Scott GK MacLeod's Blog, page 56
July 2, 2020
Saffron: Stanford Hoover - Stephen Kotkin: China, Russia, and American Freedom" AND "Elizabeth Economy: COVID-19 and China" * * * Stanford Law, "China’s Preparations for an Economic and Technology Marathon" * * * Stanford Iranian Studies - "The Iranian Wom
Stanford Hoover - Stephen Kotkin: China, Russia, and American Freedom"
- question of whether China and Russia are primed for revolutions
Bill,
Stephen Kotkin: China, Russia, And American Freedom | Hoover Virtual Policy Briefing
https://youtu.be/DqdNzY2TZCEhttps://www.hoover.org/research/stephen-kotkin-china-russia-and-american-freedom
It's fascinating - and regarding a question of whether China and Russia are primed for revolutions, and re value of a cold wars (relative to real wars). And what's a new kind of 'cold war' in the information age, I wonder?
Regards, Scott
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Bill,
Here's Liz Economy, another China specialist, with I think a Quaker background; she went to Swarthmore College, and is also now on its Board.
Elizabeth Economy: COVID-19 and China | Hoover Virtual Policy Briefing
https://youtu.be/xW8rNpe_c3Mhttps://www.hoover.org/research/elizabeth-economy-covid-19-and-china
- also fascinating, like Kotkin's interview.
Post coronavirus pandemic, in all ~200 countries, is CA more prepared now for:
epidemic (genetic)nuclear accidentwardroughtglobal warming / ocean rising +5 years of other emergency situations for 40 million people?
and regarding these 5 hypothetical news' items - > https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2020/05/red-cage-fungus-victor-angela-i-just.html> https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2020/04/himalyan-monal-how-are-harbin-hot.html- with more hypothetical news' items to come ...
Who knows?
Regards, Scott
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Bill,
Nice to talk with you yesterday.
... like an earthquake (or fires) too - which could conceivably involve 5 years of other emergency supplies for 40 million people?
Here are some of Harvard & MIT Professor of genetics' George Church's coronavirus pandemic Tweets (many of which I've re-Tweeted over the months):
Testing, testing,... Bioweathermapping
Testing, testing,... Bioweathermapping https://t.co/jhz0CwdxBp— george church (@geochurch) May 20, 2020
https://twitter.com/geochurch/status/1263152944423329799?s=20
masks -
https://t.co/bm75HaqodT— george church (@geochurch) May 12, 2020
https://twitter.com/geochurch/status/1260272493245407232?s=20
https://twitter.com/geochurch/status/1260977308871073792?s=20
https://twitter.com/geochurch/status/1251847623369207811?s=20
masks with kids -
https://www.livescience.com/cdc-recommends-face-masks-coronavirus.html
Yay!
https://twitter.com/geochurch/status/1246424643159896065?s=20
masks -
https://twitter.com/geochurch/status/1244624569450795010?s=20
https://t.co/dFQAi9vH04
Disposable is not the only option. Especially to prevent "Silent spreading" (asymptomatic Cov positive)— george church (@geochurch) March 30, 2020
https://twitter.com/geochurch/status/1242497805798735873?s=20
Please don't go out. If you must, then wear a mask. CDC: "covering your cough or sneeze with a tissue". Talking/breathing releases comparable rates of 10-200 micron droplets -- trapped more reliably via tube-bandana than tissue. http://instagram.com/p/B-GeikpjHCA
https://twitter.com/geochurch/status/1242492142586601472?s=20
Decision-makers at the federal, state and provincial levels around the globe: Immediate lockdown for reducing spread of COVID-19 - Sign the Petition! http://chng.it/HBwm922P via
@Change
https://twitter.com/geochurch/status/1240795005524086785?s=20
Decision-makers at the federal, state and provincial levels around the globe: Immediate lockdown for reducing spread of COVID-19 - Sign the Petition! http://chng.it/HBwm922P via
@Change
https://twitter.com/geochurch/status/1240795005524086785?s=20
george church
@geochurch
Feb 11
https://link.medium.com/7zL63vauY3 Thanks Ed. Rapid response capabilities needed: molecular diagnostics, vaccines, neutralizing antibodies, and homes easily converted to off-the-grid full-recycling quarantine-biospheres. Not just for this epidemic, but the next one.
https://t.co/8gF7gotjNU Thanks Ed. Rapid response capabilities needed: molecular diagnostics, vaccines, neutralizing antibodies, and homes easily converted to off-the-grid full-recycling quarantine-biospheres. Not just for this epidemic, but the next one.— george church (@geochurch) February 11, 2020
https://twitter.com/geochurch/status/1227150486320615424?s=20
Church is also a leading researcher in aging reversal.
Regards, Scott
Is California preparing, do you think - "Rapid response capabilities needed: molecular diagnostics, vaccines, neutralizing antibodies, and homes easily converted to off-the-grid full-recycling quarantine-biospheres. Not just for this epidemic, but the next one " ? :)https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2020/02/teak-24-feb-2020-world-univ-sch-q-and.htmlhttps://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2020/02/easter-island-chile-rapa-nui-report-all.html
https://twitter.com/WorldUnivAndSch/
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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Bill,
"off-the-grid full-recycling quarantine-biospheres" ...
For the next epidemic, if not this one, as George says ...
- Scott
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Bill,
If you might be interested, here's an email just now from the Stanford Law China Guiding Cases' Project ... In a time of legal reform in China, is the Beijing Supreme Court (since only 2011, I think) transformed because of this Stanford Law CGCP? Is the rule of law coming to play a much more significant role in China than before, and in conversation with Stanford Law, and in Mandarin and in English?
Regards, Scott
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- World University and School- http://worlduniversityandschool.org
- 415 480 4577- http://scottmacleod.com
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Iranian Studies8:57 AM (14 hours ago)
Hi Scott GK MacLeod, This is a reminder that "The Iranian Women’s Movement: A Conversation with Mehrangiz Kar" will begin in 1 hour on: Date Time: Jul 2, 2020 1
Scott MacLeod <sgkmacleod@worlduniversityandschool.org>11:55 AM (11 hours ago)
to Abbas, ShahrzadDear Abbas, Could you please share this with Ms. Kar ? And Mehrangiz and Shahrzad, may I e-introduce you here? Shahrzad has recently completed her Ph.D. at UC Berkeley, where I know her from (I attended her Master's Degree graduation ceremony), and is originally from Tehran. (Shahrzad, were you able to hear and see this great Stanford talk?) Thank you so much for your excellent talk, Ms. Kar.
My questions from your talk: "Thank you, Mehrangiz Kar, for your excellent thinking about the Iranian women’s movement. What roles ahead regarding women’s equality in Iran, and the significance of the Farsi LANGUAGE & discourse in particular, do you see as strategically important? (I ask this having written my Reed College undergraduate thesis on the 1983 book “SEXISM AND GOD TALK: TOWARD A FEMINIST THEOLOGY” by Rosemary Ruether - http://web2.uwindsor.ca/courses/classical/king/Sexism-and-God-Talk.htm & https://peped.org/philosophicalinvestigations/summary-sexism-god-talk-ruether/ which highlights a critique of imagery and language in changing patriarchy in religion and culture). How could California’s culture, language and laws in the 2020s regarding women’s equality come into conversation with Iran’s and your thinking in these regards, and re on-the-ground social structures/processes/institutions? Thank you, and regards, Scott (sgkmacleod@worlduniversityandschool.org)
As a follow up, in what ways do you see the internet opening new opportunities for the women’s movement in Iran? Thank you."
Thank you, especially, for your fascinating concluding thoughts. How might some of this emerge on the internet even (which I am exploring and teaching about in a related vein - http://worlduniversityandschool.org/InfoTechNetworkSocGlobalUniv.html).
Here, by the way, are the beginnings of Iran World University and School, and in the Persian language: - https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Persian_language (planned in Farsi)
- https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Iran_(Islamic_Republic_of)
World Univ & Sch seeks to offer online degrees in Farsi based on https://ocw.mit.edu/ - Bachelor, Ph.D., Law, M.D. and I.B. high school, in particular.
And here are some related wiki subjects regarding your talk, also planned in Farsi -
- https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Human_Rights- https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Women%27s_and_Gender_Studies- ( https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Subjects )
How might we communicate further about Iran World University and School in Farsi? This autumn WUaS is seeking to matriculate our 2nd undergraduate class in English, potentially taking edX courses, with students studying from all ~200 countries in the world. If you know of English-speaking Iranian students in Iran or elsewhere who might be interested in free-to-students' online Bachelors' degrees, please let me know.
Thank you.
Best regards, Scottworlduniversityandschool.orgscottmacleod.com412 478 0116https://www.youtube.com/user/WorldUnivandSchhttps://www.youtube.com/channel/UCdURAADdLc9ctxnbismtXzQ
More about Iran World University and School, emerging from best STEM CC-4 OpenCourseWare in the 'Middle East' label in my blog - https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/search/label/Middle%20East -
- https://twitter.com/WorldUnivAndSch- https://twitter.com/scottmacleodLanguages - World Univ: https://twitter.com/sgkmacleodhttps://twitter.com/WUaSPress
https://iranian-studies.stanford.edu/events/iranian-womens-movement-conversation-mehrangiz-kar
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- World University and School- http://worlduniversityandschool.org
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Scott MacLeod <sgkmacleod@worlduniversityandschool.org>3:38 PM (7 hours ago)
to Christoph, sharon.macdonaldDear 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/
-- - Scott MacLeod - Founder, President & Professor
- World University and School- http://worlduniversityandschool.org
- 415 480 4577- http://scottmacleod.com
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saffron
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July 1, 2020
rufous-tailed rock thrush: "Light, Float, Sit" ~ "Bodymind electricity sings to me, o thee, who are pair" ~ (tentative title) for 4th book of poetry upcoming in 2020 ... * * along with "Honey in the Bag" Scottish Small Piping album * * * RESEARCH in 1 #Rea
4th book of poetry upcoming in 2020! ~
"Light, Float, Sit" ~ "Bodymind electricity sings to me, o thee, who are pair" ~ (tentative title) for 4th book of poetry upcoming in 2020 (all in the Academic Press at World Univ & Sch, available here - https://www.amazon.com/author/scottmacleodworlduniversity).
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(along with "Honey in the Bag" Scottish Small Piping album - & see https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2020/06/white-tailed-tropicbird-bagpiping-honey.html)
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Hot Springs' inns' videos takes #onsen lovers wearing VR headsets for #VirtualSoaking @HarbinBook #RealisticVirtualHarbin #RealisticVirtualEarthForSoaking ~https://youtu.be/AFrTTMbQx1o ~https://youtu.be/X6YBetANDUI ~https://youtu.be/WKEhLAOJsys ~https://youtu.be/x30Zf_pbSO4 ~https://youtu.be/Bk0wI07M4a0 ~
Hot Springs' inns' videos takes #onsen lovers wearing VR headsets for #VirtualSoaking @HarbinBook #RealisticVirtualHarbin #RealisticVirtualEarthForSoaking ~https://t.co/aRZKjXehmC ~https://t.co/EG5TqrCZFj ~https://t.co/CVKJUS5Z4E ~https://t.co/KohbyPu7Dm ~https://t.co/4bquE4qWSj~— HarbinBook (@HarbinBook) June 15, 2020
https://twitter.com/HarbinBook/status/1272593936180080641?s=20
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RESEARCH in 1 #RealisticVirtualEarth #RealisticVirtualUniverse @HarbinBook? Am thinking https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/search/label/ethno-wiki-virtual-world-graphy & STEM too. What's the path ahead re #GooglePixel4a smartphone in Oct 2020 w #GoogleARglasses & re #StreetView with #TimeSlider / Maps/Earth in #RealisticVirtualHarbin?
RESEARCH in 1 #RealisticVirtualEarth #RealisticVirtualUniverse @HarbinBook? Am thinking https://t.co/5p81EFFOza & STEM too. What's the path ahead re #GooglePixel4a smartphone in Oct 2020 w #GoogleARglasses & re #StreetView with #TimeSlider / Maps/Earth in #RealisticVirtualHarbin? https://t.co/HLjAA0ZCXB— HarbinBook (@HarbinBook) July 1, 2020
https://twitter.com/HarbinBook/status/1278356207489540097?s=20https://twitter.com/scottmacleod/status/1278354616397164546?s=20https://twitter.com/WorldUnivAndSch/status/1278355803150233601?s=20
.@Google buys #AR glasses company @focalsbynorth as investment in "ambient computing," will "wind down [current] Focals smart glasses functionality" https://t.co/Ja3v4m3Zcl via @verge #AugmentedReality #assistedreality #earlyadopterbrick— Alan Bullock (@Alan_on_Tech) June 30, 2020https://twitter.com/verge/status/1278002334828826625?s=20https://twitter.com/rsramakash/status/1278051028462481408?s=20https://twitter.com/kamalaldin3/status/1278041480876130304?s=20https://twitter.com/Alan_on_Tech/status/1278086208258805762?s=20
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What is AR Doodle?
AR Doodle is a feature on Galaxy S20, S20+, S20 Ultra, and Z Flip - and potentially the Google Pixel 4a smartphone - that uses augmented reality technology to let you draw in 3D with your finger, or on Note10 and Note10+ with the S Pen. Available in the Camera app, AR Doodle mode enhances videos by giving you the power to add line drawings or handwriting to your environment — and your doodles track faces and space so when you move around, the drawings move with you.
https://www.samsung.com/global/galaxy/what-is/ar-doodle/
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A #RealisticVirtualEarth #RealisticVirtualUniverse @HarbinBook - for RESEARCH? Am thinking https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/search/label/ethno-wiki-virtual-world-graphy & STEM too. What's the path ahead re #GooglePixel4a smartphone in Oct 2020 #GoogleDaydream ? & re StreetView with #TimeSlider / Maps / Earth #RealisticVirtualHarbin?
