Thursday, September 27, 2018

Chitwan National Park, Nepal: Thanks! Do you have any resources for teaching Biology and Chemistry to grades 10-12?, Check out this - https://ocw.mit.edu/high-school/ - in its 5 languages (and related by Googling) - and these ideas and resources here - https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/WUaS_International_Baccalaureate_Diploma_and_Programme - but no resources yet in a realistic virtual earth, And check out too these Khan Academy and Stanford resources, Am particularly interested at WUaS in facilitating these with an actual-virtual realistic virtual earth and even Lego re Lab on a Brick + , "... a realistic virtual earth at cell and atomic levels too would facilitate interesting explorations in biology / genetics for high schoolers, I am interested. Where do I begin?" -Camron * You could try Khan Academy's resources. Each page begins with "Start with the basics" ... Am curious when MIT Scott Greenwald's Electro-static playground for learning, chemistry, and physics - https://twitter.com/scottgwald/status/837414401854566400 - becomes part of a Google Street View / Earth / VR / AR * * * Non-theist f/Friends/Quakers - a non-theological non-theist friendly Friendly NtF (having written my Reed College thesis on liberation theology, Taoist-American, Kilted Yogis


Thanks, Scott! Do you have any resources for teaching Biology and Chemistry to grades 10-12?

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Hi Camron, you could check out this - https://ocw.mit.edu/high-school/ (and related by Googling) - and these ideas and resources here - https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/WUaS_International_Baccalaureate_Diploma_and_Programme - but no resources yet in a realistic virtual earth, for example. Check this out as well - https://www.edx.org/course/effective-teaching-strategies-biology-trinityx-t003x ... And I hope we'll add all such great resources as they emerge further Biology and Chemistry wiki subjects here - to https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Subjects - and in many languages.  Cheers, Scott


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These look interesting too - https://oso.stanford.edu/resources/ and https://cset.stanford.edu/pd/content-deepening-courses/stanford-academy-excellence-biology-teaching-oregon-health-sciences ... And http://www.openculture.com/free_k-12_educational_resources ... https://www.khanacademy.org/science/biology and https://www.khanacademy.org/science/chemistry and https://www.khanacademy.org/science/organic-chemistry ... Cheers, Scott


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Am particularly interested at WUaS in facilitating these with actual-virtual realistic virtual earth and even Lego re Lab on a Brick +  ... a realistic virtual earth at cell and atomic levels too would facilitate interesting explorations in biology / genetics for high schoolers !
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I am interested. Where do I begin?
-Camron


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You could try Khan Academy's resources. Each page begins with "Start with the basics" ... Am curious when MIT Scott Greenwald's Electro-static playground for learning, chemistry, and physics -

https://twitter.com/scottgwald/status/837414401854566400 - becomes part of a Google Street View / Earth / VR / AR where to begin to build out wiki and IB "resources for teaching Biology and Chemistry to grades 10-12" ... as well ...
-Scott


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Hi Matty,

I unsubscribed you from the Q Quaker email list at WUaS. 

Am curious, given your G+ posts - e.g. https://plus.google.com/u/0/102219589761645260786/posts/LSm1fmPTFxz - what you'd add wiki-wise to the I.B. wiki subject at WUaS re this blog post - http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2018/09/chitwan-national-park-nepal-thanks-do.html ...

Friendly greetings, Scott


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Hi M,

Just shared this with the non-theist Friends' Planning Group email list, which you might enjoy. It's about the 9th email in a thread entitled "[NTF-planning] FGC Gathering 2019" so you won't have the previous threads in mind when reading this :) -



thanks John and David, & NtF planners, so much for your focus on a 'theological' diversity spectrum among NtFs, FGCers, and in the unprogrammed tradition of the Q-RSOF as well. Am a bit of a non-theological non-theist friendly Friendly NtF (having written my Reed College thesis on liberation theologian Rosemary Ruether's "Sexism and God-Talk" - she's also a California feminist theologian, and living in southern California still I think) ... so a kind of Reed religion thesis (1985), which of the four tracks in this Religion major at the time  - history, philosophy, social science and theology, - was technically a thesis in feminist 'theology'   (... so the major was actual in "Religion" and re Reed's "critical thinking" approach was in some ways was about religion social scientifically).

Instead, and per my "Hippy-anjali Yoga Notations" - http://www.scottmacleod.com/yoganotations.html - am an appreciator f/Friendly-wise re non-theism of its SPICEY simplicity (in addition to being a bit or a kilted Yogi, I'm also a Taoist American appreciator of Lao Tzu and Chuang Tzu:).

