Cyprus mediterranean forests: Actual-virtual Harbin Hot Springs' book proposal (it's entitled "Naked Harbin") next, Thanks, Rory, for your newsletter from Europe, In what European bookstores/venues might I do readings and signings?, Rory MacLean author of "The Magic Bus," Looks like you know a lot about Germany, Transnistria and Cyprus, among other countries, and could help inform and guide some of these World University and Schools - see the main Nation States' WUaS - http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Nation_States ...

Thanks, Rory, for your newsletter from Europe ...

Greetings from the SF Bay Area. Looks like you're on the road again and writing further in interesting and varied directions - Cyprus. Writers are esteemed in Germany in an unique way. How was your Stanfords' talk?

I'm submitting my actual-virtual Harbin Hot Springs' book proposal (it's entitled "Naked Harbin") next to the B.P. in NY, which specializes in sociocultural Anthropology. Its founder and director knows UC Berkeley Professor Emeritus of Tourism Studies N.G., whom I know. It would be great to have it out by xmas, but it may be 2016 before it's published. We'll see.

In what European bookstores/venues might I do readings and signings - and at what time of year would be best? The book's target audiences are undergraduate and graduate students, faculty, information technology social scientists and academics interested in the "virtual," and people with a fondness for the 1960s, and my book comes into conversation with Tom Boellstorff's "Coming of Age in Second Life: An Anthropologist Explores the Virtually Human" (Princeton 2008), and could be read in academic courses in direct conversation with "Coming of Age in SL." For my next Harbin book, I hope to build a virtual Harbin ideally in a movie realistic 3D virtual earth, Google-made, and do actual virtual comparative fieldwork, what I'm calling ethno-wiki-virtual-world-graphy - http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/search/label/ethno-wiki-virtual-world-graphy - as an innovative methodology in Anthropology. I'd like for folks to be able to visit virtual Harbin and have a Harbin experience ... in their bathtubs for the releasing action of the warm waters - and write ethnographically about this. 

Looks like you know a lot about Germany, Transnistria and Cyprus, among other countries, and could help inform and guide some of these World University and Schools - see the main Nation States' WUaS - http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Nation_States. Here, for example, is the very beginning of accrediting Creative Commons' licensed (and CC MIT OCW-centric in 7 languages and CC Yale OYC centric) Canada World University and School - http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Canada - but not yet in the French language WUaS - http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/French_language - for example, or in other Canadian languages. (WUaS is planned in All languages as wiki schools). WUaS hopes also to become the Stanford / Harvard of the internet and in accrediting in all countries' main languages. 

Thanks for your update and happy writing travels!

Regards, Scott

Scott MacLeod

http://scottmacleod.com
http://worlduniversityandschool.org/

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    It's bag-packing time again ... and this time without the need for the Writer Safeguard Mobile Protection Unit (as snapped in Pondicherry).

    This month's news is that Nick Danziger and I have been commissioned to create a book about some of the men and women who went missing in Cyprus during the tragic events of 1963-64 and 1974. As with our ICRC 'Missing Lives' project on the Balkans, this new book aims to support reconciliation between communities. We hope it may help in some small way to heal old wounds and to rebuild trust between the islanders.

    Before I set off to Cyprus, I'd be thrilled if some of you would join me in London where I'll be speaking about Berlin – and launching the handsome paperback edition of 'Berlin: Imagine a City' – at Stanfords Covent Garden on Thursday 25th June (at 6:30pm at 12-14 Long Acre, WC2). If you can't make it tomorrow, I'll be talking about the book later in the year at the Cheltenham Literature Festival on Saturday 10th October.

    If it's corrupt Russian satellite non-states and ersatz-Soviet soldiers saluting the hammer and sickle that tickle your fancy, then please come to the Edinburgh Book Festival for my talk on 'Back in the USSR: Heroic Adventures in Transnistria' on Thursday 20th August.

    Finally, as some of you know, Nick and I tutor a small and intensive annual Masterclass in Monaco. This year 'Telling Tales: The Art of Creating Stories in Images and Words' will be held from 28th September to 2nd October, and one place is still available on the course.  If you are interested please let me know and I'll send further details.  For those of you who have participated before, this year we will tailor the week with more 'specialisation' days – hence loads of one-to-one sessions for writers with me, and photographers with Nick – as well as talking through the next steps: structure, presentation, publishing, crowd-funding, print editions and beyond.

