Chernobyl wolf: Fukushima problem, California Nuclear Problem, Cynicism, 'Humorous Video Shows Coal and Nuclear Towers Fighting for Their Lives'

Nori M:

Probably the most cynical take on the Fukushima problem I've seen yet.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1hQPP5TbUCM


Very cynical take on the Fukushima problem in Japan ...

and it's also one bad

(anticipated?, even, to contribute to such cynicism),

tragic, irreversible, science experiment :(( ...

(Diablo Canyon Nuclear Plant in San Luis Obispo, in California, was built to withstand a 6.75 earthquake in the '60s, retrofitted to withstand a 7.5 in the '70s and Fukushima was a 9.0 on the Richter scale. Close Diablo now)...

will likely add above Japanese remix video here -

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

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UC Berkeley Nuclear Engineering Air Monitoring Station | Department of Nuclear Engineering ...

http://www.nuc.berkeley.edu/UCBAirSampling ...

a kind of Fukushima update -

see also - World University & School's Nuclear Science & Engineering wiki subject ...

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

with multiple MIT courses.

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"The Himalayas and Nearby Peaks Have Lost No Ice In Past 10 Years, Study Shows" -

http://science.slashdot.org/story/12/02/09/2152204/the-himalayas-and-nearby-peaks-have-lost-no-ice-in-past-10-years-study-shows ...

And what does the data say over decades and centuries, if there is any? ...

will look to add this article to free, open, World University & School's 'Ocean and Climate Management Plan ,' wiki, subject page -

http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Ocean_%26_Climate_Management_Plan.

WUaS is like Wikipedia with MIT Open Course Ware, and planning free, Bachelors, Ph.D., Law and MD degrees, accrediting on MIT OCW.

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"Humorous Video Shows Coal and Nuclear Towers Fighting for Their Lives" -

http://thinkprogress.org/romm/2012/02/09/421576/humorous-video-shows-coal-and-nuclear-towers-fighting-for-their-lives/ -

will look to add to "Nuclear Science and Engineering" wiki subject -

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

at World University & School,

as well as "Ocean & Climate Management Plan" wiki page -

http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Ocean_&_Climate_Management_Plan -

at WUaS.

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Dolphin: People with first languages other than English, UC Berkeley Professor Terrence Deacon's "Incomplete Nature: HOW MIND EMERGED FROM MATTER"

... is beginning to invite people with first languages other than English

to build wiki World Univ & Sch,

and is excited that people are interested -

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

UC Berkeley, as one of the great universities -

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

that WUaS would like to particularly engage,

has so many students from so many different languages around the world,

many of whom will make great student managers,

and volunteer community builders (like Wikipedia),

as WUaS begins to hire.


‎... with an invitation to invite friends, Wikipedians, and people you know from afar, to teach, start a university/school in their language, and create teaching & learning-wise at WUaS :)

... musicians and linguists, too! :)




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Fascinating, new book by UC Berkeley Professor Terrence Deacon

"Incomplete Nature: HOW MIND EMERGED FROM MATTER" -

http://books.wwnorton.com/books/Incomplete-Nature/ -

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

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

and perhaps its Biological Anthropology wiki page, as well -

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





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Sedona butte: Watsu video and therapeutic work, Massage, 'Eight things I Learned from 50 Naked People,' 'Watsu: Freeing the Body in Water'

... will look to add this Watsu video and therapeutic work with a parapalegic person -

watsu + healing dance from Claudio Silva on Vimeo.

http://vimeo.com/8835764 -

to World University and School's wiki Watsu subject page -

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

Check out the Watsu films on this page, too.



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Watsu: Freeing the Body in Water

By Harold Dull


http://books.google.com/books?id=LCDkmU5rfoYC&pg=PA181&lpg=PA181&dq=watsu+and+species&source=bl&ots=g5BmedNOUp&sig=RfLm2R04KPcvlzvvtfrDHmLCB3U&hl=en#v=onepage&q=watsu%20and%20species&f=false

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'Eight things I Learned from 50 Naked People' ...

http://www.elephantjournal.com/2011/09/eight-things-i-learned-from-50-naked-people--kate-bartolotta/ ...

will look to add to World University & School's open, free, wiki Massage -

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

subject, for teaching and learning ...

in real time,

and as you like it ...







