Northern Goshawk: Shakespeare's MacBeth online? Act 4, Scene 1? Double, Double, Toil and Trouble ... Online matriculated students at WUaS will probably write reviews about other online students enacting Shakespeare's plays, Online Shakepeare Players Company and at World University and School :), Italian language WUaS, Theatre Arts, Film and Film Making at WUaS

Hi Ants, Koh, Marc, Dorota and Scot,

I'd like to introduce you all to one another. Marc, Dorota and I made this Act V Scene V Shakespeare (http://www.shakespeare-online.com/plays/macbeth_5_5.html) video together up on Twin Peaks in SF in 1999, when Marc was a immune-system researcher at UCSF and Dorota was working as a Computer Technologist with a SF company. You'll find it here - http://scottmacleod.com/scottmacleod.com/Main_item0.html - accessible from here - http://scottmacleod.com/links.htm. (I was able to view it from Safari browser but not Chrome browser).

Koh is also a UCSF researcher in biology, and Ants, his wife, works at the Italian Cultural Institute (for only 32 more days or so!) in SF, but did her Ph.D. in Edinburgh Scotland on the Iranian criminal system. Scot is a a video professional. Marc is from French-speaking Switzerland, Dorota originally from Poland, Koh originally from Japan, and Ants originally from Italy with a Scots' father, and Scot and I are from the U.S.

I'm writing with a further Shakespearean online innovation possibility. Might we all 6 create a Shakespeare-informed film, perhaps by meeting in a Google group video Hangout to enact another scene from MacBeth? (Could we also, for example, figure out how to put the stone wall from Twin Peaks in the above MacBeth film-let from 1999 behind each of us in our rooms differentially? :) Perhaps we could pick another scene with Seyton in it, which Marc played in 1999 - http://www.opensourceshakespeare.org/views/plays/characters/charlines.php?CharID=seyton&WorkID=macbeth&cues=1 - for character consistency too. But here are all the scenes, for perhaps a different one, if we wanted to explore this further? Better perhaps to pick a scene with 6 different roles ?  Here's a list of scenes from MacBeth from MIT - http://shakespeare.mit.edu/macbeth/index.html ...

Easier to meet in group video I think ... :)

Perhaps we can become the Online Shakepearean Players Company and at World University and School :)

Friendly cheers, Scott

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Act 4, scene 1, with the 3 witches (Double, double, toil and trouble ... ) looks interesting and like it has many roles in it ... http://shakespeare.mit.edu/macbeth/macbeth.4.1.html :)

With a Scottish Small Piping duet with Ants, who is learning piping, and myself, like the piping in our Act 5 Scene 5 from 17 years ago? (Just exploring ... and Shakespeare is amazing :)

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MacBeth Act 4, Scene 1?
http://shakespeare.mit.edu/macbeth/macbeth.4.1.html

MacBeth index of scenes -
http://shakespeare.mit.edu/macbeth/index.html

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Here's a recent MIT review of MacBeth - http://tech.mit.edu/V135/N30/macbeth2015.html - and something online matriculated students at WUaS will probably write reviews about other online students enacting Shakespeare's plays ...

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Hi Ants, Marc and All,

Are you familiar with long-time MIT Italian instructor Dr. Paola Rebusco, Ants? I just posted this MIT OCW post - 

Buona Festa Della Donna! https://twitter.com/MITOCW/status/707273023691354112 - to - https://twitter.com/WorldUnivAndSch .

Check out one of a few MIT OCW courses about learning Italian ... http://ocw.mit.edu/courses/experimental-study-group/es-s41-speak-italian-with-your-mouth-full-spring-2012/ ...

She and this MIT OCW may be WUaS's entree into Italian WUaS ...

And re what I sent you the other day, Ants :

Here's a G+ post from last year with much about Italy WUaS, Italian language WUaS (not yet in Italian) and Opera WUaS in wiki schools too even

https://plus.google.com/+ScottMacLeodRainbow/posts/3qQiD2QfNs6 and more :)

Italian is one of four official languages in Switzerland (http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Switzerland - not yet in Italian!) as well, I think, Marc!

Sounds like a fun way to share meals and learn a language ... and in Google group video Hangouts ?
Speak Italian With Your Mouth Full ? What do you think, Professor Antonia?

Va bene, Scott

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Ok, ok,

well she's Latvian ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YVJA1r9d_hQ ... singing Italian aria ...  Kristine Opolais, O mio babbino caro, Puccini  ... and o what a voice ... https://twitter.com/KristineOpolais ... and ability to go "there" virtually in what she elicits and evokes as an actress opera singer :)

I won't seek to see if she might help with Harbin ethnographic translation into Latvian :)

And here's Madame Opolais in Tosca - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pkDjotRgZ8A ... what a voice! What Opera ... Italian Opera is encroiable!

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Hi Ants and All,

But this is what I gravitate toward taste-wise musically ...  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b8BcuHWa9As ... my Italian opera as it were .. and with which I more frequently can elicit neural cascades of pleasure of most pleasant qualities, varieties and intensities ... with

Credo di essere un po 'di una testa Grateful Dead ... What do you think, Ants? ... Did I say I think I'm a little bit of a Grateful Dead-head effectively via https://translate.google.com/ ?

And planned in many languages at WUaS ... and many related subjects by all of us are anticipated too ...

