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July 17, 2020

ikogosi warm springs: It's Day 10 of Getting Unstuck 2020! (Harvard GSE's ten days of brief coding prompts to play with the Scratch coding language)

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Published on July 17, 2020 23:22

July 16, 2020

Black-bellied whistling duck: Sat. 7/18/20 open World University and School AND WUaS Press Monthly Business Meeting

Dear Universitians and friends,
Please join our open WUaS monthly business meeting if you might be interested.

And thank you for your support of World Univ and Sch. Please find attached the "Agenda and News for July 18 2020 NP World Univ and Sch AND WUaS Corp" as well as the 2 financial reports, for your reference.

Please join us at our OPEN (hour-long) World Univ & Sch
@WorldUnivAndSch (@WUaSPress) monthly business meeting this Sat 7/18/20, at 9 am PT, 12 noon ET, electronically, email info @ worlduniversityandschool.org if interested ti steer WUaS! & from time zones in Asia, Africa & Europe!
https://twitter.com/WorldUnivAndSch/status/1283876941091598336?s=20

World University's open monthly business meeting Agenda for July 18, 2020:
- https://worlduniversityandschool.blogspot.com/2020/07/sat-71820-open-world-university-and.html
- https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2020/07/black-bellied-whistling-duck-sat-71820.html

The next WUaS Monthly Business Meeting will meet on the 3rd / THIRD Saturday of the month on August 15, 2020.
Sincerely, Scotthttps://www.youtube.com/user/WorldUnivandSch
- https://twitter.com/WorldUnivAndSch- https://twitter.com/WUaSPress- Languages - World Univ - https://twitter.com/sgkmacleod/- https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Nation_States

Agenda and News for Sat July 18, 2020 World University and School Monthly Business Meeting

World University and School
1 World Univ & Sch has reached out to the Open edX service partner MOOC-it France -https://open.edx.org/marketplace-category/service-partners/ - re potential collaborations in developing WUaS courses on the Open edX platform from best STEM CC-4 OpenCourseWare in its 4 languages - https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2020/07/sri-lankan-elephant-mooc-it-france-edx.html . MOOC-it France was the Instructional design Prize winner with its "Les Copros Vertes" website at Open edX recently - https://twitter.com/OpenEdX/status/1281212341917560832?s=20 and https://open.edx.org/blog/announcing-the-inaugural-open-edx-prize-winners/.

2And best STEM CC-4 OpenCourseWare-centric wiki World University and School is seeking to matriculate our second online undergraduate Bachelor's degree class this autumn - potentially in collaboration with Open edX, so with courses on the Open edX platform; see The College at WUaS - https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/The_College_at_World_University_and_School (with these 6 majors - 1) EECS, 2) General Science, 3) General Engineering, 4) English, 5) History, 6) Business - see: http://worlduniversityandschool.org/ - for free-to-students' best STEM CC-4 OpenCourseWare-centric Bachelor degrees.
Like with Open edX courses, WUaS students would initially simply sign up for their courses on something like the WUaS Open edX platform, in part. (You at WUaS - https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/You_at_World_University - will eventually be part of this WUaS sign-in process). Students will potentially matriculate online from all ~200 countries in the world, first in English.
3WUaS also seeks to develop a major online France World University and School - https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/France - in French (offering online Bach., Ph.D., Law, MD and IB high school degrees). And French is an official language in 29 out of ~206 countries in the world (per recent Olympics). And WUaS seeks to develop major online universities in each of these countries in French too. - https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2020/07/sri-lankan-elephant-mooc-it-france-edx.html .

4Drawing in a virtual earth, - and regarding MOOC-it France's ecological renovation courses of Paris homes:
A #RealisticVirtualEarthForArchitecture in #RealisticVirtualEarth & #RealisticVirtualEarthForLego w #RealisticVirtualEarthForRobotics The BEGINNINGS are HERE > https://twitter.com/MHiesboeck/status/1074076870105333760â¦ https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2018/12/cloud-iridescence-shes-having-baby.htmlâ¦ conceptually into Google Street View with TIME SLIDER / Maps / Earth

https://twitter.com/WorldUnivAndSch/status/1074087349829554176

5WUaS seeks at this stage to plan for all 7.5 billion people on planet earth as wiki-Universitians for open teaching and learning among speakers of all 7117 living language - https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/You_at_World_University - as well as for matriculating WUaS students in 200 countries, and even for UBI experiments to distribute a single cryptocurrency backed by most of ~200 countries' central banks, and significantly to alleviate poverty.
Collaborate with sister wiki project, WikiTree, which is planning a single Family Tree presumably for all 7.5 billion people.

6Sri Lanka World University and School is growing, has a new WUaS email address Sri Lanka WUaS <SriLanka@worlduniversityandschool.org> - if anyone you know in Sri Lanka might have questions about matriculating at WUaS.
1000 online high school graduates as WUaS students in the autumn - high achieving 'toppers' - in English? Sri Lanka World University and School mentioned this number, and even if we get one matriculating Sri Lankan 18 year old, as he said, it will be a success.
The new: SriLanka WUaS #hashtag
https://twitter.com/hashtag/SriLankaWUaS?src=hashtag_click

7Seeking Scottish high school graduates as well> See, too, the new:
Scotland WUaS #hashtag
https://twitter.com/hashtag/ScotlandWUaS?src=hashtag_clickAND
Scotland WUaS
please join us at our OPEN (hour-long) World Univ & Sch
@WorldUnivAndSch (@WUaSPress) monthly business meeting this Sat 7/18/20, at 9 am PT, 12 noon ET, electronically, email info @ worlduniversityandschool.org if interested to steer WUaS! & from Asia, Africa, Europe & #ScotlandWUaS!
https://twitter.com/TheOpenBand/status/1283897572621312000?s=20
8Youtube WUaS Livestreams this month (since last WUaS Monthly Business Meeting on Sa 6/20/20)
7/13/20
WUaS Courses on Open edX, Education-2040, Student Matriculation Wiki UBI Experiments, Lego Robotics
https://youtu.be/YmPDt2-J6jc

7/6/20
WUaS News 7/6/20 WUaS is carrying Lego Robotics, edX courses in fall, Major updates to both websites
https://youtu.be/rJCwkTzvjyo

Jun 29, 2020
Sri Lanka World Univ&Sch in Sinhala language & in Google Sitesà·à·âà¶»à· à¶½à¶à¶à· à¶½à·à¶ à·à·à·à·à· à·à·à¶¯à·âà¶ºà·à¶½à¶ºà·à· à¶´à·à·à¶½
https://youtu.be/ifqPX1hgxcA

Jun 22, 2020
WUaS LiveStream: CREATIVE Home Lego Robotics, Free-to-students' online WUaS degrees June 22, 2020
https://youtu.be/ON0lAFT-v8A
accessible from WUaS Livestream channel -https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCdURAADdLc9ctxnbismtXzQ(which is accessible from https://www.youtube.com/user/WorldUnivandSch)

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Agenda and News for July 18, 2020 WUaS Corporation Board Meeting

WUaS Corporation / WUaS Press

WUaS Corporation

AIn seeking to code for all 7.5 billion people, each a #WikidataQitem # & even for #UBIexperiments in all ~200 countries to distribute a #SingleCryptoCurrency backed by most central banks, could #WUaSmatriculatedStudents benefit with stipend for #LegoRobotics, books, rent, food+?

https://twitter.com/WorldUnivAndSch/status/1283899966755397632?s=20
https://twitter.com/scottmacleod/status/1283900186373193729?s=20
https://twitter.com/sgkmacleod/status/1283901083383783424?s=20
https://twitter.com/WUaSPress/status/1283902551453077504?s=20
https://twitter.com/HarbinBook/status/1283903125854642178?s=20

BAnd regarding too the Google - Apple Contact Tracing App -
Google - Apple Contact Tracing https://forbes.com/sites/zakdoffman/2020/04/20/apple-and-google-major-contact-tracing-surprise-25-billion-users-lose-out/amp/
-https://apple.com/covid19/contacttracing
-https://wired.com/story/apple-google-contact-tracing-strengths-weaknesses/amp for 7.5 billion people w #UBIexperiments for jobless, beginning with speakers of all 7,117 living languages & in #AvatarBotElectronicMedicalRecords https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Languages ~

https://twitter.com/HarbinBook/status/1252652590594093056?s=20

CRecent email to Lego's Matt Clark, (Lego Area Manager, Central & Eastern Europe, Baltics, Greece, Belgium, Luxembourg, at LEGO Education):

"I've let my college in Sri Lanka know that WUaS is seeking to offer some Open edX courses on home robotics emerging by adapting - https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/experimental-study-group/es-293-lego-robotics-spring-2007/ (again into Open edX course format) - with the 3 Lego kits' 1) WeDo 2.0, 2) Spike Prime, and 3) Mindstorms - and especially too for students to learn programming with the Scratch visual programming language which works with Lego robotics, and that the students would be ordering Lego Robotics' kits from https://www.edutechindia.com/ (findable in "Non-US Based Students need to contact a local distributor found here:" - http://worlduniversityandschool.org/AcademicPress.html - too).

WUaS Educational Services' Store is seeking to develop further as a platform, and to begin to resell. WUaS's focus is both commercial and strategic for all ~200 countries and in their official languages, and which will involve becoming an established STEM educational reseller soon.

Thanks so much.

Best regards,
Scott
http://worlduniversityandschool.org/AcademicPress.html
https://twitter.com/WUaSPress"

So, WUaS Educational Services' Store seeks to start selling soon to become an established STEM education reseller in some of all ~200 countries.
(See, too: https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2020/07/monolith-sri-lanka-wuas-students-and.html)

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- 415 480 4577- http://scottmacleod.com
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Published on July 16, 2020 17:10

July 15, 2020

Cactus wren: REMOTE: The Connected Faculty Summit - 7/13/20 & 7/14/20 * * How could Google TensorFlow AI machine learning, so Google's IT infrastructure as part of 1 single #RealisticVirtualEarth for EVERYTHING (think Google Street View for #RealisticVirtu

REMOTE: The Connected Faculty Summit - 7/13/20 & 7/14/20

- https://onlinexperiences.com/scripts/Server.nxp

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https://presentations.akamaized.net/FileLibrary/4705/22/REMOTE_Connected_Faculty_Summit_Attendee_User_Guide2.pdf -

REMOTE: THE CONNECTED FACULTY SUMMIT IS NOW OPENDear Scott,

REMOTE: The Connected Faculty Summit has begun. You can now login and join the virtual conference where thousands of faculty colleagues, thought and practice leaders from universities and colleges worldwide will convene to share the best in higher education online and blended learning. Please read through this Printable Attendee Guide for important information.

TODAYâS SCHEDULE:
July 13, 2020
11:45am PST - Show floor opens. You can explore booths in the Exhibit Hall and the download resources in the Resource Library before conference presentations begin.
12:00pm PST 12:30pm PST - Day 1 Keynote, Opening Remarks from Michael M. Crow, President of ASU.
12:30pm PST â 2:00pm PST - Presentations continue in the Main Hall and Ask the Expert Theaters.
2:00pm â 2:30pm PST - Virtual break, where you can visit the Exhibit Hall, the Networking Lounges or take a short break to be ready for the next half of Day 1.
2:30pm â 4:00pm PST - Presentations continue in the Main Hall and Ask the Expert Theaters.
4:00pm PST - Join us in the Networking Lounge for Virtual Happy Hour

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M, July 13, 2020
Dear Ariel, Heather, Anne, Kacie, Michael, Ahmed, Angelina and Elizabeth,
Thanks for your timely, topical and engaging presentations and connecting today in "REMOTE: The Connected Faculty Summit."
I've posted my questions and some notes below. Would love to learn further what you think about this. Am particularly interested in facilitating a realistic virtual earth for STEM and as classrooms (think Google Street View with TIME SLIDER) and my questions.
Looking forward to connecting tomorrow, and staying in communication. (I'll add you to World University and School's twice-monthly emailings, unless I hear otherwise from you - to stay in touch too).
All the best, Scott
worlduniversityandschool.org scottmacleod.com
Ariel, here are some beginnings of Realistic Virtual Earth for Geology - https://twitter.com/hashtag/RealisticVirtualEarthForGeology?src=hashtag_click - and for /Archaeology too (as well as /Robotics - all!)!
https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Nation_States (planning for ~206 countries, each a major online university, in their official main languages for free-to-students' degrees, based on best STEM CC-4 OpenCourseWare, in its 4 languages)- https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Languages (planning for all 7,117 known living languages, each a wiki school for open teaching and learning)- https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Subjects (add a new wiki subject; and are there any best STEM CC-4 OCW courses to add?)
https://twitter.com/WorldUnivAndSch https://twitter.com/WUaSPress
Languages - World Univ: https://twitter.com/sgkmacleod/https://twitter.com/scottmacleod/

Education Through Exploration: Reimagining Learning in a Digital Age
Speaker(s): Ariel Anbar, Tuesday Mahrle
Science, tutoring and virtual earth simulations - how to grow into all parts of the world, all species, all science? Thanks so much, and brilliant ((will connect - sgkmacleod@worlduniversityandschool.org) and thank you again!
Greetings from the SF Bay Area - and World Univ & Sch (planned online in each of all ~200 countries) ... and re a realistic virtual earth (think Google Street View with TIME Slider at the Street View cellular and atomic levels too) - https://twitter.com/hashtag/RealisticVirtualEarth?src=hashtag_click
- https://twitter.com/hashtag/RealisticVirtualEarthForGenetics?src=hashtag_click -
https://sustainability.asu.edu/person/ariel-anbar/https://www.anbarlab.org
https://isearch.asu.edu/profile/703187