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Two rhinoceri: Happy Valentine's Day with this guitar four-hands, Allman Brothers & David Crosby, Nash - Almost Cut My Hair, Grateful Dead song, DEEEL

Happy Valentine's Day with this guitar four-hands ...

cross-handed, and brains/bodyminds literally one-ing :)

Lovely music, as well ... worth re-visiting :) ...

just added

"Evolution basin sunset in Sierras: Loving Bliss, 'Definition,' 'Practices,' Conversation for riffing about bliss"

blog entry ...

http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2012/02/evolution-baisin-sunset-in-sierras.html ...

to Loving Bliss (eliciting this neurophysiology) -

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

at WUaS ...

with an invitation to explore valentine-ing :)

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Allman Brothers & David Crosby, Nash, Phil Lesh -

Almost Cut My Hair -7/27/11 Beacon Theater -

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

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


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Check out this Grateful Dead song, DEEEL -

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

they all get to bliss together -

in their faces, in their own ways -

around the 7 minute mark,

but often throughout ...

kinda cool ...

(and its been up here at WUaS's Grateful Dead wiki subject -

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

for awhile :)


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... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4-E4D9MgSJA

... another goodie

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Santos lobster: WUaS in High School as well, IB, It seems like the COUNTRY YOU'RE INTERESTED IN is another country to add to WUaS ...

World University & School's main, free, degree focus

is at the college/university level,

accrediting on MIT Open Course Ware,

and in as many as 50-100 languages -

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

countries -

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

But as World Univ & Sch moves toward accreditation,

and potentially in conjunction with Quakers/F/friends,

especially in the SF Bay Area,

WUaS would also accredit at the high school level

for free, online International Baccalaureates (IBs) /

CA high school degrees (which are already free on the ground),

on MIT OCW High School -

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

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


AP (Advanced Placement) Computer Science (high school) classes will be central to WUaS High School.

This MIT OCW High School accreditation process for WUaS will probably be in English only.


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WUaS wants to become a significant employer, worldwide.


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It seems like the COUNTRY YOU'RE INTERESTED IN - like Transnistria (or Transdniestria, or the Pridnestrovien Moldavian Republic) - is another country to add to wiki World University and School from its Nation States' page -
http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Nation_States - which then could become a university/school in relevant languages. WUaS is like Wikipedia with MIT Open Course Ware.

(Moldova is already listed here at WUaS 'Nation States').

Please let folks know, and let me know of people there who might want to help develop it.


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Are they on Google Plus ?

The main World University and School email address is worlduniversityandschool@gmail.com,

and here's the G+ page -

https://plus.google.com/u/0/b/108179352492243955816/108179352492243955816/posts. (http://scottmacleod.com/).









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Coral reef fish: Building on the 8, free, online, video, Stanford, open, computer courses, the < 2000 MIT OCW courses, the 35(ish) Yale OYC

Building on the 8, free, online, video, Stanford, open, computer courses …

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

the < 2000 MIT OCW courses …

http://ocw.mit.edu/ -

the 35(ish) Yale OYC …

http://oyc.yale.edu/ -

all here at World Univ & Sch -

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

WUaS facilitates a new, university conversation, as wiki,

where YOU, too, can teach, learn and create, all from home on your computer.

Free (Bachelors., PhD, Law, MD) degrees are planned,

accrediting on MIT Open Course Ware.

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World Univ & Sch is wiki (editable web pages) focused ...

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

and one learns by editing, reading, ...

or teaching what you'd like ...

all via your computer from home ...

consider yourself a part of the community.

What would you like to begin to focus on or learn at WUaS?


