Mohave shoulderband snail: Glad Jimmy Wales is president (*) both of C.C. Wikipedia and Wikia (the wiki where C.C. WUaS is presently hosted), Some Wikidata and Wikipedia links of WUaS, Honor of WUaS (as well as my entry) getting deleted by Wikipedia :), WUaS has had only one reference in Wikipedia for at least a year now here - Nontheist Quakers, Added this upcoming great Wikidata:Wikibooks (in 288+ languages) to the main WUaS SUBJECT TEMPLATE -

Glad Jimmy Wales is president both of C.C. Wikipedia and (C.C. I think) Wikia (the wiki where C.C. WUaS is presently hosted) ... Jimmy Wales is both an advocate for freedom of speech in the Wiki space and is entrepreneurially oriented ... And Wikipedia/Wikidata are growing!

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In reply to comment below (Sat. February 14, 2015)

Thanks for reading, Gregory!

Just went to his LinkedIn page -
https://www.linkedin.com/profile/view?id=2674533 - and you're right,
(although elsewhere he said recently he is president of both, and I'm
seeing if I can find this again) ... In LinkedIn, he writes:

"I am the founder of Wikia, Wikipedia and the Wikimedia Foundation. I
currently serve as the Chair Emeritus and Board Member of the Wikimedia
Foundation and Chair of Wikia, Inc.

Best,
Scott


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Markus, Denny and Wikidatans,

... I don't, Markus. In the information age, this seems to be a widespread and helpful practice in general (e.g. in LinkedIn and for some medical records,, for example).

On the benefits of this side, this is a way for Wikidata to get most accurate, and potentially, timely data about people.

Are there further criteria Wikidata might add to lessen misrepresentations, etc., or to make more explicit what personal information is welcome, building on past Wikipedia experience in particular here, and not a conflict of interest?

Also, concerning POV, are there sociocultural or linguistic differences in interlingually Wikidata, here that might be relevant? Would people in India in Hindi represent their own personal data (e.g. due to traditions of spiritual "selflessness") differently from Swedes in Swedish (due to a different history of "knowledge generating practices"), for example, that are worth addressing with specific criteria? In what ways has Wikipedia addressed this already?

Cheers,

Scott

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My Wikidata User pages include:

Wikidata

Scott MacLeod (Q18720346)

Founder and President of World University and School

https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q18720346

as well as ...

Scott_WUaS -

https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/User:Scott_WUaS

Aphilo -

https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/User:Aphilo

and in Reasonator -

https://tools.wmflabs.org/reasonator/?q=Q18720346

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World University and School has the honor of getting deleted by Wikipedia a couple of years ago, on notability criteria, as well as my own first try at a Wikipedia entry (as founder, president, developer and faculty of WUaS) on January 7, 2015 :) ...

My Wikipedia entry read (January 7, 2015, when I started it and which was then deleted):

Scott_MacLeod_(professor)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scott_MacLeod_(professor)

Scott MacLeod (professor)

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Scott MacLeod is founder and president of MIT OCW-centric wiki World University and School, planned for all languages and countries.

He is also the founder of the Nontheist Friends' wiki school at World University and School [1] [2].

References

1. Nontheist Friends' wiki school at World University and School

http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Nontheist_Friends_(atheist_Quakers%3F)

2. Nontheist Quakers

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nontheist_Quakers

External links

Nontheist Friends' wiki school at World University and School

http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Nontheist_Friends_(atheist_Quakers%3F)

Scott MacLeod's home page

http://www.scottmacleod.com/

World University and School

http://worlduniversityandschool.org/

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WUaS has had only one reference in Wikipedia for at least a year now here - Nontheist Quakers ...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nontheist_Quakers - which is this: Nontheist Friends' wiki school at World University and School - 

http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Nontheist_Friends_(atheist_Quakers%3F). 

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May eventually explore some entries in various Wikimedias, and in German, for example ...

Auf Deutsch

Scott MacLeod (professor)

Gründer und Präsident des World University und Schule

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My Wikipedia entry read (January 7, 2015, when I started it and which was then deleted):

Scott_MacLeod_(professor)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scott_MacLeod_(professor)

Scott MacLeod (professor)

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Scott MacLeod is founder and president of MIT OCW-centric wiki World University and School, planned for all languages and countries.

He is also the founder of the Nontheist Friends' wiki school at World University and School [1] [2].