A #RealisticVirtualEarth #RealisticVirtualUniverse @HarbinBook - for RESEARCH? Am thinking https://t.co/5p81EFFOza & STEM too. What's the path ahead re #GooglePixel4a smartphone in Oct 2020 #GoogleDaydream ? & re StreetView with #TimeSlider / Maps / Earth #RealisticVirtualHarbin? https://t.co/HsAmtsFFYK— HarbinBook (@HarbinBook) June 30, 2020
https://twitter.com/HarbinBook/status/1278055874255175680?s=20
https://twitter.com/WUaSPress/status/1278056231739879425?s=20
https://twitter.com/sgkmacleod/status/1278057426801946624?s=20
https://twitter.com/TheOpenBand/status/1278057812174626816?s=20
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Google Pixel 4A receives IMDA and BIS certifications
https://bit.ly/38gMOQ6
#Google #Pixel4A
https://twitter.com/gizmochina/status/1278048689529819136?s=20
Google Pixel 4A receives IMDA and BIS certificationshttps://t.co/iAYRHq2Wls#Google #Pixel4A pic.twitter.com/76ZXzPKJdJ— GIZMOCHINA (@gizmochina) June 30, 2020
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Google buys AR glasses company North7To help build an ambient computing futureBy Ashley Carman@ashleyrcarman Jun 30, 2020, https://www.theverge.com/2020/6/30/21308281/google-north-focals-glasses-purchase-acquire
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Google announces a new $999 Glass augmented reality headset37By Adi Robertson@thedextriarchy May 20, 2019, 1:20pm EDThttps://www.theverge.com/2019/5/20/18632689/google-glass-enterprise-edition-2-augmented-reality-headset-pricing
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North has acquired the patents and tech behind Intel’s Vaunt AR glasses 6The Focals AR glasses should ship ‘very shortly’By Dieter Bohn@backlon Dec 17, 2018, 8:00am EST
https://www.theverge.com/2018/12/17/18144221/north-focals-intel-vaunt-patents-ar-glasses
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See, too, yesterday's blog post ...
White-tailed tropicbird: bagpiping 'Honey in the Bag' upcoming album - Scottish Small Pipes * * * Google Pixel vs Samsung Galaxy smartphones (vs. iPhone - Apple (IE) too) * * * * A #RealisticVirtualEarth #RealisticVirtualUniverse @HarbinBook - for RESEARCH? Am thinking https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/search/label/ethno-wiki-virtual-world-graphy & STEM too. What's the path ahead re #GooglePixel4a smartphone in Oct 2020 #GoogleDaydream ? & re StreetView with #TimeSlider / Maps / Earth #RealisticVirtualHarbin? * * "Google buys AR glasses company North" - RESEARCH in 1 #RealisticVirtualEarth #RealisticVirtualUniverse @HarbinBook? with #GoogleARglasseshttps://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2020/06/white-tailed-tropicbird-bagpiping-honey.html
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Now how might Google add a stylus to the Google Pixel 4a smartphone per the GizmoChina Twitter post pictures, by Oct. 22, 2020? I think the pixel smartphone approach will help with drawing on a screen for example - and for augmented reality creation?
And possibly in lieu of Google DayDream mask (that would hold the Google Pixel 4a smartphone) eventually, how will Google add aspects of the Google Pixel 4a smartphone to the lens of Google AR glasses?
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How might Google add a stylus to #GooglePixel4a smartphone per the GizmoChina post, by Oct. 22, 2020 & possibly in lieu of #GoogleDayDream mask (holding Google Pixel 4a smartphone) eventually, how might Google add aspects of Pixel 4a smartphone to the lenses of #GoogleARglasses?
How might Google add a stylus to #GooglePixel4a smartphone per the GizmoChina post, by Oct. 22, 2020 & possibly in lieu of #GoogleDayDream mask (holding Google Pixel 4a smartphone) eventually, how might Google add aspects of Pixel 4a smartphone to the lenses of #GoogleARglasses? https://t.co/qTJCgTwqPX— Scott_GK_MacLeod_WUaS_worlduniversityandschool.org (@scottmacleod) July 1, 2020
https://twitter.com/scottmacleod/status/1278453322375020544?s=20
Google Pixel 4A receives IMDA and BIS certificationshttps://t.co/iAYRHq2Wls#Google #Pixel4A pic.twitter.com/76ZXzPKJdJ— GIZMOCHINA (@gizmochina) June 30, 2020
https://twitter.com/gizmochina/status/1278048689529819136?s=20
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For #PixelDrawing? Adding a stylus to #GooglePixel4a smartphone per GizmoChina post, by Oct. 22, 2020 - & possibly in lieu of #GoogleDayDream mask (holding Google Pixel 4a smartphone) eventually, how might Google add aspects of Pixel 4a smartphone to lenses of #GoogleARglasses?
For #PixelDrawing? Adding a stylus to #GooglePixel4a smartphone per GizmoChina post, by Oct. 22, 2020 - & possibly in lieu of #GoogleDayDream mask (holding Google Pixel 4a smartphone) eventually, how might Google add aspects of Pixel 4a smartphone to lenses of #GoogleARglasses? https://t.co/35cZL7SQCY— Scott_GK_MacLeod_WUaS_worlduniversityandschool.org (@scottmacleod) July 1, 2020
https://twitter.com/scottmacleod/status/1278454182413045762?s=20
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Robert Zembowicz
@rzembo
K Nearest Neighbors by hand: A Computer Science exercise for the Data Scientist
#DataScience #MachineLearning #kNN #Algorithms by Andrew Lowe via
@TDataScience
K Nearest Neighbors by hand: A Computer Science exercise for the Data Scientist#DataScience #MachineLearning #kNN #Algorithms by Andrew Lowe via @TDataScience https://t.co/DenXmyeeri— Robert Zembowicz (@rzembo) July 1, 2020
https://twitter.com/rzembo/status/1278370282143657984?s=20
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For #PixelDrawing w #MachineLearning? Adding a stylus to #GooglePixel4a smartphone per GizmoChina post, by Oct. 22, 2020 - & possibly in lieu of #GoogleDayDream mask (holding Pixel4a phone) eventually, - w aspects of #Pixel4a smartphone in #GoogleARglasses lenses for #ARdrawing?
For #PixelDrawing w #MachineLearning? Adding a stylus to #GooglePixel4a smartphone per GizmoChina post, by Oct. 22, 2020 - & possibly in lieu of #GoogleDayDream mask (holding Pixel4a phone) eventually, - w aspects of #Pixel4a smartphone in #GoogleARglasses lenses for #ARdrawing? https://t.co/0vU8lJ74Ei— WorldUnivandSch (@WorldUnivAndSch) July 1, 2020
https://twitter.com/WorldUnivAndSch/status/1278457597922664449?s=20
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For #PixelDrawing w #MachineLearning? Adding a stylus to #GooglePixel4a smartphone per GizmoChina post, by Oct. 22, 2020 - & possibly in lieu of #GoogleDayDream mask (holding Pixel4a phone) eventually, - w aspects of #Pixel4a smartphone in #GoogleARglasses lenses for #ARdrawing?
For #PixelDrawing w #MachineLearning? Adding a stylus to #GooglePixel4a smartphone per GizmoChina post, by Oct. 22, 2020 - & possibly in lieu of #GoogleDayDream mask (holding Pixel4a phone) eventually, - w aspects of #Pixel4a smartphone in #GoogleARglasses lenses for #ARdrawing?
For #PixelDrawing w #MachineLearning? Adding a stylus to #GooglePixel4a smartphone per GizmoChina post, by Oct. 22, 2020 - & possibly in lieu of #GoogleDayDream mask (holding Pixel4a phone) eventually, - w aspects of #Pixel4a smartphone in #GoogleARglasses lenses for #ARdrawing? https://t.co/HsAmtsFFYK— HarbinBook (@HarbinBook) July 1, 2020
https://twitter.com/HarbinBook/status/1278458671270256640?s=20
https://twitter.com/WorldUnivAndSch/status/1278458201285902336?s=20
https://twitter.com/WUaSPress/status/1278459318300323840?s=20
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_rock_thrush
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June 30, 2020
White-tailed tropicbird: bagpiping 'Honey in the Bag' upcoming album - Scottish Small Pipes * * * Google Pixel vs Samsung Galaxy smartphones (vs. iPhone - Apple (IE) too) * * * * A #RealisticVirtualEarth #RealisticVirtualUniverse @HarbinBook - for RESEARCH
Further bagpiping envisioning ... for 'Honey in the Bag' upcoming album - on Scottish Small Pipes ~
Beyond space ship idea - with Scottish small piping ray-gun to beam people up
And bringing radiance into piping
And recently ... growing from my actual real recordings from last year
And
Creating 'magic' flow experiences for people ... purring too (like this Hopkinson Smith playing JS Bach on Lute does for me - https://youtu.be/pTBooio3h9U)
Had hoped to have a first recording of all tunes done by May, but I could conceivably do that pretty soon even.
Still seeking novel transformative vision for this piping album, along the lines if " * * * Playing the Scottish small pipes, I'd like to be a kind of space ship that soars down from the atmosphere and with a series of tones transports you the listener to another world. :) .... " - https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2020/04/red-trillium-cow-and-calf-what-is-cow.html - and some other visions, and in the playing itself, but will keep exploring by playing daily :)
... somehow transforming consciousness even :)
May not take the risk of going to the Rainbow Gathering this year after all, although it would be nice to see Ann around that time.
Further inspirations:
Stuart Liddell / Gordon Duncan
Kathryn Tickell
Grateful Dead for their own sound
Jimi Hendrix for rock and roll mastery in a way (space ship beaming down ...)
Jimi Hendrix Live Full Concert 1969 Amazing Clear Footage
https://youtu.be/NNAaMpvc8xE
Jimi Hendrix Live Full Concert (1969) AMAZING Clear Footage
https://youtu.be/flrKWVeSpPE
May even explore making a robot or two to dance metronomically - in kilted videos :)
John Walsh on shuttle pipes, for the sound of drones and chanter themselves on my Scottish small pipes -
John Walsh 8 - Manchester Recital 1994
https://youtu.be/uNpK9ksqMng
*
Ma,
Good luck with finding a keyed alto recorder.
Was piping 2 nights' ago playing 4 jigs, one titled 'Honey in the Bag' and had a success with bringing them up to speed while using metronome (around 10:30pm).
Speed helps with generating elation, happiness even re flow experiences for listeners.
Aiming for 108-120 bpm,
I began with the challenging one, at 80 bpm:
'Calm before the Storm'
And this worked
Then played the easier jigs -
'Out of the Air'
'The Whistling Postman'
'Honey in the Bag'
at 80 bpm
Began the easier ones again at 90 bpm, and then 'Calm before the Storm' and could play this at this tempo.
Then 100 bpm worked for all 4, 'Calm ...' last.
When I next tried them at 110 bpm, I couldn't play 'Calm ...' but am getting there.
... and regarding 'Guidelines for Practicing a Musical Instrument,' and setting and charting goals ... http://scottmacleod.com/GuidelinesPracticingMusicalInstrument.htm ...
And NEWLY to think about re further growth envisioning, this just popped up ...
http://scottmacleod.com/GuidelinesPracticingLovingBlissvavMusicalInstrument.htm ... idea and music-wise.
David just emailed from Cuttyhunk and has had 3 great weeks quarantining on Cuttyhunk, with 1 to go. He asks if I'm coming out, and with American Airline filling seats from July 1 (requiring masks and a survey etc. beforehand), I'm thinking about quarantining upon entry to Massachusetts on Cuttyhunk beginning in early August.
Love, Scott
Further envisioning ...
Beyond space ship idea - with Scottish small piping ray-gun to beam people up
And bringing radiance into piping
And recently ... growing from my actual real recordings' from last year
And
Creating 'magic' flow experiences for people ... purring too
Had hoped to have a first recording of all tunes done by May, but I could conceivably do that pretty soon even.
Still seeking novel transformative vision for this piping album, along the lines if " * * * Playing the Scottish small pipes, I'd like to be a kind of space ship that soars down from the atmosphere and with a series of tones transports you the listener to another world. :) .... " - https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2020/04/red-trillium-cow-and-calf-what-is-cow.html - and some other visions, and in the playing itself, but will keep exploring by playing daily :)
... somehow transforming consciousness even :)
May not take the risk of going to the Rainbow Gathering this year after all, although it would be nice to see Ann around that time.
Further inspiration
Stuart Liddell / Gordon Duncan
Kathryn Tickell
Grateful Dead for their own sound
Jimi Hendrix for rock and roll mastery in a way (space ship beaming down ...)
May even explore making a robot or two to dance metronomically - in kilted videos :)
* * *
Hi Ma,
As I texted yesterday evening:How was your day, Ma? Beautiful here and was out walking for 1 hour, down, and up, then on the level way, other side of massif and around. Had just finished Minutes, - and now since Google Maps stopped working months ago on OLD Samsung Galaxy S3 smartphone and Youtube stopped today, I've been researching smartphones too. The GOOGLE Pixel 4a smartphone is due out on Oct 22 and works well with VR - ie Virtual Reality, like Google's DayDream mask - and will cost less than $400 (and has some impressive predecessors). I think my current impressively well-designed Samsung Galaxy S3 smartphone with Android OS too (not Apple iPhone's iOS) will last, even if key Applications are broken! How was your walk? (Sorry to learn Shelly Granger passed away).
Love, Scott
* Some further thoughts and resources regarding an upcoming Google Pixel 4a smartphone and with Virtual Reality, Augmented Reality, - and Google Lens.
How to use Google Lens: The Coolest App You Aren't Using
https://youtu.be/h_nYU9OVCZk
https://lens.google.com
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Lens
Looks like Google Lens can be used for a universal translator and text & voice translation (something I'm seeking to facilitate), and that it can be used to KEY flower species or at least identify plants and animals - and buildings too, with machine learning. Key flower species would be amazing, and you and I have already talked about keying birds with our smartphones.
It seems like this smartphone could well facilitate a new social science method I'm developing called ethno-wiki-virtual-world-graphy https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/search/label/ethno-wiki-virtual-world-graphy ... I need to think this through further! It also has a camera on its front and back!
Love, Scott
The iPhone - Apple (IE) smartphone at around $400 is its competitor I think.
*
Some further research, history, resources, somewhat leaning toward the Google Pixel 4a due out on October 22, 2020 ...