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

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

What do you all gravitate toward taste-wise musically and for neural cascades or pleasure ... or which gets you most in one quality of that "zone"? :)

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Might we create a Shakespeare-informed film where mice starting multiplying and expanding in your flat ... each mouse delivering the lines from each character from all 36 plays by Signor Shakespeare/Shakespeare-san ... (with a little animation / digitization help:)? Poor wee miceys yet coming to a wonderful home! Perhaps you can write another related story with many Shakespearean voices in it? :)

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Theatre Arts at WUaS - 

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

Film - 

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

Film Making - 

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

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

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Major Mitchell's cockatoo: Momentous moment here - Am uploading my 412 page GDocs "Naked Harbin Ethnography" manuscript to CreateSpace/Amazon.com for the very first time partly to learn how pagination and other things change, Nelson, I also added you in the CreateSpace/Amazon software as writing the Foreward, Began this publishing process on Valentine's Day, The ISBNs are ISBN-13: 978-0692646137 (Academic Press at World University and School) and ISBN-10: 0692646132, Also curious how to anticipate publishing to the Kindle Fire, Will hold off on writing a 1 page "What is the Virtual?" paper in anticipation of your class on Thursday, but may actually turn this into an Afterward to complement UC Berkeley Professor Emeritus Nelson Graburn's Foreward to my Harbin book, Thank you!, Are you familiar with long-time MIT Italian instructor Dr. Paola Rebusco, Ants?, Italy WUaS, Italian language WUaS (not yet in Italian) and Opera WUaS, Professor Antonia, would you suggest writing Italian with feathers in one's hand, if MIT instructor of Italian Dr. Paola Rebusco suggests to "Speak Italian With Your Mouth Full ?

Hi Nelson,

Momentous moment here: Am uploading my 412 page GDocs "Naked Harbin Ethnography" manuscript (which curiously is 417 pages in MS Word, since Word Docs have been about 12 pages shorter in the past, which is the actual file format I'm uploading) to CreateSpace/Amazon.com for the very first time partly to learn how pagination and other things change. Nelson, I also added you in the CreateSpace/Amazon software as writing the Foreward.

I began this publishing process on Valentine's Day, then soon pretty much finished the cover in CreateSpace, then the CreateSpace software wasn't working properly two weekends in, and now am doing my first manuscript upload including their automatic internal review / Automatic Print Check process.

Still a few further photos to add, index to complete with final CreateSpace pagination, etc. - they're converting my Word document to a PDF but I could have uploaded a PDF, Doc, Docx, or RTF (and possibly other formats) file ..

Am updating this Actual Virtual Harbin Book page as things develop ... http://www.scottmacleod.com/ActualVirtualHarbinBook.html

The ISBNs are

ISBN-13: 978-0692646137 (Academic Press at World University and School)

ISBN-10: 0692646132

Also curious how to anticipate publishing to the Kindle Fire.

Still a few days to go before pressing the final "Publish" button in CreateSpace/Amazon ... and being able to get a "Print on Demand" paper copy.

Am focusing on my Harbin book publishing process, and will hold off on writing a 1 page "What is the Virtual?" paper - re http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2016/03/birdwing-virtual-virtual-for-me-refers.html - in anticipation of your course on Thursday, but may actually turn this into an Afterward to complement your Foreward to my Harbin book. Thank you, Nelson Graburn!

See you on Thursday.

Best,
Scott

http://worlduniversityandschool.org/AcademicPress.html


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Hi David, Rolene, John and Charles, (Quaker friends),

Hmmm ...

Just received this message from CreateSpace/Amazon.com earlier after the successful first upload  ...

We weren't able to run our automated print checks on your file. Our formatting specialists will check your file once you submit it for review. For now, continue to the cover step.

They seem to suggest uploading a PDF if what their guidelines are about is any indication ... will explore that in the future ...

Here's a related email as above to Nelson about some of this ... http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2016/03/major-mitchells-cockatoo-momentous.html

Columns for just the index seem only to be able to done in MS Word, but one can't convert MS Word documents back into GDocs (and then into a PDF from GDocs for example) at this size or with this many photos or something ... and their pagination is always off from one another ... making completing the index seemingly the very last finicky thing to do ...

Hrmmph,

Scott

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Hi Ants, Marc, Koh, Dorota and All,

Are you familiar with long-time MIT Italian instructor Dr. Paola Rebusco, Ants? I just posted this MIT OCW post - 

Buona Festa Della Donna! https://twitter.com/MITOCW/status/707273023691354112 - to - https://twitter.com/WorldUnivAndSch .

Check out one of a few MIT OCW courses about learning Italian ... http://ocw.mit.edu/courses/experimental-study-group/es-s41-speak-italian-with-your-mouth-full-spring-2012/ ...

She and this MIT OCW may be WUaS's entree into Italian WUaS ...

And re what I sent you the other day, Ants :

Here's a G+ post from last year with much about Italy WUaS, Italian language WUaS (not yet in Italian) and Opera WUaS in wiki schools too even

https://plus.google.com/+ScottMacLeodRainbow/posts/3qQiD2QfNs6 and more :)

Italian is one of four official languages in Switzerland (http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Switzerland - not yet in Italian!) as well, I think, Marc!

Sounds like a fun way to share meals and learn a language ... and in Google group video Hangouts ? 

Speak Italian With Your Mouth Full ? What do you think, Professor Antonia?

Va bene, Scott

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Momentous moment this morning ... just uploaded my 417 page Harbin manuscript to the CreateSpace/Amazon.com publishing software having begun this publishing process on Valentine's Day! More details about my Harbin manuscript upload in my blog post from today - http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2016/03/major-mitchells-cockatoo-momentous.html - including adding UC Berkeley Sociocultural Anthropology Professor Emeritus Nelson Graburn's name to CreateSpace/Amazon.com publishing software as author of the book's Foreward, which I think will greatly increases credibility, reach and readers.