Seeking to improve too on the academics of Huston Smith's "Religions of Man" (1958) ... with its 7 world religions ... African religions were elided, plus it's problematic in quite a few other ways ... and I think the field of world religion could be construed re the Internet in very new and rigorously excellent ways, by various academics (including NtFs, in our ongoing innovations in the RSOF:).

I'm also a bit in the Dawkins' camp in all these matters too - https://twitter.com/RichardDawkins ... re sound thinking, with a Kenyan / African / Anglo / English / Berkeley twist.

A lot of Quaker-Muslims have come to study in the US thanks to the Ramallah Friends' School, which is IB and taught partly in Arabic too ... & re the AFSC's Joyce Ajlouny ...  and some may come to FGC ... how might we invite them to the FGC NtF sessions, I wonder? Your focus on theological diversity may be a very sound approach.

Just adding my further my 2-cents, and a vote for your Friendly sharing.

Friendly diversity-thanks again, and cheers,
Scott
- https://twitter.com/scottmacleod






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Wednesday, September 26, 2018

The Wadden Sea, Netherlands: Lights camera action WIKI https://twitter.com/amyneurons/status/1044660191508213760 …?:) How to make it easy to add video of such to a #RealisticVirtualHarbin for brain research (think Google StreetView/Maps/Earth/Brain/Translate/ @TensorFlow - & importantly with realistic #AvatarBots at cell /atomic levels too), * * * #CreativeComputingChat > Scratch & Lego Robotics * * * Some Northumbrian piper Kathryn Tickell creations - as further inspiration, * * * After you return from Hawaii, I think I'd like to explore taking weekly hour-long fall and spring piano lessons (with Scottish small pipes under-arm), Eventually explore a kind of vision-realization with regard to Scottish Country Dancing music-making and Open Band, * * * Kathryn Tickell with her Northumbrian small pipes sings from a landscape and from the Northumbrian life, How to sing Scottish country dance music from the landscape of SF Bay Area inner life - from 1960 forward? ... could get interesting ... :), * * * Guidelines for practicing loving bliss vis-à-vis practicing a musical instrument


Lights camera action WIKI ?:) How to make it easy to add video of such to a for brain research (think Google StreetView/Maps/Earth/Brain/Translate/ - & importantly with realistic at cell /atomic levels too)



https://twitter.com/HarbinBook/status/1044661879124066304


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Mashup 3D brain anatomy with zoom to neurons reconstructed by our lab. Human brain ---> hippocampus --> mouse cortical circuits --> single synapse.

Thx @USCLONI @PrincetonNeuro @IARPAnews #microns @SebastianSeung @AllenInstitute @AToliasLab @Anthony_Kfay @neobraingame #sciart




https://twitter.com/amyneurons/status/1038494163749220352



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https://twitter.com/amyneurons/status/1044660191508213760


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Lights camera action WIKI https://twitter.com/amyneurons/status/1044660191508213760?:) How to make it easy to add video of such to a #RealisticVirtualEarth for brain research (think Google StreetView/Maps/Earth/Brain/Translate/ @TensorFlow - & importantly with realistic #AvatarBots at cell /atomic levels too)

https://twitter.com/HarbinBook/status/1044661879124066304

https://twitter.com/WorldUnivAndSch/status/1044661610755776512

https://twitter.com/HarbinBook/status/1044661827156594690

https://twitter.com/amyneurons/status/1044660191508213760


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Thanks @amyneurons - https://twitter.com/amyneurons/status/1038494163749220352 Am developing ethno-wiki-virtual-world-graphy https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/search/label/ethno-wiki-virtual-world-graphy where I hope we all can add our own videos of brain research at the atomic/cell levels, for ex, to a #RealisticVirtualEarthForSurgery in ONE #RealisticVirtualEarth ~



https://twitter.com/WorldUnivAndSch/status/1044679944989622272


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Thanks @amyneurons - https://twitter.com/amyneurons/status/1038494163749220352 Am developing ethno-wiki-virtual-world-graphy where I hope we all can add our own videos of BRAIN https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/search/label/Brain research at the atomic/cell levels, for ex, to a #RealisticVirtualEarthForSurgery in ONE #RealisticVirtualEarth ~

https://twitter.com/WorldUnivAndSch/status/1044680165668737024


Thanks @amyneurons - https://twitter.com/amyneurons/status/1038494163749220352 Am seeking to dev. #ActualVirtual #PhysicalDigital direct correspondence for BRAIN https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/search/label/Brain modeling in #RealisticVirtualEarthForLego standard, for ex, in #RealisticVirtualEarthForSurgery in ONE #RealisticVirtualEarth ~