Augmented Reality AR Doodle -
will we be able to use AR Doodle on the google pixel 4a phone?
https://developers.google.com/ar/discover/supported-devices
Google snuck an augmented reality ad onto the back of the Pixel 4 box
https://mashable.com/article/google-pixel-4-augmented-reality-ad-box/
size of Google Pixel 4a
144.2 mm X 69.5 mm X 8.2 mm.
size of Samsung Galaxy s3
136.6 x 70.6 x 8.6 mm (5.38 x 2.78 x 0.34 in)
Google Daydream View (new second generation) Review - VR System for High End Android Phones
https://youtu.be/agWE_0TUtf0
Google Pixel for science???Wait for Pixel 4a ?https://www.tomsguide.com/news/google-pixel-4a-release-date-specs-price-colors-and-leaks
https://www.forbes.com/sites/jaymcgregor/2020/05/18/google-pixel-4-xl-review-wait-for-the-pixel-4a/#6f38718455b2
https://www.theverge.com/2020/6/25/21303809/google-pixel-4a-fcc-soli-radar-motion-sense-missing
Daydream
Google Daydream View (2017) Review: Small Changes Make a Big Impact
The updated Google Daydream View headset offers revamped style, comfort and a growing catalog of VR content at an aggressive price.
By Sherri L. Smith December 08, 2017
https://www.tomsguide.com/us/google-daydream-view,review-4960.html
Google Daydream View review:
The easiest-to-use VR headset yet is affordable but imperfect
Sean Hollister Nov. 10, 2016
https://www.cnet.com/reviews/google-daydream-view-review/2/
Galaxy S10 vs. Pixel 3: Which Android Phone Is Best?
By Philip Michaels December 10, 2019
https://www.tomsguide.com/us/galaxy-s10-vs-pixel-3,review-6282.html
Google Pixel vs. Samsung Galaxy: Which is better for business?
https://www.techrepublic.com/article/google-pixel-vs-samsung-galaxy-which-is-better-for-business/
Samsung Galaxy S20 vs. Google Pixel 4: Which Android Flagship Should You Choose?
Google's Pixel phones have a very loyal following among Android lovers. Will Samsung's Galaxy S20 lineup be enough to put the Pixels out to pasture? We're putting them side by side to find out.
Steven Winkelman
https://www.pcmag.com/news/samsung-galaxy-s20-vs-google-pixel-4-which-android-flagship-should-you
Samsung cut the price of its Galaxy S10 smartphones after the Galaxy S20 was announced, but there are 5 key reasons you should buy Google's Pixel 4 instead
https://www.businessinsider.com/google-pixel-4-vs-samsung-galaxy-s10-buy-the-pixel-2019-11
https://www.cnet.com/reviews/google-pixel-3-2019-review/
https://www.cnet.com/reviews/google-pixel-4-review-great-camera-high-price-battery-life-review/
https://www.cnet.com/reviews/samsung-galaxy-s10e-updated-review/
https://www.cnet.com/reviews/galaxy-note-10-plus-review-samsung-fantastic-screen-cameras-battery-life-raise-new-phone-to-the-top-review/
https://www.cnet.com/how-to/get-the-most-out-of-the-note-10s-camera-features-with-these-tips/
https://www.firstpost.com/tech/news-analysis/google-engineers-explain-the-science-behind-the-pixel-3s-incredible-camera-5365951.html
Google Pixel 3XL Unboxing & 1st Impressions (Hindi)
https://youtu.be/eNxI0s2QLHQ
Google Pixel 3XL
https://www.cnet.com/reviews/google-pixel-3-xl-review/
https://infosurhoy.com/technology/google-pixel-3-review/
https://www.popsci.com/google-pixel-4-smartphone-livestream/
https://www.androidauthority.com/best-augmented-reality-apps-and-ar-apps-for-android-584616/
google pixel phones what makes them different
What Makes the Google Pixel Different from Other Smartphones?
By Kacey Deamer October 06, 2016https://www.livescience.com/56401-google-new-pixel-smartphone.html
Inside Project Ara, Google's Lego-like plan to disrupt the smartphone
Next year, Google will sell a smartphone that lets you swap in interchangeable parts to get new abilities.Sean Hollister
May 22, 2016 1:55 p.m. PThttps://www.cnet.com/news/google-project-ara-hands-on-rafa-camargo-interview-modular-phones/
https://www.quora.com/What-makes-the-Google-Pixel-phone-different
best smartphones 2019 for virtual reality creationPhone-based VR is officially over
By Adi Robertson@thedextriarchy Oct 16, 2019, 11:21am EDT
https://www.theverge.com/2019/10/16/20915791/google-daydream-samsung-oculus-gear-vr-mobile-vr-platforms-dead
Below you can find our choices for best smartphones for VR in 2019:
- Samsung Galaxy S10/S10+
- Google Pixel 3/3XL.
- Moto Z2 Force.
- Samsung Galaxy S9/S9+
- HTC U11+
- LG V30.
Apr 17, 2019Best smartphones for VR in 2019 - Maxbox VRbest smartphones 2019 for Google Daydream CardboardPhones built for virtual reality
Daydream-ready phones are built for VR with high resolution displays, ultra smooth graphics and high-fidelity sensors.
https://arvr.google.com/daydream/smartphonevr/phones/
Dream with your eyes open
Simple, high quality virtual reality
https://arvr.google.com/daydream/
https://arvr.google.com/daydream/smartphonevr/
What is AR Doodle?
AR Doodle is a feature on Galaxy S20, S20+, S20 Ultra, and Z Flip - and potentially the Google Pixel 4a - that uses augmented reality technology to let you draw in 3D with your finger, or on Note10 and Note10+ with the S Pen. Available in the Camera app, AR Doodle mode enhances videos by giving you the power to add line drawings or handwriting to your environment — and your doodles track faces and space so when you move around, the drawings move with you.
https://www.samsung.com/global/galaxy/what-is/ar-doodle/
--
- Scott MacLeod
- http://scottmacleod.com
* * * *
A #RealisticVirtualEarth #RealisticVirtualUniverse @HarbinBook - for RESEARCH? Am thinking https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/search/label/ethno-wiki-virtual-world-graphy & STEM too. What's the path ahead re #GooglePixel4a smartphone in Oct 2020 #GoogleDaydream ? & re StreetView with #TimeSlider / Maps / Earth #RealisticVirtualHarbin?
A #RealisticVirtualEarth #RealisticVirtualUniverse @HarbinBook - for RESEARCH? Am thinking https://t.co/5p81EFFOza & STEM too. What's the path ahead re #GooglePixel4a smartphone in Oct 2020 #GoogleDaydream ? & re StreetView with #TimeSlider / Maps / Earth #RealisticVirtualHarbin? https://t.co/HsAmtsFFYK— HarbinBook (@HarbinBook) June 30, 2020
https://twitter.com/HarbinBook/status/1278055874255175680?s=20
https://twitter.com/WUaSPress/status/1278056231739879425?s=20
https://twitter.com/sgkmacleod/status/1278057426801946624?s=20
https://twitter.com/TheOpenBand/status/1278057812174626816?s=20
Google Pixel 4A receives IMDA and BIS certifications
https://bit.ly/38gMOQ6
#Google #Pixel4A
https://twitter.com/gizmochina/status/1278048689529819136?s=20
Google Pixel 4A receives IMDA and BIS certificationshttps://t.co/iAYRHq2Wls#Google #Pixel4A pic.twitter.com/76ZXzPKJdJ— GIZMOCHINA (@gizmochina) June 30, 2020
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Google buys AR glasses company North7To help build an ambient computing futureBy Ashley Carman@ashleyrcarman Jun 30, 2020, https://www.theverge.com/2020/6/30/21308281/google-north-focals-glasses-purchase-acquire
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Google announces a new $999 Glass augmented reality headset37By Adi Robertson@thedextriarchy May 20, 2019, 1:20pm EDThttps://www.theverge.com/2019/5/20/18632689/google-glass-enterprise-edition-2-augmented-reality-headset-pricing
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North has acquired the patents and tech behind Intel’s Vaunt AR glasses 6The Focals AR glasses should ship ‘very shortly’By Dieter Bohn@backlon Dec 17, 2018, 8:00am EST
https://www.theverge.com/2018/12/17/18144221/north-focals-intel-vaunt-patents-ar-glasses
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RESEARCH in 1 #RealisticVirtualEarth #RealisticVirtualUniverse @HarbinBook? Am thinking https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/search/label/ethno-wiki-virtual-world-graphy & STEM too. What's the path ahead re #GooglePixel4a smartphone in Oct 2020 w #GoogleARglasses & re #StreetView with #TimeSlider / Maps/Earth in #RealisticVirtualHarbin?
RESEARCH in 1 #RealisticVirtualEarth #RealisticVirtualUniverse @HarbinBook? Am thinking https://t.co/5p81EFFOza & STEM too. What's the path ahead re #GooglePixel4a smartphone in Oct 2020 w #GoogleARglasses & re #StreetView with #TimeSlider / Maps/Earth in #RealisticVirtualHarbin? https://t.co/HLjAA0ZCXB— HarbinBook (@HarbinBook) July 1, 2020
https://twitter.com/HarbinBook/status/1278356207489540097?s=20https://twitter.com/scottmacleod/status/1278354616397164546?s=20https://twitter.com/WorldUnivAndSch/status/1278355803150233601?s=20
.@Google buys #AR glasses company @focalsbynorth as investment in "ambient computing," will "wind down [current] Focals smart glasses functionality" https://t.co/Ja3v4m3Zcl via @verge #AugmentedReality #assistedreality #earlyadopterbrick— Alan Bullock (@Alan_on_Tech) June 30, 2020https://twitter.com/verge/status/1278002334828826625?s=20https://twitter.com/rsramakash/status/1278051028462481408?s=20https://twitter.com/kamalaldin3/status/1278041480876130304?s=20https://twitter.com/Alan_on_Tech/status/1278086208258805762?s=20
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White-tailed_tropicbird
...
White-tailed tropicbird: bagpiping 'Honey in the Bag' upcoming album - Scottish Small Pipes * * * Google Pixel vs Samsung Galaxy smartphones (vs. iPhone - Apple (IE) too)
Further bagpiping envisioning ... for 'Honey in the Bag' upcoming album - on Scottish Small Pipes ~
Beyond space ship idea - with Scottish small piping ray-gun to beam people up
And bringing radiance into piping
And recently ... growing from my actual real recordings from last year
And
Creating 'magic' flow experiences for people ... purring too (like this Hopkinson Smith playing JS Bach on Lute does for me - https://youtu.be/pTBooio3h9U)
Had hoped to have a first recording of all tunes done by May, but I could conceivably do that pretty soon even.
Still seeking novel transformative vision for this piping album, along the lines if " * * * Playing the Scottish small pipes, I'd like to be a kind of space ship that soars down from the atmosphere and with a series of tones transports you the listener to another world. :) .... " - https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2020/04/red-trillium-cow-and-calf-what-is-cow.html - and some other visions, and in the playing itself, but will keep exploring by playing daily :)
... somehow transforming consciousness even :)
May not take the risk of going to the Rainbow Gathering this year after all, although it would be nice to see Ann around that time.
Further inspirations:
Stuart Liddell / Gordon Duncan
Kathryn Tickell
Grateful Dead for their own sound
Jimi Hendrix for rock and roll mastery in a way (space ship beaming down ...)
Jimi Hendrix Live Full Concert 1969 Amazing Clear Footage
https://youtu.be/NNAaMpvc8xE
Jimi Hendrix Live Full Concert (1969) AMAZING Clear Footage
https://youtu.be/flrKWVeSpPE
May even explore making a robot or two to dance metronomically - in kilted videos :)
John Walsh on shuttle pipes, for the sound of drones and chanter themselves on my Scottish small pipes -
John Walsh 8 - Manchester Recital 1994
https://youtu.be/uNpK9ksqMng
*
Ma,
Good luck with finding a keyed alto recorder.
Was piping 2 nights' ago playing 4 jigs, one titled 'Honey in the Bag' and had a success with bringing them up to speed while using metronome (around 10:30pm).
Speed helps with generating elation, happiness even re flow experiences for listeners.
Aiming for 108-120 bpm,
I began with the challenging one, at 80 bpm:
'Calm before the Storm'
And this worked
Then played the easier jigs -
'Out of the Air'
'The Whistling Postman'
'Honey in the Bag'
at 80 bpm
Began the easier ones again at 90 bpm, and then 'Calm before the Storm' and could play this at this tempo.
Then 100 bpm worked for all 4, 'Calm ...' last.
When I next tried them at 110 bpm, I couldn't play 'Calm ...' but am getting there.
... and regarding 'Guidelines for Practicing a Musical Instrument,' and setting and charting goals ... http://scottmacleod.com/GuidelinesPracticingMusicalInstrument.htm ...
And NEWLY to think about re further growth envisioning, this just popped up ...
http://scottmacleod.com/GuidelinesPracticingLovingBlissvavMusicalInstrument.htm ... idea and music-wise.
David just emailed from Cuttyhunk and has had 3 great weeks quarantining on Cuttyhunk, with 1 to go. He asks if I'm coming out, and with American Airline filling seats from July 1 (requiring masks and a survey etc. beforehand), I'm thinking about quarantining upon entry to Massachusetts on Cuttyhunk beginning in early August.
Love, Scott
Further envisioning ...
Beyond space ship idea - with Scottish small piping ray-gun to beam people up
And bringing radiance into piping
And recently ... growing from my actual real recordings' from last year
And
Creating 'magic' flow experiences for people ... purring too
Had hoped to have a first recording of all tunes done by May, but I could conceivably do that pretty soon even.
Still seeking novel transformative vision for this piping album, along the lines if " * * * Playing the Scottish small pipes, I'd like to be a kind of space ship that soars down from the atmosphere and with a series of tones transports you the listener to another world. :) .... " - https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2020/04/red-trillium-cow-and-calf-what-is-cow.html - and some other visions, and in the playing itself, but will keep exploring by playing daily :)
... somehow transforming consciousness even :)
May not take the risk of going to the Rainbow Gathering this year after all, although it would be nice to see Ann around that time.
Further inspiration
Stuart Liddell / Gordon Duncan
Kathryn Tickell
Grateful Dead for their own sound
Jimi Hendrix for rock and roll mastery in a way (space ship beaming down ...)