Ants, do you know of anyone at the Italian Cultural Institute in SF who could go from my manuscript in English through Google Translate and into Italian, and then could improve on this?

Marc - into Swiss French?

Koh - into Japanese?

Dorota - into Polish?

Scot - into video? :)

Professor Antonia, would you suggest writing Italian with feathers in one's hand, if MIT instructor of Italian Dr. Paola Rebusco suggests to "Speak Italian With Your Mouth Full ?

:)

Scott

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Major_Mitchell%27s_cockatoo

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Red-tailed tropicbird: WUaS-donated-into-Wikidata's website is unusually temporarily unavailable today, WUaS is also greatly in need of beginning to develop our IT platforms for Universities in 204 countries (per the 2008 Olympics) in their main languages, and in all 7,097 / 7,943 languages as wiki schools for open teaching and learning re WUaS's IT plan - for high school students in their homes applying this autumn (and their parents), Playlists as one way of further planning to develop WUaS in Wikidata (accrediting on CC MIT OCW in 7 languages and CC Yale OYC, for planning purposes), How can WUaS further plan for interactive Google group video Hangouts with graduate student instructors to rock (flourish) learning-wise re the conference method and interactive conversation?, WUaS - http://worlduniversityandschool.org - was working again in the evening after I confirmed WUaS's host's security questions, I think, in an email exchange

Hi Ryan, Jan and Lydia, 

Thanks for your emails of Jan 8, JanZ, and Jan 26, Ryan (in the "WUaS in Wikidata" thread). 

WUaS-donated-into-Wikidata's website - http://worlduniversityandschool.org/ - is unusually temporarily unavailable today with a similar message from the host below about security as before in January - "Sorry, sorry this site is temporarily unavailable". I'm contacting you Ryan since you helped install the English language WUaS in MediaWiki - http://worlduniversityandschool.org/WUaS_En_Wiki - and you JanZ since you helped install the German language WUaS in MediaWiki - http://worlduniversityandschool.org/WUaS_De_Wiki (both over January 4,5,6 at the Wikimedia Developers' conference in SF - thank you!) because you both know MediaWiki and Wikidata, and I don't. 

As a FYI, I've emailed the WMF Director of Architecture Rob Lanphier, the WMF Legal Director Michelle Paulson and outgoing WMF Executive Director Lila Tretikov about related WUaS and MediaWiki/Wikidata questions, among others, and have only heard back from Michelle that "Unfortunately, I can't really help you here. The questions you asked aren't really in my field." 

I'm emailing you, Ryan, JanZ and Lydia again - since WUaS donated WUaS to Wikidata in October 2015 so WUaS is in many ways not private but part of Wikidata and thus public too - per your observations, JanZ, of Jan 8 2016 - 

"Please in the future ask on one of the public MediaWiki help fora, see https://m.mediawiki.org/wiki/User_hub . Sadly private support doesn't scale. Also other people might have the same problem and thus will benefit from the same answer.

The email from gate.com IMHO doesn't show any abusive behaviour. The listed files in question are normally created by Mediawiki as a cache to reduce resource usage of multiple requests. My advice is to ask them to explain why that behaviour is considered abuse." 

I've also posted a request for help in this #mediawiki IRC per your suggestion, JanZ. 

Unfortunately, I also don't have the coding skills to troubleshoot this ongoing issue.

And WUaS is also greatly in need of beginning to develop our IT  platforms for Universities in 204 countries (per the 2008 Olympics) in their main languages and schools in all 7,097 / 7,943 languages as wiki schools for open teaching and learning re WUaS's IT plan - http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2016/02/rosa-californica-berkeley-law-new.html - for developing in 3 main platforms, and I'm writing also to ask if you could both please together, for planning purposes, become the Directors of Architecture for this - with WUaS now donated to Wikidata?

Thank you, Scott

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WUaS - http://worlduniversityandschool.org - was working again in the evening after I confirmed WUaS's host's security questions, I think, in an email exchange.

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Playlists as one way of further planning to develop WUaS in Wikidata (accrediting on CC MIT OCWin 7 languages and CC Yale OYC, for planning purposes)?

How can WUaS further plan for interactive Google group video Hangouts with graduate student instructors to rock (flourish) learning-wise re the conference method and interactive conversation?

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red-tailed_tropicbird

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Birdwing: The "Virtual" - "virtual" for me refers to "as if" - and via computer generated multimedia representations, 12 definitions of "Virtual," re Packer and Jordan's "Multimedia: From Wagner to Virtual Reality" book see these "Teacher's Guide" courses at Wellesley and VR, "Tourism, Art and Modernity" UC Berkeley course, My 2001 paper "Gazing at the Box: Tourism in the Context of the Internet and Globalization (Internetity)", So if I substitute "as if" for "virtual" in Virtual Reality...

"Virtual" for me refers to "as if and via computer generated multimedia representations" ... 




Definitions from my book re Packer and Jordan's "Multimedia" book (2001)

To conceptualize virtual reality in terms of World Wide Web representations, I suggest that what is unique about multimedia are the following five characteristics: integration, interactivity, hypermedia, immersion, and new forms of narrativity (Packer & Jordan 2001).