    I hope to see you in one or more of these places, or indeed in Cyprus on one or other side of the Green Line (maybe I should ring Writer Safeguard after all...).

yours ever,

Rory

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Cyprus: Geophysical and Road Map

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/1b/Cy60_en.jpg

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Hoatzins: For Prospective Undergraduates - The College at WUaS Flyer 2015, Massachusetts Institute of Technology's President L. Rafael Reif What is Solve?

World University & School

http://worlduniversityandschool.org

info@worlduniversityandschool

Prospective Undergraduates

Considering World University?  Come spend a day in "The College” and get a feel for academic and student life.

Free Accrediting Baccalaureate Degrees

Creative Commons’ licensed (CC) best STEM-centric OpenCourseWare

What to do

• Participate in our Discover World University program (reservations required)
• or take a online “Walking” Tour of The College at WUaS (reservations not required).
• Visit a class. Class lists are available in Courses
• Attend a 45-minute question and answer session with current World University undergraduates (Program under development - Student Forum)

Additional Activities

• Visit the Offices of Admissions (and Donor Center) to ask general questions.
• If you do not participate in our Discover World University program take a “Walking” Tour of The College at WUaS
• Pick up a self-guided tour map at the Visitor Center and walk around campus at your leisure.
• Explore the Museums at WUaS
• Meet with a faculty or staff member in an academic department of interest. (Please make an appointment directly with the department in advance of your visit.)

You should know

When planning your trip, remember your visit to campus is for your informational purposes only. World University does not track visitors or conduct on-campus interviews as part of the undergraduate admission process. Prospective students are encouraged to visit on a weekday Pacific Time because most departments, including the Undergraduate Admission Office, are closed on weekends.

Updated on June 24, 2015 1:24 PM

"What are the advantages of getting OCW, STEM-centric course credits?  How might those credits be valued in the marketplace or in an overall effort for a student toward getting coursework for an undergrad degree?  What might be the price differences for a prospective student of say, a year with WUaS compared to a year at MIT?  What things would a funding foundation want to know about your offering?  Or another say, secondary ed institution?  Or parents of a possible student?"

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Massachusetts Institute of Technology's President L. Rafael Reif:

What is Solve?

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http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/tetrapod-zoology/hoatzins-in-africa/

https://en.wikipedia.org/?title=Hoatzin

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Celestial eye goldfish: Trip to Portland, Oregon (June, 2015), Oregon photos, WUaS got the contract documents for hiring Reed College Federal Work Study students as I pulled in to the Reed campus, "To Reed College and Friends Association for Higher Education (Quaker)," Slides from my FAHE talk last Saturday, June 20th, Videos from Reed College's 100th Anniversary (2011): Enjoyed Gary Snyder's talk here, and I also enjoy his visionary earth, Buddhist, hippie and 1960's informed poetry, Talk with former Reed College President Colin Diver In June 2011 as I was heading to the Rainbow Gathering in the Gifford Pinchot National Forest, Took a parallel trip to Portland, Oregon (January, 2015), WUaS's slideshow presentation from Reed's Paideia in January, Related blog entries

Trip to Portland, Oregon (June, 2015):

To Reed College and Friends Association for Higher Education (Quaker)

Trip to Portland Jun 10 • 12 days  •  16 moments
https://plus.google.com/+ScottMacLeodRainbow/posts/eyFR3FQDgzE
https://plus.google.com/118114165587746804948/stories/4689711c-911b-3c90-ba10-45afb29b115214e1b8f2788

Glad to connect a little with Reed College's President John Kroger on this visit.


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WUaS received in email the contract documents for hiring Reed College Federal Work Study (FWS) students as I pulled in to the Reed campus a few days ago ...


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Here are the slides from my FAHE talk last Saturday, June 20th:

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B_qhi-ehBdkdSWtPMXpvTVJPVGM/view

and the blog entry in which you'll find these:

Clouds: Friends Association for Higher Education (FAHE) WUaS near Portland Oregon 2015 Slideshow, "Growing the Religious Society of Friends in many languages, and with planned Ph.D.s & professional degrees"

http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2015/06/clouds-friends-association-for-higher.html


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Videos from Reed College's 100th Anniversary (2011):

Enjoyed Gary Snyder's talk here, and I also enjoy his visionary earth, Buddhist, hippie and 1960's informed poetry

Reed College Centennial Reunions Fanfayre: Gary Snyder '51

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0H5sUVRjpsM

He's now an emeritus professor at UC Davis and in his 80s.