https://twitter.com/WorldUnivAndSch/status/1044681035949068288




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A1. I'm Scott. I'm developing @WorldUnivAndSch Am facilitating https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Programming & https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Robotics Am seeking to collaborate more fully w @karen_brennan @hgse Alexa Kutler @everydaybeans re #CreativeComputingChat  Scratch & Lego Robotics in many langs @sgkmacleod ~



https://twitter.com/scottmacleod/status/1044730969108897793


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A1. I'm Scott. I live in the SF Bay Area. I'm developing World Univ and Sch; I teach & conduct research about "Soc, Info Tech & the Global University" http://worlduniversityandschool.org/InfoTechNetworkSocGlobalUniv.html & re #CreativeComputingChat > Scratch & Lego Robotics https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Programming & https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Robotics ~

https://twitter.com/WorldUnivAndSch/status/1044726913195855872


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A1. I'm Scott. I live in the SF Bay Area. I'm developing World Univ & Sch; I teach & conduct research about "Soc, Info Tech & the Global University" http://worlduniversityandschool.org/InfoTechNetworkSocGlobalUniv.html & re #CreativeComputingChat > Scratch & Lego Robotics https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Programming & https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Robotics ~

https://twitter.com/scottmacleod/status/1044727267304255488

https://twitter.com/HarbinBook/status/1044729097409024000


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A1. I'm Scott. I live in the SF Bay Area. I'm developing @WorldUnivAndSch ; I teach & conduct research about "Soc, Info Tech & the Global University" http://worlduniversityandschool.org/InfoTechNetworkSocGlobalUniv.html & re #CreativeComputingChat > Scratch & Lego Robotics https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Programming & https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Robotics ~

https://twitter.com/scottmacleod/status/1044727659303886849

https://twitter.com/sgkmacleod/status/1044727848160772096


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A1. I'm @scottmacleod I live in SF Bay Area. Am developing @WorldUnivAndSch; I teach & conduct research about "Soc, Info Tech & the Global University" http://worlduniversityandschool.org/InfoTechNetworkSocGlobalUniv.html & re #CreativeComputingChat > Scratch & Lego Robotics https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Programming & https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Robotics ~



https://twitter.com/TheOpenBand/status/1044728208405364736





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Hi Barbara,

As a followup,

Here are some Northumbrian piper Kathryn Tickell creations I enjoy - as further inspiration (and re my email below just now to Patti which you might enjoy):


https://youtu.be/HiuMwskhsGk


https://youtu.be/bWkmer6cgiM


https://youtu.be/vmjDbN48_vg

Musical cheers, Scott



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Hi Patti,

Very nice to see you again yesterday evening. I enjoy your playing a lot, and the receptive Open Band energy you generate. (I also enjoyed Barbara's playing the strathspey on the piano, when you went up to dance - nice to see you dancing too). And what good news - is the email below what you were referring to in these regards?

After you return from Hawaii, I think I'd like to explore taking weekly hour-long fall and spring piano lessons (with Scottish small pipes under-arm) with you, - focusing on two handed Scottish country dancing piano, and blues' piano as well - by sitting beside you on the piano bench, and growing via setting further goals per http://scottmacleod.com/GuidelinesPracticingMusicalInstrument.htm (and very possibly exploring the related - http://scottmacleod.com/GuidelinesPracticingLovingBlissvavMusicalInstrument.htm) - socially. And singing harmony a bit perhaps too - re learning and doing (MuseScore software won't be far away either re composing). It's kind of the free-ing conversation and interaction which I hope we'll generate - that would liberate me from my current musical habits that I'm looking forward to.

It could be fun too to eventually explore a kind of vision-realization with regard to Scottish Country Dancing music-making and Open Band (I have the music of Kathryn Tickell and Steeleye Span and Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young and the Grateful Dead in mind in terms of kinds of unique realized beautiful visions, in these regards - as inspirations:). Kathryn Tickell with her Northumbrian small pipes sings from a landscape and from the Northumbrian life (a way of life, its people, its villages and towns) she knows ... almost like poetry, but via story-telling as well ... how to sing Scottish country dance music from the landscape of SF Bay Area inner life - from 1960 forward? ... could get interesting ... and potentially hopefully beautiful :) ... since many of the tunes we play on Monday are beautiful ...

Am continuing to seek a partner with whom to begin a family. Need more wife savvy. Tempus fugit  - time flies.