May even explore making a robot or two to dance metronomically - in kilted videos :)
* * *
Hi Ma,
As I texted yesterday evening:How was your day, Ma? Beautiful here and was out walking for 1 hour, down, and up, then on the level way, other side of massif and around. Had just finished Minutes, - and now since Google Maps stopped working months ago on OLD Samsung Galaxy S3 smartphone and Youtube stopped today, I've been researching smartphones too. The GOOGLE Pixel 4a smartphone is due out on Oct 22 and works well with VR - ie Virtual Reality, like Google's DayDream mask - and will cost less than $400 (and has some impressive predecessors). I think my current impressively well-designed Samsung Galaxy S3 smartphone with Android OS too (not Apple iPhone's iOS) will last, even if key Applications are broken! How was your walk? (Sorry to learn Shelly Granger passed away).
Love, Scott
* Some further thoughts and resources regarding an upcoming Google Pixel 4a smartphone and with Virtual Reality, Augmented Reality, - and Google Lens.
How to use Google Lens: The Coolest App You Aren't Using
https://youtu.be/h_nYU9OVCZk
https://lens.google.com
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Lens
Looks like Google Lens can be used for a universal translator and text & voice translation (something I'm seeking to facilitate), and that it can be used to KEY flower species or at least identify plants and animals - and buildings too, with machine learning. Key flower species would be amazing, and you and I have already talked about keying birds with our smartphones.
It seems like this smartphone could well facilitate a new social science method I'm developing called ethno-wiki-virtual-world-graphy https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/search/label/ethno-wiki-virtual-world-graphy ... I need to think this through further! It also has a camera on its front and back!
Love, Scott
The iPhone - Apple (IE) smartphone at around $400 is its competitor I think.
*
Some further research, history, resources, somewhat leaning toward the Google Pixel 4a due out on October 22, 2020 ...
Augmented Reality AR Doodle -
will we be able to use AR Doodle on the google pixel 4a phone?
https://developers.google.com/ar/discover/supported-devices
Google snuck an augmented reality ad onto the back of the Pixel 4 box
https://mashable.com/article/google-pixel-4-augmented-reality-ad-box/
size of Google Pixel 4a
144.2 mm X 69.5 mm X 8.2 mm.
size of Samsung Galaxy s3
136.6 x 70.6 x 8.6 mm (5.38 x 2.78 x 0.34 in)
Google Daydream View (new second generation) Review - VR System for High End Android Phones
https://youtu.be/agWE_0TUtf0
Google Pixel for science???Wait for Pixel 4a ?https://www.tomsguide.com/news/google-pixel-4a-release-date-specs-price-colors-and-leaks
https://www.forbes.com/sites/jaymcgregor/2020/05/18/google-pixel-4-xl-review-wait-for-the-pixel-4a/#6f38718455b2
https://www.theverge.com/2020/6/25/21303809/google-pixel-4a-fcc-soli-radar-motion-sense-missing
Daydream
Google Daydream View (2017) Review: Small Changes Make a Big Impact
The updated Google Daydream View headset offers revamped style, comfort and a growing catalog of VR content at an aggressive price.
By Sherri L. Smith December 08, 2017
https://www.tomsguide.com/us/google-daydream-view,review-4960.html
Google Daydream View review:
The easiest-to-use VR headset yet is affordable but imperfect
Sean Hollister Nov. 10, 2016
https://www.cnet.com/reviews/google-daydream-view-review/2/
Galaxy S10 vs. Pixel 3: Which Android Phone Is Best?
By Philip Michaels December 10, 2019
https://www.tomsguide.com/us/galaxy-s10-vs-pixel-3,review-6282.html
Google Pixel vs. Samsung Galaxy: Which is better for business?
https://www.techrepublic.com/article/google-pixel-vs-samsung-galaxy-which-is-better-for-business/
Samsung Galaxy S20 vs. Google Pixel 4: Which Android Flagship Should You Choose?
Google's Pixel phones have a very loyal following among Android lovers. Will Samsung's Galaxy S20 lineup be enough to put the Pixels out to pasture? We're putting them side by side to find out.
Steven Winkelman
https://www.pcmag.com/news/samsung-galaxy-s20-vs-google-pixel-4-which-android-flagship-should-you
Samsung cut the price of its Galaxy S10 smartphones after the Galaxy S20 was announced, but there are 5 key reasons you should buy Google's Pixel 4 instead
https://www.businessinsider.com/google-pixel-4-vs-samsung-galaxy-s10-buy-the-pixel-2019-11
https://www.cnet.com/reviews/google-pixel-3-2019-review/
https://www.cnet.com/reviews/google-pixel-4-review-great-camera-high-price-battery-life-review/
https://www.cnet.com/reviews/samsung-galaxy-s10e-updated-review/
https://www.cnet.com/reviews/galaxy-note-10-plus-review-samsung-fantastic-screen-cameras-battery-life-raise-new-phone-to-the-top-review/
https://www.cnet.com/how-to/get-the-most-out-of-the-note-10s-camera-features-with-these-tips/
https://www.firstpost.com/tech/news-analysis/google-engineers-explain-the-science-behind-the-pixel-3s-incredible-camera-5365951.html
Google Pixel 3XL Unboxing & 1st Impressions (Hindi)
https://youtu.be/eNxI0s2QLHQ
Google Pixel 3XL
https://www.cnet.com/reviews/google-pixel-3-xl-review/
https://infosurhoy.com/technology/google-pixel-3-review/
https://www.popsci.com/google-pixel-4-smartphone-livestream/
https://www.androidauthority.com/best-augmented-reality-apps-and-ar-apps-for-android-584616/
google pixel phones what makes them different
What Makes the Google Pixel Different from Other Smartphones?
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Bluethroat: WUaS News Livestream Q & A - Sri Lanka World Univ & Sch in Sinhala language, is begun, & in Google Sites ශ්රී ලංකා ලෝක විශ්ව විද්යාලය සහ පාසල https://sites.google.com/view/worldun... Here are the emerging Minutes from o
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Sri Lanka World Univ&Sch in Sinhala language is begun, & in Google Sitesශ්රී ලංකා ලෝක විශ්ව විද්යාලය සහ පාසල
https://youtu.be/ifqPX1hgxcA
(<https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCdURAADdLc9ctxnbismtXzQ) - 6/20/20 @WorldUnivAndSch Minutes: https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2020/06/hypericum-calycinum-minutes-for-open.html > https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Sri_Lanka ~
WUaS LiveStream (M 6/29/2020)
Sri Lanka World Univ&Sch in Sinhala language is begun, & in Google Sitesශ්රී ලංකා ලෝක විශ්ව විද්යාලය සහ පාසලhttps://t.co/CLHsJQBekN
(<https://t.co/aeHIXmpLYX) - 6/20/20 @WorldUnivAndSch Minutes: https://t.co/mxQKuiwguh > https://t.co/x1EoRb7Df7 ~— Languages-World Univ (@sgkmacleod) June 29, 2020
https://twitter.com/sgkmacleod/status/1277665525238083584?s=20
https://twitter.com/WorldUnivAndSch/status/1277667715474288640?s=20
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Sri Lanka World Univ & Sch in Sinhala language, is begun, & in Google Sites
ශ්රී ලංකා ලෝක විශ්ව විද්යාලය සහ පාසල
https://sites.google.com/view/worlduniversityandschool/srilanka
Here are the emerging Minutes from open WUaS Business Meeting on 6/20/2020 https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2020/06/hypericum-calycinum-minutes-for-open.html
WUaS News Q&A LiveStream begins in 2 hr
Sri Lanka World Univ & Sch in Sinhala language, is begun, & in Google Sites
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Here are the emerging Minutes from open WUaS Business Meeting on 6/20/2020 https://t.co/vgRS6mJSFR
WUaS News Q&A LiveStream begins in 2 hr— WorldUnivandSch (@WorldUnivAndSch) June 29, 2020
https://twitter.com/WorldUnivAndSch/status/1277619309859110912?s=20
https://twitter.com/sgkmacleod/status/1277619471943778305?s=20
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WUaS News Q&A LiveStream https://youtube.com/channel/UCdURAADdLc9ctxnbismtXzQ/live > http://youtube.com/WorldUnivandSch Mon 6/29/20 - 10a PT New WUaS Univ in Sri Lanka! #WUaSMonthlyBusinessMeeting @WorldUnivAndSch online Universities in https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Nation_States & #LegoRobotics @WUaSPress Langs: @SGKMacLeod info@w
WUaS News Q&A LiveStream https://t.co/UOPG69mHvz > http://youtube. com/WorldUnivandSch Mon 6/29/20 - 10a PT New WUaS Univ in Sri Lanka! #WUaSMonthlyBusinessMeeting @WorldUnivAndSch online Universities in https://t.co/LRKdU7cdv4 & #LegoRobotics @WUaSPress Langs: @SGKMacLeod info@w— WorldUnivandSch (@WorldUnivAndSch) June 29, 2020
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https://twitter.com/scottmacleod/status/1277614075510288385?s=20
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WUaS News Q&A LiveStream https://youtube.com/channel/UCdURAADdLc9ctxnbismtXzQ/live > http://youtube.com/WorldUnivandSch Mon 6/29/20 - 10a PT New WUaS Univ in SINHALA Lang #WUaSMonthlyBusinessMeeting @WorldUnivAndSch online Universities in https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Nation_States & #LegoRobotics @WUaSPress Langs: @ScottMacLeod ~
WUaS News Q&A LiveStream https://t.co/oFqkfl9E2y > http://youtube. com/WorldUnivandSch Mon 6/29/20 - 10a PT New WUaS Univ in SINHALA Lang #WUaSMonthlyBusinessMeeting @WorldUnivAndSch online Universities in https://t.co/4NwosIzas8 & #LegoRobotics @WUaSPress Langs: @ScottMacLeod ~— WUaSPress (@WUaSPress) June 29, 2020
https://twitter.com/sgkmacleod/status/1277614539517771778?s=20
https://twitter.com/WUaSPress/status/1277615982110863361?s=20
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See, Sri Lanka's Rifai's comments here -
Sri Lanka WUaSJun 28, 2020, 3:59 AM (1 day ago)
to me, livestream, Peter, mazumdarp, Scott, MarisolHi !Yeah ! It looks nice but it is not an easy language to learn. I can change the page to Sinhala in Sinhala itself and drop Sri Lanka. Sri Lanka World University and School is a really long name so we better drop country names from the university name. No I worked only on the landing page for now as I have to manually edit sentences.
I have taken but never completed. Have completed only in FutureLearn and Canvas. I do have experience in self hosting online courses with verified certificates using Moodle for over 2 years.
If you want to host your own edX courses on the edX platform or combine courses to provide a specialised programme you need to contact edX. If you want to launch private courses from scratch using OCW you need to self host Open edX LMS or use edX Studio with edX Edge.
Sure we will go ahead with English. Yeah ! Higher education is mainly done in English based on British qualifications using classrooms. State universities are mainly for high school toppers. It depends on how the students react to e-learning? I gave out nearly 5000 edX coupons with the majority dropping out halfway and we are providing 4 year programme with no exit points. What is the quota?
Regards,
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And see, too http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/202... - at bottom (and - http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2020/06/sri-lanka-blue-magpie-great-wuas.html - and some other recent blog posts), which you'll also find here:
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new Sri Lanka World Univ & Sch in Sinhala in Google Sites (and Google Translate friendly), and designed / accessible from a smartphone even -
https://sites.google.com/view/worlduniversityandschool/srilanka
Info WorldUniversity <info@worlduniversityandschool.org>Fri, Jun 26, 9:47 AM (2 days ago)
to SriLanka, nidahasvidyalaya, Marisol, Freedom, srilanka, livestream, Peter, mazumdarp, ScottHi Rifai, Peter, Partha, (and Marisol, Quechua language teacher at Stanford),I just shared this World Univ & Sch homepage in Google Sites - https://sites.google.com/view/worlduniversityandschool (with an invitation message) - for you to texplore translating into the Sinhala and Tamil languages (but I also sent it to myself at sgkmacleod@w ... .org , and haven't received an email notice).
Rifai, focusing on Sinhala and Tamil languages will help too with WUaS maritime law - https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Maritime_Law (https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/World_University_Law_School s - see links to other countries' law schools half way down) - and regarding the Palk Strait between Sri Lanka and India - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palk_Straitand in both the Law School at Sri Lanka WUaS (in Sinhala), and the Tamil language Law School at India WUaS, for example.
Rifai, re your "How about assessment, proctoring and certificate?" - am hoping this will come out further of a kind of conversation between edX in Massachusetts, and the state of California's BPPE for licensing, and concurrently WASC for accreditation too. Perhaps edX will be able to offer the equivalent of assessment, proctoring and on WUaS edX certificates.
Please let me know if you got the invitation I just shared from - https://sites.google.com/view/worlduniversityandschool . Am not clear from Google Sites' "Share with others" which I just invited you from, that you'll be able to edit or translate this page, or what. (And it would be great if you could do so from within the WUaS Google Drive too). Thank you.
Regards, Scott- http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2020/06/sri-lanka-blue-magpie-great-wuas.html -
Just shared thisHi Rifai (in Sri Lanka), Peter, Partha, and Marisol,
I'm sharing this World Univ & Sch home page in Google Sites for you, Rifai, to explore translating into the Sinhala and Tamil languages. (I'm sending to mostly Google email accounts). Regards, Scott (worlduniversityandschool.org)
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Sri Lanka WUaSSat, Jun 27, 8:40 AM (1 day ago)
to me, Freedom, livestream, Peter, mazumdarp, Scott, nidahasvidyalaya, MarisolHi !I received a notice and started the translation. I have to review and edit manually as some sentences are gibberish. Also some words like credit had to be changed as Google thinks someone is trying to get a loan ;) Will gradually move into course translation.
https://sites.google.com/view/worlduniversityandschool/srilanka
We will have to work out something if we are to launch a degree in September. We could use the quizzes in edX courses to assess. Certificate can also be issued using Word etc.
We might have to monitor the students online via a combination of webcam, ID verification & screen sharing to prevent impersonation as someone paid to do so could follow the degree under a students name.