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... added John Palfrey's blog entry ... Palfrey, John. 2012. [http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/palfrey/2012/02/03/harvard-initiative-on-learning-and-teaching-kick-off/ Harvard Initiative on Learning and Teaching: Kick-Off]. February 3. Cambridge, MA: blogs.law.harvard.edu.

with interesting sketch-insights into Learning from Harvard profs who study this ...

to free, open, wiki World University & School's

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

with an invitation to YOU to teach here, in real time, or add resources,

- by editing any WUaS page ...

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


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Scratch programming language VIDEO tutorials -

http://info.scratch.mit.edu/Video_Tutorials ...

Get the free MIT Scratch program (from the Lifelong Kindergarten group) -

http://info.scratch.mit.edu/Support/Get_Started ...

Make the fish change color (in an 1 minute video tutorial :) ...

and begin to make code music ...

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Start programming - (also see World University and School's Programming -

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

and Computer Science pages -

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

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Tortoise: How to innovate with social networking sites, See, too, WUaS's Music School, Adapt the WUaS Subject Template

... is curious how open, free World University & School -

like Wikipedia with MIT Open Course Ware -

can innovate with social networking sites such as G +, LinkedIn, Twitter, FB, Academia.edu, etc.

Here's the 'You at World University & School' wiki, subject page -

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

(with a budding, WUaS bookstore/used computer store) -

where you will be able to join the WUaS community,

and orchestrate your education -

either toward a free degree,

or by openly wiki teaching, learning and creating -

in ways that are potentially flourishing and innovative.

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Some ways to innovate are

1) combine WUaS's social networking with its secure registrar to facilitate may grading friendly

2) anticipate possibly 3-4 billion people and possibly more over time, with WUaS's plans for all 3,000-8,000 languages and 200 countries.

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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, each instrument as a wiki subject page.

Adapt the WUaS Subject Template -

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

to create a new musical instrument page, or a new subject.

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Natalie Dessay performs

"O Zittre Nicht" from Mozart's "Die Zauberflöte (The Magic Flute)." Paris 2001.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d1ODbDKmSEc (wild costume) ...

will add to WUaS's Opera page -

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

and perhaps here at Loving Bliss Practices -

http://scottmacleod.com/LovingBlissPractices.htm :)

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Draco volens: Bringing the party to you, WUaS musical jamming, Canadian Brass- The Saints go marching

Bringing the party to you ...

World Univ & Sch has a musical jamming subject page,

where you'll be able to hop into a jam,

as well as learn jamming by playing -

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


as well as open learning about most fun subjects -

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

of our creation because we can add them, -

and much more, with creative, digital open-endedness -

as well as MIT OCW ...

come in to the party and play :)


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It's the generation of,

and rich learner/teacher engagement with,

WUaS's, wiki, Subject pages

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

in developing, CREATIVE ways,

as well as in GROWING numbers

(Wikipedia is in 281 LANGUAGES),

that will help give unfolding, flourishing form to WUaS.

(Each (many) language(s) becomes its own Universities/Schools at WUaS -

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

with an invitation to edit a page.

WUaS is planning to be in at least 3,000-8,000 languages.

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Canadian Brass- The Saints go marching

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fYTn55IcJ5M

Play or jam with this online?

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Hovering Kestrel: Science Sim is an open virtual world with a focus on Science, Virtual Harbin Hot Springs as ethnographic field site & WUaS in SS?

ScienceSim (http://www.sciencesim.com/) is another, open, virtual world with a focus on science as a virtual world, which draws on Open Simulator's open source virtual world code (http://opensimulator.org/wiki/Main_Page), and which has parallels with Second Life (http://secondlife.com). Folks with virtual world science projects can build in ScienceSim, - and Intel is one of its backers.


In it, I hope to build virtual Harbin Hot Springs as ethnographic field site.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3nhvcHw54GE

Here's a conversation from a weekly meeting in ScienceSim on Tuesday, with an overview of how this virtual Harbin will unfold ...



