue, foot-wide, tile band,

all around the waterline,

with beautiful, dark,

blue diamonds, and rectangles,

and light, blue triangles, interspersed,

shine forth in the soft, night light.

This Harbin is a vivid dream.

And with the crystalline

waters of Harbin, -

this pool looks Greek,

ancient, as its waters pour

noisily in from the two,

dragon ridge-side spouts,

and from the other, hot spout,

near the hot pool room's

wall's flowers.

Time travel in

less serene nowness?

People in these moving waters

are soaking it in.

I head in to the dressing room,

after soaking long,

brush my teeth,

and wind to bed.

The light cat is still there,

by the market, -

not Arjuna, the big,

India-philosophical, Harbin cat, ...

this one is young,

and emerging from its kitty-ness, -

(after I come through the

art-flow-walkway-sculpture), ...

and this kitty-cat

wants company,

for it's cold out.

Allergic, I walk past,

want to say hi,

pet it, commune with it,

purr together,

but I don't, because

I'll sneeze,

become short of breath,

and chew my cud,

so I walk down

the back, Stonefront

Lodge road,

with the cat following me,

crossing my path,

again and again,

seeking connection and warmth, then

leaving me at the middle parking lot.

I hope it found its way to warmth

on this beginning-winter night.

Walking this Harbin hill straight down,

I head from watery warmth,

to bed, and warm sleep,

into the part of my

diurnal, rhythm dream

I know not ...

... and, later, when we awake,

we'll head in

to soak

in virtual Harbin.

Northern Flicker: Digital teaching & learning of engineering (with a MIT OCW / Stanford focus), i-Programmer, WUaS Computer Science, WUaS as Innovator

2011-12-07T08:02:00.000-08:00

WUaS would like to make possible teaching & learning engineering

(with a MIT OCW focus),

but digitally, beginning here -

http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Engineering_-_Introduction_to,

for one:)

(I hope WUaS can make the oceans and the land to engineer on,

with avatars,

building on something like Google Earth in OpenSim for Tablets, too, for example,

... and in furthering the development of virtual worlds -

in the WUaS Learning Sphere,

a virtual earth world, eventually with 3- 100 million species).

"Stanford University is offering the online world more of its undergraduate level CS courses. These free courses consist of You Tube videos with computer-marked quizzes and programming assignments " -

http://news.slashdot.org/story/11/11/23/2159216/stanfords-free-computer-science-courses).

They're here:

Stanford's i-Programmer -

http://www.i-programmer.info/news/150-training-a-education/3361-stanfords-free-computer-science-courses.html

(At least one of these courses is a UC Berkeley computer science course).

... And WUaS is adding these to its Computer Science wiki, subject page -

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

and Programming, wiki, subject pages -

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

Eight, free, new, programming courses, beginning February, 2012, lasting 10 weeks, and online enrollment is now open, at i-Programmer.

In what ways could developing World University & School

become a great information technological innovator,

as an online university in all 3,000-8,000 languages

(http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Languages),

besides developing an universal translator

(http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/WUaS_Universal_Translator),

engaging Artificial Intelligence

(http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Artificial_Intelligence),

and building on great online Open Course Ware,

such as MIT OCW -

http://ocw.mit.edu/index.htm

and Stanford's i-Programmer

http://www.i-programmer.info/news/150-training-a-education/3361-stanfords-free-computer-science-courses.html,

as well as an all-instrument, all language Music School -

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

... with an invitation to edit a wiki page.

In many ways, World University & School is

much more than great open course ware

(MIT OCW, Yale OYC, Stanford i-Programmer, etc.),

references and open video teaching and learning.

It's really about facilitating to teach and learn NOW,

openly, in the moment,

with information technology and on the internet ...

(http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Courses).

San Joaquin Marsh: Playing / Practice space - interactive, online and in real time - on weekday evenings, Generating Musical Cultures Online

2011-12-06T10:38:00.000-08:00

... I think playing / practicing a musical instrument is more fun socially,

than independently ...

http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Practicing_-_Playing_a_Musical_Instrument

... and would like to start some open, group music playing time

in a Google Hangout in group video chat,

possibly some weekday evenings at different times PST,

where everyone plays their own instrument,

but can turn on this instrument or person, or that one,

to play together, or not, if so desired ... :)

... (bagpipe, voice, guitar, etc.