References

Nontheist Friends' wiki school at World University and School

http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Nontheist_Friends_(atheist_Quakers%3F)

Nontheist Quakers

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nontheist_Quakers

External links

Nontheist Friends' wiki school at World University and School

http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Nontheist_Friends_(atheist_Quakers%3F)

Scott MacLeod's home page

http://www.scottmacleod.com/

World University and School

http://worlduniversityandschool.org/

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Hey folks :)

It's time to welcome another sister projects into our rounds. It'll be
Wikibooks. They'll get access to the interwiki links on Wikidata on
February 24th. Depending on how that goes I'll set a date for data
access. The page for all things Wikibooks is at
https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Wikibooks. Please help by
giving them a warm welcome in 2 weeks.


Cheers
Lydia

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Lydia Pintscher - http://about.me/lydia.pintscher
Product Manager for Wikidata

Wikimedia Deutschland e.V.
Tempelhofer Ufer 23-24
10963 Berlin
www.wikimedia.de

Wikimedia Deutschland - Gesellschaft zur Förderung Freien Wissens e. V.

Eingetragen im Vereinsregister des Amtsgerichts Berlin-Charlottenburg
unter der Nummer 23855 Nz. Als gemeinnützig anerkannt durch das
Finanzamt für Körperschaften I Berlin, Steuernummer 27/681/51985.


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So great!

And in all Wikipedia's 288+ languages, I presume?

Scott

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Added this upcoming great Wikidata:Wikibooks to
https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Wikibooks

the main WUaS SUBJECT TEMPLATE -
http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/SUBJECT_TEMPLATE

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Mollusca: Social Innovation Manager, Outreach to (e.g. high achieving high school) students for online STEM-centric WUaS, SF EDU startup weekend in 2015?, Help with accreditation?, How best for WUaS to become financially operational, so as to be able to hire interns, accredit, etc, to become the Harvard / Yale / Stanford / Oxbridge of the internet, and become a significant employer in all 7,870 languages

Hi,

Looking forward to talking with you a wee bit about online learning and education at some point in the Epicenter Cafe in SF.

While open-ended conversation has much merit, and let's plan for that, here also are some items I'm curious about for Monday, and about which you'll probably have very good ideas:

a) where are you heading in your thinking as manager of social innovation at your online education startup?

b) how best to do outreach to (e.g. high achieving high school) students for online STEM-centric World University and School - e.g. http://worlduniversityandschool.blogspot.com/2013/07/july-13-open-business-meeting-agenda-at.html and http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2013/05/catarina-pupfish-outreach-for-mit-ocw.html (with many relevant resources, although these blog posts are both a little old) - in all 242 countries but planning for a C.C. free online undergraduate degree in English first (with students probably studying and learning in the rooms in which they went to high school) and graduating probably first in 2020 ... ?

c) are you involved in the SF EDU startup weekend in 2015 - http://sfedu.startupweekend.org/events/sf-edu-startup-weekend-6713/ (if it will be on the first weekend in June, since I'll be at a Reed reunion from June 10-15 and probably giving a paper at the Quaker FAHE - Friends Association for Higher Education from the 18th-21st or so) - or do you know people who will be? Would it be possible for me to be a speaker or panelist at this, if this is an aspect of this weekend?

d) accreditation? in this great online article it says your most important question here in the picture series - http://www.careercontessa.com/meg-evans-udemy/ - is asking "How can I help?" Would you/your startup be able please to help organize further WUaS's initial California BPPE accreditation?

e) how best for WUaS to become financially operational, so as to be able to hire interns, accredit, etc, for example? (WUaS would like to become the Harvard / Yale / Stanford / Oxbridge of the internet, and become a significant employer in all 7,870 languages - possibly at double the size of IBM's 426,000 people, with many many interns ... yes, diversity with a big D, and linguistically :)

What are you interested in talking about?

Best,

Scott

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Helix aspersa: Heart Consciousness Church which owns Harbin is celebrating its 40th anniversary (1975-2015) this month, Happy Valentine's Day Harbin!, HARBIN 40th ANNIVERSARY PUBLICATION - "Heart Consciousness Church: 1975-2015 - 40 Years of Living the Future", Harbin's history grows ~ and as an unaffiliated church, but, although you can meet the ministers ..., Curious how such celebrations will find their ways into a virtual Harbin, My 400 page Harbin ethnographic manuscript comes into conversation with Boellstorff's book, a virtual Harbin - from your own bathtubs - in interactive movie-realism and in 3D, in digital goggles?

