Hi M,

Good class this morning in video conferencing. Here's the syllabus for this course -
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1lO6tsS87AjQUXLXmYJGgGzzbWzXMvPCUIyynQ381b3A/edit?usp=sharing - and it's accessible here -
http://worlduniversityandschool.org/InfoTechNetworkSocGlobalUniv.html. It's a fun course to teach.

Do you recall seeing this introduction of Apple MacIntosh computer?
"Apple 1984 Super Bowl Commercial Introducing Macintosh Computer"

Apple 1984 Super Bowl Commercial Introducing Macintosh Computer.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=axSnW-ygU5g
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1984_(advertisement)

I updated this developing syllabus with this far-reaching Apple piece (re Apple vs IBM, Apple vs the clones, Personal computers vs TV, and much more) - and the Wikipedia article is interesting too.

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Have you ever visited the Blaschkas' glass flowers (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leopold_and_Rudolf_Blaschka) in the Harvard Museum of Natural History? ...
https://hmnh.harvard.edu/glass-flowers and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glass_Flowers. They were a father and son who emigrated to the US from Dresden, Germany, in the late 1800s, and who made amazingly precise biological specimens of flowers and species out of glass - and in huge number too.

Was wondering about these glass flowers -
https://twitter.com/HarvardMuseums/status/917744110244679680 - and how best to add them to a realistic virtual earth / museums?

With World Univs' plans for museums in all ~200 countries' 7,099 living languages, I'm curious how we could add this collection to a realistic virtual earth (think Google Streetview/Maps/Earth/Brain with TIME SLIDER) and for designing and repair purposes too- 3D printing too even. I'd guess these flowers have all been digitized by Harvard already - but not in something like Google Streetview for realistic virtual museums online.

Music-making for SCD was fun last night ... just got a gig offer again in Marin in January around Robbie Burns' night which I've played for the past 2 years - via a Scot there named Frederick Dargie Hamilton, originally from Glasgow, and who's a great lad.

What are you up to ?

L,
Scott

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Hi M,

... from Stanford. Just heard a great talk ... at Stanford Law by Tim
Edgar (who went to Dartmouth and Harvard Law, and is relatedly smart, which I enjoy) on "Beyond Snowden"

Stanford Law BEYOND SNOWDEN PRIVACY MASS SURVEILLANCE AND THE STRUGGLE TO REFORM THE NSA Tu Oct 23 17

https://cyberlaw.stanford.edu/events/beyond-snowden-privacy-mass-surveillance-and-struggle-reform-nsa

https://cs.brown.edu/news/2017/09/06/tim-edgar-publishes-new-book-beyond-snowden/

http://watson.brown.edu/people/fellow/edgar

https://www.brookings.edu/book/beyond-snowden/

... interesting ... addressing questions of privacy as they unfold and as the US laws and culture about this change too ... and possibly re WUaS and all 7.5 billion people and even a CryptoCurrency with the Block Chain for health care data too, for example ... so interesting especially re WUaS. He's a fellow now at Brown University in the Watson Institute ...

Curious whether my blog posts themselves will eventually become like Blaschka flowers/species ... somehow ... but perhaps alive in multimedia ... so ...

Hoping further re music making for learning via video ... to perhaps get into a posting my piping once a week to my blog ... as a beginning re these lessons and this learning process... and re Lorne's CoP feed back ... although I like the social interaction of a real time video conference lesson as well. ... and re more alive-ness in my blog ... beyond text and images ...

In my class this morning, had a good course conversation with T in Florida in real time video ... and am curious if this could echo ways - in a social sense - of possibly connecting ... ... but better face-to-face in person if possible ... given queues ...

L,
Scott

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Hi Linda (and friends),

Lovely teaching again! Per my question afterward to you about what North Berwick was like in the 1400s? And you said "many witches" n'est-ce pas ? :) ... were there not too many "fishes ? ":) It would be great to explore this question further in a realistic virtual earth, thinking Google Streetview/ Maps / Earth with Time Slider ... :)

Do you happen to know Andrew and Heather - https://twitter.com/celticcritters - since you've been involved teaching SCD for many, many years? - Here's a related question to Andrew and Heather's recent post which I'm asking - How best to design this @WorldUnivAndSch WIKI subject for SCD information exchange by great SCD teachers http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Scottish_Country_Dancing … musicmakers

- https://twitter.com/TheOpenBand/status/922888513279770624

Here are two views of North Berwick, East Lothian (near Edinburgh) in Streetview (but the Time Slider function isn't active) ...

https://www.google.com/maps/place/North+Berwick,+UK/@56.061548,-2.7299,3a,75y,323.72h,88t/data=!3m8!1e1!3m6!1sAF1QipML1kc5RwnIKeWDafEGyydhAQyLIMYVabbhxxkX!2e10!3e11!6shttps:%2F%2Flh5.googleusercontent.com%2Fp%2FAF1QipML1kc5RwnIKeWDafEGyydhAQyLIMYVabbhxxkX%3Dw203-h100-k-no-pi-2.9338646-ya193.50003-ro0-fo100!7i8704!8i4352!4m5!3m4!1s0x48870656577f27a3:0x70433f000895b52e!8m2!3d56.058363!4d-2.719646

https://www.google.com/maps/place/North+Berwick,+UK/@56.054312,-2.7117794,3a,75y,94.57h,90t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1scDO2ikZEnYxeSPov0-VXug!2e0!7i13312!8i6656!4m5!3m4!1s0x48870656577f27a3:0x70433f000895b52e!8m2!3d56.058363!4d-2.719646

( ... and in Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_Berwick ...)

Noticed too a North Berwick Highland Games on 1st Saturday of August it seems ... http://www.northberwickhighlandgames.org/

Warm regards,

Scott

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See, too,

Peacock spider: Archaeology in a video game, Cool ... To the "Archaeology" wiki subject at WUaS, Let's import this (with translation into all 7,097 + languages into Google Street View for ethno-wiki-virtual-world-graphy - http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/search/label/ethno-wiki-virtual-world-graphy, WUaS is now newly in WUaS MediaWiki - e.g. http://worlduniversityandschool.org/WUaS_En_Wiki/index.php?title=Nation_States which will also be for regions both contemporary and in ancient worlds, To Gaming_-_Digital and /Virtual_Worlds at WUaS too, Digital Archaeology "Modeling Culture" conference at UC Santa Cruz yesterday was greatly opening - https://digitalhumanities.ucsc.edu/2016/01/28/conference-of-interest-modeling-culture/, Curious about moving all Archaeology and SocioCultural Anthropology in all languages into Google Street View with time slider, This peacock spider is DNA I think, but what will digital archaeology of such robot creatures look like, In what ways will we be able to both "publish" a specific virtual world build, say in Google Street View, as well as 3D print an artifact from within a virtual earth such as in Street View?

http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2016/04/peacock-spider-archaeology-in-video.html

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Hi Linda, and all,

Lovely teaching again.

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Still can't go back to 1400s and count the fishes or the wishes - or observe the kinds of dances Berwickians were doing - but you'll find too some beginning attempts by archaeologists to turn archaeology from 10s of thousands of years ago into video games, with some emphasis on the data and evidence - http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2016/04/peacock-spider-archaeology-in-video.html - accessible in my blog post today with some about North Berwick and SCD - https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2017/10/ruddy-turnstone-fun-course-to-teach.html :- )

Warm regards,

Scott

- Scott MacLeod

- http://scottmacleod.com

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

- World University and School

- http://worlduniversityandschool.org

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

(planned for all instruments in all 7,100 languages, each a wiki page to begin)