Bilva: Music Playing Spaces on Wednesday and Friday evenings, Online, Open & Free, in Google+ group video Hangouts, Jamming online eventually, World_University_Music_School

Music Playing Spaces, online and free, in Google+ Hangout group video happen occasionally (MWF at 4pm Pacific Time ?)

"Join Hangout" here -
https://plus.google.com/u/0/115890623333932577910/posts


where you can musically play what you're working on,

and I'll do the same,

(with an invitation to play, or sing, on your own around these times often independently).


Let me know if you're interested above -


and I'll invite you to the G+ video Hangout then ...

social, music practicing on the web.


Get out your musical instrument,

and play what you'd like,

socially yet independently -

we mute ourselves yet still can text -

flexibly and openly.


If you're interested in playing, add me in Google +,

Scott MacLeod - worlduniversityandschool@gmail.com - 

https://plus.google.com/u/0/115890623333932577910/posts -

and let me know here, too.



(We've been holding a Music Playing Space for some months, now, and this music-play-space has been bagpiping-oriented, so far, but all instruments are welcome. See for example: http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2011/12/egret-music-playing-practicing-online.html).



(For further playing, check out World University and School's free, open, wiki

'Practicing/Playing a Musical Instrument' page:

http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Practicing_-_Playing_a_Musical_Instrument) ...


I'd like to begin more online, real time, musical collaborations,

for jamming, improvisation, and learning these with digital technologies, too,


and hope to expand these Music Playing Spaces to daily,

and at different times :)



... would to contribute to generating a musical culture,

where many, many people make music and

communicate musically many hours a day,

and significantly through WUaS's musical subjects,

some of the many you can find at the Music School -

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


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Online Music Playing Space … example



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LX79AzS-c4Q








(See, too ... http://worlduniversityandschool.blogspot.com/2012/06/music-playing-spaces-on-wednesdays-and.html).




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Neem: Contact Improv "What is Contact Improv" film, Beautiful, colorful photo ... Happy Holi! !! ♥, beautiful, The Zebra Storyteller, Literature?

http://www.evaidyaji.com/asset/imagesimages/Neem.jpg

... added this beautiful, Contact Improv "What is Contact Improv" film - 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yzb9Hnjnd5g - 

as well as this one - 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8eui0faQaNs - 

to WUaS's Contact Improv page: 

http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Contact_Improvisation :)

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beautiful, colorful photos ... Happy Holi! !! ♥  ... Indian Festival of Colours 

http://bestoffest.files.wordpress.com/2010/03/h06_18255903.jpg

http://trendland.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/04/the-colors-of-the-world-2.jpg

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The Zebra Storyteller ... 

http://www.archipelago.org/vol3-1/holst.htm ... 


a teaching and learning fable ... 


good to remember ... 




(not sure where I'll add this at World University and School - 


perhaps here at 'Library Resources' - 

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


or at 'Literature' - 

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


or the 'Children's Literature and Wisdom' subject - 

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

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Kumkum: Hebrides News, Scotland, Piping, Scottish Country Dance music

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/96/Saffran_crocus_sativus_moist.jpg/220px-Saffran_crocus_sativus_moist.jpg


Interesting ... Hebrides News (west coast of Scotland) ...

http://www.hebrides-news.com/ ...


will look to add to WUaS's Scotland page -

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


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Alasdair Gillies, Lord Todd Bar Recital Challenge 2009 #4 ...


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xdu6Tu7Pm-M ...

this is great ... will look to add to "Bagpipe Tutorials" at WUaS ...

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


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Field Marshal Montgomery Pipe Band 2011 Medley ...


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lJNn0J87T2s ...

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


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Piper's Persuasion ...

http://www.piperspersuasion.com/ ...

with great hour-long interviews with great pipers ...


will look to add to WUaS Bagpipe Tutorials ...

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



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A Scottish band, especially for Scottish Country Dancing ...

http://scottishdance.webs.com/photos/Sandy%20Nixon%20Scottish%20Dance%20Band%202.jpg







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Palash: How valuable 1-to-1 connecting via video is, especially for facilitating enjoyable learning, even vis-a-vis small groups, MIT OCW High School-centric, (CC licensed), free 'International Baccalaureate Diploma and Programme' (highest quality - e.g. P.A. Exeter?, Boston Latin?, STEM?), United Nations' languages only - Arabic, Chinese (Mandarin), English, French, Russian, Spanish ... as a feed-in to 'The College at WUaS,' Excited about the possibility of hiring so many foreign students particularly in these great U.S. universities

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/38/STS_001_Butea_monosperma.jpg

... is excited for the opportunity for instructors

in World University and School's first, matriculating Bachelor's degree class (beginning in 2014)

to connect 1-to-1 via video with students

(see the The College at WUaS -

http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/The_College_at_World_University_and_School) ...