[10:08 AM] AD: Hi Scott
[10:09 AM] Scott MacLeod: Hi A!
[10:09 AM] LO has entered chat range (2.0m)
[10:09 AM] Scott MacLeod: How and where are you?
[10:09 AM] Scott MacLeod: Hello L!
[10:09 AM] AD: I'm at Utah State Univ and doing fine, you?
[10:09 AM] RA: hello Scott
[10:10 AM] Scott MacLeod: Great! ... I'm fine and in northern California.
[10:10 AM] RA: wb L
[10:10 AM] Scott MacLeod: Hello R!
[10:10 AM] LO: Back again Hi all
[10:10 AM] LO: I seem to have voice back after a restart
[10:10 AM] Scott MacLeod: I haven't been to this group before,
[10:10 AM] Scott MacLeod: and have an interest in building a virtual Harbin Hot Springs in ScienceSim
[10:10 AM] LO: yep
[10:10 AM] Scott MacLeod: as ethnographic field site.
[10:11 AM] LO: I could do with a soak in a Hot Spring
[10:11 AM] Scott MacLeod: I'm curious to explore what might be possible here.
[10:11 AM] Scott MacLeod: :)
[10:11 AM] AD: I hear you now
[10:11 AM] RA: I see you in the talk list L
[10:11 AM] AD: And I hear L
[10:11 AM] Scott MacLeod: Hopefully we'll be able to be in our home bathtubs and visiting virtual Harbin in SS.
[10:11 AM] RA: I heard a short thing from some one but now only the fire crackling
[10:11 AM] AD: Nice, Scott :>
[10:11 AM] Scott MacLeod: :)
[10:12 AM] RA: I heard that, A
[10:12 AM] Scott MacLeod: You'll find a Machinima movie here about the making of virtual Harbin
[10:12 AM] LO: NOw I want to tp back to Hypatia and see if the sound is working htere
[10:12 AM] Scott MacLeod: http://scottmacleod.com/papers.htm
[10:12 AM] Scott MacLeod: part way down.
[10:12 AM] LO is Online
[10:13 AM] AD is Online
[10:13 AM] Scott MacLeod: What are your interests in SS?
[10:13 AM] RA: which is the link, Scott?
[10:13 AM] Scott MacLeod: And where are you based, L and R!
[10:14 AM] Scott MacLeod: The link is here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3nhvcHw54GE 
[10:14 AM] RA: I am one of the admin people... I'm in Oregon
[10:14 AM] Scott MacLeod: Great, R.
[10:14 AM] Scott MacLeod: But the video is 14 minutes long.
[10:14 AM] RA: I heard a broken up something from L and an overmodulated something from A
[10:14 AM] LO: I had that trouble at my last meeting so maybe my wireless headset is dying
[10:14 AM] RA is Online
[10:15 AM] RA: you're way too loud, A
[10:15 AM] Scott MacLeod: Do you know Dan Lake, R!
[10:15 AM] LO: you are perfect to me
[10:15 AM] LO: but I adjust speakers individually
[10:15 AM] Scott MacLeod: (I can't see you R, only your name, curiously)
[10:15 AM] RA: yes... Dan and I work together
[10:15 AM] Scott MacLeod: ok
[10:16 AM] RA: Ya... I'm having appearance problems... I've been trying v3 viewers
[10:16 AM] Scott MacLeod: This is a nice build.
[10:16 AM] Scott MacLeod: It reminds me a little of Timberline Lodge in Oregon.
[10:17 AM] RA: it was modeled after the western lodges :)
[10:17 AM] RA: lost L again
[10:17 AM] LO has entered chat range (1.7m)
[10:17 AM] Scott MacLeod: Who built it?
[10:18 AM] RA: I figured out some of my audio... I now have the radio
[10:18 AM] RA: wb L... is voice working on Hypatia?
[10:19 AM] Scott MacLeod: I saw a note on the front of the Imprudence viewer that there's audio
[10:19 AM] Scott MacLeod: but I haven't found it yet.
[10:20 AM] Scott MacLeod: Might I ask what the best ways you would suggest to initiate a building project in ScienceSim?
[10:20 AM] RA: Look in 'Preferences' and make sure voice is turned on
[10:20 AM] RA: also check the 'Audio' settings
[10:20 AM] AD: Are you planning to host your own region Scott?
[10:21 AM] Connecting to in-world Voice Chat...
[10:21 AM] Connected
[10:21 AM] LO: I am just going to quickly tp to Hypatia and see if voice is on there now
[10:21 AM] Scott MacLeod: Thanks ... I see now a white dot about my head, but none above yours A.
[10:21 AM] Scott MacLeod: Ok Linday
[10:21 AM] Scott MacLeod: *L
[10:22 AM] RA: I see the dot over you Scott