... the instrument you want to develop 'flow' experiences with :).

Let me know if you're interested

... and we'll create other such practicing/ playing spaces at World University Music School -

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

Playing / Practice space - interactive, online and in real time - on weekday evenings in a Google + Hangout at variable times, Pacific Standard Time, beginning soon-ish.

... post below if you'd like an invitation to this group video chat with practicing / playing opportunities

... or email worlduniversityandschool@gmail.com

- all free and open, and aiming to grow a culture of musical playing and communication ...

A culture of music involves many people playing musical instruments, together and independently, and includes the musical conversation which ensues.

To generate such cultures, now online, people modeling, and doing it, will help this grow.

Why is the relaxation response so salutary and beneficial,

and how does this work,

to turn around the question Herbert Benson MD was asking of meditation when he wrote The Relaxation Response, in 1971? ...

Share your thoughts, or studies, here ...

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

at open, free, wiki WUaS.

The Relaxation Response is a practice as well ... shall we create online practicing spaces for this, as well?

Canyon, California, from a local CBS TV station, with 4 video segments :), A Canyon New York Times' article

2011-12-05T10:17:00.000-08:00

Canyon, California -

http://sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com/2011/06/06/eye-on-the-bay-road-to-nowhere-canyon-21411/

with 4 video segments :)

Pogash, Carol. 2007. [http://www.nytimes.com/2007/09/04/us/04payphone.html In Remote Canyon, Calif., a Pay Phone Is Celebrated]. September 4. New York, NY: The New York Times.

Small, Pacific ocean nation, Nuie, phasing out OLPC, WUaS Broadband Mission, Negroponte, Developments in the Emerging World

2011-12-04T08:02:00.000-08:00

Small, Pacific ocean nation, Nuie, phasing out OLPC...

http://blog.laptop.org/2011/11/21/niue-phasing-out-olpc-project-citing-internet-costs/

(http://cdn2.digitaltrends.com/wp-content/uploads/news/stories/2008/08/5650/niue-gives-olpc-to-every-student-1.jpg)

... maybe WUaS, with its broadband mission, can help ...

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

and develop its WUaS Broadband Development (part of WUaS's mission), -

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

(will add article to ...

http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/One_Laptop_per_Child_-_XO_Laptop_-_$100_Laptop_-_MIT) ...

MP:

hmmm. after today's lecture with matt berg, i can understand why. the development world may be drawn to the 'sexy technology' but what primary school kids need the most are classrooms, desks, chalkboards, and enough good teachers... not laptops.

Scott:

... and, at the same time, OLPC, etc., and the wired world, grow (in all 200-ish countries now) ... and will be used for education ... paper, books, literacy and good teachers, yes ... and, then, how, further, with digital technologies, I think, is a key question ... Networks of learning (teachers and students locally) extending ... and circles interweave with circles, of and for learning ... :)

MP:

agreed that technology has an important role to play in education, especially in secondary school where all students should have opportunities to do vocational computer training. but we need to stop doing these supply side interventions rather than waiting for demand from the schools and teachers themselves. Putting the cart before the horse as it were...

Scott:

Check out One Laptop per Child and MIT Professor Nicholas Negroponte's thinking on this (here's a developing, WUaS wiki resource for this, but it doesn't yet have a great encapsulation of the OLPC vision - http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/One_Laptop_per_Child_-_XO_Laptop_-_$100_Laptop_-_MIT) ... The 2 billion poorest kids in the world wouldn't have access to the computing, for better and worse, they are beginning to have, without this vision ... Negroponte thinks that kids learn by playing, and that playing with rugged OLPC's designed for the developing world is an unparalleled opportunity. Check out, too, the Swedish Professor Hans Rosling on development - http://www.ted.com/talks/hans_rosling_shows_the_best_stats_you_ve_ever_seen.html - in the middle of his analysis, high technology correlates with improved lifestyle around the world ... I guess I think that computing and the internet are, or are significant complements to, the pen, paper and books of the future, and that good teachers for this are a key challenge / opportunity, just as literacy, pens, papers are relatively recent introductions around the whole world. I'm very glad your studies are pointing toward the importance of basic literacy and teaching resources!