Regards,
Rifai
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Info WorldUniversity <info@worlduniversityandschool.org>Sat, Jun 27, 9:59 AM (1 day ago)
to Sri, livestream, Peter, mazumdarp, nidahasvidyalaya, Marisol, Freedom, ScottSo beautiful, and what a beautiful script too! I want to write English on the computer in a new rounded way!And amazing - a new Sri Lanka World Univ & Sch in Sinhala in Google Sites (and Google Translate friendly), and designed / accessible from a smartphone even -
https://sites.google.com/view/worlduniversityandschool/srilanka
A good 'naming' model too for all ~200 countries - first in English, but then perhaps named in the countries' official / mian languages? Something like - https://sites.google.com/view/worlduniversityandschool/ශ්රී ලංකාව - or even all in Sinhala? Are Google Sites' URLs all in Sinhala at this point?
I received this invitation to translate at worlduniversityandschool@gmail.com's main parent address (which I had also sent to myself), although I think I only sent it to sgkmacleod@worlduni ...org (for learning about the structure of WUaS in Google Suite for Education).
Rifai, have you taken an edX course? I've only taken this single (HarvardX JuryX) edX law course in 2016, taught by Harvard Law Emeritus Professor Charlie Nesson - and if I recall correctly it's pretty well structured IT-wise for accreditation / licensing regarding proctoring etc. (The edX JuryX archived course link here - https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2015/03/volcano-rabbit-3-new-law-schools-at.html - and much more).
Also regarding translation and edX, this is the idea in the big picture: taking potentially edX courses (from best STEM CC-4 OCW courses - https://ocw.mit.edu/ - into - https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/mitx-related-courseware/) on the edX platform ( which I blogged about yesterday re an email to a Reed College alumna (of which I am also, and which can be an interesting network) working as Admissions' officer in north India at the Woodstock school - https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2020/06/scarlet-milkweed-asclepias-curassavica.html - which also just became IB). Re course standards in edX, am hoping WUaS can learn from these 3 OCW languages - https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/translated-courses/ .
Am hoping too the way will open to communicate more directly with edX and Anant Agarwal regarding all of this in due course. Seeking to offer English-speaking Sri Lankans this autumn free-to-students' online Bachelor degrees (so please don't worry too much about translation in Sinhala). And you mentioned in a previous email that you think you might be able to find WUaS students? In ballpark terms, how many might be interested in a 4 year free online Bachelor's degree in English?
Thank you, Rifai, and so great!
WUaS Cheers, ScottSo this doesn't disappear: :)- https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2020/06/sri-lanka-blue-magpie-great-wuas.html -
PSSeeking to move some of the learning at WUaS into a realistic virtual earth - https://twitter.com/hashtag/RealisticVirtualEarth?src=hashtag_click (Google Street View-centric with TIME SLIDER / Maps / Earth / TensorFlow) - and maybe, for example, for the WUaS Law Schools and nation states' boundary and maritime law questions:
Here's the Bay of Bengal in Google Maps / Street View -
https://www.google.com/maps/place/Palk+Strait/@8.5089302,79.1999949,8z/data=!4m13!1m7!3m6!1s0x30986dc9280955a1:0x1eb983108723598e!2sBay+of+Bengal!3b1!8m2!3d13.531665!4d87.5395855!3m4!1s0x3afe4c8c6568cfe5:0x6ec271feb96b698c!8m2!3d8.5089302!4d79.1999949
And here's the Palk Strait https://www.google.com/maps/place/Palk+Strait/@9.082873,78.3603447,8z/data=!3m1!4b1!4m5!3m4!1s0x3afe4c8c6568cfe5:0x6ec271feb96b698c!8m2!3d8.5089302!4d79.1999949
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Rifai and All,
I went to Google Translate and it was nice to hear spoken World University and School of Sri Lanka in Sinhala - https://translate.google.com/.
Would it be possible perhaps to write something on this new Sri Lanka in Sinhala page - https://sites.google.com/view/worlduniversityandschool/srilanka - that WUaS courses this autumn will be in English for free-to-students' degrees, - and at the same time in Sinhala that the emergent wiki schools at WUaS in Sinhala are for open teaching & learning ... https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Subjects ? Could we develop your Sri Lanka World Univ & Sch in Sinhala as a way to do outreach for Sri Lankan students first in English?
Appreciating, too, the English rendering from Google Translate - World University and School of Sri Lanka .
Here by the way are the beginnings of World Univ & Sch in Google Maps / Street View with time slider (for HISTORY too!) Google Earth (and re TensorFlow AI and Translate)> https://www.google.com/maps/place/World+University+%26+School/@37.8343827,-122.1635866,15z/data=!4m5!3m4!1s0x0:0xbc76546d8b81c2e7!8m2!3d37.8343827!4d-122.1635866
> https://www.google.com/search?q=World+University+%26+School&ludocid=13580134555851014887
How are the supply of and access to laptop computers for high achieving 18 year olds in Sri Lanka (who might speak English) - and very reliable broadband for group video conferencing, with students in all ~200 countries around the world in WUaS courses for credit?
Regards, Scott
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Sri Lanka WUaSSun, Jun 28, 3:59 AM (1 day ago)
to me, livestream, Peter, mazumdarp, Scott, MarisolHi !Yeah ! It looks nice but it is not an easy language to learn. I can change the page to Sinhala in Sinhala itself and drop Sri Lanka. Sri Lanka World University and School is a really long name so we better drop country names from the university name. No I worked only on the landing page for now as I have to manually edit sentences.
I have taken but never completed. Have completed only in FutureLearn and Canvas. I do have experience in self hosting online courses with verified certificates using Moodle for over 2 years.
If you want to host your own edX courses on the edX platform or combine courses to provide a specialised programme you need to contact edX. If you want to launch private courses from scratch using OCW you need to self host Open edX LMS or use edX Studio with edX Edge.
Sure we will go ahead with English. Yeah ! Higher education is mainly done in English based on British qualifications using classrooms. State universities are mainly for high school toppers. It depends on how the students react to e-learning? I gave out nearly 5000 edX coupons with the majority dropping out halfway and we are providing 4 year programme with no exit points. What is the quota?
Regards,
Rifai
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Sri Lanka WUaSJun 28, 2020, 5:37 AM (1 day ago)
to me, livestream, Peter, mazumdarp, Scott, MarisolHi !I deleted the previous page and created a new page. I trimmed down the page and mentioned Autumn offering. Tamil page is also created but I am not very good at it. Better to get someone from South India to do it. They will have to reach me in Sinhala or Tamil and I can redirect them.
English rendering right click and translate. We have standard broadband facilities in urban areas and a growing number of users learning on PCs and smartphones.
Yeah ! It looks nice but it is not an easy language to learn. I can change the page to Sinhala in Sinhala itself and drop Sri Lanka. Sri Lanka World University and School is a really long name so we better drop country names from the university name. No I worked only on the landing page for now as I have to manually edit sentences.
I have taken but never completed. Have completed only in FutureLearn and Canvas. I do have experience in self hosting online courses with verified certificates using Moodle for over 2 years.
If you want to host your own edX courses on the edX platform or combine courses to provide a specialised programme you need to contact edX. If you want to launch private courses from scratch using OCW you need to self host Open edX LMS or use edX Studio with edX Edge.
Sure we will go ahead with English. Yeah ! Higher education is mainly done in English based on British qualifications using classrooms. State universities are mainly for high school toppers. It depends on how the students react to e-learning? I gave out nearly 5000 edX coupons with the majority dropping out halfway and we are providing a 4 year programme with no exit points. What is the quota?
Regards,
Rifai
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Rifai,
I just added this new World University and School in the Sinhala language -
https://sites.google.com/view/worlduniversityandschool/srilanka - at the top here (W June 24, 2020) - https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2020/06/sri-lanka-blue-magpie-great-wuas.html .
Rifai and All, I wanted to get an idea of Bachelor's degrees offered in Sri Lanka (informed by a British system of education, as you've said) and found - https://www.bachelorstudies.com/Bachelor/Sri-Lanka/amp/ - and also found other similar Sri Lanka Bachelor degree descriptions and websites. I realize that Sri Lankan students will have prepared in high school for Sri Lankan universities, and as I've also written, WUaS seeks to become the online Harvard, Stanford, MIT of the internet - as if Sri Lankan students were applying to, getting accepted at, and then traveling to the US to matriculate on-the-ground at these universities for 4-year Bachelor degrees (and with their families probably paying $75,000 per year, for tuition, living expenses, books, etc.). Sri Lankan students would thus learn a different educational cultural system, whether it be MIT's, Stanford's or an American. MIT OCW, and edX online are different however.
So edX courses, and MIT OpenCourseWare courses (with WUaS instructors teaching them live in group video) are not Harvard, Stanford & MIT on the ground. They're a completely new educational system informed by information technologies. And WUaS seeks to create this WUaS 'educational culture online' eventually in Sri Lanka World Univ & Sch in Sinhala and offering Bachelor, Ph.D., Law, and MD, as well as IB high school degrees. WUaS seeks to facilitate live online professors and teachers teaching too!
Seeking to create the 'life of the mind,' of inquiry and problem-solving, and a book-ish online World Univ & Sch culture too. Looking forward to working out the IT for this. How to let book-ish circles - students and their parents - in Sri Lanka know about these free-to-students' online best STEM CC-4 OpenCourseWare Bachelor's degrees? Your Sinhala translations will help so, so much! Thank you!
More specifics about your recent emails soon.
Cheers, Scott
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Info WorldUniversity <info@worlduniversityandschool.org>Sun, Jun 28, 10:21 AM (1 day ago)
to Nidahas, nidahasvidyalaya, Sri, Sri, livestream, Peter, mazumdarp, Scott, MarisolMore specifically per your recent emails: Let's eventually call Sri Lanka World University and School in the Sinhala language Sri Lanka World University and School in Sinhala; for the time being, if you'd like, dropping the Sri Lanka is fine () ... but keeping this long name might be much more welcoming to Sri Lankan students, even if at first in English, than the shorter name. What do you think?
How did you add a new page in WUaS's drive - eg https://sites.google.com/view/worlduniversityandschool/srilanka - and potentially for Peter's and Partha's information (if Partha's parents help translate this WUaS landing page into Bengali, for example)? I'm curious as well.
I teach - http://worlduniversityandschool.org/InfoTechNetworkSocGlobalUniv.html - and would probably do so in Google Meet. You can see it listed in the WUaS course catalog - https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1VRHhXYsk-V9lvSh5onaU2hnEhwoapSN7HyBK1P09LIk/edit?usp=sharing (http://worlduniversityandschool.org/). But I might explore offering via the edX platform later; possibly having created a new course in edX, am curious how this would work to be able to tell other people too.
May teach another actual-virtual Harbin ethnographic course here in Google Street View ~ http://tinyurl.com/p62rpcg ~ with this as a kind of text book ~ http://www.scottmacleod.com/ActualVirtualHarbinBook.html ~ (https://twitter.com/HarbinBook ~ http://bit.ly/HarbinBook). In what ways do you think Sri Lankan students might be interested in learning online anthropology, - and potentially even in a realistic virtual earth for field work and in a realistic virtual Harbin Hot Springs? (It's a very innovative course, and research too, and regarding a new social science methodology even - https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/search/label/ethno-wiki-virtual-world-graphy).
Could we aim for 100 Sri Lankan students to finish a 4 year WUaS free-to-students' Bachelor's degree - as quota (every year at first)? I don't think there's much data at all about how many students finish 4 year online degrees, while there is so data about how many people finish a single course; a few years ago it was around 7%,
How to use the wiki schools to welcome eventual matriculating students? Introduce WUAS wikis in Sri Lankan high schools - where high school students could become wiki-teachers to Youtube video even? (ie high school students could teach something about Sri Lanka they know and love, perhaps to a Youtube video, and then post this to an existing Subject - https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Subjects - or to a wiki subject they wiki-create ).
How best to reach out to the children of Sri Lankan professors for these free, best STEM CC-4 OpenCourseWare-centric degrees at WUaS?
Regards, Scotthttp://www.scottmacleod.com/ActualVirtualHarbinBook.html https://www.amazon.com/author/scottmacleodworlduniversity
-- - Scott MacLeod - Founder & President - https://twitter.com/WorldUnivAndSch- World University and School- http://worlduniversityandschool.org - http://scottmacleod.com
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Sri Lanka WUaS8:52 AM (2 hours ago)
to me, livestream, Peter, mazumdarp, Scott, MarisolHi !I made some changes to the site. They have not got published. Should see what happened. Instead of categorising by country better to categorise by language as more than one language is spoken in each country. The page has to be changed to
https://sites.google.com/view/worlduniversityandschool/sinhala
Also I created a page in Tamil
https://sites.google.com/view/worlduniversityandschool/tamil
You can try these links for comparison. Questions are welcome.
https://www.internationalstudent.com/study-abroad/guide/uk-usa-education-system/
https://www.savethestudent.org/study-abroad/america/american-university-system.html
https://www.businessinsider.com/how-college-is-different-in-the-us-and-the-uk-2018-6
The best place for information on Sri Lankan degrees is the UGC of Sri Lanka. Students are mainly prepared for 3 year commonwealth degrees so they have actually covered part of an Associate Degree. They have to adapt to American plus online culture and you should have a discussion with the American Center in Sri Lanka who promote it. This is run by the Embassy of USA. Also we can get the help of colleges if we allow them to charge a facility fee from students who like to follow the degree at a college with mentor support. WUaS can charge a royalty from these colleges. Both fees can be decided by WUaS.
In order to build an online university with the things you mentioned it is mandatory to move to a self hosted LMS like Open edX or platform like edX which is easy to manage. These support plugins and are built for online teaching. Wiki might not be the right choice from a students point of view. If you can consider moving into an LMS that might be the turning point for WUaS. Volunteers can be provided teacher accounts and major languages are supported in an LMS.
It is welcoming but difficult to remember plus it prevents building a global brand. Anyway we are localizing that is welcoming too. We might have more success offering majors like Business Management, IT, Law, Creative Arts, Engineering, Medicine etc. Go to sites.google.com sign in. Click on the site at the bottom. On the right side you get add page.
100 is a good target. We can promote that only 1000 slots are offered free as scholarships. Atleast 10% might complete. We need to reach leading schools then.