* ahmed.guenaoui@uit.ac.ma
https://www.uit.ac.ma

(will connect Ahmed - sgkmacleod@worlduniversityandschool.org)

* Heather Bateman ornithology
Heather, thank you!: in what ways could you see or do you see, on the horizon, a single realistic virtual earth - as scientifically helpful or emerging - (think Google Street View with TIME Slider / Maps / Earth with virtual bird species and individual birds too, and with a Film-To-3D App into Google Poly, a library of virtual objects ) - https://twitter.com/hashtag/RealisticVirtualEarth?src=hashtag_click and a Realistic Virtual Earth for Species - https://twitter.com/hashtag/RealisticVirtualEarthForSpecies?src=hashtag_click ? Thank you so much! Such a film-to-3D App would enable remarkable backyard birding, for ex. Regards, Scott (sgkmacleod@worlduniversityandschool.org)

Greetings from the SF Bay Area - and World Univ & Sch (planned online in each of all ~200 countries) ... and re a realistic virtual earth (think Google Street View with TIME Slider / Maps / Earth with virtual bird species and individual birds too with a Film-To-3D App into Google Poly, a library of virtual objects ) - https://twitter.com/hashtag/RealisticVirtualEarth?src=hashtag_click and a Realistic Virtual Earth for Species
- https://twitter.com/hashtag/RealisticVirtualEarthForSpecies?src=hashtag_click -

http://hbateman.faculty.asu.edu/people/dr-bateman/
https://sustainability.asu.edu/person/heather-bateman/
http://hbateman.faculty.asu.edu
https://sols.asu.edu/heather-bateman
Heather.L.Bateman@asu.edu https://twitter.com/BatemanHL

*Adaptive Learning Beyond STEM
Speaker(s): Kacie Tartt, Anne Prucha, Allison Forbes
How could Google TensorFlow AI machine learning, so Google's IT infrastructure as part of 1 single #RealisticVirtualEarth for EVERYTHING (think Google Street View for #RealisticVirtualEarthForLibraries /Languages - https://twitter.com/hashtag/RealisticVirtualEarth?src=hashtag_click - work with adaptive learning?

Thank you, and how, I wonder, could Google TensorFlow AI machine learning, so Google's IT infrastructure as part of 1 single #RealisticVirtualEarth for EVERYTHING (think Google Street View for #RealisticVirtualEarthForLibraries /Languages - https://twitter.com/hashtag/RealisticVirtualEarth?src=hashtag_click - work with adaptive learning?

Thank you so much, Kacie and Anne! Regards, Scott (sgkmacleod@worlduniversityandschool.org, planned in all 200 countries' official and main languages online)

text chat bots to facilitate this? how might you work with such, in a conversational paradigm even?
Anne.Prucha@ucf.edu
https://digitallearning.ucf.edu/ilab/cri-prucha/

Kacie.Tartt@ucf.edu
https://cdl.ucf.edu/faculty-spotlight-kacie-tartt/
https://digitallearning.ucf.edu/ilab/cri-tartt/

* Michael Goryll
Am interested at World Univ & Sch in the actual-virtual, physical-digital, and for online STEM laboratories. Am thinking, brainstorming-wise, of physical Lego Robotics into an emergent educational Minecraft, Google Street View with time slider with Brick Street View (where brick refers to Lego brick). What would happen if you developed all your EE physical classroom technologies through a realistic virtual earth, eg develop circuits from a breadboard not only on the physical breadboard at a student's home, but also through Google Street View - at the atomic level even? Thank you, and best regards, Scott (sgkmacleod@worlduniversityandschool.org) ... eg in a Realistic Virtual Earth for STEM - https://twitter.com/hashtag/RealisticVirtualEarthForSTEM?src=hashtag_click -

Greetings from the SF Bay Area - and World Univ & Sch (planned online in each of all ~200 countries) ... and re a realistic virtual earth (think Google Street View with TIME Slider / Maps / Earth a Film-To-3D App into Google Poly, a library of virtual objects ) - https://twitter.com/hashtag/RealisticVirtualEarth?src=hashtag_click and a Realistic Virtual Earth for STEM
- https://twitter.com/hashtag/RealisticVirtualEarthForSTEM?src=hashtag_click - and beyond eg a #RealisticVirtualEarthForLanguages https://twitter.com/hashtag/RealisticVirtualEarthForLanguages?src=hashtag_click -

Thank you!
Developing Online Labs in Electrical Engineering
Speaker(s): Michael Goryll, Alisha Mendez

Electrical Engineering home kits

ADK kit

FPGA board

asynchronous learning

https://isearch.asu.edu/profile/620126
https://sustainability.asu.edu/person/michael-goryll/
MIchael.Goryll@asu.edu

https://isearch.asu.edu/profile/620126 https://sustainability.asu.edu/person/michael-goryll/https://twitter.com/ArielAnbar

* chemical engineering - in networking lounge

Hi Angelina, and All, - brainstorming-wise, how about in a realistic virtual earth for STEM - https://twitter.com/hashtag/RealisticVirtualEarthForSTEM?src=hashtag_click ? Am thinking Google Street View with Time Slider and with a Film-To-3D App (not yet made) into Google Poly (a library of virtual objects)? ... and potentially in Spanish with Google Translate too!

@ElizabethStephan, (and All), since you teach chemical engineering as well - brainstorming-wise, how about in a realistic virtual earth for STEM - https://twitter.com/hashtag/RealisticVirtualEarthForSTEM?src=hashtag_click ? Am thinking Google Street View with Time Slider and with a Film-To-3D App (not yet made) into Google Poly (a library of virtual objects)? ... and potentially in Spanish with Google Translate too!

@Elizabeth, brainstorming-wise further, & regarding, for ex., Angelina's question looking for a "tool that allows to do some distillation, humidification, drying ... in a virtual way" and with a "building out" approach into a Google Street View with time slider with Second Life for group-building and avatars conceptual environment, take the Film-To-3D App (to be built) from smart phone, and video these processes, and convert via App in realistic virtual earth into Google Poly (library of virtual objects) and begin to do chemical engineering newly with these objects regarding distillation, humidification, and drying 'products' or new physical objects.

Scott MacLeod: am learning it too ... here's a further resource that World Univ & Sch is building upon - https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/chemical-engineering/ - thanks to the CC-4 licensing of OCW, and upon which we seek to offer degrees (accrediting) ... and partly in a realistic virtual earth with time. In the SF Bay Area, Elizabeth.

bethste@clemson.edu,

angelina.martindelcampo@academicos.udg.mx

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https://twitter.com/scottmacleod/
Languages - World Univ: https://twitter.com/sgkmacleod/
https://twitter.com/WUaSPress/
https://twitter.com/HarbinBook/
https://twitter.com/TheOpenBand/

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-- - Scott MacLeod - Founder, President & Professor
- World University and School- http://worlduniversityandschool.org
- 415 480 4577- http://scottmacleod.com
- CC World University and School - like CC Wikipedia with best STEM-centric CC OpenCourseWare - incorporated as a nonprofit university and school in California, and is a U.S. 501 (c) (3) tax-exempt educational organization.

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Tu, July 14, 2020
Dear Scott Galloway, Kristie Ornelas (whose email I don't have), Kassy, Kate, Sara, Loretta, Diana, Thomas, Stuart, Sarah, Phil, Michael Wesley (via Emma), Peter Mathieson (via Sarah), AG Rud, Doug Becker, Jo Johnson, Dr. Dorothea RÃ¼land, Ellie, Martha Harty, Cynthia and Mats! (AND Ariel, Heather, Anne, Kacie, Michael, Ahmed, Angelina and Elizabeth, whom I emailed on M July 13, after Day 1),
Thanks for your timely, topical and engaging presentations and connecting yesterday, July 14th, in "REMOTE: The Connected Faculty Summit."
I've posted my questions from the chat boxes and some notes below. Would love to learn further what you think about these. Am particularly interested in facilitating a realistic virtual earth for STEM and as classrooms (think Google Street View with TIME SLIDER) and my questions to Mats, AND Stuart, and Michael Goryll the day before are particularly germane. Am also interested in actual-virtual, physical-digital Lego robotics for home robotics (see below too).
Looking forward to staying in communication. (I'll add you to World University and School's twice-monthly emailings, unless I hear otherwise from you - to stay in touch too). Please see, too, questions from the day before at bottom. Thank you again so much for REMOTE: The Connected Faculty Summit - 7/13/20 & 7/14/20.
All the best, Scott
worlduniversityandschool.org scottmacleod.com
Ariel, here are some beginnings of Realistic Virtual Earth for Geology - https://twitter.com/hashtag/RealisticVirtualEarthForGeology?src=hashtag_click - and for /Archaeology too (as well as /Robotics - all!)!
https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Nation_States (planning for ~206 countries, each a major online university, in their official main languages for free-to-students' degrees, based on best STEM CC-4 OpenCourseWare, in its 4 languages)- https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Languages (planning for all 7,117 known living languages, each a wiki school for open teaching and learning)- https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Subjects (add a new wiki subject; and are there any best STEM CC-4 OCW courses to add?)
https://twitter.com/WorldUnivAndSch https://twitter.com/WUaSPress
Languages - World Univ: https://twitter.com/sgkmacleod/
https://twitter.com/scottmacleod/

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Synchronous Online Hands-on Labs Using IOLab

Mats Selen
University of Illinois
Mats was an undergrad at Guelph, and grad student at Princeton, and a post-doc at Cornell, and has been on the faculty at the University of Illinois Department of Physics since 1993. After 25 years of studying elementary particles he shifted his research focus to physics education. With Illinois colleagues he developed the iClicker classroom response system, the FlipItPhysics learning framework, and most recently the IOLab wireless data acquisition system. He was named the 2016 U.S. Professor of the Year.

matts@illinois.edu
mats@illinois.edu

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Cynthia DuFault
State University of New York, Potsdam
Virtual Dance Instruction: Community Hubs
Tuesday, July 14, 2020
dufaulc@potsdam.edu
https://www.potsdam.edu/about/directory/faculty/dufaulc

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Better Student Project Teams: Online Modules for Teaching Teamwork
Martha Harty
Carnegie Mellon University
mharty@cmu.edu

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The end of internationality as we know it: has Covid thwarted universitiesâ global ambitions, or paved new roads to international collaboration?
Speaker(s): Ellie Bothwell, Dorothea RÃ¼land, Jo Johnson, Doug Becker

Ellie Bothwell
Times Higher Education
ellie.bothwell@timeshighereducation.com
https://www.timeshighereducation.com/author/ellie-bothwell

Dorothea RÃ¼land
DAAD
webmasterdaad.de
webmaster@daad.org
Dr. Dorothea RÃ¼land
https://www.daad.org/en/home/imprint/

Jo Johnson
Tes Global
communications@tesglobal.com
https://www.tes.com/tesglobal

Doug Becker
Cintana
info@cintana.com

In what ways could an edX facilitate an international academic credit and degree system, Jo and everyone? (And I ask in developing World University and School, planned in ~200 countries' official / main languages as major online universities, and building from https://ocw.mit.edu/ and https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/translated-courses/ potentially in Open edX) Thank you, Scott (sgkmacleod@worlduniversityandschool.org))

Glad Open edX and CC-4 best STEM OpenCourseWare in many languages exist as building blocks!

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AG Rud
Washington State University
ag.rud@wsu.edu

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Professor Sarah Springman
ETH Zurich
sarah.springman@sl.ethz.ch

Phil Baty
Times Higher Education
phil.baty@timeshighereducation.com

Professor Michael Wesley
University of Melbourne
emma.murrell@unimelb.edu.au
https://about.unimelb.edu.au/leadership/senior-leadership/prof-michael-wesley

Professor Peter Mathieson
The University of Edinburgh
principal@ed.ac.uk
Sarah.Russell@ed.ac.uk
https://www.ed.ac.uk/principals-office/principal-biography

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Stuart Lindsay
Arizona State University
stuart.lindsay@asu.edu
https://biodesign.asu.edu/stuart-lindsay
300 Level Physics Lab Online: How do you do that?
Speaker(s): Stuart Lindsay, Nisha Sridharan

Am interested at World Univ & Sch in the actual-virtual, physical-digital, and for online STEM laboratories. Am thinking, brainstorming-wise, of physical Lego Robotics into an emergent educational Minecraft, Google Street View with time slider with Brick Street View (where brick refers to Lego brick). What would happen if you developed all your EE physical classroom technologies through a realistic virtual earth, eg develop circuits from a breadboard not only on the physical breadboard at a student's home, but also through Google Street View - at the atomic level even? Thank you, and best regards, Scott (sgkmacleod@worlduniversityandschool.org) ... eg in a Realistic Virtual Earth for STEM - https://twitter.com/hashtag/RealisticVirtualEarthForSTEM?src=hashtag_click -

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Will robots take my job?