Scott:

MP, For a next paper - a response to Nicholas Negroponte, per the course you're in? TEDxBrussels - Nicholas Negroponte - 11/23/09 ...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q81TmwXe3ZM

... am adding to the above WUaS OLPC site ...

MV:

Whiteboards please, not chalkboards :-)

Pinus Sylvestris: Scots' Language? What's a language? Scots' video, WUaS Scottish Gaelic language, wiki, subject, Informing an Universal Translator

2011-12-03T09:00:00.000-08:00

Scots

Scots' Language? What's a language? ...

(a specific instance of a complex system of communication - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Language)

As this wee film goes on, the folk start to use more and more of their Scots' language -

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fkg4d4tI77k

... will add above film to Scots' Language pages ...

New "Scots" language, wiki subject at WUaS -

http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Scots ... (and

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scots_language) ...

check out the "Scottish Gaelic" wiki subject, too, linked from above ...

here - http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Scottish_Gaelic ... (and

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scottish_Gaelic).

Here's one view on how a language and a dialect differ, vis-a-vis Scots:

"Scots is the Germanic language variety spoken in Lowland Scotland and parts of Ulster (where the local dialect is known as Ulster Scots). It is sometimes called Lowland Scots to distinguish it from Scottish Gaelic, the Celtic language variety spoken in most of the western Highlands and in the Hebrides.

Since there are no universally accepted criteria for distinguishing languages from dialects, scholars and other interested parties often disagree about the linguistic, historical and social status of Scots. Although a number of paradigms for distinguishing between languages and dialects do exist, these often render contradictory results. Focused broad Scots is at one end of a bipolar linguistic continuum, with Scottish Standard English at the other. Consequently, Scots is often regarded as one of the ancient varieties of English, but with its own distinct dialects. Alternatively, Scots is sometimes treated as a distinct Germanic language, in the way Norwegian is closely linked to, yet distinct from, Danish. Those positions are also reflected in the 2010 Scottish Government study of "public attitudes towards the Scots language" in which 64% of respondents (around 1,000 individuals being a representative sample of Scotland's adult population) "don't really think of Scots as a language" but where "the most frequent speakers are least likely to agree that it is not a language (58%) and those never speaking Scots most likely to do so (72%)". In the 2011 Scottish census, a question on Scots language ability was featured."

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

World University & School plans to be in ALL 3,000-8,000 languages, and develop an universal translator (with a focus on artificial intelligence) ...

http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Languages ... and

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

In planning for developing an universal translator, building on Google Translate and Sugar Labs' Translator and using Artificial Intelligence programming, in voice, text, video, etc., how to bring together, for example, Scots, as a specific example of a language/dialect, with Scottish Gaelic (and Hindi and Bengali and the other 20 official languages in India, the other languages mentioned above, etc.), is a fascinating question.

In what ways can upcoming virtual Harbin (in ScienceSim, or in OpenSim, or?) be designed to help develop translation of both IMAGES and OPERA, INTERACTIVELY, for WUaS's universal translator (in 3,000-8,000 languages)? (Google Translator is in 58 languages, for example).

Acercapillipes: It's 'hang outside comfortably in (UC) Berkeley & practice a musical instrument weather today,' - in early December, Waldman's poetry

2011-12-02T17:20:00.000-08:00

It's 'hang out outside comfortably in (UC) Berkeley and practice a musical instrument weather today,' and it's early December ... check out WUaS's 'Practicing - Playing a musical instrument' wiki Subject - http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Practicing_-_Playing_a_Musical_Instrument ... (and http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Subjects) - planning on beginning some playing/practicing hangouts in Google + Hangouts (where it's a social place for playing music - I'll be practicing my chanter - and we can turn each other on, or off, video-wise, as we so choose) ... will add to schedule at the above link.

NHT:

I had to look up what a Chanter is, although I assumed it had something to do with bagpiping. I never realized bagpipes were a double reed instrument!