Regards,
Rifai
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to Nidahas, nidahasvidyalaya, Sri, livestream, Peter, mazumdarp, Scott, Marisol
Hi Sri, and All,
First thing, and as you may know, WUaS plans to be in all ~200 countries (in their official / main languages, and for licensing /accreditation and even reimbursement + ), each a major online university, and in 7,117 known living languages, each wiki schools for open teaching and learning - so both Sri Lanka WUaS in Google Sites - https://sites.google.com/view/worlduniversityandschool/srilanka - and Sinhala language in Google Sites - https://sites.google.com/view/worlduniversityandschool/sinhala - are good, and central and important even.
These Google Sites' pages you've made will also correspond with these wiki pages (and the countries and languages in them) -
https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Nation_States
https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Languages
More later, thanks - and what you've done is so great!
Regards,
Scott
- https://sites.google.com/view/worlduniversityandschool/ -
- https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/World_University -
- worlduniversityandschool.org -
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Info WorldUniversity <info@worlduniversityandschool.org>9:50 AM (1 hour ago)
to Sri, Nidahas, nidahasvidyalaya, livestream, Peter, mazumdarp, Scott, MarisolRifai, Partha, and All, Let's explore adding the degree web sites you shared to Sri Lanka WUaS wiki ... https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Sri_Lanka ... for people's future reference (such as potential English-speaking (first) Sri Lankan students themselves), critical comparative thinking - and group knowledge sharing.
Great too - https://sites.google.com/view/worlduniversityandschool/tamil
As you may recall, (in 2015) WUaS donated itself to Wikidata (as 'back end' structured knowledge database - in Wikipedia's ~300 languages) for co-development - and languages are KEY or central to WUaS - and received the 'front end' WUaS Miraheze MediaWiki in 2017 ... but they aren't yet interoperable. This is an example of 'front end' WUaS Miraheze MediaWiki https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Sri_Lanka.
As you know, the WUaS Course Catalog, and newly with the ORAP edX list you shared, make available edX course links (and best STEM OpenCourseWare CC-4 MIT OCW links - in its 4 languages - and MITx links, and other course links). WUaS seeks to automate the process of adding these links to both our WUaS academic wiki subject pages, as well as to our Course Catalog itself - and in all ~200 countries' official and main languages, for accrediting online degrees (Bach. Ph.D., Law, MD and IB).
WUaS Course Catalog -
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1VRHhXYsk-V9lvSh5onaU2hnEhwoapSN7HyBK1P09LIk/edit?usp=sharingedX ORAP courses-
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/10huGunGcPQQpsoJicL8ZDUrBaOKxtA5ODgOPKfsYokM/edit?usp=sharing.
So at this point, WUaS in G Suite for Education is seeking to develop in this as the LMS - Learning Management System - and it's pretty sophisticated, and one of the best, with relatively good ease of use. See for example - Assignments - https://edu.google.com/assignments. I think I can give you Admin access to WUaS in G Suite for Education, if you might be interested too.mit
Again, WUaS seeks to become like Stanford or Harvard, yet online, and with edX and MIT OCW courses - and so Sri Lankan students would be studying these online. So the degrees that Sri Lankans get from WUAS first in 4 years, would be like the degrees Sri Lankans get from Harvard and Stanford on-the-ground (with similar licensing and accreditation process), but newly online. Partha works in the American Embassy. Partha, would you like to share your thoughts about some of this?
And WUaS seeks to connect matriculating students - https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/You_at_World_University (probably with a Wikidata PIN # - planning for students in all 200 countries, speakers of all 7117 languages, and even all 7.5 people on planet as wiki teachers).with their countries - https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Nation_States
Thanks too for this information about how to begin a new page in Google Sites:
"Go to sites.google.com sign in. Click on the site at the bottom. On the right side you get add page." - Peter, Partha, Marisol?
Would you like to explore taking on developing Google Sites' WUaS pages for all ~200 countries - and in their official languages with time? Shall we see if we can get native speakers to connect with you about this to develop translation. Could I interview you about how this might work. Monday's WUaS Livestream emails for example, have many non-English native speakers among us. May I send an invitation to you in 10 minutes to join the WUaS Livestram, Rifai?
Regards, Scott- https://sites.google.com/view/worlduniversityandschool/ - - https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/World_University - - worlduniversityandschool.org -
Have blogged about our recent emails here - https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2020/06/plum-headed-parakeet-bagpiping-scottish.html - at bottom.
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Plum-headed parakeet: Questions for Helen Harrison, Head of Fettes, Fettes Community, Edinburgh Scotland regarding university admissions' questions for Fettes' students outside of Scotland, England and the British Isles and World Univ & Sch * * * Bagpipin
Questions for Helen Harrison, Head of Fettes, Fettes Community, Edinburgh Scotland regarding university admissions' questions for Fettes' students outside of Scotland, England and the British Isles and World Univ & Sch
Dear Helen, To what degree do you as Head of Fettes engage in university admissions' questions for Fettes' students outside of Scotland, England and the British Isles? I ask in the context of developing best STEM CC-4 OpenCourseWare-centric World University & School for free-to-students' online university degrees, where students would be studying from homes, post-Fettes. This autumn World Univ & Sch hopes to offer online edX (founded by Harvard & MIT) courses as WUaS proceeds with licensing and accreditation from California (potentially CA's BPPE and WASC). In what ways do you think Fettes students could be interested in free-to-students' online degrees, studying from home? Thank you. Sincerely, Scott GK MacLeod K'78 (worlduniversityandschool.org and scottmacleod.com - https://fettescommunity.org/user/778519)
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We will be interviewing Helen Harrison, Head of Fettes, exclusively for Fettes Community, in the coming weeks and would like to include some questions from registered users. If there is anything you would like us to ask Helen about her role or the school, please comment below and we’ll try to include as many as we can.
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Re bagpipe tunes this evening,
Gillie Callum (quick step)
Dorrator Bridge
Willie GrayHave you been able to access easily
Gillie Callum (quick step)
http://www.coloradopipers.com/highlanddance/CoPipers_HighlandDnaceTunes.pdf ?
Cheers, Scott
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Yep! I was able to print that out and have been practicing it. I’ve also been using the metronome.
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Good lesson tonight, Scott.
Here's the Spotify links I mentioned.
Drops of Brandy, by Distant Oaks. Some of their music is a little new agey for my liking (lots of cheesy low whistles and synths), but now and again they'll play a trad tune like this one: https://open.spotify.com/track/4DITJFx8DFKTky0bar3PvU
Lark in the Morning, Alternative Pipers (etc): https://open.spotify.com/track/0ZkKYroU93YUepffXhQTcp
As a bonus, here's a quartet on youtube:https://youtu.be/UcgBFrqqq5c
By the way, do you have an opinion one way or the other regarding the Falkirk Piper on Youtube? He's recorded most of the Scots Guards tunes and I consult his recordings when I need to confirm I'm reading a tune right.https://www.youtube.com/user/Heed229
Thanks again!
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Thanks so much, Taylor,
Both Spotify piping tracks sound good initially ... will listen further.
Are you familiar with the new SSP album - The Reeling (2019)
Brighde Chaimbeulhttps://open.spotify.com/artist/7AzZeX7Q9ziRE6mILhQZ8W Brighde's from the Isle of Skye interestingly.
I have come across - Ceolas Piping Concert, smallpipes.
https://youtu.be/UcgBFrqqq5c- a couple of times, and with its singing ... good group model for SSP and singing possibly ... quite Scottish, with pipe band players too ... and, separately, Allan MacDonald (on left) may have revived in a new way an old different GHB piping style with his album "Colla Mo Rún "(CD, Album) - https://www.discogs.com/artist/564972-Allan-Macdonald - and his University of Edinburgh thesis in the School of Celtic and Scottish Studies (but this Ceolas Youtube video with him and fellow pipers is not somehow entirely inspiring to me, somehow).
Am appreciative of Neil Clark's Falkirk Piping instruction in general.
It could be fun to explore playing duets together with time.
I have the recollection that Canntaireachd is used for learning Piobaireachd, but searched on 'canntaireachd singing and ceol beag light music piping youtube"
and this is nice, and instructive ...
The Prince's Salute - Michael Grey - bagpipes and canntaireachd
https://youtu.be/ZCHRQuITwWs
( and it's also about St. Kilda which I did my University of Edinburgh thesis on in the School of Celtic and Scottish Studies - virtual St. Kilda as place even ... )
Lovely played Piobaireachd by Michael Grey as well! Nether Lorn Canntaireachd is best known both scholarly and
Piobaireachd - The Field of Gold.
https://youtu.be/aGufeIx37y4
(Canntaireachd as choral music starts after pipe band Piobaireachd at about 5:25 - and that's Jack Lee 'conducting-piping')
Both of these are creative uses of Canntaireachd
Band-Re: Hihorodo hiharara
https://youtu.be/o_b1hNtbsdI(with Canntaireachd written out too)
The Canntaireachd Project – Trailer
https://youtu.be/M5T7RMiRBHU (with Canntaireachd written out too - pointers to the scholarship too - Allan MacDonald again)
Oran Canntaireachd - Chris Armstrong, Finlay MacDonald (who's been a teacher of mine conducts)
https://youtu.be/Ljrz0GhQgs8
Am wondering about - for my upcoming "Honey in the Bag" album - even Blockchain ledger with tracks on a CD / internet video possibilities (and even creatively exploring making and coding Lego robots that might be coded somehow to dance to piping, and metronomically too - out of the box, and haven't seen this whatsoever yet).
Thanks, Scott
This may be a spotify URL for me ... https://open.spotify.com/user/scottworldunivandsch or similar ... but their new 'hard sell' and 90 seconds + of ads seems to be getting in the way of ease of use, so I don't head in the Spotify direction much.
Next week, the MSR: :) Willie GrayDorrator Bridge ...
Devil in the Kitchen
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Scott MacLeod <sgkmacleod@gmail.com>Fri, Jun 26, 8:34 AM (2 days ago)
to TaylorTaylor,In searching a bit further, it seems Scot Rhona Lightfoot has musically explored canntaireachd with light music (Ceol Beag - or 'little music') - The Highland Sessions: canntaireachd
https://youtu.be/ctaMm37-Ud4
Found this: "Has Canntaireachd ever been used to sing light music?
I've heard recordings of Ceol Beag tunes sung in syllables similar to Canntaireachd (the CD notes also said Canntaireachd), but when I tried to make out the syllables, they were only partly consistent with the conventional Canntaireachd syllables.
I'd like to emphasize this was neither Mouth Music nor lilting.
Mac Aindriú
05-13-2013, 07:11 AM
I agree somebody should invent a canntaireachd for light music. A few years ago it was brought up on this forum but the consensus was there would be too much bickering amongst the piping world but isn’t that what goes on now? I have three CD’s of canntaireachd by Donald F. Lindsay that I listen to and try to make canntaireachd like sound for light music, I’m almost tempted to contact him and ask him if he could devise a system for a price. At least something would be done and the rest of them could argue from now to the end of time on what is correct.
owendnash
05-13-2013, 09:08 AM
Correct me if I'm wrong, but wasn't it reported that Rona Lightfoot, did a recital/seminar last August, in the Piping Centre, regarding Canntaireachd and light music??.
Adam Sanderson
05-13-2013, 11:46 AM
Correct me if I'm wrong, but wasn't it reported that Rona Lightfoot, did a recital/seminar last August, in the Piping Centre, regarding Canntaireachd and light music??.
Thanks for reminding me, Owen. You can see and hear Rona here (https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=ctaMm37-Ud4#t=119s).
Her Eadarainn CD is full of this kind of thing too. :)
Desert Rose
05-13-2013, 01:14 PM
Thanks for reminding me, Owen. You can see and hear Rona here (https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=ctaMm37-Ud4#t=119s).
Her Eadarainn CD is full of this kind of thing too. :)
Thank you! I really like this.
Uri
05-16-2013, 03:12 PM
I agree somebody should invent a canntaireachd for light music. .
But, judging from Rona's example (and I'm sure many others exist), it IS already in use for light music? ?:( ... "
http://forums.bobdunsire.com/forums/archive/index.php/t-150925.html
Ceol Mor refers to Piobaireachd - and means literally "Great Music"
I appreciate all these Youtube examples of canntaireachd (literally meaning 'chanting') as innovative explorations of this old form of Scottish music-making (waulking songs could be a form of this too).
Appreciating too staying 'free' - and exploring a kind of 'freedom' in an ongoing way - with regards to light / traditional / classical piping music, (even while I learn from Yo Yo Ma re technique "The whole idea is service: You use your technique to transcend it, in order to serve ..." and in Ma / Marsalis's "Guidelines for practicing a musical instrument" - http://scottmacleod.com/GuidelinesPracticingMusicalInstrument.htm. While Canntaireachd can involve technique too, I'm keeping transcendence in mind (a lot) :)
Am appreciating, too, that Sal Khan's 'mastery learning' definition in a zendesk URL - https://khanacademy.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/articles/360030753412-Why-Mastery-Learning-by-Sal-Khan - (re a kind of meditation aspect of piping too)
On with the MSR :) Rhona Lightfoot would be a good person to learn light music canntaireachd - Traditional Celtic Song - Lal, lal, ars’ A’Chailleach
https://youtu.be/eVA1x0I_UoM
Musical cheers, Scott
And here's a definition of 'mastery learning' I appreciate ... "Mastery learning simply means allowing a student to continue to work on a concept until they can master that concept or skill. ... At Khan Academy, we provide a personalized, mastery-based learning system. Students are supported and challenged to build skills over time."
Why Mastery Learning, by Sal Khan – Khan Academy Help ...khanacademy.zendesk.com
https://khanacademy.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/articles/360030753412-Why-Mastery-Learning-by-Sal-Khan
More like for Piobaireachd: Rhona Lightfoot Singing Canterach.
https://youtu.be/T51bAJuI0vs
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It's true if you don't have a subscription, Spotify is kind of a pain.Thanks for introducing me to Brighde Chaimbeul; I'm giving her album a listen now. I'm especially interested in the fact she studied extensively in Bulgaria and can't wait to hear how she's incorporated their techniques in her music.