In teaching a musical instrument,

I'm seeing how valuable 1-to-1 connecting is,

especially for facilitating enjoyable learning,

and specific kinds of 'flow' (enjoyment) experiences in learning,


even vis-a-vis small groups ....

(WUaS is planning to use the Conference Method,

http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Conference_Method_of_Teaching_and_Learning,

accrediting on MIT OCW / edX hopefully with MITx / HarvardX professors and

WUaS-hired graduate student instructors, to start).


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In developing the World University and School,

online, MIT OCW High School-centric,

http://ocw.mit.edu/high-school/

(Creative Commons' licensed),

free 'International Baccalaureate Diploma and Programme'

(highest quality - e.g. Phillips Academy Exeter?, Boston Latin School,

these best U.S. Science, Technology, Engineering and Math high schools -

http://www.usnews.com/education/best-high-schools/national-rankings/stem

or ? ... ) -

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

WUaS will probably focus on these

United Nations' languages only -

Arabic, Chinese (Mandarin), English, French, Russian, Spanish ...


as a feed-in to The College at WUaS -

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

(potentially in many of the 3000-8000 languages, but starting with English in 2014) ...



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... is excited about the possibility of hiring so many foreign students

particularly in these great U.S. universities -

(http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Courses#University_course_listings)

to create an online, MIT OCW-centric (as wiki) great university in many, many 3000-8000 languages,

and in their languages for free, online, Bachelor, Ph.D., Law and MD degrees -

http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Courses#Free_Degrees_.2F_Credit -

at Creative Commons' licensed World University and School.







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Mountain laurel: Like Reed College, and like Harvard College, the colleges at Yale, Princeton, Stanford and Cambridge, but free, online and developing (and changing with the web), 'The College at WUaS,' hope that edX (MITx/HarvardX) professors will be WUaS's first online, talking-head faculty on the web

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3187/2513062050_a33152f8a5.jpg


Like Reed College, and like Harvard College, the colleges at Yale, Princeton, Stanford and Cambridge,

but free, online and developing

(and changing with the web),

'The College at WUaS' -

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


plans to be world-class,

and also in many, many languages eventually,

as wiki.


I hope that edX (MITx/HarvardX) professors will be

http://www.edxonline.org/

WUaS's first online, talking-head faculty on the web,

beginning in 2014.


Here's another, related page to watch ...

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


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WUaS is eeking overachievers, and to cultivate overachievers, especially vis-a-vis enjoyment in learning (flow: the psychology of optimal experience, i.e. 'absorbed mind' / challenge at the right level :) ...




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Varied thrush: Bill Gates and NYT's Tom Friedman on education (video), "Seek out private instruction" in Marsalis's and Ma's 'Guidelines for Practicing a Musical Instrument,' WUaS Music School and Instruction?, 'International Baccalaureate Diploma and Degree Program' at WUaS with Friends?

http://www.klamathbasincrisis.org/G/gallery/g3/variedthrush.jpg


Bill Gates and NYT's Tom Friedman on education (video) ...

http://www.thegatesnotes.com/Topics/Education/Americas-Future-Bill-Gates-Thomas-Friedman-Education ...

Bill mentions here a 5 to 1 ratio as beneficial in teaching,

and World University and School plans to hire graduate students

(matriculated at these great universities, for example -

http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Courses#University_course_listings)

to teach using the Conference Method -

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


Here Wynton Marsalis and Yo yo Ma's first suggestion is to "Seek out private instruction" -

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

in their 'Guidelines for Practicing a Musical Instrument' ...


World University and School's Music School

(all instruments in all 3000-8000 languages as wiki pages)

is relevant here -

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


How to bring the benefits of private instruction to free Bachelor, Ph.D., Law and M.D. degrees

via MIT OCW at WUaS

on the internet

via the conference method?



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Dear San Francisco Friends' Meeting,

Here are the beginnings of World University and School's

'International Baccalaureate Diploma and Degree Program' -

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

with part of this I.B. Programme planned to be

MIT-OpenCourseWare High School-centric (Creative Commons' licensed),

online (e.g. in virtual worlds and Google Hangouts - to increase access),

focusing on these United Nations' languages only - 


Arabic, Chinese (Mandarin), English, French, Russian, Spanish ..., so not only in English)


and integrated with the MIT-OCW-centric World University,

but part of which could also be on-the-ground at a developing SF Friends' high school.

Orangutan juvenile: New Friday Music Playing / Practicing Space online in a Google+ Hangout group video from 5:30 pm - 6:30 pm Pacific Time

http://sciencenordic.com/sites/default/files/imagecache/620x/ape2.jpg


New Friday Music Playing / Practicing Space online in a Google+ Hangout group video

from 5:30 pm - 6:30 pm Pacific Time ...