[10:22 AM] Scott MacLeod: What are good ways to get overviews of projects in ScienceSim - ie blogs, or?
[10:23 AM] Scott MacLeod: Yes, I just heard you, A ... but I'm in a cafe, so I'll speak only a little
[10:23 AM] Scott MacLeod: Yea!
[10:23 AM] AD: There is some info about projects on the wiki, and some individuals may have their own websites with info but there isn't anything complete or coordinated really
[10:24 AM] Scott MacLeod: Is this the case?
[10:24 AM] Scott MacLeod: I noticed that SS is planning some scaling projects of topography, I think.
[10:24 AM] Scott MacLeod: Thanks, A
[10:25 AM] RA: my avatar should be back...
[10:25 AM] LO: OK voice is working on at least Hypatia 1 so that looks promising.
[10:25 AM] RA: there are the Yellowstone regions which is a large area of topography
[10:25 AM] AD: There are the Yellowstone regions with a large-scale (hundreds of sims) replica of the national park
[10:25 AM] AD: :>
[10:25 AM] Scott MacLeod: Great ... who's building/overseeing this
[10:26 AM] LO: it is certainly a large landmass...would be awesome to have it populated
[10:26 AM] Scott MacLeod: There you are R!
[10:26 AM] Scott MacLeod: in avatar reality!
[10:26 AM] LO: Mic said that it is not always running as he turned on some of it for me to see once
[10:26 AM] Scott MacLeod: I see ... thanks, L ...
[10:26 AM] RA: Mic did some work on seeing more than one region in the distance
[10:27 AM] Scott MacLeod: I'm curious what you all would suggest
[10:27 AM] RA: L your voice is broken up
[10:27 AM] Scott MacLeod: for building the topographically realistic
[10:27 AM] Scott MacLeod: Harbin Hot Springs valley, particularly the Harbin Mainside area
[10:27 AM] RA: ah... I would suggest contacting Mic Bowman who is usually at this meeting
[10:28 AM] Scott MacLeod: probably 4 sims to begin 512m squared
[10:28 AM] Scott MacLeod: x 4
[10:28 AM] RA: he's on a plane at the moment
[10:28 AM] Scott MacLeod: Great, thanks, R!
[10:28 AM] Scott MacLeod: I've been in touch with him by email before ...
[10:28 AM] RA: he took GIS data to make the Yellowstone regions
[10:28 AM] Scott MacLeod: sounds like he's a main designer here
[10:29 AM] RA: he likes to tinker and build... he's done most of the support and construction for the main areas
[10:29 AM] AD: Darb Dabney has some info on his blog about the experiments he has done with recreating terrain in opensim http://blog.3dg.is/
[10:29 AM] RA: is he the one that did terrain sculpties?
[10:29 AM] AD: yes
[10:29 AM] Scott MacLeod: Thanks ... is he in this SS world, too?
[10:30 AM] Scott MacLeod: I've met Darb once I think.
[10:30 AM] Scott MacLeod: I enjoyed his Yosemite in SL before
[10:30 AM] AD: He had a region in one of the first landgrant programs but I haven't seen him here in a while
[10:31 AM] Scott MacLeod: ok ... is this a main meeting of builders (with Mic espeically) - Tuesdays at 10? And are
[10:31 AM] Scott MacLeod: there others?
[10:31 AM] RA: this is the 'uses meeting' and is the only scheduled one for users
[10:32 AM] Scott MacLeod: thanks
[10:32 AM] RA: we're here every week :)
[10:33 AM] RA: are you thinking of hosting your own regions, Scott?
[10:33 AM] Scott MacLeod: Are any of you in G+ ?
[10:33 AM] Scott MacLeod: Great ...
[10:33 AM] Scott MacLeod: Yes, I'd like to explore co-building a virtual Harbin Hot Springs, if possible, for a book I'm writing.
[10:33 AM] AD: No G+, I'm a recovering social media addict
[10:33 AM] Scott MacLeod: Here's my G+ https://plus.google.com/u/0/115890623333932577910/posts
[10:33 AM] RA: I'm on G+
[10:33 AM] Scott MacLeod: ok ...
[10:34 AM] Scott MacLeod: and http://scottmacleod.com ... has a number of my social media links
[10:34 AM] LO: I'm n G+
[10:34 AM] Scott MacLeod: I'll find you both
[10:34 AM] Scott MacLeod: http://harbin.org
[10:35 AM] Scott MacLeod: How would you suggest finding co-builders in SS?