Scott:

(... in this musical play space, I'll be playing my quieter practice chanter :)

Poet Anne Waldman's reading in UC Berkeley's Maude Fife room yesterday evening was beat great :) ( ... will look to add something as enjoyable by her on the web to WUaS's wiki, poetry subject - http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Poetry - with an invitation to you to add poetry which rocks you, or write here, read, create a reading space ... :)

http://events.berkeley.edu/?event_ID=46259&date=2011-12-01&tab=all_events

Kestrel in India: ‎"Really? The Claim: Yoga Can Help Manage Pain," Columbia Univ Anthropology Prof Chatterjee, Hinduism's Sacred Texts, OLPC India

2011-12-02T09:59:00.000-08:00

‎"Really? The Claim: Yoga Can Help Manage Pain" -

http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/10/17/really-the-claim-yoga-can-help-manage-pain/ -

and "Yoga and Stretching Equally Effective for Back Pain" -

http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/10/24/yoga-and-stretching-equally-effective-for-back-pain/

... upcoming resources for the WUaS wiki Yoga subject -

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

{I prefer Angela & Victor's approaches to Yoga, compared with the vast array of other approaches ... they're hippies, ~ still :}

added 3 books by Columbia University anthropology professor Partha Chatterjee

(whom I just heard give a paper at Stanford, and with whom I inquired about what the academic subject of Anthropology in the Bengali or Hindi languages is like these days)

and an archive of Hinduism's Sacred Texts -

http://www.sacred-texts.com/hin/ -

to WUaS's India, wiki, subject page -

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

(also added this latter resource to

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

and http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Yoga) ... :)

also added OLPC India to the above WUaS India page -

http://wiki.laptop.org/go/OLPC_India ...

(Here's the World Univ & Sch OLPC page, too -

http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/One_Laptop_per_Child_-_XO_Laptop_-_$100_Laptop_-_MIT)

Two, new, wiki subjects at WUaS - Carnatic Music (south India), -

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

and WUaS Broadband Development (part of WUaS's mission), -

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

(check out the MIT OCW here)

with an invitation to make music, learn, teach or engage,

and to help make further available open educational resources to people's around the world,

through internet access.

In many ways, World University & School is much more than great open course ware, references and open video teaching and learning. It's really about facilitating to teach and learn now, openly, in the moment, with information technology and on the internet.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Qx2lMaMsl8

The Flower Duet (Lakmé)

Yellow autumn vineyards blaze below, Green winter oaks above

2011-12-01T09:08:00.000-08:00

Yellow autumn vineyards blaze below, Green winter oaks above

green winter oaks grace hillsides in Napa,

and yellow autumn vineyards blaze below,

on the road to Harbin.

it's late autumn, warm,

and sun is winking through clouds.

orange flares from that orchard,

red sea tops those vineyards, -

this world splashes with color here,

and there, and all around, -

they are startling.

over the hill I come into Lake County,

where more muted are the colors,

woodsy, fall and natural,

a little winter-season grey overhead.

harbin, next, arrives ... I head far in ...

to the village path, -

it's like hiking again, on it,

and this way is often a little trippy -

I like, but 'tis curious ...

why this subtle psychotropism?

at the redwood sleeping deck,

there's lovely, free-person D-A

walking up toward

Tea House,

high on the hill.

We smile,

"I'm going hiking, " she says.

then to the pools,

full, again, in off season, mid-week,

yet taoistily & toastily self-regulating ...

soaking, soaking, soaking,

deeply

among the people, -

smiling, ... little bliss qualities emerge ...

out of the pools,

into the shower,

walking down beyond

the swimming pool,

then back to sauna,

where it's warm.

who is that lovely woman,

with healthy feet, in the sauna,

with just a bikini bottom on?

She is slight, mid-length brown hair, ...

beautiful breasts,

yes ...

then out, dressed, and back along the path,

stopping on the redwood, sleeping deck

now at eventime,

with the lights, here, again,

of Harbin, which are so

spread-speckle beautiful, -

soft, warm, light illuminations,

everywhere,

curious fireflies, of sizes' diverse,

and on, steadily,

not flickering, ~

singing their soft and welcome oms.

lights at night, Harbin,

a dream of beauty in the woods,

in this valley,

around pools of warm water,

in which people soak, naked and free,

cuddling their energies together,

in quiet joy, with intimacy.