Warm regards, Scott

- https://twitter.com/TheOpenBand


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Tuesday, September 25, 2018

Dromedary: * * * A) Could BPPE / WASC senior - with World University and School - become an online international accreditation model, comparable with the International Baccalaureate high school diploma?, * * * B) Giving a UC Berkeley TSWG talk this autumn on Friday, October 26th - "Harbin & Avatar Bots: Robotics & Tourism" is the working title, * * * C) Re the WUaS course you're now taking toward your undergraduate degree: Technology-based Business Transformation - WUaS and edX via CC-4 MIT OCW into MITx - in ~200 countries' languages?, * * * D) Dear Professor Hennessy, Thank you again for your excellent and marvelous Computer History Museum interview with Marissa Mayer - and very nice to see you in the morning at the Stanford Law event as well


A) 
Could BPPE / WASC senior - with World University and School - become an online international accreditation model, comparable with the International Baccalaureate high school diploma?


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Hi Michaela, Dagmar and GABA, 

Like I.B. high schools in many countries' official languages and re, - 

"We just returned from 2 years in Germany and our son finished his high school years there. But we sent him to an IB school that is internationally accredited"

- are you considering any universities that are internationally accredited? Are any universities internationally accredited like international baccalaureate high schools?

Where would Stanford or MIT or Oxbridge or LMU in Munich, for example, fit into this concept of universities that are internationally accredited? (I ask with free-to-students' online CC-4 MIT OCW-centric in its 5 languages World University and School in mind). 

... for when your daughter gets to applying to Colleges, for example ( https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/The_College_at_World_University_and_School )?


WUaS would eventually create too an online German IB Gymnasium / high school in German (https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/WUaS_International_Baccalaureate_Diploma_and_Programme), and where students could matriculate from this to German Universities (and in all ~200 countries' official / main languages - and which are CC-4 MIT OCW high school-centric). 


Presently, WUaS is seeking to matriculate our 2nd undergraduate class to accrediting with BPPE and WASC senior (like Stanford and UC Berkeley and the UCs) in the autumn of 2019. 



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Again, could BPPE / WASC senior - with World University and School - become an online international accreditation model, comparable with the International Baccalaureate degree - each of all ~200 countries?


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Hi Jing, Nelson, Jaume, Dean and All, 

Great, and thanks for your email confirming my giving a UC Berkeley TSWG talk this autumn on Friday, October 26th (since the 12th wouldn't work due to World University and School's open Annual Meeting (since 2010!) on Saturday, October 13th at 9 am PT). 

"Harbin & Avatar Bots: Robotics & Tourism"  is the working title of my talk. I'll email you with everything else needed in the next few days - http://tourismstudies.org/People.htm#SM . Will update the ongoing calendar of my actual-virtual Harbin hot springs' project talks here - http://www.scottmacleod.com/ActualVirtualHarbinBook.html - as well. This will be the fourth-fifth Harbin talk in the Gifford Room since 2012 - all of which are here - http://bit.ly/HarbinBook . 

Visit the Harbin gate in Google Street View here ~ http://tinyurl.com/p62rpcg ~ https://twitter.com/HarbinBook ~ where you can "walk" down the road '4 miles' to Middletown and 'amble' around the streets there, if inclined).

Thank you,
Scott



P.S. Here are some related wiki subjects at WUaS (but which are not yet in other languages) - 


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Re updating my bio here -
http://tourismstudies.org/People.htm#SM ... 

Scott G.K. MacLeod is an American academic and Professor of Sociocultural Anthropology at World University and School - http:// worlduniversityandschool.org. He's taught "Network Society, Information Technology and the Global University" on Harvard University's virtual island, and on Penn State Isle in Second Life as a Penn State University instructor. He's taught both anthropology and sociology in real life at Chatham University, the University of Pittsburgh, and at the University of California, Santa Barbara. He received a Master's Degree in anthropology from the University of California, Santa Barbara, and a Diploma of Research from the University of Edinburgh. His research focuses on the information technology network society age, the world wide web cosmos, the virtual, and actual-virtual Harbin Hot Springs, seeking to facilitate the development of a realistic virtual earth for STEM research, and as classrooms (Think Google Street View with time slider +). He is World University and School's founder, president and CEO. WUaS forked successfully in 2017 into a second legal entity, the WUaS Press / Corp, planned with machine translation in all 7,097 living languages. Wiki World University and School is CC-4 MIT OCW-centric (in 5 languages) and CC Yale OYC-centric and seeks to develop major universities in all ~200 countries' main and official languages, as well as wiki schools in all 7,097 living languages too; WUaS plans to offer online CC OCW Bachelor, Ph.D., law, M.D. as well as I.B. high school degrees, partly in group video.