[10:35 AM] LO: Why do you want to make the hot springs...I missed that
[10:36 AM] Scott MacLeod: I'm writing an actual /virtual ethnography/ book about Harbin
[10:36 AM] RA: following that G+ URL crashed my Imprudence
[10:36 AM] Scott MacLeod: and want to make a virtual Harbin as ethnographic field site
[10:36 AM] Scott MacLeod: welcome back R
[10:37 AM] LO: I don't know what that means?
[10:37 AM] LO: are you going to place data sets there or something?
[10:37 AM] Scott MacLeod: (There are a lot of RA in G+ I saw ...what's the best way to find you?
[10:38 AM] Scott MacLeod: L - The link is here again:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3nhvcHw54GE  - to a movie about the Making of Virtual Harbin
[10:39 AM] LO: thanks Scott I will watch and learn!! :)
[10:39 AM] Scott MacLeod: With group voice chat and text chat, engage in participant observation, and compare with the on-the-ground ethnography I'm writing (I'm in the 6th chapter of my book, which so far has been about actual Harbin)
[10:40 AM] Scott MacLeod: I'm coming into conversation with Tom Boellstorff's "Coming of Age in Second Life: An Anthropologist Explores the Virtually Human" (Princeton 2008) in the writing
[10:41 AM] RA: I like the builds in Hypatia, L
[10:41 AM] LO: They aren't mine R, they are a free thing called the Universal Campus
[10:42 AM] LO: they suited us as a sTEM site as a starting point
[10:42 AM] LO: we'll knock down what we don't want
[10:42 AM] Scott MacLeod: (You can find the first few draft chapters here - http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/search/label/Harbin%20ethnography )
[10:42 AM] LO: and add our own flavor to what we keep
[10:42 AM] Scott MacLeod: What's Hypatia, L!
[10:42 AM] Scott MacLeod: ?
[10:42 AM] RA: Scott... my email address for G+ is mbg@...mail.com ... although I don't post much
[10:43 AM] LO: It is going to be a STEM themed virtual world for girls 11 to 16 as part of another communiyt
[10:43 AM] Scott MacLeod: Thanks!
[10:43 AM] LO: http://www.edlabgroup.org/projects/hypatia.html
[10:43 AM] Scott MacLeod: STEM? - great
[10:43 AM] Scott MacLeod: Thanks
[10:44 AM] LO: Yeah science tech engineering math
[10:46 AM] Scott MacLeod: couldn't find you yet, in G+ with that address ... will keep looking
[10:48 AM] RA: I found and added you, Scott
[10:48 AM] Scott MacLeod: Wow, L .. that looks great!
[10:48 AM] Scott MacLeod: thanks!
[10:49 AM] Scott MacLeod: worlduniversityandschool@gmail.com is one address for the above G+ link ... and post a fair amount there
[10:49 AM] RA: boy... there are a lot of people with my name on G+ !!
[10:50 AM] LO: You are an individual just like everybody else
[10:51 AM] Scott MacLeod: (As another big project, L, I'm developing World University and School - http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/World_University - which is like Wikipedia with MIT Open Course Ware ), where 1) we can all teach to and learn from each other, as wiki, and 2) with free degrees planned - BAch, PhD. law and MD accrediting on MIT OCW)
[10:51 AM] Scott MacLeod: (it's a nice name)
[10:51 AM] Scott MacLeod: What's the SSURL L, for Hypatia?
[10:52 AM] AD: I need to run.. See you later
[10:52 AM] Scott MacLeod: WUaS is primarly university and college focused - and free and open
[10:52 AM] RA: by A
[10:52 AM] Scott MacLeod: Nice to meet you A
[10:52 AM] RA: bye
[10:52 AM] Scott MacLeod: See you another Tuesday I hope
[10:52 AM] LO: currently Hypatia is just 4 islands here as our meeting place for plans and testing ideas
[10:52 AM] RA: open the map and searching for "Hypatia" works
[10:53 AM] LO: we are awaiting an NSF bid outcome
[10:53 AM] LO: fingers crossed
[10:53 AM] LO: but Opensim won't scale for our needs
[10:53 AM] LO: so we'll have to shift platforms if we grow
[10:53 AM] LO: there are 5 million girls in the NGCP community