A multimedia virtual Harbin which per Packer and Jordan's five key aspects of multimedia (2000:xviii), - e.g. which, “taken as a theoretical aggregate include: interactivity, integration of media elements, new kinds of narrativity, hypermedia and immersion” - do point toward both a disembeddedness of place, as well as developing of the significance of virtuality” (MacLeod 2004, “Physical and Online St. Kilda: A Comparison of ‘Senses of Place’”) potentially for people soaking in warm water in their home bathtubs, for touch, and including the use of digital goggles and specific kinds of digital interactivity in a virtual Harbin, and eventually even with brainwave headsets, that are only now in their infancies. 






While terms like post-human, virtual subjectivity, the anthropological avatar, homo cyber (Boellstorff 2008:29), digital representational figures, and virtual, floating Harbinites may all aptly characterize aspects of what is new in conceptualizing the human in relation to the emergence of virtual worlds, I argue that personhood and people take on new significances vis-à-vis multimedia (Packer and Jordan 2001), which we can read in terms of the post-human, but which, in this ethnography, I find more helpful to limit to ethnographic readings of the Harbin experience for individuals, and for avatars on virtual Harbin. In this book, I argue that there are different ways of experiencing Harbin, actually and virtually, for people and for avatars. While “virtual worlds reconfigure selfhood and sociality” (Boellstorff 2008:29), this is due to new forms of symbolization and representation, informed by multimedia in this example of actual and virtual Harbin.
















Virtual Harbin in this book, by contrast, refers to twelve aspects of conceiving of the virtual.





a) “computing slang referring or relating to interaction, connection, use, etc. via the Internet” (Chambers 21st century dictionary online 2015);







b) “something not physical, but created by software to appear so” (Apple Dictionary 2007), both metaphorically, and especially vis-à-vis Harbin Hot Springs; also as visionary, which includes giving shape or form to what could be in a shared sense among human bodyminds in culture, and in Harbin's counterculture, with respect to its pool area;





c) as something “that is so in essence or effect, although not formally or actually” (Complete OED 1971) so something not physical, but also “almost” or “nearly as described”;








d) “One useful definition of “virtual” is “a philosophical term meaning 'not actually, but as if’” (Heim 1998:220 in Boellstorff 2008:249), especially vis-à-vis digitally constructed and informational processes and





e) primatology, in this interpretation “ … referring or relating to interaction, connection, use” (Chambers Concise Dictionary 2004) again, but here, in my interpretation, symbolically or language-wise, and across primate species that use symbols (e.g., humans, orangutans, chimpanzees, and gorillas, for example);



f) "having virtue or efficacy: having the efficacy without the material part: in effect though not in fact; unreal but capable of being considered as real for some purposes" ... [and a few definitions further along] “virtuality” - "essential nature; potentiality" (Chambers 1956, within the definition of “virtue”);


g) “unreal but capable of being considered as real for some purposes...” (Chambers 1956, within the definition of “virtue”);

h) having “potentiality”(Chambers 1956, within the definition of “virtue”); and  

i) simulated, artificial, imitation, make-believe; computer-generated, online, virtual reality (The Free Dictionary);

j) “virtual: being so in practice though not strictly in name,” and “real: actually existing” (Oxford Dictionary of Current English, 1992, in Castells 2000:403).



k) where virtual refers to something both disembodied and ‘not quite’ adequate for practical purposes (Hine 2000: 64-65);
l) “carried out, accessed, or stored by means of a computer, especially over a network: a virtual library | virtual learning” (Apple Dictionary 2007).




Castells - we all become producers of information ... in this distributed many to many technology ... 

re my book

re virtual Harbin

re ethno-wiki-virtual-world-graphy - that we can all become ethnographic virtual representers or generators 

re the internet and information technology 
re Packer and Jordan's "Multimedia: From Wagner to Virtual Reality" book

 "Teacher's Guide" to "Multimedia: From Wagner to Virtual Reality"
http://cs.wellesley.edu/~cs215/Lectures/L00-HistoryHypermedia/www.artmuseum.net_w2vr.pdf

and - 
http://www.w2vr.com/Teachers.html

re Communication Studies

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Hi All,

It was very nice to meet many of you last Thursday in Nelson's "Tourism, Art and Modernity" course, and greetings! Thank you for these great readings too Nelson.

I'm so glad that Nelson is going to write the Foreward to my "Naked Harbin Ethnography: Hippies, Warm Pools, Counterculture, Clothing-Optionality & the Virtual," my 400 page actual~virtual Harbin Hot Springs' book due to be published imminently! - http://www.scottmacleod.com/ActualVirtualHarbinBook.html - in a new
Academic Press at World University and School - http://worlduniversityandschool.org/AcademicPress.html - planned for all 7,097 languages. (On my Actual~Virtual Harbin book web page above, you'll also find a 2 hour video TSWG talk, and 6 minute abstract, which I gave in the next door Gifford Room on related themes in Nov 2012, plus another about building virtual Harbin in a 3D virtual world). Thank you, Nelson!

Nelson asked if I would write a succinct/simple (1? page) paper that introduces "Virtual" for this Thursday's class, which I'm working on, and which I hope to post first here tomorrow - http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/search/label/virtual (and see too - http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/search/label/ethno-wiki-virtual-world-graphy) - but in the meanwhile -

"virtual" for me refers to "as if" - and computer generated multimedia representations -

(which you'll find here in my UC Berkeley TSWG talk from Nov 2015 in the
7th slide here -
 https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1tAhXFinq8xm8BDFcceoHsNBHJi0wpS0HDFh40PXsQ2I/pub?start=false&loop=false&delayms=3000 - and accessible from here - http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2015/11/waters-36-slides-from-uc-berkeley-talk.html.