Personal web site: http://www.scottmacleod.com

For additional books and bio information, see:
https://amazon.com/author/scottmacleodworlduniversity


Representative publication:

"Naked Harbin Ethnography: Hippies, Warm Pools, Counterculture, Clothing-Optionality and Virtual Harbin" (Academic Press at World University and School, 2016).



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Dear Tanya,

Re the WUaS course you're now taking toward your undergraduate degree:

Technology-based Business Transformation
https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/engineering-systems-division/esd-57-technology-based-business-transformation-fall-2007/


Scott MacLeod sgkmacleod@worlduniversityandschool.org

Mon, Sep 24, 5:02 PM (16 hours ago)
to Tanya, Larry
Hi Tanya, 

Brainstorming-wise, here's a possible project that comes to mind with your course, and upcoming project re "The critical role of technology-based, disruptive innovations to a business": 

Since you're familiar with the online education industry re WUaS, please consider asking some of these questions - http://www.tanyatomato.com/2018/09/project.html - for your project re WUaS. One possible practical approach might have to do with an already existing relatively robust platform such as edX - and particularly with regard to their use of CC-4 MIT OCW into MITx - https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/mitx-related-courseware/ - and further how a collaboration between MITx and WUaS might occur around the CC-4 MIT OCW, making this available to students in countries around the world first in English, and also in seeking reimbursement from Ministries of Education per student per year for A) undergraduate Bachelor's degrees (about 40 courses over 4 years), and B) Ph.D. over 6-7 years in all ~200 countries. What further courses would be helpful for students in MITx for WUaS's six majors - http://worlduniversityandschool.org/ - etc? WUaS and edX via CC-4 MIT OCW into MITx - in ~200 countries' languages? 

A realistic virtual earth as classrooms and STEM field site (think Google Street View with time slider / Maps / Earth) could be a further element to this. How to turn this both WUaS and a realistic virtual earth as disruptive technologies into strategies? 

You may well have other projects in mind, but this is an interesting relevant one that could lead to further career steps at WUaS, for example.  

Cheers, Scott 



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Dear Professor Hennessy,

Thank you again for your excellent and marvelous Computer History Museum interview with Marissa on Thursday, about which I blogged here - https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2018/09/san-francisco-forktail-ischnura-gemina.html - and very nice to see you in the morning at the Stanford Law SVDX event as well.

Very nice to have met you in person first at Steve Denning's "Stanford's What Matters to Me and Why" talk not too long ago as well. And thank you too for considering coming on the World University and School Board, and incubating WUaS as well, when I invited you to do so about 2 years ago, while you were still President of Stanford.

I'm writing to inquire about a possible position at Stanford. I've been in communication with Mark Nelson at the Stanford Peace Innovation Institute about this - and a possible Peace Data Standard / Tokens /  Credits and with regard to SPII. Having attended a meeting with regard to this, and re this agenda doc - with the SPII in August, and in further planning to meet with them again on September 25th, which agenda includes my seeking a position at Stanford to facilitate hiring Stanford graduate students to help develop much of this, for example, I'm now exploring the possibility of developing a joint academic teaching position A) in the Stanford GSE - and also with regard to developing online CC-4 MIT OCW-centric (in its 5 languages) World University and School with teachers trained at Stanford - and B) potentially with a joint appointment in the Stanford Anthropology department re, for ex. - https://ed.stanford.edu/faculty-research-interests/Anthropology%20and%20Education - since my recent actual-virtual ethnographic book explores questions of how to create a realistic virtual earth (think Google Street View with time slider / Maps / Earth, with avatar bots + the Alphabet / Google ecosystem+) as classrooms and STEM field sites.

Having applied for a MIT Media Lab faculty position last December 2017, I'm emailing you those documents for your perusal.

Stanford would benefit from some fraction of the $46,320 per year per student it costs for tuition to go to Stanford/Harvard/MIT/, reimbursed  to WUaS by countries around the world - due to the CC-4 MIT OCW licensing. World University seeks to become the Harvard / MIT / Stanford / Oxbridge of the Internet and by accrediting in all ~200 countries' main languages for free-to-students' Bachelor, Ph.D., Law, M.D. and I.B. high school degrees. And Alphabet would benefit from the WUaS Press / Corp's planned for-profit, general stock revenue streams - https://worlduniversityandschool.blogspot.com/2016/01/14-planned-wuas-revenue-streams.html - in all ~200 countries' official languages, and indeed in all 7,097 living languages.