The aspect of connecting specific tones and notes with syllables in Canntaireachd almost reminds me of shape note singing, only much more complex. Perhaps there's a connection between shape note singing's survival in the Southern Appalachians and traditional gaelic singing (the area was disproportionately settled by Ulster Scots and many of their ballads have survived in the popular folk repertoire). The Celtic roots of the South are often a bit overstated sometimes, but it's still fun to think about. https://youtu.be/FyrUhdBHOg8
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Taylor,
Am seeking to keep this somewhat Scottish small pipes' learning focused :)
Thanks, - and interesting video especially. Regarding Brighde Chaimbeul and Bulgarian influences in her music: one theory in a related vein, without that much evidence, is that the great Piobaireachd family of possibly 10 generations of MacCrimmons (hereditary pipers to the MacLeods), also with Isle of Skye connections, may have originally come from Crimona in Italy (per the name - son of Crimmons or son of Crimona???). Could we hear an Italian influence in MacCrimmon's early Piobaireachd compositions (which are) and related Cantaireachds - like we might hear Bulgarian music in Brighde Chaimbeul's piping? Am an appreciator of the ever growing 'sharings' and hybridizations of musical creations through time (and with ethnomusicology interests and piping ethnomusicology interests, and regarding having studied in the School of Celtic and Scottish Studies at the University of Edinburgh in 2003-04, with its ethnology 'theoretical' orientation - albeit with a digital / virtual focus, - and per the St. Kilda island archipelago as virtual place, which the Michael Grey's Piobaireachd / Canntaireachd is also about :).
Shape Note Singing and Canntaireachd? These articles say shape note singing comes from England - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shape_note - and that a John Connely in the 1790s invented the four-shaped notes - https://www.britannica.com/art/shape-note-singing . The article's say much more. Appalachia, Scotch-Irish, culture, peoples and their musical expression are also interesting to me - identity-wise (a focus in anthropology .... and as an anthropologist, but where Harbin Hot Springs is my field site, and where in my next actual-virtual Harbin ethnography I may explore partly the Indian-informed music at Harbin - Kirtan, in a chapter, for ex.). Having spent my high school years in Pittsburgh, PA, 1.5 hours or so away from West Virginia (is this 'central' Appalachia??), am interested in Scottish Games and the Presbyterian Church as institutions (sociologically) that seem to have many people with Scottish ancestry in them - throughout Appalachia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Appalachia) - whereas Irish Pubs, Irish Catholic churches and their schools, seem to have many people with Irish ancestry in them. Peoples with Celtic ancestry - eg Scotch-Irish - are many in Appalachia and exploring the music these peoples make (am an appreciator of Bluegrass, for ex.) as they come through time is potentially fascinating ethnomusicology for me (https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/search/label/ethnomusicology). I'd even like to facilitate a realistic virtual earth for history - https://twitter.com/hashtag/RealisticVirtualEarthForHistory?src=hashtag_click - with avatar bots for this (am thinking Google Street View with TIME SLIDER with Maps / Earth with SL for avatars and group build-ability, but realistic like with Samsung Neons aka 'artificial humans' - and for serious representations of history - printable onto text, from text in the sidebar in Street View) - and regarding singing esp. :) (My parents interestingly went to the Isle of Skye for the honeymoon in 1957; am not sure why identity-wise or marriage-wise. My father's mother had Irish roots too. But my father was a MD and an academic, so my high school life in Pittsburgh was academic high school focused in the 2nd half of the '70s, but as a child of the '60s too). I think it could be fun to explore inventing a new Shape Note Singing with Canntaireachd.
Please let me know with time what you learn further about :
" Southern Appalachians and traditional gaelic singing (the area was disproportionately settled by Ulster Scots and many of their ballads have survived in the popular folk repertoire). The Celtic roots of the South are often a bit overstated sometimes, but it's still fun to think about.
https://youtu.be/FyrUhdBHOg8 " I searched on 'Gaelic' in the Appalachia article and didn't find anything; (I also disagree with the sentence interpreting Quaker; Quakers have a long history of aligning with native Americans). The Giants' Causeway involves the body of water separating Scotland from Ireland, also a UNESCO World Heritage Site - https://whc.unesco.org/en/list/369/ - and I have no insights or knowledge about its role culturally or identity-wise for Irish and Scots, Ulster Scots, or Gaelic speakers on both sides.
I think Canntaireachd (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canntaireachd), what we know of it, has Scottish Highland roots - the Campbell manuscript (and I see this manuscript as early Scottish ethnomusicology itself :)
The Canntaireachd Project – Trailer
https://youtu.be/M5T7RMiRBHU
... and that it's the specificity of the written and sung Canntaireachd syllables to Piobaireachd classical piping music as a system (cultural too) that offers a cool opportunity for learning. Try singing to Michael Grey as you read the notes ...
The Prince's Salute - Michael Grey - bagpipes and canntaireachd
https://youtu.be/ZCHRQuITwWs
By the way, in your asking about Falkirk Piping, have you listened to CoP Blue Tutor Vol. 3 CD (if you have one)? It's helpful, and relates directly to the book. Check the sections on the MSR we'll explore on Thursday.
Innovative exploration re lessons: create a video like Michael Grey's to one of the Yellow Tutor's Piobaireachds and for learning to write out Canntaireachd and then to sing with it?
Combine shape singing and Canntaireachd ? ... (Visual Canntaireachd 1: Maol Donn - https://youtu.be/D16Ezmli-FM ) Are you gonna try singing with Michael Grey's "The Prince's Salute" to learn Canntaireachd - and even shaping the notes with your hands or on paper or ... ? :)
Musical cheers, Scott
PSThe Canntaireachd Project – Trailer
https://youtu.be/M5T7RMiRBHU'Canntaireachd' is an ancient codified language used by Scottish pipers to teach and memorise bagpipe music. 'The Canntaireachd Project' records and publishes material out-with the Campbell Canntaireachd manuscript (c. 1819), the single most important primary source for 'pibroch' or 'ceòl mòr', the 'classical music' of the great Highland bagpipe. You can join Allan and Thomas on www.patreon.com/thecanntaireachdproject
PPSCode dancing robots (to singing?) ? Found:
Lego Mindstorms EV3 Dancing robot Reboot (with Instructions)
https://youtu.be/NPIq5qldbio
Lego Mindstorms Dancing Robot
https://teachkidsengineering.com/lego-mindstorms-dancing-robot/
but I only have Lego WeDo 2.0 Lego Robotics' kit :)
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Scott MacLeod <sgkmacleod@gmail.com>1:30 PM (4 hours ago)
to TaylorTaylor,I enjoyed these, and good to hear other Scottish small piping recordings -
https://open.spotify.com/track/4DITJFx8DFKTky0bar3PvU
"Auld Reekie/High Road to Linton" popped up 3 tunes in or so, played by Distant Oaks, I think and Open Band plays The High Road to Linton in A - and it's fast (220 bpm??) - so when we get to this tune ...
And Auld Reekie refers to the city of Edinburgh (as you may know) ...because Edinburgh stank apparently ... smoke/ garbage/ shite/ ... ?
This, again, is quite lovely, and Thomas Pearston was co-author of The College of Piping's Green Tutor: Vol. 1" in the early 1950s (see video description) -
Visual Canntaireachd 1: Maol Donn
https://youtu.be/D16Ezmli-FM
DudelsackAkademie
Teaching pibroch through the traditional means of canntaireachd, by introducing a new system of mnemonic gestures coinciding with the canntaireachd vocables as well as the attributes of the bagpipe scale as suggested by Thomas Pearston in 1973.
Was Thomas Pearston's creativity here an expression of hippy creativity? :))
I don't know anything about DudelsackAkademie (https://www.dudelsack-akademie.de/impressum.html ... with very interesting duet small piping at 1 minute - Fünftes Jahresabschlusskonzert der Dudelsack-Akademie - https://youtu.be/C44FZCSRg7U ) but it can be fun to go to bagpiping workshops around the world. Youtube is amazing!
I thought the great tune 'The High Road to Linton' was in The College of Piping Blue Tutor Vol. 3, but it's not; however, Donald MacLeod does play it in the NY Recordings from the late 1960s - https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Bagpipe_Tutorials and older version https://worlduniversity.fandom.com/wiki/Bagpipe_Tutorials (I just noticed here:).
I learned a lot more about culture / identity re Giants' Causeway and Ulster Scots / Scotch-Irish below :)
And here's the great PM Donald MacLeod playing "The Devil in the Kitchen" (but played as a strathspey I think, where we're playing it as a reel in the Blue Tutor, although it doesn't say, calling both strathspeys and reels dance tunes :) which we're playing this Thursday - and playing "The High Road to Linton" at about 1:50 minute mark - Strathspeys & Reels: Devil In The Kitchen, Craig-a-Bodich, Loudens Bonnie Woods & Braes, Reel...
https://youtu.be/3mjxa0mJYG0
How's 'the bubbly note' going, 'darodo' in canntaireachd :)?
Musical cheers, Scott
Notes:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ulster
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ulster_Scots_people
Humans settled around the Giant’s Causeway in the 19th century, but the site is now uninhabited. It does, however, attract some 300,000 tourists annually. Deriving its name from local folklore, it is fabled to be the work of giants, particularly of Finn MacCumhaill (MacCool), who built it as part of a causeway to the Scottish island of Staffa (which has similar rock formations) for motives of either love or war.
https://www.britannica.com/place/Giants-Causeway
The Scottish side of the Causeway
"The story of an ancient Causeway linking Ireland and Scotland is actually genuine from a geological perspective. Smaller scale basalt formations belonging to the same lava flow also exist in Scotland at Fingal's Cave on the isle of Staffa and in nearby Ulva, both in the Inner Hebrides.
The hexagonal formations of Fingal's Cave, on the Scottish island of Staffa, were created by the same lava flow that created the Giant's Causeway across the sea on the Irish coast
The hexagonal formations of Fingal's Cave, on the Scottish island of Staffa, were created by the same lava flow that created the Giant's Causeway across the sea on the Irish coast"
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Folktale of an Irish-Scottish causeway
The intriguing nature of the Causeway's polygonal blocks, coupled with the existence of similar formations across the sea in the west of Scotland, inspired a wealth of myths and legends in ancient times.
According to tradition, Irish warrior Fionn mac Cumhaill (anglicised as Finn McCool) built the causeway so he could walk to Scotland to fight a giant called Benandonner.
Different versions of the legend exist, with the most prominent stating that Benandonner crossed the causeway first and started looking for Fionn. As the giant was much larger than the warrior, Fionn's wife came up with the ingenious plan to dress her husband like a baby. When Benandonner came to Fionn's house and saw the size of the supposed baby, the giant was terrified at the thought of how huge the father would be. Benandonner ran back home, destroying the causeway so he would not be followed by Fionn.
The myth linking Fionn mac Cumhaill with the Giant's Causeway gained international success after Scottish poet James Macpherson published his Ossian poems in the 18th century. Ossian's poems were translated into several languages and influenced the works of many European writers of the time."
https://www.celticcountries.com/travel/259-giants-causeway-unesco-world-heritage-site
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Taylor Warren4:47 PM (1 hour ago)
to meI'm still trying to hammer out the bubbly note so that I don't need to slow down and play it when I practice. I'm committing time during practice to repeatedly playing it so that muscle memory takes hold; raising the C finger all by itself without taking other fingers with it is a bit tricky. Patience, repetition, playing slow, and not cheating myself is key. I'm also trying to improve my slurs and half-slurs on B; I feel like they aren't as pronounced as they could be and my fingers tend to slip a bit so I'm setting aside time for exercises with those too.I rather like Devil in the Kitchen as a strathspey. At the very least, I'm fairly sure I've heard it in that style more often than as a reel.
As a quick aside, I figured the sacred harp connection would be a bit of a stretch. The other style that comes to mind is gaelic psalm singing, which survives primarily on the Isle of Lewis and a few neighboring regions. Wikipedia says it does in fact have a relation to pibroch as well as an Appalachian connection, albeit in a thoroughly anglicized form:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaelic_psalm_singing
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Scott MacLeod <sgkmacleod@gmail.com>5:23 PM (47 minutes ago)
to TaylorThe bubbly note is great preparation for the Taorluath and Crunluath fingering movements / techniques in Piobaireachd.Could be a connection between Gaelic Psalm singing and Piobaireachd.
Gaelic Psalm singing, Isle of Lewis, Scotland
https://youtu.be/B0SWNJzhKUs
Gaelic psalms at Back Free Church, Isle Of Lewis- 20/21/oct/2003
https://youtu.be/k3MzZgPBL3Q
The brilliant Donald Meek was a professor of mine at the University of Edinburgh, and from Tiree ... part of the culture and peoples in these Gaelic Psalm singing videos.
Cheers, Scott
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Appreciating the vision of St. Kilda, Piobaireachd, learning canntaireachd and into a realistic virtual earth ... This video seems to head in a direction of Scottish transcendence that I aim for with piping and envisioning ... and for direct learning of canntaireachd as well. :)
The Prince's Salute - Michael Grey - bagpipes and canntaireachd
https://youtu.be/ZCHRQuITwWs
Looked up more about Canadian Michael Grey, and find, too, his Strathspey fingering here very open and edifying ...
Michael Grey, MSRHPJ, 2010 Livingstone Invitational
https://youtu.be/NQ7E-hS0NGo
begins with
M - march
1:45
S - strathspey
2:45
R - reel
3:45
HP - hornpipe
4:45
J - jig
Interesting not often played marches:
Marches in compound time -
Michael Grey (1 of 6) - Piping Live 2011
https://youtu.be/9pvYkxT82iEMore about Grey here, - is he jumping on his pipes? :)) ... an approach to piping I'm not seeking to teach, au contraire - but am rather heading toward the extraordinary, salutary and music-making freedom of enjoying playing (Grey's technique is great! ... does the above St. Kilda piobaireachd / canntaireachd video transcend technique regarding service? Hmmm :)
https://pipetunes.ca/composer/michael-grey/and
http://www.piperspersuasion.com/michael-grey/
andhttps://twitter.com/michaelgrey?lang=en
Cheers, Scott
https://twitter.com/scottmacleod/
Languages - World Univ: https://twitter.com/sgkmacleod/https://twitter.com/WorldUnivAndSch/
https://twitter.com/WUaSPress/
https://twitter.com/HarbinBook/
https://twitter.com/TheOpenBand/
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Info WorldUniversity <info@worlduniversityandschool.org>Fri, Jun 26, 9:47 AM (2 days ago)
to SriLanka, nidahasvidyalaya, Marisol, Freedom, srilanka, livestream, Peter, mazumdarp, ScottHi Rifai, Peter, Partha, (and Marisol, Quechua language teacher at Stanford),I just shared this World Univ & Sch homepage in Google Sites - https://sites.google.com/view/worlduniversityandschool (with an invitation message) - for you to texplore translating into the Sinhala and Tamil languages (but I also sent it to myself at sgkmacleod@w ... .org , and haven't received an email notice).