Dr. Thomas Schneider
University of British Columbia, Vancouver
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Diana Laurillard
UCL Institute of Education
d.laurillard@ucl.ac.uk
https://iris.ucl.ac.uk/iris/browse/profile?upi=DMLAU06

Professor Loretta Feris
The University of Cape Town
Loretta.Feris@uct.ac.za
http://www.ma-re.uct.ac.za/ma-re/members/academic/feris

Sara Custer
Times Higher Education
sara.custer@timeshighereducation.com
https://www.timeshighereducation.com/contact-us

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Beyond Covid19: A perspective on transcendent trends in digital and online learning
Speaker(s): Dr. Kate Edwards, PhD, Pearson Backup
kateedwards@pearson.com
https://www.linkedin.com/in/kate-edwards-412a3027

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Consistency, Clarity, and Convenience: Three C's to increase the Number of A's and B's when Teaching Large Lecture Sections of General Chemistry Remotely
Speaker(s): Kassy Mies, Nisha Sridharan

Kassy Mies,
kassy.mies@colostate.edu

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Ciscoâs keynote featuring Scott Galloway: The Future of Remote Learning
Speaker(s): Kristie Ornelas, Scott Galloway

Kristie Ornelas, Cisco

Scott Galloway, Professor at NYU Stern,
sgallowa@stern.nyu.edu
https://www.stern.nyu.edu/faculty/bio/scott-galloway
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Hoar, Aruna Ravichandran, Phil VentimigliaView MoreON DEMAND04:30 p.m. - 05:00 p.m.Student Panel: Remote Learning - An Alternative to Traditional InstructionSpeaker(s): Douglas Williams, Makenzie Theurer, Mohammad Munir, Miriam Zavala Mendoza, Mobina HaqView MoreON DEMAND04:30 p.m. - 05:00 p.m.The Future of Learning: Every Learner Everywhere, Any Time?Speaker(s): Alan Drimmer, Gates Bryant, Kristen FoxView MoreON DEMAND05:00 p.m. - 05:30 p.m.Create an Engaging Online Experience using Microsoft TeamsSpeaker(s): Dr. Kellermann, John SiefertView MoreON DEMAND05:00 p.m. - 05:30 p.m.Developing Online Labs in Electrical EngineeringSpeaker(s): Michael Goryll, Alisha MendezView MoreON DEMAND05:00 p.m. - 05:30 p.m.Overcoming Ergonomic Challenges when Working from HomeSpeaker(s): Kiel Ellis, Jacob KinserView MoreON DEMAND05:00 p.m. - 05:30 p.m.Powerful Tips for Online CoursesSpeaker(s): Joanna Gunaraj, Diane HollisterView MoreON DEMAND05:00 p.m. - 05:30 p.m.Student Panel: Providing Support Services Online that Lead to Academic SuccessSpeaker(s): Nancy Cervasio, Monica Archuleta, William HollanderView MoreON DEMAND05:00 p.m. - 05:30 p.m.Using OER in Online Technical EducationSpeaker(s): Esperanza Zenon, Jeniffer LopezView MoreON DEMAND05:30 p.m. - 06:00 p.m.Accessible by Design: insights from an assistive technology user and a course designerSpeaker(s): Alan Drimmer, David Lindrum, Devon WestView MoreON DEMAND05:30 p.m. - 06:00 p.m.Creating a Dynamic Learning Environment Online by Leveraging TechnologySpeaker(s): Wade Hyde, Allison ForbesView MoreON DEMAND05:30 p.m. - 06:00 p.m.Ensuring Student Engagement and Equity with Personalized, Adaptive LearningSpeaker(s): Dr. Claude Tameze, Tuesday MahrleView MoreON DEMAND05:30 p.m. - 06:00 p.m.Online Courses: Adventure is Out There!Speaker(s): Nathalie Vega-Rhodes, Nisha SridharanView MoreON DEMAND05:30 p.m. - 06:00 p.m.Our Quick Online Mathematics Conversion at the University of IdahoSpeaker(s): Kirk Trigsted, Noe GreenView MoreON DEMAND05:30 p.m. - 06:00 p.m.Virtual STEM Labs: Tools and Faculty Generated RecommendationsSpeaker(s): Wendy Howard, Matthew RobinsonView MoreON DEMANDTuesday, July 14, 2020TimePresentationsActions11:00 a.m. - 11:30 a.m.Ciscoâs keynote featuring Scott Galloway: The Future of Remote LearningSpeaker(s): Kristie Ornelas, Scott GallowayView MoreON DEMAND11:30 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.A Discussion of Anti-Racist Practices for Digital and Online LearningSpeaker(s): Jessica Rowland Williams, Ellie BothwellView MoreON DEMAND11:30 a.m. - 01:00 p.m.Ask the Experts: Still Your Students | Remote Teaching: Focus on Learning | Equity-First InstructionSpeaker(s): Angela Gunder, Jacque Harris, Laura Zadoff, Tina HouareauView MoreON DEMAND11:30 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.Consistency, Clarity, and Convenience: Three C's to increase the Number of A's and B's when Teaching Large Lecture Sections of General Chemistry RemotelySpeaker(s): Kassy Mies, Nisha SridharanView MoreON DEMAND11:30 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.Creating Multimedia That Works for LearningSpeaker(s): Judy Brooks, Dan BerrettView MoreON DEMAND11:30 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.Modernizing Active and Adaptive PSY101 in the age of Covid-19Speaker(s): Emily Thomas, Don Carter, Allison ForbesView MoreON DEMAND11:30 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.On-Campus and Online Experience Will Never Be the Same, but Learning Outcomes Can BeSpeaker(s): Ian Gould, Ara Austin, Kelvin BentleyView MoreON DEMAND11:30 a.m. - 12:15 p.m.Will robots take my job?Speaker(s): Professor Loretta Feris, Sara Custer, Dr. Thomas Schneider, Diana LaurillardView MoreON DEMAND12:00 p.m. - 12:30 p.m.Beyond Covid19: A perspective on transcendent trends in digital and online learningSpeaker(s): Dr. Kate Edwards, PhD, Pearson BackupView MoreON DEMAND12:00 p.m. - 12:30 p.m.Building Teaching Presence with Asynchronous ToolsSpeaker(s): Mike Caulfield, Matthew Robinson, Webcast 412223 Engineer 1View MoreON DEMAND12:00 p.m. - 12:30 p.m.Instructor presence: How to engage students through building an authentic 'voice'Speaker(s): Shannon McCarty, Jeniffer LopezView MoreON DEMAND12:00 p.m. - 12:30 p.m.Pivot to online learning: Reflections of a first-year professorSpeaker(s): Farai Gombedza, Joanna GunarajView MoreON DEMAND12:00 p.m. - 12:30 p.m.Transitioning Courses and Labs to Online: Considerations and Paradigm ShiftSpeaker(s): Amina El-Ashmawy , Noe GreenView MoreON DEMAND12:15 p.m. - 01:00 p.m.Too good to fail? 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Sri Lankan elephant: Open edX Mooc-It France - Collaboration with World Univ & Sch? * * edX re Open edX partner-support@edx.org's recent suggestion - and excited to find you listed here https://open.edx.org/marketplace-cate... - I'm rea

Open edX
Mooc-It France
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Collaboration with World Univ & Sch?

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Bonjour Yvain,
Great to have met you in the Mooc-It France presentation about your Instructional Prize winner, "Les Copros Verte" in the Open edX online community meeting facilitated by Ned Batchelder last Thursday -

Join the Open edX Online Meetup event today at 1 PM (EDT)! Yvain DemolliÃ¨re, CEO of MOOCit, will present the Open edX Instructional Prize winner, Les Copros Vertes, and all of the customizations that made this site successful. Find the event details here: https://t.co/Ff8cpToscQ pic.twitter.com/PsdiaKTvgVâ Open edX (@OpenEdX) July 9, 2020

https://twitter.com/OpenEdX/status/1281212341917560832?s=20 - and - https://twitter.com/MOOCit_Fr/status/1276069953855250432?s=20 . Thank you for your excellent courses, and congratulations to Mooc-It Fr for your award! I asked and commented in the chat:
"Excellent, Yvain, and great too to see an application of the edX course interface. Brainstorming-wise, in what ways could you see eventually helping end users to actually be able to design architecturally their renovations (with regulations even) and in a Realistic Virtual Earth for Architecture - https://twitter.com/hashtag/RealisticVirtualEarthForArchitecture?src=hashtag_click - and with this drawing example too -
A #RealisticVirtualEarthForArchitecture in #RealisticVirtualEarth & #RealisticVirtualEarthForLego w #RealisticVirtualEarthForRobotics The BEGINNINGS are HERE > https://twitter.com/MHiesboeck/status/1074076870105333760â¦ https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2018/12/cloud-iridescence-shes-having-baby.htmlâ¦ conceptually into Google Street View with TIME SLIDER / Maps / Earth

A #RealisticVirtualEarthForArchitecture in #RealisticVirtualEarth & #RealisticVirtualEarthForLego w #RealisticVirtualEarthForRobotics The BEGINNINGS are HERE > https://t.co/twYgSgRniz https://t.co/q4oCnlRIt8 conceptually into Google Street View with TIME SLIDER / Maps / Earthâ WorldUnivandSch (@WorldUnivAndSch) December 15, 2018

https://twitter.com/WorldUnivAndSch/status/1074087349829554176
https://twitter.com/WorldUnivAndSch/status/1074087349829554176?s=20 - all in a Do it Yourself vein? Thank you, Scott (sgkmacleod@worlduniversityandschool.org)â©

Am thinking in something like Google Street View with time slider with AutoCAD architecture with even Second Life for group-building and avatars, conceptually. Thank you.

(Further brainstorming idea - collaborate too with IKEAâs home design tool too ? â¦ conceptually â¦)"
And at partner-support@edx.org's recent suggestion - and excited to find you listed here https://open.edx.org/marketplace-category/service-partners/ - I'm reaching out on behalf of wiki World UnIversity and School (which is like CC-4 https://ocw.mit.edu and https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/translated-courses/ in its 4 languages, with Wikidata in Wikipedia's 300 languages) in seeking a service partner to help World Univ & Sch get started building courses on the Open edX platform per:
"Open edX
Service Partners
Our service partners offer a wide range of services to organizations that adopt Open edX technology to build their digital learning experiences"https://open.edx.org/marketplace-category/service-partners/
World Univ & Sch is wondering how best to create some introductory courses in Open edX from CC-4 MIT OCW in the WUaS 6 majors - http://worlduniversityandschool.org/ - for students who have expressed interest in this already. And WUaS seeks to be able to send out links to these WUaS courses in the 'Agenda and News for WUaS Monthly Business Meeting' by this Thursday even, or in the WUaS Minutes following Saturday's open WUaS Monthly Business Meeting (see, for example, last month's WUaS Minutes - http://worlduniversityandschool.blogspot.com/2020/06/june-20-2020-minutes-for-open-wuas.html?view=sidebar).
Yvain, in what ways, please, might we begin to explore these questions? In addition, WUaS seeks to develop France World Univ & Sch - https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/France (https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Nation_States) - from CC-4 MIT OCW in French (https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/French_language) as well, and it would be great to communicate about this with time. (And with WUaS's plans to create major online universities in all ~200 countries' official / main languages, there are 29 countries in the world that have French as an official language).
Looking forward to learning how "Les Copros Verte" grows and develops. Thank you!
Sincerely, ScottI had also blogged about your presentation and this Open edX meeting in this Mars' Mission humor blog post -https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2020/07/coppersmith-barbet-spaceship-heating.html -

worlduniversityandschool.org scottmacleod.com
Ariel, here are some beginnings of a single Realistic Virtual Earth https://twitter.com/hashtag/RealisticVirtualEarth?src=hashtag_click - and in again, conceptually, Google Street View with Time Slider with Google Maps / Google Earth / TensorFlow / Translate and group build-able like Second Life with avatars, and with AutoCAD architectural design)!

https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Nation_States (planning for ~206 countries, each a major online university, in their official main languages for free-to-students' degrees - Bachelor, Ph.D., Law, MD and I.B. high school - based on best STEM CC-4 OpenCourseWare, in its 4 languages)- https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Languages (planning for all 7,117 known living languages, each a wiki school for open teaching and learning)- https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Subjects (add a new wiki subject; and are there any best STEM CC-4 OCW courses to add?)
https://twitter.com/WorldUnivAndSch https://twitter.com/WUaSPress
Languages - World Univ: https://twitter.com/sgkmacleod/https://twitter.com/scottmacleod/

The Open edX Twitter post about your presentation: Join the Open edX Online Meetup event today at 1 PM (EDT)! Yvain DemolliÃ¨re, CEO of MOOCit, will present the Open edX Instructional Prize winner, Les Copros Vertes, and all of the customizations that made this site successful. Find the event details here: https://openedx.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/COMM/pages/1572243167/July+9+2020+community+meetup
https://twitter.com/OpenEdX/status/1281212341917560832?s=20

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Join the Open edX Online Meetup event today at 1 PM (EDT)! Yvain DemolliÃ¨re, CEO of MOOCit, will present the Open edX Instructional Prize winner, Les Copros Vertes, and all of the customizations that made this site successful. Find the event details here: https://t.co/Ff8cpToscQ pic.twitter.com/PsdiaKTvgVâ Open edX (@OpenEdX) July 9, 2020

https://twitter.com/OpenEdX/status/1281212341917560832?s=20

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A #RealisticVirtualEarthForArchitecture in #RealisticVirtualEarth & #RealisticVirtualEarthForLego w #RealisticVirtualEarthForRobotics The BEGINNINGS are HERE > https://twitter.com/MHiesboeck/status/1074076870105333760â¦ https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2018/12/cloud-iridescence-shes-having-baby.htmlâ¦ conceptually into Google Street View with TIME SLIDER / Maps / Earth