[10:53 AM] Scott MacLeod: great (as WUaS begins to matriculate Bachelors' students potentially in 2014, keep WUaS in mind, as your STEM project develops ... )
[10:54 AM] LO: yes that is very interesting ...so the accrediting body is MIT?
[10:54 AM] Scott MacLeod: What are you thinking of eventually moving to, L?
[10:54 AM] Scott MacLeod: And scale in what sense?
[10:54 AM] Scott MacLeod: How are you using SS for teaching teenage girls math and science, in a nut shell?
[10:55 AM] Scott MacLeod: (NGCP?)
[10:55 AM] LO: well it would be very costly to host an opensim for large numbers of users due to the small number per simulator
[10:55 AM] LO: NGCP = National Girls Collaborative Project
[10:55 AM] Scott MacLeod: thanks ... yea, 40 per sim seems to be the number I've heard as the limit
[10:56 AM] LO: we are making clubhouses, quests, scavenger hunts, presentations, role models, and linking to causes out of the virtual world in the real world
[10:56 AM] LO: few Opensim locations ever get 40 in my experience
[10:56 AM] LO: not doing things anyway
[10:56 AM] Scott MacLeod: Yet, I think the conference method (I went to Reed College in Oregon) is an effective way of teaching and learning, - science too (http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Conference_Method_of_Teaching_and_Learning)
[10:57 AM] Scott MacLeod: and 40 avatars is enough ...
[10:57 AM] LO: so Hypatia is a world not a game experience but it has mini games in it
[10:57 AM] Scott MacLeod: sounds fun L!
[10:57 AM] LO: yeah we hope so
[10:57 AM] Scott MacLeod: ok
[10:57 AM] RA: I need to run also...
[10:57 AM] LO: I ahve a group of kids about to start working with me testing and building stuff but needed to get voice working
[10:57 AM] RA: great meeting you Scott
[10:57 AM] LO: now that is solved it is time to rock and roll
[10:57 AM] Scott MacLeod: Very nice to meet you R ... and I need to move along shortly as well
[10:57 AM] LO: me too
[10:58 AM] RA: and I'll see you both soon
[10:58 AM] LO: thanks guys
[10:58 AM] Scott MacLeod: great!
[10:58 AM] LO: Scott
[10:58 AM] Scott MacLeod: Until soon ...
[10:58 AM] Scott MacLeod: Yes, L
[10:58 AM] LO: is wiki like mooc
[10:58 AM] LO: I mean is conference learning like a mooc
[10:58 AM] Scott MacLeod: mooc?
[10:58 AM] Scott MacLeod: (I see wiki as a kind of conference method)
[10:59 AM] LO: Massively Online Open Course
[10:59 AM] Scott MacLeod: but it's communication - group text and voice - that makes virtual worlds so compelling to me for learning.
[10:59 AM] LO: http://www.downes.ca/presentation/278
[10:59 AM] Scott MacLeod: focused students and faculty who facilitate the conference method are key
[11:00 AM] Scott MacLeod: thanks L
[11:01 AM] Scott MacLeod: Let's continue this conversation on a later Tuesday
[11:01 AM] Scott MacLeod: your project looks fascinating, L!
[11:01 AM] LO: can you send me a link to the conference method as it is a circular link on the page
[11:02 AM] Scott MacLeod: what's your email?
[11:02 AM] LO: Laustralia@gmail.com
[11:02 AM] Scott MacLeod: a circular link? (does copying and pasting the url into a browser avoid circularity?)
[11:02 AM] Scott MacLeod: thanks for your email
[11:02 AM] LO: Scott have you seen the OER University stuff?
[11:03 AM] LO: http://wikiresearcher.org/Main_Page
[11:03 AM] Scott MacLeod: Yes, I think it's linked at WUaS on the main Courses page
[11:03 AM] LO: cool
[11:04 AM] LO: my other project is on there at http://wikiresearcher.org/DEHub_Research_Projects/University_of_New_England
[11:05 AM] LO: ok bye for now guys
[11:05 AM] Scott MacLeod: bye for now
[11:09 AM] Scott MacLeod: I'll send you both an email shortly, to keep in touch another way, R
[11:09 AM] Scott MacLeod: Nice to meet you.
[11:09 AM] RA: my work email is R.A@…com
[11:10 AM] Scott MacLeod: great ... ok .. just sent the email ...
[11:10 AM] Scott MacLeod: but I'll note this one as well.