Traveled up to Harbin yesterday to soak, and meditate {a kind of relaxation response harmonizing effect, or inner releasing action, for me} in the pools, and as I checked in at the Harbin gate, I found the following flyer. Heart Consciousness Church which owns Harbin is celebrating its 40th anniversary (1975-2015) this month ~

Harbin's history grows ~ and as an unaffiliated church (but which is pretty hippy-influenced), but, although you can meet the ministers in celebration events at Harbin this month (see the schedule), this isn't a celebration of Harbin's other church, New Age Church of Being (N.A.C.O.B.), which ordains the ministers ... 

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Happy Valentine's Day Harbin!




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HARBIN 40th ANNIVERSARY PUBLICATION -
"Heart Consciousness Church: 1975-2015 - 40 Years of Living the Future"
http://www.harbin.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/Harbin_40th_anniversary.pdf

And see this publication in Archive.org - 
https://web.archive.org/web/20150528205007/https://harbin.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/Harbin_40th_anniversary.pdf

(Accessed F April 26, 2025)

(And found this here at backup WUaS wiki Watsu - https://worlduniversity.fandom.com/wiki/Watsu_-_water_shiatsu - and - https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Watsu_-_water_shiatsu)

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I like such Harbin events that get back into its 1960's and '70's influences at this hot springs' retreat center...

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I'm curious how such celebrations will find their ways into a virtual Harbin - with interactive movie-realism and 3D, in digital goggles for example (I attended, for example, Tom Boellstorff's book signing party for his "Coming of Age in Second Life: An Anthropologist Explores the Virtually Human" (Princeton 2008) in the virtual world of Second Life ) - and as a part of a realistic virtual earth world ~ and from our own bathtubs.


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For example, in what creative ways will people explore Watsu - water shiatsu - http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Watsu_-_water_shiatsu - from their own bathtubs? 

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My 400 page Harbin ethnographic manuscript comes into conversation with Boellstorff's book, but involves, for the second book, the building of a virtual Harbin as ethnographic field site ... so there's good precedent above for all of this ... 

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http://eol.org/pages/449907/overview

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Galaxy: Star illumination beams brightly ~ inner smile

Short, sweet, natural, Star illumination Beams brightly ~ inner smile.

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Torrey pine: An ECONOMICS' instructional design video? for graduate student instructors from MIT, Yale or Stanford, for example, and with the Conference Method viz. Reed College ... Economics' courses from Yale OYC and MIT OCW, What instructional resources Reed students found helpful and added to WUaS at Paideia in PHYSICS and ORGANIC CHEMISTRY wiki subjects - Khan Academy Organic Chemistry and UC Boulder Quantum Physics' simulations, Playing instructionally is great here at WUaS ... and wiki-wise especially

Hi Govin, 

Thanks for your call earlier today, and for the offer by your wife, who's an instructional designer, to create an economics' instructional design video(?)! This video would/could focus on how, potentially, graduate student instructors from MIT, Yale or Stanford, for example, which WUaS would hire for autumn 2016 to teach sections to matriculated WUaS students in Google + group video Hangouts or similar, - and to an introductory economic's course from CC MIT OCW (http://ocw.mit.edu/courses/audio-video-courses/#economics) or CC Yale OYC (http://oyc.yale.edu/economics) via the conference method ... as I understood what you said your wife might like to contribute to WUaS (and doing this with you who teaches economics, and as a WUaS Board member). 

As we talked about, it would be great also to engage instructing about Reed College's conference method (http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Conference_Method_of_Teaching_and_Learning) itself - and for economics - in such an instructional video which you might contribute to WUaS. Shall we explore talking to Reed economics' professors about this eventually? 

Here's the Economics' wiki subject / department at WUaS ... 

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

As part of your and my conversation about this, here's the blog post I mentioned to Ty Marbut, a Reed College graduate from 2007 and very talented instructional designer and film maker in Portland Oregon now, inquiring hypothetically about whether he could orchestrate designing WUaS's required, first year Humanties 101 by filming ...

 a) a year's worth of Reed College Hum 110 lectures, primarily for the Internet, and 

b) recording, for instruction, Reed's guidelines for faculty on teaching via the conference method in Hum 110 sections:

"Tarsier eyes: Thanks for your engaging Paideia workshop on Sunday on "Video Production from Scratch for Beginners" at Reed, "On Music in Film - Ken Burns," Cuttyhunk film, a) Reed College Hum 110 lectures, primarily for the Internet, and b) recording, for instruction, Reed's guidelines for faculty on teaching via the conference method in Hum 110 sections"

... http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2015/01/tarsier-eyes-thanks-for-your-engaging.html  

... among other things in this blog post.