A #RealisticVirtualEarthForArchitecture in #RealisticVirtualEarth & #RealisticVirtualEarthForLego w #RealisticVirtualEarthForRobotics The BEGINNINGS are HERE > https://t.co/twYgSgRniz https://t.co/q4oCnlRIt8 conceptually into Google Street View with TIME SLIDER / Maps / Earthâ WorldUnivandSch (@WorldUnivAndSch) December 15, 2018

https://twitter.com/WorldUnivAndSch/status/1074087349829554176

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Minutes for June 20, 2020 open WUaS Monthly Business Meeting
http://worlduniversityandschool.blogspot.com/2020/06/june-20-2020-minutes-for-open-wuas.html?view=sidebar

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Coppersmith barbet: SPACESHIP Heating and Cooling pulls up to the NASA gates a week before lift off for the Mars 2030 mission with people. #RealisticVirtualUniverse #RealisticVirtualEarthForLego #WUaSHomeRobotics "SPACESHIP Heating and Cooling," they say, & "We hear your engineers forgot to ... * * A little Mars' mission humor: :) ... * And a little Mars' mission history: :) ... * * * edX Edge? - 'request opening an edX technical account to create World Univ & Sch's own courses" * * In a related vein, and where I learned from edX's Ned Batchelder about the distinctions between edX, Open edX and edX Edge ... * * * Lego robotics in all ~200 countries & their languages, and with the WUaS Educational Services' Store now carrying Lego robotics' kits ...- https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2020/07/coppersmith-barbet-spaceship-heating.html -

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Rhododendron arboreum: WUaS Courses on Open edX, Education-2040, Student Matriculation Wiki UBI Experiments, Lego Robotics * * WUaS Educational Services' Store ~ http://worlduniversityandschool.org/A... ~

WUaS Courses on Open edX, Education-2040, Student Matriculation Wiki UBI Experiments, Lego Robotics

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WUaS Courses on Open edX, What Education will look like in 2040, Student Matriculation Forms for Wiki Teachers in all 7117, UBI Experiments for all 7.5 billion people, Lego Robotics

Universitians,

WUaS News' Livestream - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCdURAADdLc9ctxnbismtXzQ/live (with /live at the end accessible from https://www.youtube.com/user/WorldUnivandSch)

WUaS News Q&A LiveStream https://youtube.com/channel/UCdURAADd... - http://youtube. com/WorldUnivandSch Mon 7/13/20 - 10a PT Topic: Fall Courses - Open edX? Breakthroughs @WorldUnivAndSch & @WUaSPress online Universities https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Nation_States
@ScottMacLeod info@ http://worlduniversityandschool.org to join

WUaS News Q&A LiveStream https://t.co/UOPG69mHvz > http://youtube. com/WorldUnivandSch Mon 7/13/20 - 10a PT Topic: Fall Courses - Open edX? Breakthroughs @WorldUnivAndSch & @WUaSPress online Universities https://t.co/LRKdU7cdv4 @ScottMacLeod info@ https://t.co/N22Ucd0wg2 to joinâ WorldUnivandSch (@WorldUnivAndSch) July 13, 2020

https://twitter.com/WorldUnivAndSch/status/1282541365423824897?s=20
https://twitter.com/scottmacleod/status/1282541648954552320?s=20
https://twitter.com/sgkmacleod/status/1282541863484837888?s=20

1) Open edX potentials

2) Riffing with what will education look like in 2040 compared with today - in 1-2 minutes - for a National Academy Sciences' competition, that WUaS probably won't enter

3) Matriculating students' forms, & UBI experiments for distribution of single cryptocurrency in most of 200 countries?

Updating the Logos for both wings (and re 'branding' even) just emailed me to suggest that you use the most recent versions of them in your great matriculation and even wiki-Universitian GDocs' forms. More later about your email just now.

4) WUaS Home Robotics, Lego robotics and Sri Lanka WUaS.

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Geomorphology: Agency, - Have you thought much about agency, philosophically, "the capacity to act, and 'agency' denotes the exercise or manifestation of this capacity" (https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/ag...) and personally? * * * How was the "Beecham

Hi David, (Ma),
Have you thought much about agency, philosophically, "the capacity to act, and 'agency' denotes the exercise or manifestation of this capacity" (https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/agency/) and personally?
Am recalling and appreciating George Alexander MD's thinking about this (family friend, and brilliant psychiatrist, as well as Lacanian psychoanalyst), and how he with language made abstract ideas helpful and relevant to individuals with whom he was in conversation with. There are many folk philosophies that inform otherwise (Quakerism and Yoga, and perhaps some underlying Harbin philosophies too) ... that it's the divine or ego religiously conceived, that shapes people's actions and their ways of being; cultures do this too, where the group seems to inform possible actions of the individual. The idea that we have agency - free will, intentional action, here too, - or choice to decide as individuals is something that western philosophical thinking in particular seems to make possible in very unique and even sophisticated ways.
Psychiatrically, and psychologically, an individual with their own agency (not informed by a psychotherapist or psychoanalyst) might choose actions that lead to flourishing, or well-being, in conversation with someone, or on their own, because they might have engaged the idea of agency. (And perhaps they head to a good psychiatrist if they aren't making choices that lead to flourishing, or because they're making poor choices, agency-wise, leading to a lack of well-being). Language can help - both with the idea that we have agency (as one thinks about this) - and conversation can open possibilities in ideas about how to develop this. The Desiderata - - as a poem of agency? (Am appreciative too of George not giving advice, because reasoning-wise, consciously, amd philosophically, to be able to give good advice may entail being the other persons 'shoes' - which is logically impossible; appreciating that George was both conscious of this, and that he was able to express this. That said, he as an experienced clinician seemed to be able to free up people's agency, in my experience of him and understanding his thinking).
Am appreciating, too, the 'problem solving' Western analytical and philosophical approach too which George took with conversants - and regarding the human problems and issues that emerge with people. It's a very grounded - re realist - way of thinking, and focusing, too, on the symbolic (rather than the mirror) per Lacan's 3 registers. Ah language - and agency. (Lacan had a different reading of Lacan - https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/lacan/ - based on reading primary texts and studying Lacan in depth, but this is a fairly, and unusually, salutary article on Lacan's thinking; ah, Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy:).
What do you think about agency? How have you thought about human's capacity to act - about yours or individuals you know? Am seeking to find some examples re Cuttyhunk or DC for you, for example, to make this personally relevant - and not abstract, - and will let you know if some come to mind. (Acting to find a mate, perhaps?)
Consciousness re agency raises a whole series of other questions - and how to make these personally meaningful and relevant are fascinating questions too :)
Cheers, Scott4 blog posts in recent years about this:https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2013/12/rosy-faced-lovebird-agency-agent-with.html https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2019/04/eternal-flame-falls-agency-as.html https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2010/10/tibet-valley-digital-communication.html https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2013/10/california-condor-whats-anthropological.html

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Hi David, Ma,

Here's a slightly updated version of my email to you just now:
Have you thought much about agency, philosophically, "the capacity to act, and 'agency' denotes the exercise or manifestation of this capacity" (https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/agency/) and personally?
Am recalling and appreciating George Alexander MD's thinking about this (family friend, and brilliant psychiatrist, as well as Lacanian psychoanalyst), and how he with language made abstract ideas helpful and relevant to individuals with whom he was in conversation. There are many folk philosophies that inform otherwise (eg Quakerism and Yoga, and perhaps some underlying Harbin philosophies too ... ie that it's the divine, or ego religiously conceived, that shape people's actions and their ways of being); cultures can do this too, where the group's discourse somehow seems to inform possible actions of the individual. The idea that we have agency - free will, intentional action, - or choice to decide what we want to do as individuals is something that western philosophical thinking in particular seems to make possible in very unique and even sophisticated ways.
Psychiatrically, and psychologically, an individual with their own agency (not informed by a psychotherapist or psychoanalyst) might choose actions that lead to flourishing, or well-being, in conversation with someone, or on their own, because they might have engaged the idea of agency (via words). (And perhaps they head to a good psychiatrist if they aren't making choices that lead to flourishing, or because they're making poor choices, agency-wise, - and leading to a lack of well-being). Language can help - both with a) the idea that we have agency (as one thinks about this), and b) that conversation can open possibilities in ideas about how to develop agency. The Desiderata - https://www.desiderata.com/desiderata.html - as a poem of agency? (Am appreciative too of George explicitly not giving advice, because reasoning-wise, consciously too, and philosophically, to be able to give good advice may entail being in the other persons 'shoes' - which is logically impossible; appreciating that George was both conscious or aware of this, and that he was able to express this (about his logically not giving advice). That said, he as an experienced clinician seemed to be able to 'free up' people's agency, in my experience of him and understanding his thinking.
Am appreciating, too, the 'problem solving,' Western analytical and philosophical approaches too which George took with conversants - and regarding the human problems and issues that emerge with people. It's a very grounded - re realist - way of thinking, and focusing, too, on the symbolic (rather than the mirror register) per Lacan's 3 registers. Ah language - and agency. (George had a different reading of Lacan than - https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/lacan/ - based on reading primary texts and studying Lacan in depth, but this philosophical article is a fairly, and unusually, salutary writing on or about Lacan's thinking; ah, Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy:).
What do you think about agency? How have you thought about human's capacity to act - about yours or individuals you know, and consciously? Am seeking to find some examples re Cuttyhunk or DC (or Pgh) for you, for example, to make this personally relevant - and not abstract, - and will let you know if some come to mind. (Acting to find a mate, perhaps, David?)
Consciousness re agency raises a whole series of other questions - and how to make these personally meaningful and relevant are fascinating questions too :)
Warm regards, Scott4 blog posts in recent years about this:https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2013/12/rosy-faced-lovebird-agency-agent-with.html https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2019/04/eternal-flame-falls-agency-as.html https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2010/10/tibet-valley-digital-communication.html https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2013/10/california-condor-whats-anthropological.html

I experience a kind of agency or freedom when I hear great rock and roll (but haven't thought too much about the agency word in this capacity) -
The Allman Brothers Band - Full Concert - 01/05/80 - Capitol Theatre (OFFICIAL)
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Jane MacLeod1:15 PM (9 hours ago)

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No in answer to your question if it was a question.
Love, Ma

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Ah, ok. :)
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Ma, Alden, Ann,
Ma, I know from his giving a talk at Stanford someone named Raj (Chetty) - https://www.vox.com/the-highlight/2019/5/14/18520783/harvard-economics-chetty - who's an economist interested too in the poor, and also a house master at Harvard. You mentioned Raj on the phone this evening in relation to the Beacham House film you were going to watch after we hung up.

I think Raj Chetty receives my big educational project's emails, and also could probably do the math for UBI experiments to distribute a single cryptocurrency to 7.5 billion people, and significantly to alleviate poverty (since I think too he grew up in India, where there is still much poverty, sadly).
Alden, have you seen Beecham House by any chance? :)
Warmly, Scott

Hello Ann and Ma,
I hope this finds you well. How was your weekend, and how are you both? It's been hot here this weekend in the afternoons, but generally nice otherwise.
How are things going coronavirus tail end wise for you (into phase 3 in Boston and planning for physical school openings there in autumn), - or until a vaccine is found perchance? Is this pandemic mostly of an 'in case of emergency' variety I wonder (eg the threat of planes dropping biological viral agents, hypothetically, and that got too close to reality for comfort)? Just had a lovely walk around the far side of the massif overlooking Moraga past Indian valley, albeit in not quite cool enough weather.
How was the "Beecham House" Masterpiece Theatre film about the Raj in around 1795 in India, Ma? https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beecham_House ... https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/masterpiece/specialfeatures/beecham-house-coming-to-masterpiece/ ... looks interesting but it'll be awhile before I see it. Any depictions of Yoga by any chance even? Where Angela & Victor head with Yoga, (and Iyengar too) post 1960s and in the USA is a very different world. May send this in the Yoga thread too.
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Monolith: Sri Lanka WUaS students, and Lego Robotics' kits for September 1? - Ordering from India ... * * * WUaS is waiting to hear back from edX / Open edX and regarding particularly coding for all 7.5 billion people on the planet, regarding edX's money t

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Hi Rifai, Partha, Peter, Marisol,

Thanks for your email. WUaS is waiting to hear back from edX / Open edX and regarding particularly coding for all 7.5 billion people on the planet, regarding edX's money transfer mechanism. See the following 2 emails to the chair of the WUaS Board. Also the Lego robotics' kits involved - which Sri Lankan students may purchase - will be some of these 3 that WUaS is newly carrying - http://worlduniversityandschool.org/AcademicPress.html - and which I imagine are not easy to obtain on-the-ground in Sri Lanka. Again, per Lego's recent communication with WUaS, students from Sri Lanka matriculating at WUaS can get these from India here - https://www.edutechindia.com/schools/stemeducation-2/ (or elsewhere in India here - https://education.lego.com/en-us/shop/find-distributor - which link you'll find also in the WUaS Educational Services' Bookstore). WUaS's only relationship with MIT is via the Creative Commons 4 licensing of MIT OCW, which isn't a relationship with MIT (and WUaS has explored these questions over some years now).
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Open edX
Dear Larry,

Power's out in Canyon - will charge my smartphone phone in the car if this goes on much longer. Phone however has its own internet signal too.
Since I think the European Central Bank (and I saw recently that the IMF) are edX partner institutions ... https://www.edx.org/schools-partners.
I wonder if WUaS collaborating with Open edX in one way or another, as 'PARTNER' or 'DEVELOPER' (but with Open edX as technical team here curiously) seem to be 2 main possible roles (in their developing organization's landscape), ... and will inform WUaS's coding plans for registering WUaS matriculating students and also native speakers of all 7,117 languages as wiki-teacher-universitians - & coding for brainstorming-wise all 7.5 billion people, each a Wikidata PIN # (forked from Wikidata Q-item #).

edX's digital money transfer mechanism for this for WUaS to get per student per year or similar reimbursement from countries, via edX (which they'd benefit from too) - and re even for also a WUaS envisioning of a single cryptocurrency backed by most of all 200 countries and distributed via UBI experiments to alleviate poverty would involve much new edX coding.