How best to communicate about this further?

Thank you very much, and looking forward to hearing you speak again soon.

Sincerely,
Scott MacLeod

- https://twitter.com/WorldUnivAndSch
- https://twitter.com/WUaSPress




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Monday, September 24, 2018

Wild Bactrian camel: Accreditation planning and UPDATES for online free CC-4 OCW degrees at World Univ & Sch, Am curious how & where online schools & Afghanistan World University & School might find a peace-making niche in Afghanistan … Planned in official main languages there eg https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Pashto_language … (planned in Pasthto, Dari & Uzbek+) & free, Am curious in what ways WUaS could collaborate w Stanford Law's Afghanistan Legal Education Project too


Hi M,

Thanks for the update yesterday evening about planning to visit Oregon in October re Cathy - and very nice to talk with you.

How did the voter registration go over the weekend, which you mentioned in your email on Tuesday?

Two WUaS Live Hangouts on Air this morning, both accessible from here - https://www.youtube.com/WorldUnivandSch -

1) Accreditation planning for online free CC-4 OCW degrees at World Univ & Sch

https://youtu.be/oeso3oZazO4 ... (in video)



2) Accreditation updates for online free CC-4 OCW degree at World Univ & Sch

https://youtu.be/6ou7j-CGxfk ... (which is only in audio)


Have fun at choir tomorrow evening!

L, Scott




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Am curious how & where online schools & Afghanistan World University & School might find a peace-making niche there eg https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Afghanistan … & https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Afghanistan_Law_School_at_WUaS … Planned in official main languages there eg https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Pashto_language … (planned in Pasthto, Dari & Uzbek+) & free



https://twitter.com/WorldUnivAndSch/status/1044300376252403712


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17 years of war, waged by the most powerful, best-supplied, armed-for-21st-century military against a bunch of non-classifiable combatants... and... the results are...



https://twitter.com/GTCost/status/1044294834888921088


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Speaking before the upper house of Parliament, Interior Minister Wais Ahmad Barmak disclosed that "daily 30 ANA (Afghan  National Army) and police personnel get killed."  That is just under 11,000 sons, daughters, husbands killed a year.



https://twitter.com/JamesC0796/status/1044281171880923136


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https://twitter.com/WorldUnivAndSch/status/1044305952290172928


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Wild Bactrian camel: Accreditation planning/UPDATES for online free CC-4 OCW degrees at World Univ & Sch, & Stanford Afghanistan Legal Education Download Afghan Law textbooks
https://law.stanford.edu/alep/publications/ - https://twitter.com/WorldUnivAndSch/status/1044300376252403712 &
https://twitter.com/WorldUnivAndSch/status/1044305952290172928 > http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2018/09/wild-bactrian-camel-accreditation.html ~



https://twitter.com/WorldUnivAndSch/status/1044308588313763840





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Sunday, September 23, 2018

San Francisco forktail (Ischnura gemina): Stanford former President John Hennessy in an EXCELLENT & MARVELOUS interview with Marissa Mayer @marissamayer at Computer History Museum on 9/20/18, "Leading Matters: Lessons from My Journey" (Stanford University Press - 2018) * * * How best to add add photos (& vids) of SF forktail (Ischnura gemina) damselfly to a #RealisticVirtualEarth (think Google Street View w TIME SLIDER / Maps / Earth+) Not many CC images of them online at all


Stanford former President John Hennessy in an EXCELLENT & MARVELOUS interview with Marissa Mayer @marissamayer at Computer History Museum on 9/20/18

Leading Matters: Lessons from My Journey


https://youtu.be/YB9XYrmHxmA -https://twitter.com/WorldUnivAndSch/status/1043344995393130496 Enjoy! On with reading his "Leading Matters" >To various here https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Subjects ~



https://twitter.com/scottmacleod/status/1043909939364691968

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Stanford former President John Hennessy in EXCELLENT & MARVELOUS interview w Marissa Mayer @marissamayer at Computer History Museum on 9/20/18 https://youtu.be/YB9XYrmHxmA -https://twitter.com/WorldUnivAndSch/status/1043344995393130496 Enjoy! On with reading his "Leading Matters" >To various here https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Subjects ~


https://twitter.com/scottmacleod/status/1043909939364691968

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How best to add add photos (& vids) of SF forktail (Ischnura gemina) damselfly https://twitter.com/ReaderMeter/status/1043594466525818880 & https://twitter.com/ReaderMeter/status/1043595794266214400 to a #RealisticVirtualEarth (think Google Street View w TIME SLIDER / Maps / Earth+) Not many CC images of them online at all https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2018/09/san-francisco-forktail-ischnura-gemina.html ~



https://twitter.com/HarbinBook/status/1044243626962743299

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Thanks for your excellent panel at Stanford Law CodeX and the Computer History Museum Thursday. Regards, Scott (worlduniversityandschool.org, https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Computer_Science, https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Nation_States & scottmacleod.com)