So glad you called, Govin, and this would be a great contribution to WUaS. Please let me know your further ideas about this. 

Talk with you at the WUaS Board meeting on February 14th at 9am PT?

Thank you! 

Best, 

Scott

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Hi Govin and Marcel

Thanks for your emails, Govin. Sounds like something enjoyable to explore creating. (And my condolences Marcel on your recent loss). 

As further ideas to add to my email to you from today (which I've posted below) concerning where WUaS may head on its matriculated student side for free CC undergraduate and graduate degrees (WUaS is Yale OYC and MIT OCW-centric - check out the exam and related questions many of these courses offer too), and with our common Reed undergraduate experience, Govind, and vis-a-vis the Conference Method, I'd like to add an observation from the course I taught about WUaS at Reed's Paideia from a few weeks ago. 

Two of the students, on the 2nd day, both made learning resource wiki-additions of their choice to WUaS as part of class. And they both chose - ON the DEGREE/academic side of WUaS - to add academic resources they had found helpful from the web with the science courses at Reed they had taken recently. These resources might be informative to you in your economic instructional design exploration, - even as a kind of play. 

For WUaS's physics wiki subjects (e.g. http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Physics and http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Quantum_Physics), one Physics' major student, originally from Nepal, added this ... 

Simulations > Physics > Quantum Phenomena. 2015. [

https://phet.colorado.edu/en/simulations/category/physics/quantum-phenomena

 Simulations > Physics > Quantum Phenomena]. Boulder, CO: phet.colorado.edu/en/simulations/category/physics/quantum-phenomena .

... because he found it (perhaps most) helpful and well-done as science instructional design, in his Reed Quantum Physics' course last semester, I think. 

And the other student (who is the daughter of a Reedie I/we went to school with, whom I like a lot), for the Reed Organic Chemistry class she had taken last semester, added Khan Academy Chemistry resources ... e.g.

Organic Chemistry. 2015. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pMoA65Dj-zk&list=PL7305D1BC80498DA6 Organic Chemistry]. Khan Academy Youtube channel.

((this Khan Academy entry which Chloe had added, and which I updated, was then removed unbeknownst to me from the Wikia "Organic Chemistry" page at WUaS, so that I had to re-add it - don't know how many other "disappearances" there have been from WUaS's Wikia, but I've noticed some over the years ... and they're probably saved somewhere in its history as well ... ))

... to WUaS's chemistry wiki subjects (http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Organic_Chemistry and http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Chemistry) because they were most helpful in explaining specific ideas in the class in a way she found useful. 

Playing is great here at WUaS ... and wiki-wise ... but the gift on the web of C.C. MIT OCW (in many languages - and here are ALL of the MIT OCW courses in economics - http://ocw.mit.edu/courses/economics/ - but not all in video, which WUaS might explore offering to matriculated undergraduate and graduate students eventually) and C.C. Yale OYC ... will probably inform how WUaS eventually helps instruct students with instructional design developments further, and when these courses are a challenge for them. 

Think also possibly in terms of a Reed College student body as the intellectual target level, as well (since WUaS seeks to model, with Yale OYC and MIT OCW courses, its undergraduate program on Reed's) for the degree side, and think OPEN and CREATIVE on the wiki (editable web pages) side ... for riffing and freely adding well-designed instruction!

I've added these two emails I've sent to you today here, by the way - http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2015/02/torrey-pine-economics-instructional.html - because these ideas may help others too. 

Have fun with these instructional design explorations, Marcel and Govin!

Best, 

Scott

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- Scott MacLeod - Founder & President  

- http://worlduniversityandschool.org 

- World University and School - like Wikipedia with best STEM-centric OpenCourseWare - incorporated as a nonprofit university and school in California, and is a U.S. 501 (c) (3) tax-exempt educational organization, both effective April 2010. 

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Long-billed murrelet: "How, and Why, Apple Overtook Microsoft" - WUaS should scale up beyond these in all 7,870 languages via artificial intelligence and machine learning generative developments, while keeping PEOPLE at the center of this unfolding university and school, And also especially, to begin, for things like "Clinical_Trials_at_WUaS_(for_all_languages)" and other STEM research

"How, and Why, Apple Overtook Microsoft" -

http://classic.slashdot.org/story/15/01/31/0121240 …

WUaS should scale up beyond these in all 7,870 languages via artificial intelligence and machine learning generative developments, while keeping people at the center of this unfolding university and school.