Waiting to hear back from Open edX about possible collaborations.

Glad Soren Juul Jorgensen is Tweeting about some of this European Central Bank-wise and potentially WUaS wise too). Maybe a different collaboration role with Open edX will emerge too.

Sincerely,
Scott

On 4:01PM, Fri, Jul 10, 2020 Info WorldUniversity <info@worlduniversityandschool.org wrote:
Dear Larry,
How are you?
3 items
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Didn't hear back from edX partner support for the 3rd day in a row as I thought I might
2
Seeking to head into Open edX if possible, after some major updates in the past 18 months, and per many different conversations, including the one last December. I think the changing meaning of the edX use of the word 'partner' is involved, and Anant with Ned may be able to do something regarding WUaS.
3
Soren Juul Jorgensen, Stanford Fellow, and who may have been the lawyer who helped WUaS Corp begin to carry Lego robotics (and good email this morning from Matt Clark in London, I think ... - and what can WUaS start selling soon to become an established STEM education reseller in some of all ~200 countries?), recently posted this -

Guidance on EU's new regulation on online trading and online platforms apply from this Sunday 7/12. Important for online traders and platforms. #California #onlinesales #tech #business #technews https://t.co/SVCZO3oBPEâ SÃ¸ren Juul JÃ¸rgensen (@SorenJuulJ) July 10, 2020

https://twitter.com/SorenJuulJ/status/1281645816994619393?s=20 - and the re-Tweet - https://ec.europa.eu/commission/presscorner/detail/en/IP_20_1301 - mentions the EU and both Margrethe Vestager and Thierry Breton - whom I mention in last month's WUaS Minutes (re single cryptocurrency and UBI experiments emerging from Euro) too - http://worlduniversityandschool.blogspot.com/2020/06/june-20-2020-minutes-for-open-wuas.html?view=sidebar.
Much of item 1 & 2's thinking is here - https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2020/07/coppersmith-barbet-spaceship-heating.html - after the Mars' Mission humor and history :)

Hoping you're doing well in the summer in Pgh, and that it's not too hot! (It's hot here!)

Sincerely, Scott

Rifai, thanks for your good ideas as WUaS waits to hear back from edX / Open edX and potentially CEO and MIT Professor of EECS Anant Agarwal.
Cheers, and regards, Scott

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Happy 4thofJuly! Happy memories of sunny day in Denmark speaking at Rebild @ Danish celebrations of 7/4 '18 On innovation and what we can learn from Silicon Valley #Happy4thofJuly #tech #siliconvalley #techpolicy

Happy 4thofJuly! Happy memories of sunny day in Denmark speaking at Rebild @ Danish celebrations of 7/4 '18 On innovation and what we can learn from Silicon Valley #Happy4thofJuly #tech #siliconvalley #techpolicy https://t.co/bzT80Dla5Râ SÃ¸ren Juul JÃ¸rgensen (@SorenJuulJ) July 4, 2020

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Gifford Pinchot National Forest, WA: APPRECIATING Greatly this 'Project Visualization Tool' - in this Scratch Programming Getting Unstuck 10-day online 'workshop' with small prompts * Star-Spangled Harmony (Getting Unstuck 2020 ... ) ... * * A great examp

APPRECIATING Greatly this 'Project Visualization Tool' - in this Scratch Programming Getting Unstuck 10-day online 'workshop' with small prompts
Getting Unstuck 2020 coding with Scratch language: https://gettingunstuck.gse.harvard.edu/A kind of assessment process too which makes new helpful coding suggestions automatically, creatively!Project Visualization Tool - What did you make?
What did you learn?
Thank you for participating in Getting Unstuck! To explore some of what you made and learned, enter your username here.https://gettingunstuck.gse.harvard.edu/participation#GettingUnstuck

Getting Unstuck 2020 coding with Scratch language: https://gettingunstuck.gse.harvard.edu/
Project Visualization Tool - What did you make?
What did you learn?
To explore some of what you made and learned, enter your username here:
https://gettingunstuck.gse.harvard.edu/participation
#GettingUnstuck https://scratch.mit.edu/users/ScottWorldUnivAndSch/ ~

Getting Unstuck 2020 coding with Scratch language: https://t.co/WtYneoSttB
Project Visualization Tool - What did you make?
What did you learn?
To explore some of what you made and learned, enter your username here:https://t.co/44k24MbKKZ #GettingUnstuck https://t.co/of0Grnq7w3 ~â WorldUnivandSch (@WorldUnivAndSch) July 9, 2020

https://twitter.com/WorldUnivAndSch/status/1281336474009362432?s=20
https://twitter.com/scottmacleod/status/1281341935668486144?s=20
https://twitter.com/sgkmacleod/status/1281342255215726592?s=20

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Broadcast blocks in Scratch programming language https://mailchi.mp/gse/getting-unstuck-2020-day-4 >
https://scratch.mit.edu/studios/27044057/
my project: https://scratch.mit.edu/projects/410651032/ - https://scratch.mit.edu/users/Helianth/ @scottmacleod - #GettingUnstuck - https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Programming #WUaSProgramming Scratch in a #RealisticVirtualEarthForLego !

Broadcast blocks in Scratch programming language https://t.co/8WszsnJzJ5 >https://t.co/xuQN6f7BHi
my project: https://t.co/AG8ixlQAtg -https://t.co/cM94ba2599 @scottmacleod - #GettingUnstuck - https://t.co/SxtKrv3f8J #WUaSProgramming Scratch in a #RealisticVirtualEarthForLego !â WorldUnivandSch (@WorldUnivAndSch) July 9, 2020

https://twitter.com/WorldUnivAndSch/status/1281338060198699008?s=20
https://twitter.com/scottmacleod/status/1281341860762402816?s=20
https://twitter.com/sgkmacleod/status/1281342172529168384?s=20

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Here are my (https://scratch.mit.edu/users/Helianth/) first 5 days of projects, in response to the prompts I received:

F, July 10color Sensing blockshttps://mailchi.mp/gse/getting-unstuck-2020-day-5 https://scratch.mit.edu/studios/27044060/
my project - https://scratch.mit.edu/projects/410860029/

Th, July 9broadcast blockshttps://mailchi.mp/gse/getting-unstuck-2020-day-4 https://scratch.mit.edu/studios/27044057/my project - https://scratch.mit.edu/projects/410651032/editor/( Broadcast () (block) - https://en.scratch-wiki.info/wiki/Broadcast_()_(block)#:~:text=The%20Broadcast%20()%20block%20is,a%20specified%20broadcast%20will%20activate )#GettingUnstuck https://scratch.mit.edu/users/Helianth/ -
W, July 8parallelismhttps://mailchi.mp/gse/getting-unstuck-2020-day-3 https://scratch.mit.edu/studios/27044055/my project - https://scratch.mit.edu/projects/410470033/
Tu, July 7control a sprite from keyboardhttps://mailchi.mp/gse/getting-unstuck-2020-day-2 https://scratch.mit.edu/studios/27044052/my project - https://scratch.mit.edu/projects/410205804/(great project for learning https://scratch.mit.edu/projects/409275933/)
M July 6, 2020Surprisehttps://mailchi.mp/gse/getting-unstuck-2020-day-1 https://scratch.mit.edu/studios/27044045/my project - https://scratch.mit.edu/projects/409956494/
And I'm coding from herehttps://scratch.mit.edu/users/Helianth/(but here is my other Scratch profile - https://scratch.mit.edu/users/ScottWorldUnivAndSch/ - at World University and School)

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Interactively:

F, July 10color Sensing blocksmy project - https://scratch.mit.edu/projects/410860029/

Th, July 9broadcast blocksmy project - https://scratch.mit.edu/projects/410651032/editor/

W, July 8parallelismmy project - https://scratch.mit.edu/projects/410470033/

Tu, July 7control a sprite from keyboardmy project - https://scratch.mit.edu/projects/410205804/

M July 6, 2020Surprisemy project - https://scratch.mit.edu/projects/409956494/

And I'm coding from herehttps://scratch.mit.edu/users/Helianth/(but here is my other Scratch profile - https://scratch.mit.edu/users/ScottWorldUnivAndSch/ - at World University and School)

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Star-Spangled Harmony (Getting Unstuck 2020 ... ) ...

https://scratch.mit.edu/projects/409618955/

Scott: I could see this program as a great example to explore composing for the (9-notes' only) A and D chanters on the Scottish Small Pipes (I think alto and tenor lines are close - will look), and even with Scratch to sheet music, - and especially for writing duets to play in particular with someone who's taking SSP lessons with me! Thanks for this programming inspiration, Karen.

Scott:
Helianth
ReportGreat, Karen, and inspiring! But isn't the alto line really the soprano line, since your programming doesn't play the Fs in bars 6 & 7? (I may be not hearing this correctly, but if so, how could I even change this, for learning purposes, I wonder?) Thank you!

Karen B:
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Report@Helianth Yesâyou're correct! It's actually soprano (top-most) and bass (bottom-most). :)

Scott:
Helianth
Report@karenb Tenor and Bass lines here seem inter-mixed! :)

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M, Tym, David,
Some musical Scratch programming explorations:

1And here's Karen Brennan's recent programming of Alto and Tenor voices for the Star Spangled Banner (nice tenor line!)Star-Spangled Harmony (Getting Unstuck 2https://scratch.mit.edu/projects/409618955/(She recently became an American citizen - possibly holding dual citizenship with Canada. She's also the faculty member teaching the Getting Unstuck course below).
I could see this as a great example to explore the A and D chanters on the Scottish Small Pipes, and even to begin composing on sheet music, and in Scratch computer programming, and especially for writing duets to play in particular with Taylor who's taking SSP lessons with me!
How are you all doing this summer? Barbarously hot here yesterday, but it cooled down in the early evening in time for an incredible hour-long walking journey into Indian valley, and the far side of the massif (overlooking Moraga) to my east! Hope you're all doing well.
Am enjoying the free online 10 day Getting Unstuck Scratch programming 'summer camp' and here's today's prompt and email https://mailchi.mp/gse/getting-unstuck-2020-day-5 (& where I'm doing the projects - https://scratch.mit.edu/users/Helianth/) - and especially yesterday the 'Project visualization tool' - which is a whole new fascinating Scratch-based approach to feedback in learning this new language! Inspiring! :)
Warmly, ScottSPACESHIP Heating and Cooling:Some Mars' mission humor ~ https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2020/07/coppersmith-barbet-spaceship-heating.html ~

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Looked up the ranges of SATB choral human voices to explore with Scottish Small Pipes' D & A chanters ...

Soprano, the highest human vocal register, extending approximately from middle C to the second A above. A voice with a range approximately from the A below middle C to the second F or G above is termed a mezzo-soprano.

https://www.britannica.com/art/soprano

In SATB four-part mixed chorus, the alto is the second highest vocal range, above the tenor and bass and below the soprano. The alto range in choral music is approximately from F3 (the F below middle C) to F5 (the F in the second octave above middle C).