I head on ...

walking back to my far-in vehicle,

move it to a more central, parking place,

across from the middle parking lot, ...

to play music,

on my bagpipe practice chanter,

on my car's tailgate, -

eve is still almost warm,

in late November,

yet pull on my Canyon-kid-knit hat,

in browns and oranges,

to keep my wet head company,

and warm.

then up to a film,

'The Yes Men Fix the World' -

with conscience, conscientious objection,

against corporate wrongdoings, -

yes, clever satire and hi-jinx with a good vibe,

and now so tired, to bed.

in the morn,

after the pools,

I linger again

on the redwood sleeping deck,

and see the Harbin village,

the 'real' one of Mainside,

here below, with trees in blazing colors,

orange, reds, browns, greens & yellows,

from pool area,

over red rooves,

to all the other buildings & structures, and,

way below,

beneath yet other dwellings,

the Temple's copper-green pinnacle,

3 cones up, with spiny, spiky,

dark-golden, metal, sun orb, radiating atop,

and, just beyond, the gorgeous

elliptical arc of the

valley's entry,

a half moon,

tree-rimmed,

crescent shape,

opening upwards,

to hold the beyond-valley skies,

of light in shades of autumn-grey.

o, this watery village,

of journeying beings together,

sings to me from the pools,

in blazing, fall, falling colors.

Alpine lakes: Added these 3 views on wisdom to WUaS, Wisdom per Durant, per Stanford Encyclopedia of Phil., per Wikipedia, Ferdinand, Tao Te Ching

2011-11-30T08:53:00.000-08:00

... added these 3 views on wisdom -

A.) Durant, Will. 1957. [http://www.willdurant.com/wisdom.htm What is Wisdom?]. Will Durant Foundation.

B.) Ryan, Sharon. 2007. [http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/wisdom/ Wisdom]. Stanford, CA: Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. ... and

C.) Wisdom. 2011. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wisdom Wisdom]. CA: Wikipedia. ...

to WUaS's "Children's Literature and Wisdom" wiki subject -

http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Children%27s_Literature_and_Wisdom

and the WUaS "Philosophy," wiki subject -

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

with an invitation to come into conversation with these,

via kids' books,

philosophically,

or, in other ways.

LP:

All I know is that nobody likes a wise guy.

Scott:

‎:0)

SM:

I see 'The Story of Ferdinand' as a good example of a wise kids' book, -

and the Tao te Ching (http://academic.brooklyn.cuny.edu/core9/phalsall/texts/taote-v3.html) as an adult one. :)

... add your ideas, or links, about wisdom above, or create a new wiki, subject page about this at WUaS ...

Patagonia: What places would you like to visit in the world? WUaS avatar-accessible, whole, virtual world, WUaS Learning Sphere?

2011-11-29T17:50:00.000-08:00

What places would you like to visit in the world?

I'd like to visit eventually all UNESCO World Heritage Sites

(there are 2000, estimated, in around 2020)

... http://whc.unesco.org/en/list/

... & the hippie trail (from Edinburgh to Kerala or Nepal, or? ) ... for two ...

You?

(WUaS would also like to facilitate an avatar-accessible, complete or whole, virtual world,

with developing, increasing complexity,

and 'realism' ...

e.g. all 3 million -100 million species, etc. for research, in virtual worlds ...

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

What to call it?

WUaS Learning Sphere? or

World University & School World :))

BB:

I say WUaS Learning Sphere 'cause eventually we'll be going out of this world anyways :)

Yasuni: What are the values informing World University & School?, Idea sharing, conversation, science, creativity and freedom in thinking, care, love

2011-11-28T08:48:00.000-08:00

What are the values informing World University and School?

Idea sharing

and information technological innovation

in the context of, and building on, great universities ...

... helping people through open, free education (MIT OCW-focused for free degrees),

conversation, science, creativity and freedom in thinking ...

And see the mission here ...

http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/World_University ... :)

In addition, WUaS values include those similar to Reed College's with its Honor Principle, and its ethos of the mind and focus on learning.

WUaS values also include those inherent in Stanford, MIT, Harvard, Yale, Princeton, Cambridge, and other great universities, especially in terms of knowledge generation.

And WUaS values also include nontheistically friendly / Friendly / unprogrammed Quaker ones ...