Reed College 100 Year Anniversary Video

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zXD8F3gH_QI


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In June 2011, I had more than an hour long talk with former Reed College President Colin Diver in his office in Eliot Hall (a few weeks after Reed's Centennial, on a second trip to the NW, as I was heading to the Rainbow Gathering that year in the Gifford Pinchot National Forest)

He gave me a xerox copy of Clayton Christensen's "Disruptive Innovation"

http://www.claytonchristensen.com/key-concepts/

http://harvardmagazine.com/2014/07/disruptive-genius

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


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I also took a parallel trip to Portland, Oregon in January, 2015, where I talked at Reed College's Paideia  (which means education, broadly construed) and at the Quaker/Friends' Multnomah Monthly Meeting in Portland:


Here's the WUaS slideshow presentation from Reed's Paideia ...

"How Student Interns Can Wiki-Teach-Develop WUaS, and How Reedies can wiki-teach here and eventually develop WUaS as interns"

https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/15SpyF9DQ44xk-WSfOxgHDKamjdLMy1u1H7ynd6CQDBw/edit?usp=sharing_eid


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And here are some related blog entries ...

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

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

http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2015/02/torrey-pine-economics-instructional.html

Picea omorika: WUaS Presentation and Courses at Reed College's Paideia (http://www.reed.edu/paideia), and Multnomah Monthly Meeting, the unprogrammed Quaker Meeting in SE Portland in January, Ways in which WUaS is Quaker-informed

http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2015/01/picea-omorika-wuas-presentation-and.html

Erythronium dens-canis: Talking about WUaS at Reed College and at Multnomah Monthly Meeting (Quakers) this weekend in Oregon, Heading up the northern California and Oregon coasts to Portland - Nice to be on the road, It isn't easy to GROCK this - http://worlduniversityandschool.org/ - GO SURFING ... on the web for something that you love which is instructive, Find a WUaS subject that relates to this and add this to a WUaS Subject here - http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Subjects, Will Durant's "The Life of Greece" book as an example, Build an Android app using the IBM Bluemix, Friendly Teens and WUaS degrees

http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2015/01/apricot-minutes-for-jan-10-2015-monthly.html

Gray wolf: Reed College Paideia "Zombie" films' class, "Film," "Consciousness," and "Philosophy" wiki subjects/schools at WUaS, "Zombies" entry Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy in http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/zombies/, 18 of the 80 references in this "Zombies"' SEP entry contain the word "Zombies" in them

http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2015/01/gray-wolf-reed-college-paideia-zombie.html

Picea omorika: WUaS Presentation and Courses at Reed College's Paideia (http://www.reed.edu/paideia), and Multnomah Monthly Meeting, the unprogrammed Quaker Meeting in SE Portland in January, Ways in which WUaS is Quaker-informed

http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2015/01/picea-omorika-wuas-presentation-and.html

Pleurotus nebrodensis: Reed College's Paideia in Jan 2015, Teaching a course about WUaS there, WUaS is planning to go the CC free route as a CC MIT OCW-centric wiki, "This Country Just Abolished College Tuition Fees"

http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2014/12/pleurotus-nebrodensis-reed-colleges.html

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Underwater vents: Accredited Schools' Online - What a great resource, What distinguishes accrediting Creative Commons' licensed CC World University and School from most online schools, All languages' focus and accrediting university degrees in most countries' main languages, WUaS is planning to offer online courses in a) group video with graduate student instructors teaching interactively to MIT OCW faculty in video, b) in interactive virtual worlds (think a hybrid of film-realistic OpenSim / SL / Google Earth), and c) in Google Apps for Education / Google Classroom, to begin

Angela, 

What a great resource - http://www.accreditedschoolsonline.org/online-schools-guidebook/. Am I correct in thinking that most of the schools, degrees and educational resources on your Accredited Schools' Online site are in English? 

I've added your site to the main "Courses" wiki page at World University and School in the "Select Books, eBooks" section - http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Courses. I also just posted it to this Info WorldUniversity G+ Profile page here - https://plus.google.com/+AccreditedschoolsonlineOrg/posts/61wixt4UxM3 .