(with an invitation to play on your own around 5:30 pm often independently) ...

where you can musically play what you're working on, and I'll do the same - 

http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2011/12/egret-music-playing-practicing-online.html. 




Let me know if you're interested below - 


planning for most Friday evenings at this time - 


and I'll invite you to the Hangout then ... 




Get out your musical instrument, 


and play what you'd like, 


socially yet independently. 


If you're interested in playing, add me in Google +, Scott MacLeod - 


sgkmacleod@gmail.com- https://plus.google.com/u/0/112822712931339453961 - 


and let me know, too. 




(For further playing ideas, check out World Univ and Sch's free, open, wiki 


'Practicing/Playing' wiki page: 

http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Practicing_-_Playing_a_Musical_Instrument ) ...


 I'd like to begin more online, real time, musical collaborations, 


 and hope to expand these hour-long Music Playing Spaces to daily, at different times, to play communicatively and flourishingly for long in the day :)






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Darlingtonia californica pitcher plant: Virtual Choir at World University and School would love to collaborate with Eric Whitacre, So many 'singing' links at WUaS, Lag on the internet and collaborative, real time music

http://www.oregonwild.org/wilderness/oregons-yellowstone/swr-images/Darlingtonia.SLonsdale%20(no%20border)%20(Medium).JPG/image_preview


Virtual Choir at World University and School - http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Virtual_Choir - would love to collaborate with Eric Whitacre, as well as facilitate singing of all kinds, chorally, online in collaborative real time ...

Eric writes recently: "I'm working on a new piece for choir and percussion ensemble, "Higher, Faster, Stronger", and I just wrote an 18 part chord. Tied the record. Woo hoo!"


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So many 'singing' links at WUaS, already ...

http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wikSinging#World_University_and_School_Links/


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At this point the lag on the web makes it pretty much impossible for people to play music together (and the web may also be out of tune, pitching things up - I don't have perfect pitch, is it?), but I'm hopeful we'll have a collaborative, real time, musical web in the not too distant future ... see, for example ... http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2012/06/milky-way-san-francisco-focused-online.html ... even with an all instrument / all language Music School with jamming possibilities ... http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/World_University_Music_School ... :)










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Redband trout: Harvard ethnography of virtual worlds' talk from June 5 - "Watch me play: Live streaming, computer games, and the future of spectatorship," Audio transcript

http://genome-lab.ucdavis.edu/People/Simmons/MRT.jpg


... looks interesting - T.L. Taylor's "Watch me play: Live streaming, computer games, and the future of spectatorship" ...

http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/events/luncheon/2012/06/taylor ...

it's a Harvard talk from Tuesday, June 5 ...

there's an audio archive here ...

at Media Berkman:
http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/mediaberkman/2012/06/06/t-l-taylor-on-live-streaming-computer-games-and-the-future-of-spectatorship-audio/ ...

Audio: http://wilkins.law.harvard.edu/events/luncheons/2012-06-05_taylor/2012-06-05_taylor.mp3 ...




... will look to add to World University and School's 'Ethnography'  -

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

and 'Virtual Worlds' wiki, subject pages -

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



especially vis-a-vis my actual / virtual Harbin Hot Springs ethnography -

of which these are the first 3 chapters -

http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/search/label/Harbin%20ethnography ...








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Hall's violet: Sal Khan's MIT Commencement address, Admissions at WUaS page, "Kahn to MIT graduates: Open content is the future," "Wide open horizons," "The Massive Open Online Professor"

http://www.oregonwild.org/about/blog/HallsViolet_wendellwood.jpg/image_preview


Sal Khan's MIT Commencement address ...

"Sal Khan's Commencement address
Alumnus, Khan Academy founder speaks to the Class of 2012"

http://amps-web.amps.ms.mit.edu/public/comm2012/Khan/ (video)

and http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2012/commencement-khan-address-0608.html ...


World University and School, seeking overachievers, seeks to become as flourishing, and as potentially intense, an environment as MIT itself, - and from home via the internet ...

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

and in Science, Technology, Engineering and Math, as well as Humanities and Social Sciences, as weel as Music, and in many other subjects as well ...

with great support and counseling for students for this WUaS academic focus ...

MIT and Harvard (edX, too) are the universities with which WUaS seeks to collaborate, in particular.



"Kahn to MIT graduates: Open content is the future" (by Steve Carson)

http://opensource.com/education/12/6/kahn-mit-graduates-open-content-future



"Wide open horizons" (by Steve Carson)
http://www.timeshighereducation.co.uk/world-university-rankings/2011-2012/analysis-wide-open-horizons.html



"The Massive Open Online Professor" (By Stephen Carson and Jan Philipp Schmidt)

http://www.academicmatters.ca/2012/05/the-massive-open-online-professor/

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