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Saturday, September 22, 2018

Cones of Sequoia sempervirens: Stanford Law CodeX on Etherium & SmartContracts, WUaS and MIT DCI's Neha Narula, A Universal Basic Income (without the support ~200 countries' central banks?), WUaS may also seek to develop Canada World University and School early on, "Episode 13: Neha Narula on Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, and the Future of the Internet" Fascinating interview partly because of Neha's understanding of these technologies, and her focus on the poor, and on voting, plus much more, "Colombia Justice System & AI" and Colombia WUaS re CC-4 OpenCourseWare for academic law faculty career generation?


Hi Steven, and Roland (and Angela),

Nice to meet and talk with you at Stanford Law CodeX yesterday and thanks for your presentation, Steven. I also blogged before your presentation about it here - https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2018/09/sequoia-sempervirens-reaching-out-to.html - with some further ideas about where World University and School is heading, and even re ~200 online law schools in countries' official languages. Steven Stewart was the actual presenter on Thursday at Stanford Law CodeX, and a computer scientist based in Canada:

[codex_group_meetings] TODAY! CodeX Group Mtg (9/20 @1.30p): CourtQuant; QuantStamp - SLS N112 (or via Zoom)

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This talk from Thursday, September 20th should appear here:

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL48E61C121CAD0E1B

CodeX: The Stanford Center for Legal Informatics
129 videos 9,681 views Updated 4 days ago
CodeX is a multidisciplinary laboratory operated by Stanford University in association with affiliated organizations from industry, government, and academia. The staff of the Center includes a core of full-time employees, together with faculty and students from Stanford and professionals from affiliated organizations. The primary mission of the Center is to explore ways in which information technology can be used to enhance the quality and efficiency of our legal system while decreasing its cost. Our goal is "legal technology" that empowers all parties in our legal system, not the legal profession per se. Such technology should help affected individuals find, understand, and comply with regulations; it should help enforcement organizations monitor and/or enforce compliance; and it should help regulatory bodies analyze proposed regulations for cost, overlap, inconsistency, etc.
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Mention of Etherium by MIT Director of its Digital Currency Initiative Neha Narula is here -
https://www.preposterousuniverse.com/podcast/2018/09/10/episode-13-neha-narula-on-blockchain-cryptocurrency-and-the-future-of-the-internet/ - with brief mention of smart contracts as well. This is a fascinating interview partly because of Neha's understanding of these technologies, and her focus on the poor, and on voting, plus much more.

Here are some recent Tweets about this, with related WUaS links (to give you a bit of an idea of how wiki WUaS works) ...

Episode 13: Neha Narula on Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, and the Future of the Internet https://www.preposterousuniverse.com/podcast/2018/09/10/episode-13-neha-narula-on-blockchain-cryptocurrency-and-the-future-of-the-internet/ …  ~ https://twitter.com/neha/status/1039607706288570373 … FASCINATING & EXCELLENT https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Future  & https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Internet_Studies … & re the Era of Robot Culture https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2018/09/heteractis-magnifica-culture-of.html … ? @WUaSPress ~



- https://twitter.com/WorldUnivAndSch/status/1043220399041835008
- https://twitter.com/WUaSPress/status/1043232207366582273
- https://twitter.com/scottmacleod/status/1043221010944651264
- https://twitter.com/sgkmacleod/status/1043232562263408640


See, too, Neha Narula’s on cryptocurrency & blockchain https://twitter.com/neha/status/1042191261736689665 … "Somehow, the computer scientists have gotten their hands on money and the world might never be the same." @seanmcarroll: https://twitter.com/neha/status/1039607706288570373- … https://twitter.com/neha/status/1031557794514653184 … Neha Narula is MIT DCI Director



- https://twitter.com/WUaSPress/status/1043232158872031234

WUaS is also exploring the idea of facilitating an Universal Basic Income when we code our upcoming wiki re our "front end" Mediawiki, together with our backend "Wikidata"  for all 7097 living languages and then for all 7.5 billion people, as a cryptocurrency with blockchain ledger - possibly with the backing of ~200 countries' central banks (but possibly not, after listening to Neha) ... but staying in communication with MIT's thinking in these regards (Neha and Joi Ito for too). While this would help an enormous number of people, it's also an entrepreneurial opportunity.