I'd just like also to share with you what distinguishes accrediting Creative Commons' licensed CC World University and School from most online schools I know of:

a) on the degree side, WUaS plans 

- to accredit on CC MIT OCW in 7 languages+ and CC Yale OYC, first in the state of California (BPPE) and via WASC Senior's new incubation policy (ideally WUaS would be incubated by Stanford)); (see, e.g. http://ocw.mit.edu/courses/translated-courses/)

- to offer online CC degrees - at the baccalaureate, Ph.D., law and M.D., as well as I.B. high school levels - and in all countries in their main languages, if possible

- to seek applications beginning with undergraduate students applying this autumn, if possible, where they matriculate online in the autumn of 2016 and graduate potentially in 2020 with a free and MIT-centric accrediting baccalaureate degree

- to engage the Conference Method, which Reed College also uses, as our learning approach in our undergraduate education and across languages (e.g. http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Conference_Method_of_Teaching_and_Learning)

- WUaS is planning to offer online courses in a) group video with graduate student instructors teaching interactively to MIT OCW faculty in video, b) in interactive virtual worlds (think a hybrid of film-realistic OpenSim / SL / Google Earth), and c) in Google Apps for Education / Google Classroom, to begin. 

The Creative Commons' licensing of CC WUaS, CC MIT OCW, CC Yale and CC Wikidata mean that WUaS won't be able to charge tuition (e.g. K-12 public schools in the U.S. also don't charge tuition).

b) On the wiki side (not relating to accreditation)

- People can wiki-teach to each other, and planned in all 7,929 languages

- People can come into conversation with, and teach to / learn from, MIT OpenCourseWare, Yale OpenYaleCourses, Khan Academy and any other resources they find at WUaS, or add there

- WUaS would like to facilitate CC wiki schools in all 7,929 languages and inter-lingually in Wikidata (and for language preservation, generation, etc., too)

On both sides, WUaS is seeking if possible to become the Harvard YP / Stanford / Oxbridge of the internet, and with a focus on knowledge generation, and also enjoyment in university learning vis-a-vis the conference method. 

And on both sides, WUaS plans to develop our wiki platform with CC MIT OCW and CC Yale OYC with Artificial Intelligence, including an Universal Translator - http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/WUaS_Universal_Translator.

(WUaS is planning to move to a new wiki in MediaWiki-Wikidata - which is the CC inter-lingual database written for Wikipedia's 288 languages - soonish and from the current Wikia site, and the existing WUaS Wikia wiki in about 700 pages will become a template; in the future it should be easier for you or anyone to wiki add resources, that generally free and open (OER)-focused. 

Among some recent big achievements for startup WUaS, WUaS is glad to learn of the new WASC Senior "Incubation policy" development. See, this and the other recent big achievements for WUaS here  - http://worlduniversityandschool.blogspot.com/2015/05/4-big-developments-for-wuas-in-past.html?view=sidebar - as well as WUaS's blog. 

Would you also mind adding WUaS - http://worlduniversityandschool.org/ - as a resource link please on your website? It would really help us reach out to students who are seeking best CC STEM-centric online education, and planned for most countries and in their main languages, - and with the degrees mentioned above.

Thank you. 

Best, 

Scott

http://worlduniversityandschool.blogspot.com/2015/06/accredited-schools-online-what-great.html

On Thu, Jun 18, 2015 at 9:48 AM, Angela Hanners <angela@accreditedschoolsonline.org> wrote:

Hi there,

I noticed you have a great selection of online learning tools and resources on your page here: http://worlduniversityandschool.org/

I wanted to let you know about a new guide we’ve created to help students of all ages learn more effectively online. The guide looks at MIT OpenCourseware, Khan Academy, and Coursera specifically, and includes advice and keys to success from a panel of online learning experts. You can view our no-cost resource here:

The Online Learning Guidebook: http://www.accreditedschoolsonline.org/online-schools-guidebook/

As online education continues to grow, many schools are making online education a major part of their curriculum. To help students understand this trend, our guide also includes a detailed breakdown of online learning methods and technologies, as well as information on how to identify quality online schools or programs.

Would you mind adding our guide as a resource link on your website? It would really help us inform students who are considering online education.

If you have any questions or comments about our guide, please don’t hesitate to email me. I appreciate your time and support.

Thanks very much,

Angela Hanners

Director of Communications

Accredited Schools Online

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Squirrel monkey: To the NEW Costa Rica World University - http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Costa_Rica - with some Quaker links too? Planned also in Spanish+, Check out, too, "Hospitality_and_Tourism" and the "Investing - Socially Responsible" wiki Subjects at WUaS

To the NEW Costa Rica World University

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

with some Quaker links too?

Planned also in Spanish+

but not yet in Spanish -

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

although MIT OCW is and see this Spanish World University and School for this.


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My family moved to Costa Rica in 1991. We're here visiting--first, awesome coffee plantation tour @FincaRosaBlanca

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Check out, too,
Hospitality_and_Tourism
http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Hospitality_and_Tourism


and the ,
Investing_-_Socially_Responsible
http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Investing_-_Socially_Responsible

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