In the meanwhile, I'm attaching too my 2001 paper -

Gazing at the Box: Tourism in the Context of the Internet and Globalization (Internetity)

https://www.academia.edu/15259682/Gazing_at_the_Box_Tourism_in_the_Context_of_the_Internet_and_Globalization_Internetity_ 

 - which I wrote in Nelson's course, and in which I suggest that modernity yields one interpretation of touristic experience, post-modernity may construct another, and Thurot and Thurots’ interpretation of advertising discourse produces yet another. Tourism, now, in the context of the growth of the Internet and information technology supersedes and incorporates these previous analyses and produces other interpretations of tourism with characteristics which I shall identify.

I've added this email address - sgkmacleod@worlduniversityandschool.org - to our emails here as well.

Fun to travel with Scott Elder too yesterday to Stanford's "Digitizing the Grand Tour" day-long conference.

Looking forward too seeing and meeting you!

Best regards,
Scott

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Hi All, 



Here's my blog entry from today with a simple construing of "virtual" - http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2016/03/birdwing-virtual-virtual-for-me-refers.html . 

"Virtual" for me refers to "as if and via computer generated multimedia representations" ... and you could substitute this phrase for the word "virtual" pretty much anywhere in Internet Studies, Communication Studies, and vis-a-vis Tourism Studies - and also in the phrase "Virtual Reality," for example, which I do at the end of this blog entry a couple of times. 

I'm working on a brief paper with a simple definition of "virtual" from this. 

Best, 
Scott

https://twitter.com/WorldUnivAndSch

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So if I substitute "as if" for "virtual" in Virtual Reality,

I'd get "as if and via computer generated multimedia representations" reality ...


And substituting "as if" for "virtual" in this sentence on page 2 of my "Gazing at the Box: Tourism in the Context of the Internet and Globalization" paper,

"I shall also argue that virtual tourism by surfing the web for  museums, monuments, and other heritage sites, such as for  UNESCO World Heritage sites or the online Louvre, is a new form of tourism, different from mobile tourism". ... 

it would read ...
"I shall also argue that AS IF tourism by surfing the web for museums, monuments, and other heritage sites, such as for UNESCO World Heritage sites or the online Louvre, is a new form of tourism, different from mobile tourism"... which is a helpful construal of virtual I think.

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

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Bird nest: our Shakespeare MacBeth video didn't merge into Web format migration breakdown oblivion, and I was just able to view it again today - from 17 years ago in 1999!, My "Naked Harbin Ethnography" book's imminent publication - http://www.scottmacleod.com/ActualVirtualHarbinBook.html (and UC Berkeley Professor Graburn will write a Foreward for this, I've just learned) - in a new Academic Press at WUaS - http://worlduniversityandschool.org/AcademicPress.html (planned in all 7,097 languages) - and Scottish small pipes' playing, You're an amazingly dynamic professor, Might we all 6 create a Shakespeare-informed film where mice start multiplying and expanding in your apartment among the books?

Bonjour Marc and Cześć Dorota!

Greetings from Canyon. I had thought our MacBeth video had merged into Web format migration breakdown oblivion, but I was just able to view it again today - from 17 years ago in 1999! - I'm glad and surprised to write. You'll find it here - http://scottmacleod.com/scottmacleod.com/Main_item0.html - accessible from here - http://scottmacleod.com/links.htm. Amazing what Dazzle software and hardware could do at the time in transforming a Hi-8 video signal into a RealMedia web video format. I'm not sure I could put my hands on our other science video Marco of your UCSF lab work - but you may still have a copy. (I was able to view it from Safari browser but not Chrome browser). 

Shakespeare is amazing - his language in particular! It would be fun to do more of these! Shall we meet in a Google group video Hangout for further production of Shakespearean scenes? And we would have to memorize far less!

How are both of you? Creative time here with developing best STEM CC OCW (e.g. CC MIT OCW-and CC Yale OYC)-centric World University and School, my Harbin ethnographic book's imminent publication - http://www.scottmacleod.com/ActualVirtualHarbinBook.html (and UC Berkeley Professor Graburn will write a Foreward for this, I'm so glad to have just learned) - in a new Academic Press at WUaS - http://worlduniversityandschool.org/AcademicPress.html (planned in all 7,097 languages) - and Scottish small pipes' playing, but no kids here yet alas ... coming next :)

Will you both become the heads of Switzerland WUaS in French and Poland WUaS in Polish? :)

Best regards,

Scott


https://twitter.com/scottmacleod
https://twitter.com/WorldUnivAndSch

- http://scottmacleod.com

- http://worlduniversityandschool.org

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Hi A.S.K., (Ants, Scot, Koh),

You might enjoy this Shakespeare MacBeth video I made with friends Marc D and Dorota P about 17 years ago on Twin Peaks in SF, above where I was living at the time. You'll find it here - http://scottmacleod.com/scottmacleod.com/Main_item0.html - accessible from here - http://scottmacleod.com/links.htm. (I was able to view it from Safari browser but not Chrome browser).

I've included the rest of my email to Marc (a UCSF researcher for 6 years at the time) and Dorota below for your enjoyment.

Shall we 4 enact a Shakespeare scene somewhere around SF or in a Google group video Hangout - for creativity and fun's sake?

Scott


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Dear Nelson,

You're an amazingly dynamic professor, and thank you too for allowing me to attend your UC Berkeley class and letting me know about Phillip Lowenthal's talk at the University Press Books in Berkeley as well.