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

Alto, (Italian: âhighâ), in vocal music the register approximately between the F below middle C to the second D aboveâthe second highest part in four-part music. The word alto originally referred to the highest male voice, singing falsetto (see countertenor).

https://www.britannica.com/art/alto-vocal-range

Tenor, highest male vocal range, normally extending approximately from the second B below middle C to the G above; an extremely high voice, extending into the alto range, is usually termed a countertenor (q.v.). In instrument families, tenor refers to the instrument of more or less comparable range (e.g., tenor horn)

https://www.britannica.com/art/tenor-vocal-range

Normally, the baritone parts are written for a range of A to f â²
https://www.britannica.com/art/baritone-vocal-range

In vocal music, the bass is the lowest male voice, with a typical range from the second E below middle C to Fâ¯ above; the basso profundo is low and rich, while the basso cantante (âsinging bassâ) is lighter and more lyric.

https://www.britannica.com/art/bass-vocal-range

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So the A chanter on the SSP plays these notes:

And the D chanter on the SSP plays these notes:

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gifford_Pinchot_National_Forest
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July 9, 2020

WallowaâWhitman National Forest, OR: 'Want to run a public hot spring? Bagby Hot Springs seeks ânew visionâ in Mount Hood National Forest' near Portland, Oregon ... Maybe not actually, but for virtual soaking in virtual Oregon in the 365 days of 1979

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Scott MacLeod
8:47 AM (8 hours ago)
to Nancy, Michael, Jane, Ann, Ed, Larry, Alden, Pin, Tym

Hi Ann, Ma, Pin, Larry, Ed, Alden, Tym, Nancy, Mike,

'Want to run a public hot spring? Bagby Hot Springs seeks ânew visionâ in Mount Hood National Forest'
near Portland, Oregon ..

https://www.oregonlive.com/travel/2020/07/want-to-run-a-public-hot-spring-bagby-hot-springs-seeks-new-vision-in-mount-hood-national-forest.html

Maybe not actually, but for virtual soaking in virtual Oregon in the 365 days of 1979 ... maybe :) (in Google Street with TIME SLIDER eg ~ https://www.google.com/maps/place/1700+McGee+Ave,+Berkeley,+CA+94703/@37.8752589,-122.2780116,3a,75y,100.67h,89.03t/data=!3m7!1e1!3m5!1sRyC5TckcD1hkkwgLUGsorQ!2e0!3e11!7i16384!8i8192!4m5!3m4!1s0x80857ebd206172b3:0xf1a44a68489d6bb9!8m2!3d37.8753982!4d-122.2780416 ~ Harbin Hot Springs' gatehouse (but not presently with time slider, although you can walk down to Middletown 4 miles) http://tinyurl.com/p62rpcg ~)

Now how best to head to #VirtualOregon in #1970s re a kind of #OregonVision in a #RealisticVirtualEarth ? - but probably not in a #RealisticVirtualHarbin since this would be in #virtualCalifornia :) ... and in great #realisticvirtualearthforhistory ...
http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2019/09/long-tom-river-oregon-what-is-oregon.html?m=0 â¦ ~

Now how best to head to #VirtualOregon in #1970s re a kind of #OregonVision in a #RealisticVirtualEarth ? - but probably not in a #RealisticVirtualHarbin since this would be in #virtualCalifornia :) ... and in great #realisticvirtualearthforhistory ...https://t.co/f10MhGDd4p ~ pic.twitter.com/WOuJQkKWVrâ HarbinBook (@HarbinBook) September 24, 2019

> https://twitter.com/HarbinBook/status/1176616037329981441?s=20

Virtual Reed College #hashtag - https://twitter.com/hashtag/VirtualReedCollege?src=hashtag_click -

#RealisticVirtualEarthForHistory - https://twitter.com/hashtag/RealisticVirtualEarthForHistory?src=hashtag_click -

Am not heading to the Rainbow Gathering this year, which may have ended 2 days ago on July 7 off-web in Idaho - virtually yet ...

Warmly,
Scott

Cool: #Virtual1960s & #VirtualReedCollege (#Virtual1970s too) in #RealisticVirtualEarthForHistory in 1 #RealisticVirtualEarth for interactive #TimeTravel, engaging #1960sStudentMovements Am thinking Google Street View with TIME SLIDER with SL #VirtualOregon #VirtualCalifornia esp

Cool: #Virtual1960s & #VirtualReedCollege (#Virtual1970s too) in #RealisticVirtualEarthForHistory in 1 #RealisticVirtualEarth for interactive #TimeTravel, engaging #1960sStudentMovements Am thinking Google Street View with TIME SLIDER with SL #VirtualOregon #VirtualCalifornia espâ Scott_GK_MacLeod_WUaS_worlduniversityandschool.org (@scottmacleod) December 14, 2019

https://twitter.com/scottmacleod/status/1205903179533017088?s=20 -

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[Medianthro] Open Position: Post-Doc (full-time, 4 years) at CARMAH (Humboldt University of Berlin) in research project âChallenging Populist Truth-Making in Europe: The Role of Museums in a Digital âPost-Truthâ European Societyâ (CHAPTER)
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Christoph Bareither via Medianthro <medianthro@lists.easaonline.org>Thu, Jul 2, 12:11 AM (6 days ago)

to medianthro

Dear colleagues,

please share the job advertisement below for a full-time Post-Doc position (4 years) at HU Berlin, which is very well suited for candidates with a background in media anthropology and an interest in museum/heritage studies and/or research on populism.

Best regards,
Christoph Bareither

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Open Position: Post-Doc (full-time, 4 years) at CARMAH (Humboldt University of Berlin) in research project âChallenging Populist Truth-Making in Europe: The Role of Museums in a Digital âPost-Truthâ European Societyâ (CHAPTER)
In the project âChallenging Populist Truth-Making in Europe: The Role of Museums in a Digital âPost-Truthâ European Societyâ (CHAPTER) (project leaders: Prof. Dr. Christoph Bareither and Prof. Dr. Sharon Macdonald, funded by the Volkswagen Foundation, http://www.carmah.berlin/chapter/ <http://www.carmah.berlin/chapter/>), the position of an academic staff member (Post-Doc, 100% TVL E13, 48 months) is to be filled. The position is integrated into the Centre for Anthropological Research on Museums and Heritage (CARMAH) at the Institute for European Ethnology at Humboldt-UniversitÃ¤t zu Berlin and will play a leading role within an international team of researchers at the HU Berlin, the University College London (UCL) and the Jagiellonian University Krakow (JU). The successful applicant will coordinate the work of three PhD students at the three locations in conducting a multi-level project: 1) Ethnographic research (online and offline) including an interview study with museum experts on the impact of populist truth-making on museums in the three partner countries. 2) An ethnographic visitor study with young adults in selected museums in each country. 3) The co-design of concepts and contents for a digital museum app in cooperation with a professional software development company; the app aims at a critical engagement with processes of truth-making through young visitors â a multimedia best practice portfolio will ensure the successful integration of the project results in the field of museums and heritage. Beyond the coordinating function the successful applicant will develop an individual research endeavour within the project, focussing on its political and digital dimensions.

Position Profile:

Academic work in the above-mentioned research project in a leading role as part of an international research team; administrative tasks, especially coordinating role in the cooperation with a professional software company; opportunity for academic qualification.

Requirements:

Requirements are: a PHD in European Ethnology / Cultural Anthropology and extensive experience in ethnographic research; alternatively, a PhD in Museum Studies, Media Studies or Political Science, provided that ethnographic research has been a key element of the doctoral dissertation; very good written and spoken German and English skills, as well as a pronounced ability to work as part of a research team.

Advantageous qualifications are: knowledge in the field of Media and Digital Anthropology, of Museum and Heritage Studies, the Anthropology of Politics or populism more broadly; previous experience with qualitative data analysis software; experience in the area of software development or content management, as well as curatorial skills (layout, image processing, exhibitions); experience in educational work, particularly in regard to young people (e.g. through teaching formats, social engagement, etc.).

Applications:

Please send your application (including cover letter, CV, certificates), and quoting the reference number DR/111/20, to Humboldt-UniversitÃ¤t zu Berlin, Faculty of Arts and Humanities, Department of European Ethnology, Prof. Dr. Christoph Bareither, Unter den Linden 6, 10099 Berlin, Germany or preferably in electronic form as one PDF-file to christoph.bareither@hu-berlin.de. The deadline for applications is July 15, 2020.

HU is seeking to increase the proportion of women in research and teaching, and specifically encourages qualified female scholars to apply. Severely disabled applicants with equivalent qualifications will be given preferential consideration. People with an immigration background are specifically encouraged to apply. Since we will not return your documents, please submit copies in the application only.

Please visit our website www.hu-berlin.de/stellenangebote <http://www.hu-berlin.de/stellenangebote>, which gives you access to the legally binding German version.

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Juniorprofessor fÃ¼r EuropÃ¤ische Ethnologie
Schwerpunkt Medienanthropologie

Institut fÃ¼r EuropÃ¤ische Ethnologie
Humboldt-UniversitÃ¤t zu Berlin
MÃ¸hrenstraÃe 41, 10117 Berlin, Raum 411
Tel: +49 (0)30 2093-70885
Fax: +49 (0)30 2093-70842
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Project leader:
Curating Digital Images: Ethnographic Perspectives on the Affordances of Digital Images in Heritage and Museum Contexts (DFG)
http://www.carmah.berlin/curating-digital-images/ <http://www.carmah.berlin/curating-digital-images/>
Challenging Populist Truth-Making in Europe (CHAPTER): The Role of Museums in a Digital 'Post-Truth' European Society (VolkswagenStiftung)
http://www.carmah.berlin/chapter/ <http://www.carmah.berlin/chapter/>

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Scott MacLeod <sgkmacleod@worlduniversityandschool.org>Thu, Jul 2, 3:38 PM (6 days ago)

to Christoph, sharon.macdonald

Dear Christoph, and Sharon,
Just shared this with you, Christoph Bareitzer, in Academia.edu: "Thanks for your interesting thinking about virtual violence in video games. What sparked my interest in particular was this
"What Do Players of Video Games Experience When Enacting Virtual Violence?" video -
https://lt.org/publication/what-do-players-video-games-experience-when-enacting-virtual-violence .
I haven't been able to see a bibliography of this "Gewalt im Computerspiel ..." paper yet regarding whether you cite Tom Boellstorff's "Coming of Age in Second Life" - since he may have spent as much time in SL doing participant observation, as you did with your video games' research. My book "Naked Harbin Ethnography" seeks to explore ethnographically questions of actual-virtual emotion in a related way, as does seeking to facilitate a realistic virtual Harbin Hot Springs for actual-virtual ethnographic comparison, and a related realistic virtual earth (as well as a new social science method I'm calling ethno-wiki-virtual-world-graphy - https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/search/label/ethno-wiki-virtual-world-graphy). How might we best communicate further about your work, your upcoming project in your video and all of this? Will email you as well."
In downloading, your "Gewalt_im_Computerspiel._Facetten_eines.pdf" (und Ich kann auch Deutsch sprechen und lesen), I don't see a bibliography, however.
I've been active in the Tourism Studies' Working Group at UC Berkeley in many of these regards, and with respect to your interests in heritage and museums as well - http://tourismstudies.org/People.htm#SM . Here's a fairly recent talk there - "Harbin & Avatar Bots: Robotics & Tourism" - on my actual-virtual field site, Harbin Hot Springs in northern California (have either of you ever visited Harbin?) -http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2018/02/indian-fig-uc-berkeley-harbin-avatar.html .
Am also interested, in the creation of a single realistic virtual earth for everything (think Google Street View with TIME SLIDER / Maps / Earth with TensorFlow and Translate, and with Second Life re group-buildability and avatar bots, but realistic ones, - like Samsung Neons or 'artificial humans' ), and especially in facilitating the development of all museums ever as virtual museums - all over all time in all languages (https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Museums and https://twitter.com/hashtag/RealisticVirtualEarthForMuseums?src=hashtag_click ). And, Sharon, here's an Oxford related 'brainstorming' blog post - http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2018/10/caribbean-reef-squid-art-into-robots-as.html.
Sharon, - interesting Isle of Skye and Gaelic revival ethnological focus too! - http://www.carmah.berlin/people/macdonald-sharon/. World Univ & Sch seeks to be in A) all 7,117 languages and B) in all 200 countries - as major online A) wiki schools, and B) online universities emerging from best STEM CC-4 OpenCourseWare in its 4 languages for free-to-students' online university and high school degrees.
I wrote an University of Edinburgh Celtic & Scottish Studies M.Sc. paper on visiting virtual St. Kilda regarding 2 networks (UNESCO WHS and internet), and as a nascent virtual place in 2004, which paper is also in Academia.edu - https://www.academia.edu/1243940/Physical_and_Online_St._Kilda_A_Comparison_of_Senses_of_Place. Are you a Scot, by any chance? I've studied in Edinburgh for 2 separate years (at Fettes College in 1977-78, and at the Univ. of Edinburgh in 2003-04), and have studied too at the University of Munich (LMU) in 1981-82, through a Reed College program in Munich.
Again, Christoph and Sharon, how might we best communicate further about your work, your upcoming project in your video and all of this? And in what ways might we even explore collaborating in the development of a realistic virtual earth and realistic virtual Harbin, and especially regarding emotions ethnographically? I appreciate in many ways the thinking (ethnographically especially) in your video, Christoph.
Best regards, Scott (worlduniversityandschool.org, https://www.amazon.com/author/scottmacleodworlduniversity, @scottmacleod, @HarbinBook & scottmacleod.com)

Christoph - https://www.euroethno.hu-berlin.de/de/institut/personen/bareither
https://uni-tuebingen.de/universitaet/aktuelles-und-publikationen/attempto-online/leute/newsfullview-attempto-leute/article/dr-christoph-bareither-mit-dem-deutschem-studienpreis-der-koerber-stiftung-ausgezeichnet/
Christoph Bareither
What Do Players of Video Games Experience When Enacting Virtual Violence?https://lt.org/publication/what-do-players-video-games-experience-when-enacting-virtual-violence
http://www.carmah.berlin/people/cbareither/
https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Christoph_Bareither
https://www.tagesspiegel.de/berlin/computerspiele-die-industrie-nutzt-das-potenzial-der-spiele-nicht-immer-aus/21098896.html

Sharon - https://www.york.ac.uk/sociology/our-staff/academic/sharon-macdonald/
https://www.prm.ox.ac.uk/people/prof-sharon-macdonald
http://www.carmah.berlin/people/macdonald-sharon/

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Christoph BareitherSun, Jul 5, 11:17 PM (3 days ago)

to me

Dear Scott,

Thank you for your interest in my work. Actually, the Gewalt im Computerspiel book has a bibliography, you can download the full book here: https://www.transcript-verlag.de/978-3-8376-3559-1/gewalt-im-computerspiel/?number=978-3-8394-3559-5And yes, sure, my work profits greatly from Tom Boellstorffâs approaches, including his book on Second Life. The book will also come out as a shorter, English monograph with Cambridge University Press this year.
Best regards,Christoph

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Scott MacLeod <sgkmacleod@worlduniversityandschool.org>Mon, Jul 6, 9:17 AM (2 days ago)

to Sharon, Christoph

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

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July 8, 2020

Coppersmith barbet: SPACESHIP Heating and Cooling pulls up to the NASA gates a week before lift off for the Mars 2030 mission with people. #RealisticVirtualUniverse #RealisticVirtualEarthForLego #WUaSHomeRobotics "SPACESHIP Heating and Cooling," they say

SPACESHIP Heating and Cooling pulls up to the NASA gates a week before lift off for the Mars 2030s' mission with people. #RealisticVirtualUniverse #RealisticVirtualEarthForLego
#WUaSHomeRobotics
"SPACESHIP Heating and Cooling," they say, & "We hear your engineers forgot to ...