WUaS seeks to offer online Bachelor, Ph.D., Law, Medical Degrees, as well as I.B. high school diplomas in all ~200 countries' official languages, but while we're CC-4 MIT  OCW-centric for Bachelor and Ph.D. degrees first in English based on its ~2400 courses, MIT doesn't have a law school or medical school, so hopefully WUaS will emerge out of Stanford for law and medical OCW, again in all ~200 countries' official languages, with lots of smart contract potential, for example.

WUaS seeks to become the MIT / Harvard / Stanford / Oxbridge of the internet, and again in all ~200 countries' official and main languages, for free-to-students' CC-4 MIT OCW-centric online university and high school degrees.

WUaS may also seek to develop Canada World University and School - https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Canada -  early on.

Looking forward to staying in touch.

Friendly regards, Scott



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Sequoia sempervirens: Reaching out to Stanford re World Univ and Sch, and particularly to Stanford Law, (and to Stanford Medicine eventually too)

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Sunday, September 23, 2018


Hi Angela and Roland, ... and Steven ... (Wael's email bounced back for me),

Thanks and interesting. Angela, your email's mention of "brain" made me wonder how Neha Narula's mention - https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2018/09/sequoia-sempervirens-cones-stanford-law.html - of Etherium as some sort of computer brain with its smart contracts (in contrast to Bitcoin in Neha's talk) might be germane or helpful here, so I'm adding Steven Stewart, who talked on Thursday, 9/20 at Stanford Law CodeX about Etherium and smart contracts, to this email conversation.

Re Natural Language Processing (NLP) resources, I just searched on and tweeted this morning about "text and Google Street View" - https://twitter.com/WorldUnivAndSch/status/1043885686565130240 - and your mention of "location" makes me think this and the Google ecosystem might be very helpful and important, since much translation will be based / indexed on text - in a realistic virtual earth too (think Google Street View / Maps / Earth with Translation and TensorFlow etc ~ http://tinyurl.com/p62rpcg ~ https://twitter.com/HarbinBook ~ http://bit.ly/HarbinBook  ~) ... all for 'place' or 'location' and 'language'. Text with Wikidata / Wikibase / their Lexographical project's labels (think Wikipedia / Wikimedia in ~300 languages) may be something that the Google ecosystem - and many NLP systems - draw on for (parts and sounds of words') data as well.

Algorithms in Google ecosystem could help identify 'parties' and 'fundamental rights' efficiently ... since this ecosystem is robust as a whole, and with TensorFlow esp.  

Also John Hennessy is now chair of Alphabet / Google (in blog entry above - it's worth listening to his interview in my blog post above for other reasons) and could be helpful re Google ecosystem and Stanford Law CodeX ... with regard to NLP etc., - and I'm a bit in communication with him, if questions emerge.

I wonder further how a Stanford Law student from Colombia who might be interested in becoming a law faculty member in Colombia in Spanish and other key languages there might be interested in developing a CC-4 OpenCourseWare course about all of the above and Tutelas, since they're low hanging fruit with regard to justice and machine learning in Colombia.

For creating Law open course ware thinking purposes - and academic career faculty positions - (think CC-4 MIT OCW in 5 languages, but where MIT doesn't have a law school or a med school), here are Philippines WUaS - https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Philippines - and Canada WUaS -  https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Canada (and Canada has two official languages) - since Colombia and Iraq WUaS aren't yet begun, in terms of nation states' law systems (https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Nation_States). And re some of these countries' official / main languages, here are the Spanish and Arabic language wiki subjects where people can add open course ware and other resources too - https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Spanish_language and https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Arabic_language and where both are planned in Spanish and Arabic as well - accessible from here - https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Languages. WUaS's "front end" eg with these too - https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Subjects - is not yet connected with our "back end" of Wikidata/Wikibase (in its ~300 languages), but WUaS is planning this.

So re the Colombia Law System and AI, please keep in mind courses for this, as well as publications in Spanish about this (re WUaS's two wings - A ) World University and School and the B) WUaS Press - planned with machine translation).

Cheers, Scott

- https://twitter.com/WorldUnivAndSch
- https://twitter.com/WUaSPress


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