I'd be honored if you'd write a preface, forward, epilog or afterward in my "Naked Harbin Ethnography" book manuscript, which I hope to upload for final publishing on March 14th (having begun the publishing process on Valentine's Day). As you may know and see, I've quoted you in the front of my manuscript and on the back cover.

The idea of you writing a forward or afterward is a relatively new development, and will effect pagination, if a forward, but will also increase the excellence of my book overall, so if you can't write this soon, please let me know.

Hope to see you at "Digitizing the Grand Tour: a workshop on the worlds and lives of eighteenth-century travelers to Italy" -
https://classics.stanford.edu/digitizing-grand-tour-workshop-worlds-and-lives-eighteenth-century-travelers-italy (http://grandtour.stanford.edu/about/) - in the Stanford Humanities'Center, with Scott.

Thank you.

Best,
Scott

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Might we all 6 create a Shakespeare-informed film where mice start multiplying and expanding in your apartment, A & K, among the books ... each mouse delivering the lines from each character from all 36 plays by Signor Shakespeare/Shakespeare-san ... (with a little animation / digitization help:)? Poor wee miceys, yet coming to a wonderful home! Perhaps you can write another related story with many Shakespearean voices in it, Ants? :)

Or at least all meet in a Google group video Hangout to enact another scene from MacBeth? Can we figure out how to put the stone wall from Twin Peaks in the above MacBeth film-let from 1999 behind each of us in our rooms differentially? 
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Brown bear: In what ways can WUaS's business students focus on developing startup online businesses with less and less of physical presences?, Could this help to transform, for example, Europe's immigrant challenges, if folks from Africa and the Middle East, could make a comfortable living from home in the countries in which they were born - and thanks to online WUaS degrees and teaching entrepreneurialism in their languages?, Our ISSIP talks

In what ways can WUaS's business students focus on developing startup online businesses with less and less of physical presences?

And in all countries and their main and official languages?

Hi Marco,

Thanks for a fascinating ISSIP presentation recently and nice to meet you. (My grandfather went to MIT and was a chemical engineer). 

Some questions I had during your are as follows:

If English is EIT's main language, how many languages could you see value in teaching in in Europe other than English? Innovating in? 

What are the inter-country European accreditation approaches you take particularly for the EIT Doctoral program?

In what ways is EIT Digital (http://eit.europa.eu/eit-community/eit-digital and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_Institute_of_Innovation_and_Technology), of which you are the director, focusing on developing startup online businesses with less and less of physical presences?

World University and School, a huge project I'm developing, is like Wikipedia with best STEM CC OpenCourseWare (e.g. planning to accredit on CC MIT OCW in 7 languages and CC Yale OYC to offer online bachelor, Ph.D., law and M.D. to begin). WUaS is planning to develop major online Universities in all ~204 nation states in their main languages. As you probably know, the MIT Sloan School of Business's courses are all posted at MIT OCW, and an amazing resource. WUaS also has a language focus, planning to create wiki schools in all 7,943 languages for open teaching and learning. Currently WUaS is a "client" in a UC Berkeley Law "New Business Practicum" class, and developing this business plan -http://worlduniversityandschool.blogspot.com/2016/01/14-planned-wuas-revenue-streams.html - around a CC 501 c 3 tax example Creative Commons' Core, but seeking as a non-profit accrediting university to develop a commercial side, even a for-profit side (entrepreneurially) in all countries' and their main languages.  

WUaS, which will be online as much as possible, is very interested in opening ways for our students in all countries' main languages to successfully begin online businesses as they study for their degrees. Could this help to transform, for example, Europe's immigrant challenges, if folks from Africa and the Middle East, could make a comfortable living from home in the countries in which they were born - and thanks to online WUaS degrees and teaching entrepreneurialism in their languages? I think you may have much knowledge about all of this Marko, which I and WUaS so far lack. 

I'm wondering in what ways we might develop fruitful collaborations in these respects and in many other ways. 

Would you like to meet for coffee sometime in the next weeks, if you're in town, in downtown SF to talk further about some of this? 

Thanks again for a fascinating ISSIP talk today.

Best regards, 

Scott

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Marco,

Very nice to talk with you, and thank you for meeting. Appreciating your thinking, and thanks again for your great ISSIP presentation (and to Jim Spohrer as well). How might I or WUaS be of help to you or with EIT or your project in the US? 

Here's the blog entry on Stanford University Online High School with videos, and also with the video of President John Hennessey which I watch as a "blueprint" to create a world class university: http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2016/02/masai-lion-how-might-disabled-wuas.html. 

Here too is my ISSIP presentation on an Universal Translator - https://www.slideshare.net/mobile/issip/world-university-and-school (also accessible here - http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2015/03/beluga-whale-course-in-1000-languages.html). Here's the beginning of the WUaS Universal Translator -http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/WUaS_Universal_Translator. 

And here are the two single courses Jim Spohrer suggested WUaS might offer to undergraduates and graduate students for T-shaped professionals, each pointing to complexity -   http://worlduniversityandschool.blogspot.com/2016/01/what-single-mit-ocw-course-might-be.html - and after the taking of which WUaS may seek, in developing our WUaS/Industry relations, to help them get a job. And this URL is also WUaS's blog. 

I wonder in what ways we might further collaborate, Marko. I see potential brainstorming-wise re ... a) coding, b) Finland WUaS, c) your kids matriculating for Ph.Ds at WUaS, d) MIT OCW centric WUaSs in European countries' main languages, e) your teaching at WUaS, f) your creating the WUaS Media Lab in all languages (http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Media_Lab_at_World_University_and_School), and g) financial collaborations, among other possibilities. It would be great to keep the conversation open about all of this. What few projects would you most enjoy doing, if you could do anything? 