SPACESHIP Heating and Cooling pulls up to the NASA gates a week before lift off for the Mars 2030 mission with people. #RealisticVirtualUniverse #RealisticVirtualEarthForLego #WUaSHomeRobotics
"SPACESHIP Heating and Cooling," they say, & "We hear your engineers forgot to ...â WorldUnivandSch (@WorldUnivAndSch) July 8, 2020

https://twitter.com/WorldUnivAndSch/status/1280931764723044353?s=20
https://twitter.com/WUaSPress/status/1280931990233989120?s=20

Watto's Shop / Wald's Partsfrom Star Warshttps://starwars.fandom.com/wiki/Wald%27s_Parts

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Hi Ma,

Thanks for mentioning ... interesting ...

Launch is currently scheduled for between July 17 and August 5, 2020, and it is expected to touch down in Jezero crater on Mars on February 18, 2021.May 22, 2020
https://www.digitaltrends.com/cool-tech/future-mars-missions/

Mars 2020 Mission
MISSION TYPE
Rover

LAUNCH WINDOW
July 30 - Aug. 15, 2020

LANDING
Feb. 18, 2021

MISSION DURATION
At Least One Mars Year (about 687 Earth days)
https://mars.nasa.gov/mars-exploration/missions/mars2020/

Could we turn it into Actual-Virtual Lego Robot rover and spaceship and travel with?

Love, Scott

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Hi Scott,

Thanks for this article. It verefies tthe article I read in the NYTimes last Sunday.
Love, Ma

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Hi Ma,
Thanks too for affirming our big educational project is carrying Lego robotics when we spoke.
Will Tweet today about this Mars mission, people / learners making Lego robotics' spaceships and rovers, and creating a realistic virtual universe for Lego so we can all travel with, virtually and physically - before mid-July :)
Fascinating to go to Mars - again.
Love, Scott
When did we first land a spacecraft on Mars? The Viking landers were the first spacecraft to land on Mars in the 1970s. Viking 1 and Viking 2 each had both an orbiter and a lander. On July 20, 1976 the Viking 1 Lander separated from the Orbiter and touched down on the surface of Mars
https://coolcosmos.ipac.caltech.edu/ask/71-When-did-we-first-land-a-spacecraft-on-Mars-

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Scott MacLeod <sgkmacleod@gmail.com>Sat, Jul 4, 11:30 AM (4 days ago)

to Jane

Unfortunately, my big educational projects' educational services' store isn't a reseller of Lego Robotics' kits yet, just a carrier!
Some related Lego Mars' rover and space ship in a realistic virtual universe Tweets - Fascinating to go to Mars again this July/Aug #RealisticVirtualUniverse:
When did we first land a spacecraft on Mars? The Viking landers were the first-in the 1970s. On 7/20/76 Viking 1 Lander separated from its Orbiter & touched down on surface of Mars
https://coolcosmos.ipac.caltech.edu/ask/71-When-did-we-first-land-a-spacecraft-on-Mars- ~

https://twitter.com/WorldUnivAndSch/status/1279476314731249664?s=20

https://twitter.com/ET_Exists/status/1213092909420933120?s=20

Mars mission, Learners making #LegoRobotics' spaceships & rovers, & creating #RealisticVirtualUniverseForLego so we can all travel with, #ActualVirtual #PhysicalDigital #LegoRobots before mid-July :)
Launch soon-Touch down in Jezero crater Mars 2/18/21
https://mars.nasa.gov/mars-exploration/missions/mars2020/ -

https://twitter.com/WorldUnivAndSch/status/1279480547178196992?s=20

Love, Scott

-- - Scott MacLeod- http://scottmacleod.com

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Hi Ma,

Posted further about Mars' mission, and with Lego Robotics here - :)https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2020/07/oriental-darter-sri-lanka-world-univ-in.html
5 blog posts today too!
How's your weekend going?
Love, Scott

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Ma, There've been 26 successful missions to Mars so far since the '60s - Wow!Is going to the Sun next? :) & per: The temporary restriction limiting travel on the Going-to-the-Sun Road has been lifted. The road is open to Avalanche.

The temporary restriction limiting travel on the Going-to-the-Sun Road has been lifted. The road is open to Avalanche.â Glacier National Park (@GlacierNPS) July 4, 2020

https://twitter.com/GlacierNPS/status/1279486669754978309?s=20
Mars mission, Learners making #LegoRobotics' spaceships & rovers, & creating #RealisticVirtualUniverseForLego so we can all travel with, #ActualVirtual #PhysicalDigital #LegoRobots before mid-July :)
Launch soon-Touch down in Jezero crater Mars 2/18/21
https://mars.nasa.gov/mars-exploration/missions/mars2020/ -
https://twitter.com/scottmacleod/status/1279483561926520832?s=20

By mid-July, a realistic virtual Universe for Lego robotics' spaceships? :)
Love, Scott
Mars' mission history and this mission:
https://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/nmc/spacecraft/display.action?id=MARS-2020
https://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/planetary/chronology_mars.html

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Jane MacLeodTue, Jul 7, 7:12 AM (1 day ago)

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No, itâs too hot there. Mars is, apparently very cold but might wants have been warmer.
Love, Ma

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Ma,

Air conditioning? ( https://sites.dartmouth.edu/dujs/2016/02/17/a-journey-to-the-center-of-the-sun/ ?) In the space ship? ON the way to the sun - but when? And a heater, in the spaceship, on Mars' mission with people in the 2030s possibly? (And a plan with robots on earth and other planets to manage the nuclear waste even if part of this, and re 200,000 year storage & geology questions).
Will we be still talking then thanks to aging reversal and genetic engineering? O my goodness! :)

Love, Scott

-- - Scott MacLeod- http://scottmacleod.com

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Oops they forgot to put in a heater on the way to Mars ! :)

Love, Scott

-- - Scott MacLeod- http://scottmacleod.com

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Ma,
SPACESHIP Heating and Cooling
pulls up to the NASA gates a week before lift off for the Mars 2030 mission with people. SPACESHIP Heating and Cooling, they say, and : "We hear your engineers forgot to include a heating system, and we can help ... :) Lift off in a week - for Mars? No problem! " (searched on "Star Wars spaceships junk yard scenes Wald's parts" - https://starwars.fandom.com/wiki/Wald%27s_Parts ).
I hope we'll be able to explore this amusingly even in a realistic virtual universe - https://twitter.com/hashtag/RealisticVirtualUniverse?src=hashtag_click - and esp in a realistic virtual earth for Lego - https://twitter.com/hashtag/RealisticVirtualEarthForLego?src=hashtag_click :)
Nice to have heard from Susan Harvey recently. How are you?
Love, Scott

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Scott MacLeod3:30 PM (0 minutes ago)

to Jane

Hi Ma,
SPACESHIP Heating and Cooling:
'Got that done by lift off! If you need last minute Air Conditioning for the trip to the Sun, let us know!' :) ~

The temporary restriction limiting travel on the Going-to-the-Sun Road has been lifted. The road is open to Avalanche.â Glacier National Park (@GlacierNPS) July 4, 2020

https://twitter.com/GlacierNPS/status/1279486669754978309?s=20 :)
Love, Scott

-- - Scott MacLeod- http://scottmacleod.com

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edX Edge

Hi Sri, All,

Brilliant, and thanks, Rifai. (This email correspondence continues from https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2020/07/oriental-dwarf-kingfisher-mit-solve.html).
From this it looks like WUaS can sign on newly as a university, and experiment with course building 'on the edge' from here:https://edge.edx.org/
https://studio.edge.edx.org
Am an appreciator of edX programmer in Brookline, Massachusetts, Ned Batchelder's thinking and modus operandi - way of relating - (in your 2nd link).

Found too: What is edX Edge, and how does it differ from edX?What is the difference between edX and edge? edX is the home of MOOCs and open to the world while edge is open to on-campus courses. The platform technology is the same, edX/open edX. Usually, we develop on edge to experiment with to them move to the MOOC platform
AND - https://wikis.utexas.edu/display/MOOC/About+edX+edge+-+FAQs

What is the difference between Open edX, edx.org and edX Edge?
https://www.quora.com/What-is-the-difference-between-Open-edX-edx-org-and-edX-Edge
Rifai, and All - I'm in communication with Lego robotics' people re - https://education.lego.com/en-us/shop/find-distributor - and a distributor has to be in a country to get Lego to people there. And it looks like Sri Lanka doesn't have a distributor. Will include you in related emails. (Marisol - some countries in south and central America may not have distributors as well). In seeking to make Lego robotics' kits available to matriculating WUaS students for engineering and science degrees, WUaS has recently become a carrier, but not yet a reseller, in the US only. And WUaS is exploring other countries (there are about 130 out of 206), where there aren't distributors. Stay tuned.
Best regards, Scott

* request opening an edX technical account to create World Univ & Sch's own courses

Dear edX Edge,
At the suggestion of a colleague, I'm writing to request opening an edX technical account to create World Univ & Sch's own courses. And my colleague would be interested in working out something using edX studio with this account as well, and potentially in 2 non-English languages. With this in mind, I just opened a personal Edge edX account https://edge.edx.org/u/WorldUnivAndSch.
I found this edX email address here - https://wikis.utexas.edu/display/MOOC/About+edX+edge+-+FAQs - but World Univ & Sch is a separate startup online 'edge' university, planned in each of all ~200 countries and their official and main languages, and offering online degrees emerging from best STEM CC-4 OCW in its 4 languages (https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/translated-courses/ and https://ocw.mit.edu/index.htm) to begin.
Thank you.
Best regards, Scott

-- - Scott MacLeod - Founder & President - https://twitter.com/WorldUnivAndSch- World University and School- http://worlduniversityandschool.org - http://scottmacleod.com
- CC World University and School - like CC Wikipedia with best STEM-centric CC OpenCourseWare - incorporated as a nonprofit university and school in California, and is a U.S. 501 (c) (3) tax-exempt educational organization.

* Lena (edX)Jul 8, 2020, 4:29 PM EDTHi Scott,

I am excited that you would like to create a course on edX!

Could you please clarify if you are affiliated with any of edX's existing partners or is World University and School new to the edX platform?

Thank you,

Lena

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Hi Lena,

Thanks for your reply. I am excited to explore creating a course on edX, and more than one regarding World University and School!