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


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This whole Science Sim virtual world could become a significant space of World University and School.





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Venus: O, for bandwidth for a real time, ALL instruments / ALL languages / ALL countries' Music School, Online Realtime Music Collaboration & Tuners

O, for bandwidth for a real time,

ALL instruments / ALL Languages / ALL countries

(each instrument a wiki page, to begin)

Music School ...

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

(teaching and learning a musical instrument, by playing music in one direction - playing, or listening to someone, on a bagpipe practice chanter, for example - works pretty well on video these days)

... patience, patience, patience

... and for online jamming :)

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

We probably need 1000s of times the bandwidth that folks who currently have fast bandwidth have

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


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Here are two, software resources I just found for Online Realtime Music Collaboration:

A) http://www.cockos.com/ninjam/ and

B) http://www.synthtopia.com/content/2011/03/24/ohm-studio-demo-2-people-making-music-together-in-real-time/

Cool!!! ...

will add them to some World University & School Music pages -

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

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

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


Looking to sing, and make music together, online ...

hope Google or similar incorporates this into a Hangout etc. :)


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I found this musical instrument tuner online. It seems to work pretty well, and is cool - http://www.seventhstring.com/tuner/tuner.html - and two others. I added these to WUaS's Music School - http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/World_University_Music_School - and the Music - http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Music - subject as well.

(I also added them to the Bagpipe Tutorials' page - http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Bagpipe_Tutorials).




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Real time digital communication for teaching and learning is 'here' in a myriad of ways:


For example, I'm

1) taking an online bagpipe course with PM Jack Lee (with Adobe Connect, with the instructor streaming in real time video) and

2) giving bagpiping lessons (mostly with Skype on video, but also in a G+Hangout), as well as

3) facilitating an open, free Music Playing space (in a Google + Hangout), and

4) furthering my German through the Goethe Institute's conversation hour (in Second Life, with group text chat and group voice chat) these days ...


These information technologies are working pretty well for video and interactivity, and with groups.






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