Best regards,

Scott

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Flora of Scotland: Can you assist with Traditional Scots' Arts in Education?, What geographical area(s) do(es) your activities and services cover?, All of Scotland, Relating to the video - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B0qzJwnjHyg - on your Traditional Scotland Gifting Every Child web page - http://www.tracscotland.org/resources/gifting-every-child, there are already beginning "Scottish Gaelic," "Scots Language," "Scotland WUaS," "Arts," and “Children’s Literature and Wisdom” wiki schools/subject pages for open teaching and learning at WUaS, only in English so far, but which will develop in Scottish Gaelic and Scots' language and for sharing about traditional arts in these languages too. WUaS in these languages seeks moderators, stewards, translators, teachers (to web cameras – as a wiki, this can be anyone who is potentially interested), aggregators / and subject creators. Please note that WUaS is a ginormous project, and that WUaS has both a higher education focus as well as an open wiki school focus which is very much children-oriented

Dear Michelle and Morag,

Thanks for your email inquiry re "Can you assist with Traditional Arts in Education?" in Traditional Scots' Arts, and in English, Scottish Gaelic and Scots. I’m replying on behalf of World University and School (WUaS), which is like Wikipedia in 300 languages with best STEM CC OpenCourseWare (e.g. planning to accredit on CC MIT OCW in 7 languages and CC Yale OYC to offer free online CC university and high school degrees to students).

My responses to your questions are below:

"Can you assist with Traditional Scots' Arts in Education?"

Yes. WUaS can assist with traditional Scots’ arts in education online. 

1. How can you assist schools or community groups with education through the Traditional Arts? Remember to distinguish between performance sessions, participative activities, and in-service training for teachers. (50 words)
2. What geographical area(s) do(es) your activities and services cover?
3. Do you and/or your members involved in this work have Basic Disclosures or PVG membership?*
4. Are you a voluntary or a professional group/service? How do you ask people to support your educational activities and services? If professional, state a fee level or give the contact for people to get in touch to discuss requirements and costs.
5. Contact Information (Name, Address, Phone, Email, Website):
6. Is there anything else you would like to tell us?

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WUaS can assist with Traditional Scots’ Arts in education in English, Gaelic and Scots by facilitating open wiki (editable web page) schools and Google group video Hangouts for participative activities, for example. For planning and envisioning, group video conferencing and virtual worlds will also be used for performances.

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WUaS seeks to be only online on the web, accessible via the Internet. So, WUaS seeks to be accessible all over Scotland.

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No.

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World University and School, as a wiki, is comprised of volunteer editors, like Wikipedia in 300 languages. As WUaS proceeds to accredit to offer online university degrees in all countries’ main and official languages, WUaS will become a professional Creative Commons’ licensed (CC) 501 c 3 (tax exempt charity in the USA) group, seeking to become the Harvard / MIT / Stanford / Oxbridge of the Internet in countries’ main languages. As a CC university, planning to accredit on CC MIT OpenCourseWare in 7 languages and CC Yale OpenYaleCourses, WUaS’s bachelor, Ph.D., law and M.D. degrees will be free to students who apply and matriculate. (WUaS is planning to offer online I.B. high school diplomas too, also in all countries’ main languages).  As a wiki on both the a) wiki school side planned in all 7,943 languages, each a wiki page to begin, and b) on the degree side - editing a wiki page is open and free.  WUaS will seek to collaborate with nation state and local governments for matriculating students’ tuition, which will be some portion of what it costs to go to MIT or Stanford, for example, depending on the country.

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World University and School, PO Box 442, Canyon, California, 94516 – info@worlduniversityandschool.org - http://worlduniversityandschool.org

(And I’m the founder, president, CEO and presiding clerk in a Quaker sense – Scott MacLeod, same address - http://scottmacleod.com/)

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World University and School, which is like Wikipedia in 300 languages with CC MIT OpenCourseWare in 7 languages and CC Yale OpenYaleCourses seeks to facilitate wiki schools for open teaching and learning in all 7,943 languages (and online universities in all countries' main languages). Relating to the video - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B0qzJwnjHyg - on your Traditional Scotland Gifting Every Child web page - http://www.tracscotland.org/resources/gifting-every-child, there are already beginning "Scottish Gaelic," "Scots Language," "Scotland WUaS," "Arts," and “Children’s Literature and Wisdom” wiki schools/subject pages for open teaching and learning at WUaS, only in English so far, but which will develop as we move soon from WUaS in Wikia to WUaS in MediaWiki. For planning purposes, it’s the subject headings of the central SUBJECT TEMPLATE - http://worlduniversityandschool.org/WUaS_En_Wiki/index.php?title=Template:SUBJECT_TEMPLATE - which will get translated potentially into all languages, including Scottish Gaelic and Scots' language and for sharing about traditional arts in these languages too.  

WUaS in these languages seeks moderators, stewards, translators, teachers (to web cameras – as a wiki, this can be anyone who is potentially interested), aggregators / and subject creators. Please note that WUaS is a ginormous project, and that WUaS has both a higher education focus as well as an open wiki school focus which is very much children oriented.

Here are some main links begun already, but so far only in English.