World University and School is not affiliated with any of edX's existing partners, and World University and School is new to the edX platform?
Thank you,

Scott

-- - Scott MacLeod - Founder & President - https://twitter.com/WorldUnivAndSch- World University and School- http://worlduniversityandschool.org - http://scottmacleod.com

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Christoph

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[Medianthro] Open Position: Post-Doc (full-time, 4 years) at CARMAH (Humboldt University of Berlin) in research project âChallenging Populist Truth-Making in Europe: The Role of Museums in a Digital âPost-Truthâ European Societyâ (CHAPTER)Inboxx

Christoph Bareither via Medianthro <medianthro@lists.easaonline.org>Thu, Jul 2, 12:11 AM (6 days ago)

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to Christoph, sharon.macdonald

Dear Christoph, and Sharon,
Just shared this with you, Christoph, in Academia.edu: "Thanks for your interesting thinking about virtual violence in video games. What sparked my interest in particular was this
"What Do Players of Video Games Experience When Enacting Virtual Violence?" video -
https://lt.org/publication/what-do-players-video-games-experience-when-enacting-virtual-violence .
I haven't been able to see a bibliography of this "Gewalt im Computerspiel ..." paper yet regarding whether you cite Tom Boellstorff's "Coming of Age in Second Life" - since he may have spent as much time in SL doing participant observation, as you did with your video games' research. My book "Naked Harbin Ethnography" seeks to explore ethnographically questions of actual-virtual emotion in a related way, as does seeking to facilitate a realistic virtual Harbin Hot Springs for actual-virtual ethnographic comparison, and a related realistic virtual earth (as well as a new social science method I'm calling ethno-wiki-virtual-world-graphy - https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/search/label/ethno-wiki-virtual-world-graphy). How might we best communicate further about your work, your upcoming project in your video and all of this? Will email you as well."
In downloading, your "Gewalt_im_Computerspiel._Facetten_eines.pdf" (und Ich kann auch Deutsch sprechen und lesen), I don't see a bibliography, however.
I've been active in the Tourism Studies' Working Group at UC Berkeley in many of these regards, and with respect to your interests in heritage and museums as well - http://tourismstudies.org/People.htm#SM . Here's a fairly recent talk there - "Harbin & Avatar Bots: Robotics & Tourism" - on my actual-virtual field site, Harbin Hot Springs in northern California (have either of you ever visited Harbin?) -http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2018/02/indian-fig-uc-berkeley-harbin-avatar.html .
Am also interested, in the creation of a single realistic virtual earth for everything (think Google Street View with TIME SLIDER / Maps / Earth with TensorFlow and Translate, and with Second Life re group-buildability and avatar bots, but realistic ones, - like Samsung Neons or 'artificial humans' ), and especially in facilitating the development of all museums ever as virtual museums - all over all time in all languages (https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Museums and https://twitter.com/hashtag/RealisticVirtualEarthForMuseums?src=hashtag_click ). And, Sharon, here's an Oxford related 'brainstorming' blog post - http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2018/10/caribbean-reef-squid-art-into-robots-as.html.
Sharon, - interesting Isle of Skye and Gaelic revival ethnological focus too! - http://www.carmah.berlin/people/macdonald-sharon/. World Univ & Sch seeks to be in A) all 7,117 languages and B) in all 200 countries - as major online A) wiki schools, and B) online universities emerging from best STEM CC-4 OpenCourseWare in its 4 languages for free-to-students' online university and high school degrees.
I wrote an University of Edinburgh Celtic & Scottish Studies M.Sc. paper on visiting virtual St. Kilda regarding 2 networks (UNESCO WHS and internet), and as a nascent virtual place in 2004, which paper is also in Academia.edu - https://www.academia.edu/1243940/Physical_and_Online_St._Kilda_A_Comparison_of_Senses_of_Place. Are you a Scot, by any chance? I've studied in Edinburgh for 2 separate years (at Fettes College in 1977-78, and at the Univ. of Edinburgh in 2003-04), and have studied too at the University of Munich (LMU) in 1981-82, through a Reed College program in Munich.
Again, Christoph and Sharon, how might we best communicate further about your work, your upcoming project in your video and all of this? And in what ways might we even explore collaborating in the development of a realistic virtual earth and realistic virtual Harbin, and especially regarding emotions ethnographically? I appreciate in many ways the thinking (ethnographically especially) in your video, Christoph.
Best regards, Scott (worlduniversityandschool.org, https://www.amazon.com/author/scottmacleodworlduniversity, @scottmacleod, @HarbinBook & scottmacleod.com)

Christoph - https://www.euroethno.hu-berlin.de/de/institut/personen/bareither
https://uni-tuebingen.de/universitaet/aktuelles-und-publikationen/attempto-online/leute/newsfullview-attempto-leute/article/dr-christoph-bareither-mit-dem-deutschem-studienpreis-der-koerber-stiftung-ausgezeichnet/
Christoph Bareither
What Do Players of Video Games Experience When Enacting Virtual Violence?https://lt.org/publication/what-do-players-video-games-experience-when-enacting-virtual-violence
http://www.carmah.berlin/people/cbareither/
https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Christoph_Bareither
https://www.tagesspiegel.de/berlin/computerspiele-die-industrie-nutzt-das-potenzial-der-spiele-nicht-immer-aus/21098896.html

Sharon - https://www.york.ac.uk/sociology/our-staff/academic/sharon-macdonald/
https://www.prm.ox.ac.uk/people/prof-sharon-macdonald
http://www.carmah.berlin/people/macdonald-sharon/

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- World University and School- http://worlduniversityandschool.org
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Christoph BareitherSun, Jul 5, 11:17 PM (3 days ago)

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Dear Scott,
Thank you for your interest in my work. Actually, the Gewalt im Computerspiel book has a bibliography, you can download the full book here: https://www.transcript-verlag.de/978-3-8376-3559-1/gewalt-im-computerspiel/?number=978-3-8394-3559-5And yes, sure, my work profits greatly from Tom Boellstorffâs approaches, including his book on Second Life. The book will also come out as a shorter, English monograph with Cambridge University Press this year.
Best regards,Christoph

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Scott MacLeod <sgkmacleod@worlduniversityandschool.org>Mon, Jul 6, 9:17 AM (2 days ago)

to Sharon, Christoph

Dear Christoph,
Thank you for your reply. I noticed, in reading your 14 page Buchvorschau von "Gewalt in Computerspiel" ('Violence in Computer Games' is my working translation for this), the parallels with a) your opening paragraph, b) Tom Boellstorff's opening paragraphs in CoAiSL - and c) the opening paragraphs in my book "Naked Harbin Ethnography." Great. Thank you for the bibliography too. Und danke fÃ¼r das Buch selbst, wie es scheint! (The paper version of my "Naked Harbin Ethnography" has an extensive bibliography, but the Kindle version doesn't, interestingly - https://www.amazon.com/author/scottmacleodworlduniversity).
I'm curious if the very young and beginning Academic Press at World University and School's Bookstore (http://worlduniversityandschool.org/AcademicPress.html - & Robotics' store too) could carry both the German and English versions of your book even. (In a parallel vein, although WUaS has just begun to carry 3 Lego Robotics' kits (but not yet as re-seller or with inventory, only as a carrier), WUaS Press's online bookstore, eventually on-the-ground too and in all ~200 countries' main languages, would be interested in developing relationships with Cambridge University Press, and https://www.transcript-verlag.de/ - and in carrying your book, plus.
In a related vein, would you have interest in teaching, or even co-teaching, a course called something like "Emotions in Computer Play" or "Emotions in Computer Games" at some point - at best STEM CC-4 OpenCourseWare-centric World University and School? Here are some examples of what we might build from -https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/anthropology/21a-350j-cultures-of-computing-fall-2011/ and from https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/anthropology/ and into edX even.
Congratulations on publishing with Cambridge University Press especially! (UC Berkeley Professor Emeritus Nelson HH Graburn is a professor of mine, and an alumnus of Cambridge as well). Are you looking at questions of robotics anthropologically in relation to "Gewalt in Computerspiel" questions. Here are the slides from a UC Berkeley talk I gave in 2018 - http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2018/02/indian-fig-uc-berkeley-harbin-avatar.html - regarding Harbin and robotics. And here's a video plus related virtual anthropological resources regarding online WUaS Medical Schools - http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2018/11/pacific-yew-world-univ-and-sch-medicine.html - with even tele-robotic surgery, for example (and where Lego Robotics in a realistic virtual earth / Harbin would help learners from an early age become playfully knowledgeable about robotics).
Best regards, Scott
For your interest:
Minutes for open WUaS Monthly Business Meeting on Sat. June 20, 2020
- https://worlduniversityandschool.blogspot.com/2020/06/june-20-2020-minutes-for-open-wuas.html

- https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2020/06/hypericum-calycinum-minutes-for-open.html

Have you "walked" down the Harbin road "4 miles" to "amble" around Middletown, California, here ~ http://tinyurl.com/p62rpcg ~ as a beginning realistic virtual earth in Google Street View with time slider, Maps, Earth (accessible too from https://twitter.com/HarbinBook ~ http://bit.ly/HarbinBook ), - and where I hope Street View will encompass video games as well - and where Street View works in a beginning way with Lego Bricks, too (re above).~ http://tinyurl.com/p62rpcg ~ https://twitter.com/HarbinBook ~ http://bit.ly/HarbinBook ~
~ http://www.scottmacleod.com/ActualVirtualHarbinBook.html
I'm seeking to create NOT a Harbin Hot Springs' video game - and not for a new book entitled something like "Peace in Video Games" oder "Frieden in Computerspiel" - but rather a developing realistic virtual Harbin Hot Springs as field site for actual-virtual ethnographic comparison, and potentially drawing significantly on the findings of your research too, Christoph (and via - https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/search/label/ethno-wiki-virtual-world-graphy). More later about some of this.

https://www.york.ac.uk/sociology/our-staff/academic/sharon-macdonald/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sharon_Macdonald
https://www.deutschlandfunkkultur.de/britische-museumswissenschaftlerin-sharon-macdonald-erhaelt.1013.de.html?dram:article_id=319668

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Lego robotics -

Dear Matt and Sri and Marisol (and All),

Thanks for your reply, Matt. Some further brainstorming questions here.
Since a reseller has to be in a country to get Lego to people there, what would you suggest for getting the Lego robotics' kits that World Univ & Sch is newly carrying - http://worlduniversityandschool.org/AcademicPress.html - to WUaS students this autumn to English speaking students who might live in Sri Lanka, Spanish, and Quechua language countries? There don't appear to be any Lego resellers in Sri Lanka or in Uruguay for example (and Marisol here is an instructor of Quechua and Spanish at Stanford). And it looks like Sri Lanka doesn't have a distributor, especially. Sri (M. Rifai above - with his new SriLanka@worlduniversityandschool.org email address) and I have been communicating much in recent weeks, and we've talked about finding 1000 Sri Lankan students this autumn (high achieving 'toppers'), a percentage of whom will be online engineering, science and EECS undergraduate majors at WUaS in Sri Lanka and in English (- and not in the Sinhala or Tamil languages yet) - and potentially taking edX courses (emerging, for ex., from https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/experimental-study-group/es-293-lego-robotics-spring-2007/). How might WUaS best get Lego robotics' kits to Sri Lankans this autumn?
I count 86 countries on the Lego distribution list - https://education.lego.com/en-us/shop/find-distributor - out of 206 countries (per the Summer Olympics that would have happened soon were it not for the coronavirus pandemic), so about 120 countries aren't on this distributors' list. Since the WUaS Educational Services' Store now carrying Lego Robotics' kits would like to become a US reseller in the future, as we develop our web site's store with machine learning and machine translation for all ~200 countries especially, is there a way WUaS could please somehow get on a Lego list of being interested in becoming a reseller in these 130 remaining countries, for example? And brainstorming-wise, if getting on this list might be possible, could Julian Dumitrascu (with WUaS) somehow become the head of Europe WUaS Educational Services' Store (with America and Asia WUaS Educational Services' Store being the other 2 regions) for other countries in Europe not on the Lego distributors' list?
And since Sri (M Rifai) in Sri Lanka has been translating WUaS into the Sinhala (and Tamil) languages there - and it's possible Marisol could help find Quechua and Spanish speakers to help further the machine translation WUaS is developing - perhaps they will facilitate the WUaS Sinhala language, Quechua and Spanish WUaS language translation aspects with regards to making Lego Robotics' kits available first in the USA to speakers of these languages here; And Julian and Nicolai too for Romanian speakers in the USA too?
(Julian and Nicolai in Romania: as you probably have read, it looks like prospective Romanian students who speak English and who are interested in matriculating at WUaS this autumn online will be able to get Lego robotics' kits for their engineering, science and EECS undergraduate degrees from an upcoming Lego distributor in Romania. Good news!
Matt and All, for your information, the WUaS Educational Services' Store is part of the WUaS Corporation / Press and a parallel legal entity to World Univ & Sch itself. The WUaS Corporation is licensed in California as a for profit general stock company, planned also in all ~200 countries' and in all 7,117 known living languages (like 501 c 3 tax exempt World Univ & Sch) - with remarkable potential synergies.
These are WUaS's 2 legal entities: worlduniversityandschool.org
https://twitter.com/WorldUnivAndSch/
http://worlduniversityandschool.org/AcademicPress.html https://twitter.com/WUaSPress/
There are a few other people in this email in other countries who may help find matriculating students for WUaS this autumn, and which students would get Lego robotics' kits regarding WUaS home robotics - https://twitter.com/hashtag/WUaSHomeRobotics?src=hashtag_click.
Thank you, Matt, and looking forward to hearing your thoughts about getting Lego robotics' kits to Sri Lankans in Sri Lanka in particular.
I think WUaS could become a remarkable growth story for Lego robotics!
Regards, Scott
https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Nation_States (planning for ~206 countries, each a major online degree-granting university)https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Languages (planning 7,117 known living languages)
Languages - World Univ: https://twitter.com/sgkmacleod/https://twitter.com/scottmacleod/
worlduniversityandschool.org scottmacleod.com

PSRelated Tweet: Hi, Alex @vlachakisalex Matt @mcbrickschool Leanna @TOTALTeacher Brainstorming-wise, how might @WUaSPress Educational Services' Store http://worlduniversityandschool.org/AcademicPress.html @WorldUnivAndSch explore opening in Romania for our WUaS matriculating Eng. students https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/experimental-study-group/es-293-lego-robotics-spring-2007/ @sgkmacleod/?

Hi, Alex @vlachakisalex Matt @mcbrickschool Leanna @TOTALTeacher Brainstorming-wise, how might @WUaSPress Educational Services' Store https://t.co/s9nin4B99h @WorldUnivAndSch explore opening in Romania for our WUaS matriculating Eng. students https://t.co/bxzmUD8Sd3 @sgkmacleod/?â WUaSPress (@WUaSPress) July 8, 2020