And in all Languages (7,870 per Glottolog, currently) -

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


and all Nation States + (242-ish per Wikipedia, currently)-

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

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And also especially, to begin, for things like - 

Clinical_Trials_at_WUaS_(for_all_languages) - 

http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Clinical_Trials_at_WUaS_(for_all_languages) - 

and other STEM research - 

http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/STEM_Education_-_Science,_Technologies,_Engineering_and_Mathematics.

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Green sea turtle: Friends Association for Higher Education Request for Proposals, Young Friends and World University and School, Western Friend magazine panel on climate change, and a Quaker college's ethos, "What Canst Thou Say about Climate Change?" panel and the "Ocean and Climate Management Plan" wiki subject/school at WUaS

Friends' Association for Higher Education (FAHE) Request for Proposals - 

Growing Young Friends and World University and School

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Member of San Francisco Friends Meeting

or

Founder, president and head clerk of startup Friendly-informed World University and School, like Wikipedia with best STEM-centric OpenCourseWare, and planned for large languages for C.C. Univ. degrees

*What is the title of your proposed presentation?

World University and School and Growing Young Friends in many languages, and with planned Ph.D.s & professional degrees

*Please provide a brief summary highlighting the content of your proposed session (up to 30 words)

Young Friends, Online University Education, OpenCourseWare, Wiki (editable web pages), Accreditation on Great Universities' OpenCourseWare, Building Face-to-Face Community on the Web

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In this presentation, I plan to share ways in which World University and School will help grow the Religious Society of Friends in many languages and with planned accrediting university and high school degrees based on Creative Commons' licensed great universities' OpenCourseWare, such as Yale OYC and MIT OCW, the latter of which is now in at least 7 languages at both the undergraduate and graduate levels. My thesis is that online Creative Commons' licensed, and hence free, degrees for Young F/friends around the world and in many languages - and potentially in conjunction with Monthly Meetings and other Friends' organizations, also in many languages - will significantly help grow the Religious Society of Friends in the high school, college and university age ranges, especially in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics-centric fields as well as in other thinking academic fields. It will also develop online with both the Semantic Web, as well as with artificial intelligence, and machine learning, thus benefitting students in numerous ways in the decades and centuries ahead. As a practical expression of caring in a Friendly way, WUaS will also help so many diverse peoples in the developing world with highest quality online education as a service, both on its degree side and on its wiki side, with open people-to-people and scholar-to-scholar wiki (editable web pages) schools, planned for all languages. Friendly-informed universal education is thus a service that will contribute to a Quaker-informed vision of the peaceable kingdom, and in all 7,870 languages.

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"Western Friend" magazine panel on climate change

I was at Palo Alto Friends Meeting (Quakers) yesterday evening at a Western Friend magazine panel on climate change. Beforehand I was talking with a Friend who had graduated from Earlham College in Indiana a few years ago and who is now working at Ben Lomond Quaker Center near Santa Cruz, California. I mentioned that my mother had gone to Earlham for a year, and that my aunt and uncle had met there in the 1950s, loved it, and are still together after many decades. I also mentioned how I'd like to develop a Friendly ethos in the digital space of online education vis-a-vis Friendly-informed World University and School (and with its STEM centric and multi-lingual foci) - in Google + group video Hangouts, for example - and asked her why people (or she) enjoy Earlham so much. Relatively new to Friends when she matriculated, I understood her to say that she liked Earlham for (and its Quaker ethos emerges from) its silent Quaker Meetings, which she described as reflection, that she also liked it for Friends' integrity (as in S.P.I.C.E.S. - simplicity, peace, integrity, community, equality and stewardship/sustainability, which I mentioned in our conversation), and also that Professors there connect actively with students. (All of this rings true for me from what I know of and have heard about Earlham). 

So at Western Shore Meeting this morning in San Francisco, I shared further with Friends during Meeting about wondering how a Friendly ethos could emerge onto the web, with for example, Stanford and MIT graduate student instructors, for example, connecting with students in group video "interactive learning spaces," and teaching in conjunction with Yale and MIT faculty in Yale OYC and MIT OCW video courses to students online around the world, - and how F/friendly-informed WUaS could further generate such an ethos, or "sociocultural learning code," - including connectedness and even as connected-identity-affirmation - and far-reachingly, around STEM subjects and in all subjects, and in large languages and their countries for C.C. degrees. 

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Hi Mary, 

Thanks for a good "What Canst Thou Say about Climate Change?" panel.

For the notes, here's the "Ocean and Climate Management Plan" wiki subject/school at WUaS -
http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Ocean_%26_Climate_Management_Plan - with lots of great STEM courses, and planned for many large languages. 

Friendly greetings,
Scott

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