Helping, pragmatically, facilitate access to open, free, useful, innovative-in-a-developing-way-over-centuries, teaching and learning resources, as wiki, especially for the developing world, are also values informing WUaS.

And love and care are also important values informing WUaS ...

Check out this recent video OpEd at the Harvard School of Education by Justin Reich (3 mins.) - http://www.edtechresearcher.com/?p=157 - and his interesting research. I'm developing World University & School, - http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/World_University - like Wikipedia with MIT OCW, and potentially in all 3,000-8,000 languages, as wiki, accrediting for free Bachelor, Ph.D., Law and MD degrees potentially in 50-100 countries/languages, where people can teach to their web cameras or interactively online. I think free K-12 in the U.S. has benefited the poor, but expensive US college is limiting possibilities in this respect.

All the best,

Scott

Giraffes: Practices for eliciting loving bliss, How to explore peaking, for ex., for 8 hours a day, naturally, with intention, Scheduling practices?

2011-11-27T09:07:00.000-08:00

Practices for eliciting loving bliss neurophysiology

I'd like to explore peaking 8 hours a day, naturally, with intention and agency.

How?

... turn on this music

{so I turned on Fairfield Four channel, i.e. Gospel music, on Pandora and went 'there' in a variety of qualities, to start - ecstasy (MDMA) is a reference experience},

... dance in that way

{started dancing to above Gospel music } ...

... sing harmony, or sing

{here's a start ... http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Singing_Harmony} ...

... make love ...

What else ... to explicitly elicit love neurophysiology?

... here are some resources ...

http://scottmacleod.com/LovingBlissPractices.htm

{and see the other four related 'letters'}

http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Loving_Bliss_%28eliciting_this_neurophysiology%29

...

Now to explore scheduling such to elicit this neurophysiology, beyond the relaxation response ... :-)

Turmeric flower: Herbalism at WUaS, Turmeric for Joint Pain, Socially responsible investments, Dr. Seuss & the Arms' Race, Chomsky on Knowledge

2011-11-26T17:38:00.000-08:00

added this NY Time's article - "The Doctor’s Remedy: Turmeric for Joint Pain" -

http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/10/19/the-doctors-remedy-turmeric-for-joint-pain/ -

to World Univ & Sch's Herbalism wiki subject -

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

with its growing wiki resources ... and an invitation to 'edit this page.'

Socially responsible investments are one complementary strategy to Occupy Wall Street :) ...

http://www.calvert.com/

Here's World University & School's "Investing - Socially Responsibly" page -

http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Investing_-_Socially_Responsible

... with a wiki opportunity for sharing ideas ...

Dr. Seuss ... read quickly and briefly ... :) ... another story about nature, learning about and lessening the arms' races ...

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

interesting siren voice from 1970's rock music ...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TRPi1Dldt5k ...

one friend say she heard this a lot while she was on the hippie trail in Kathmandu in the mid-1970s ... :)

Fire on Telegraph avenue in Berkeley, and that hippie, whole grain place, Cafe Intermezzo (right across from the now closed Cody's Bookstore, - due to the internet? - Moe's and other bookstores are still in business), burns down ... http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=%2Fc%2Fa%2F2011%2F11%2F22%2FBA421M2ELU.DTL ... The times they are a'changing ... 1960s are way back there ... but Berkeley is Berkeley ... (will look to add to WUaS's 1960's wiki subject - http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/1960s )

Far-reaching, lucid and edifying ... "Noam Chomsky: On Knowledge and the Mysteries of Language" ...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hYG5LrcXBwM

... will add to WUaS's Linguistics' subject - http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Linguistics - and possibly philosophy ... http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Philosophy ... enjoy ...

Wild, native Sunflower: Germany's abolishing of a Nuclear future (by 2022) is spreading to France ... great news ...

2011-11-25T17:27:00.000-08:00

Germany's abolishing of a Nuclear future (by 2022) is spreading to France ... great news ...

http://www.nuclearfreeplanet.org/articles/france-delays-nuclear-train-amid-german-demo-threats-.html

will add to WUaS's Nuclear_Science_and_Engineering ... http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Nuclear_Science_and_Engineering ...