Scotland World University and School (and for accrediting online CC WUaS university degrees, in one or more Scottish languages, and in English to begin) -

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

Scottish Gaelic language -

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

Scots language -

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

Children’s Literature and Wisdom

http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Children%27s_Literature_and_Wisdom

The main Subjects’ wiki page at WUaS –

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

Please let me know if I can answer any further questions about World University and School and Scottish languages and arts.

What would be the best way to collaborate vis-à-vis online teachers and creators re the WUaS wiki Scots’ schools and pages?

Thank you.

Best wishes,

Scott

- Scott MacLeod - Founder & President 
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- http://scottmacleod.com
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- World University and School
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Atlantic Puffin: Hoping to play with my wee D chanter on my Scottish Small Pipes and explore tunes from OpenBand sheet music with you in Skype video on Tu Mar 15 at 9am PT, teaching about some of this further especially re playing the D chanter on the Scottish small pipes and here at WUaS too ... Scottish small pipes ... http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Scottish_smallpipes_and_borderpipes ...

Hi Lore!

Happy March! Hoping to play with my wee D chanter on my Scottish Small Pipes and explore tunes from OpenBand (https://twitter.com/TheOpenBand) sheet music with you on Tu Mar 15 at 9am PT. Will book 5 more lessons with CoP soon. May explore earlier dates for another lesson too ...

I also recently pulled out my D chanter on my Scottish small pipes to begin exploring newly playing with this from Liz Donaldson's SCD sheet music pink and blue books, but it's in a scale my GHB piping mind isn't familiar with! Piper's A on this D chanter is now Piper's D - how confusing! :) My A chanter is in A mixolydian which is D major for practical purposes in sheet music, and I only have a 9 note range - Low G to High A; My D chanter is in D mixolydian which is G major for practical purposes in sheet music I think, and here my range, unfamiliarly, would be from Low C to High D (which is very odd for my GHB piping mind indeed:)

Curious too how to start playing a kind of tenor voice, since this D chanter is a third or a fourth higher than the A chanter ... and directly from sheet music tunes in A mixolydian (so D major, for practical purposes) ... will explore just playing normally as if the D chanter is in A with sheet music in D major (eg A mixolydian).

Looking too to get a Walsh SSP dedicated reed (or chanter) in B-flat to expand the keys I can play in ... (which I assume would be in B flat mixolydian - which would be what key in sheet music for practical purposes? ... will get out my sheet music page with all the scales and their key signatures) ... and perhaps would tune the combo drone to E here.

And is it correct that the "A" (Piper's A - somewhere between b and b-flat, historically and culturally :) in the CoP Green Tutor in sheet music is an octave higher than the tone actually played on the practice chanter or on the SSP chanter?

Just writing, querying and thinking in writing ... to open new piping worlds ...

Musical cheers,

Scott

http://scottmacleod.com/piping.htm

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I may be teaching about some of this further especially re playing the D chanter on the Scottish small pipes and here at WUaS too ...

Scottish small pipes ... http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Scottish_smallpipes_and_borderpipes ...

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Bougainvillea: Exploring how to develop a Bourdieuian analysis first comparing Sociology and Chemistry at greatest universities in Germany and the US would be a great beginning to exploring how to extend such questions to best universities in all 204+ countries in their main languages, In fact, WUaS is already in these two languages in beginning form - English language WUaS ... http://worlduniversityandschool.org/WUaS_En_Wiki and German language WUaS ... http://worlduniversityandschool.org/WUaS_De_Wiki,

Hi Steph, 

Very nice to meet and talk with you at the Berkeley "Flagship University" talk yesterday. 

Your doctoral project is fascinating to me because of its extensibility potentially to all countries, and in their main languages and online. 

World University and School, a huge project I'm developing, is like CC Wikipedia with best STEM CC OpenCourseWare (e.g. planning to accredit on CC MIT OCW in 7 languages and CC Yale OYC to offer online bachelor, Ph.D., law and M.D. to begin to offer online university degrees). Creative Commons' licensed WUaS is planning to develop major online Universities in all ~204 nation states in their main languages. WUaS additionally has a language focus, planning to create wiki schools in all 7,943 languages for open teaching and learning. WUaS seeks to become the Harvard/Stanford of the internet, developing world class universities in these countries, as well as become a significant academic employer in each country and all languages. 

WUaS will also develop in Wikidata, which is Wikipedia's 3 year old inter-lingual database and which is developing with "linked open data," AI and machine learning. Wikidata is a project significantly of Wikimedia Germany, and Wikidata is headquartered in Berlin. Exploring how to develop a Bourdieuian analysis first comparing Sociology and Chemistry at greatest universities in Germany and the US would be a great beginning to exploring how to extend such questions to best universities in all 204+ countries in their main languages (and eventually explore extending this to other academic subjects - years hence) . 

In fact, WUaS is already in these two languages in beginning form: 

English language WUaS:  http://worlduniversityandschool.org/WUaS_En_Wiki

German language WUaS: http://worlduniversityandschool.org/WUaS_De_Wiki

WUaS, which will be online as much as possible - including its multi-lingual Sociology and Chemistry departments with students in all countries, is very interested in opening ways for our students in all countries' main languages to successfully make inter-country comparisons in any number of ways, for example, too. I think your studies will lead to you having great knowledge about all of this.

I'm wondering in what ways we might develop a fruitful conversation about much of this further, and academically in many other ways. 

Would you like to meet for coffee in the Free Speech Movement cafe sometime in the week or so at Berkeley to talk about some of this further?

It was very nice to meet you, Steph. 

Best regards, 

Scott

http://worlduniversityandschool.org

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