Rifai, focusing on Sinhala and Tamil languages will help too with WUaS maritime law - https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Maritime_Law (https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/World_University_Law_School s - see links to other countries' law schools half way down) - and regarding the Palk Strait between Sri Lanka and India - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palk_Straitand in both the Law School at Sri Lanka WUaS (in Sinhala), and the Tamil language Law School at India WUaS, for example.
Rifai, re your "How about assessment, proctoring and certificate?" - am hoping this will come out further of a kind of conversation between edX in Massachusetts, and the state of California's BPPE for licensing, and concurrently WASC for accreditation too. Perhaps edX will be able to offer the equivalent of assessment, proctoring and on WUaS edX certificates.
Please let me know if you got the invitation I just shared from - https://sites.google.com/view/worlduniversityandschool . Am not clear from Google Sites' "Share with others" which I just invited you from, that you'll be able to edit or translate this page, or what. (And it would be great if you could do so from within the WUaS Google Drive too). Thank you.
Regards, Scott- http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2020/06/sri-lanka-blue-magpie-great-wuas.html -
Just shared thisHi Rifai (in Sri Lanka), Peter, Partha, and Marisol,
I'm sharing this World Univ & Sch home page in Google Sites for you, Rifai, to explore translating into the Sinhala and Tamil languages. (I'm sending to mostly Google email accounts). Regards, Scott (worlduniversityandschool.org)
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to me, Freedom, livestream, Peter, mazumdarp, Scott, nidahasvidyalaya, MarisolHi !I received a notice and started the translation. I have to review and edit manually as some sentences are gibberish. Also some words like credit had to be changed as Google thinks someone is trying to get a loan ;) Will gradually move into course translation.
https://sites.google.com/view/worlduniversityandschool/srilanka
We will have to work out something if we are to launch a degree in September. We could use the quizzes in edX courses to assess. Certificate can also be issued using Word etc.
We might have to monitor the students online via a combination of webcam, ID verification & screen sharing to prevent impersonation as someone paid to do so could follow the degree under a students name.
Regards,
Rifai
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Info WorldUniversity <info@worlduniversityandschool.org>Sat, Jun 27, 9:59 AM (1 day ago)
to Sri, livestream, Peter, mazumdarp, nidahasvidyalaya, Marisol, Freedom, ScottSo beautiful, and what a beautiful script too! I want to write English on the computer in a new rounded way!And amazing - a new Sri Lanka World Univ & Sch in Sinhala in Google Sites (and Google Translate friendly), and designed / accessible from a smartphone even -
https://sites.google.com/view/worlduniversityandschool/srilanka
A good 'naming' model too for all ~200 countries - first in English, but then perhaps named in the countries' official / mian languages? Something like - https://sites.google.com/view/worlduniversityandschool/ශ්රී ලංකාව - or even all in Sinhala? Are Google Sites' URLs all in Sinhala at this point?
I received this invitation to translate at worlduniversityandschool@gmail.com's main parent address (which I had also sent to myself), although I think I only sent it to sgkmacleod@worlduni ...org (for learning about the structure of WUaS in Google Suite for Education).
Rifai, have you taken an edX course? I've only taken this single (HarvardX JuryX) edX law course in 2016, taught by Harvard Law Emeritus Professor Charlie Nesson - and if I recall correctly it's pretty well structured IT-wise for accreditation / licensing regarding proctoring etc. (The edX JuryX archived course link here - https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2015/03/volcano-rabbit-3-new-law-schools-at.html - and much more).
Also regarding translation and edX, this is the idea in the big picture: taking potentially edX courses (from best STEM CC-4 OCW courses - https://ocw.mit.edu/ - into - https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/mitx-related-courseware/) on the edX platform ( which I blogged about yesterday re an email to a Reed College alumna (of which I am also, and which can be an interesting network) working as Admissions' officer in north India at the Woodstock school - https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2020/06/scarlet-milkweed-asclepias-curassavica.html - which also just became IB). Re course standards in edX, am hoping WUaS can learn from these 3 OCW languages - https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/translated-courses/ .
Am hoping too the way will open to communicate more directly with edX and Anant Agarwal regarding all of this in due course. Seeking to offer English-speaking Sri Lankans this autumn free-to-students' online Bachelor degrees (so please don't worry too much about translation in Sinhala). And you mentioned in a previous email that you think you might be able to find WUaS students? In ballpark terms, how many might be interested in a 4 year free online Bachelor's degree in English?
Thank you, Rifai, and so great!
WUaS Cheers, ScottSo this doesn't disappear: :)- https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2020/06/sri-lanka-blue-magpie-great-wuas.html -
PSSeeking to move some of the learning at WUaS into a realistic virtual earth - https://twitter.com/hashtag/RealisticVirtualEarth?src=hashtag_click (Google Street View-centric with TIME SLIDER / Maps / Earth / TensorFlow) - and maybe, for example, for the WUaS Law Schools and nation states' boundary and maritime law questions:
Here's the Bay of Bengal in Google Maps / Street View -
https://www.google.com/maps/place/Palk+Strait/@8.5089302,79.1999949,8z/data=!4m13!1m7!3m6!1s0x30986dc9280955a1:0x1eb983108723598e!2sBay+of+Bengal!3b1!8m2!3d13.531665!4d87.5395855!3m4!1s0x3afe4c8c6568cfe5:0x6ec271feb96b698c!8m2!3d8.5089302!4d79.1999949
And here's the Palk Strait https://www.google.com/maps/place/Palk+Strait/@9.082873,78.3603447,8z/data=!3m1!4b1!4m5!3m4!1s0x3afe4c8c6568cfe5:0x6ec271feb96b698c!8m2!3d8.5089302!4d79.1999949
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I went to Google Translate and it was nice to hear spoken World University and School of Sri Lanka in Sinhala - https://translate.google.com/.
Would it be possible perhaps to write something on this new Sri Lanka in Sinhala page - https://sites.google.com/view/worlduniversityandschool/srilanka - that WUaS courses this autumn will be in English for free-to-students' degrees, - and at the same time in Sinhala that the emergent wiki schools at WUaS in Sinhala are for open teaching & learning ... https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Subjects ? Could we develop your Sri Lanka World Univ & Sch in Sinhala as a way to do outreach for Sri Lankan students first in English?
Appreciating, too, the English rendering from Google Translate - World University and School of Sri Lanka .
Here by the way are the beginnings of World Univ & Sch in Google Maps / Street View with time slider (for HISTORY too!) Google Earth (and re TensorFlow AI and Translate)> https://www.google.com/maps/place/World+University+%26+School/@37.8343827,-122.1635866,15z/data=!4m5!3m4!1s0x0:0xbc76546d8b81c2e7!8m2!3d37.8343827!4d-122.1635866
> https://www.google.com/search?q=World+University+%26+School&ludocid=13580134555851014887
How are the supply of and access to laptop computers for high achieving 18 year olds in Sri Lanka (who might speak English) - and very reliable broadband for group video conferencing, with students in all ~200 countries around the world in WUaS courses for credit?
Regards, Scott
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June 27, 2020
Hypericum calycinum: Minutes for open WUaS Monthly Business Meeting on Sat. June 20, 2020
Minutes for open WUaS Monthly Business Meeting on Sat. June 20, 2020
Minute 1
WUaS will potentially offer edX courses to our WUaS matriculating undergraduate class for free-to-students' best STEM CC-4 OpenCourseWare Bachelor degrees.
https://sites.google.com/view/worldun...
https://sites.google.com/view/worldun...
for WUaS EECS, General Engineering, and General Science majors.
You'll find our 6 planned CC-4 OCW Bachelor degree majors here - http://worlduniversityandschool.org/
- and in the WUaS course catalog -
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/....
WUaS also seeks to offer potentially these
edX ORAP courses
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/....
https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/20...
Does a student get something that indicates you completed a course in an edX when taking it for free?
Students would pick their courses
Give them a list of courses
Introductory courses in their major
General education
and related introductory courses
UT Austin courses on edX
of your interest
Minute 1-A
Libraries
must be partner
interlibrary loan
Actual - virtual Harbin ethnographic book (as a kind of text book)could be contributed to partner with great universities' online libraries
so we do could have books to loan …
Minute 2
WUaS continues to invite you to WUaS open Monthly Business Meeting (hour long on 3rd Saturdays, and conducted loosely in the manner of Friends / Quakers)
WUaS Corp
Stanford Law SDVX for Board Members?
See creative commons licensing and other licensing
Minute 3
Board invitation to you
- info @ worlduniversityandschool.org
Minute 4
Realistic Virtual Earth -
https://www.google.com/maps/place/Wor...
https://www.google.com/search?q=World...
Check out and please add to, if inclined, a #RealisticVirtualEarthForHistory #hashtag on Twitter (or here:) - https://twitter.com/hashtag/Realistic... - :)
See, the side bar in Google Street View here, in visiting the Harbin Hot Springs' gate
~ http://tinyurl.com/p62rpcg (accessible from ~ https://twitter.com/HarbinBook ~ http://bit.ly/HarbinBook ~)
Minute 4-A
Realistic Virtual Earth for Robotics
WUaS seeks to facilitate developing the 3D virtual world of educational MineCraft (with its Lego scale) into Google Poly (a library of 3D objects), and potentially patentable, - in addition to with adding Brick Street View (where a brick refers to a Lego brick) with Google Street View, into which one can add photos and videos, and is integrated with Google Maps and Earth; Film-to-3D App for this.
Minute 5
WUaS Home Robotics
WUaS seeks to offer "Home Robotics" emerging from the idea of https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/experimen... - and potentially via the edX platform, for WUaS EECS, General Engineering, and General Science majors.
with these 3 Lego kits
Minute 6
Brainwave headset research at WUaS -
Ama
and in Turkey and in many World Univ & Schs in some of all ~200 countries ...
Minute 7
Wiki (editable and thus teachable too) pages at World University and Schools -
[Wikimedia-l] 3,000,000 Wikidata Infoboxes in Commons categories on Su Jun 21, 20
[1] https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Ca...
[2] https://templatecount.toolforge.org/i...
Minute 8
Sri Lanka WUaS in Sinhala is begun and in Google Sites!
Minute 9
Youtube WUaS Livestreams this month
accessible from WUaS Livestream channel -
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCdUR...
(which is accessible from https://www.youtube.com/user/WorldUni...)
Minute 10
Please unsubscribe if not interested in receiving WUaS open monthly business meeting emailings
"World University and School is sending you this because of your interest in free, online, higher education. If you don't want to receive these, please reply with 'unsubscribe' in the body of the email, leaving the subject line intact. Thank you."
WUaS Corporation
A
WUaS is 'officially' carrying Lego Robotics, but not yet a reseller - http://worlduniversityandschool.org/A...
B
WUaS Educational Services' Store - http://worlduniversityandschool.org/A... - is newly grown, and is now carrying 7 products for sale (3 Lego Robotics' kits, and 4 books published by the Academic Press at World Univ & Sch).
C
UBI experiments with regards to WUaS, and in planning for universities in ~200 countries and their official languages, with law faculty and students:
D
The WUaS Press is seeking to publish a second actual-virtual, physical-virtual Harbin Hot Springs' ethnographic book, potentially publishing it to paper from within Google Street View, with text in the sidebar. See, for example: https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/20....
See, the side bar in Google Street View here, in visiting the Harbin Hot Springs' gate
~ http://tinyurl.com/p62rpcg (accessible from ~ https://twitter.com/HarbinBook ~ http://bit.ly/HarbinBook ~)
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WUaS Press -
seeks to address questions of anti-racism, such as Orientalist questions
To the editor, Rami Daher (Architect and Professor), of a tourism studies' book in which I have a chapter, but which is not yet for sale in the WUaS Press:
"I hope my thesis of Orientalism in online UNESCO World Heritage Sites in the chapter I wrote has been an asset for your edited volume" - https://www.amazon.com/Rami-Farouk-Da...).
This book, and the books in the Academic Press at WUaS are here
- https://www.amazon.com/author/scottma...
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World University's open monthly business meeting Agenda and News for June 20, 2020:
- https://worlduniversityandschool.blog...
- https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/20...
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June 26, 2020
Scarlet milkweed (Asclepias curassavica): Greetings from the SF Bay Area to Woodstock school in INDIA from World Univ & Sch! * * * It's a small interestingly-linked world! * Two Reed College alumni
Scott MacLeod
5:15 PM (0 minutes ago)
to swatishrestha, saumitra
Dear Swati, (& Saumitra), do you by any chance happen to know each other?
Greetings, Swati! It's a small interestingly-linked world! I just attended an online panel, moderated by Stanford Professor and Woodstock alumnus, Saumitra Jha, and then, after connecting on LinkedIn, and seeing he went to Woodstock School, I noticed on the Woodstock school site - https://www.woodstockschool.in/college-career-counselling/ - that you had gone to Reed, and were an Admissions' counselor there too. I went to Reed College as well, graduating in 1985. And in noticing too, that you're an admission's counselor now at the Woodstock School in India, -
Swati Shrestha, Head of College and Career Counselling
SWATI SHRESTHA, HEAD OF COLLEGE AND CAREER COUNSELLING
swatishrestha@woodstock.ac.in +91 135 263 9307 - Swati holds a B.A. in English, and a Certificate in College Counseling from UCLA Extension. She was an Assistant Dean of Admission at Reed College for four years and managed international admission. Swati is an International ACAC Inclusion, Access and Success Committee member.
- I'm writing to let you both know about the best STEM CC-4 OpenCourseWare-centric World University and School, of which I'm the founder and its head. WUaS is seeking to matriculate our 2nd online undergraduate class for free-to-students' Bachelor degrees this autumn. Students would be studying from home, and taking potentially edX courses (from best STEM CC-4 OCW courses - https://ocw.mit.edu/ - into - https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/mitx-related-courseware/) on the edX platform.
WUaS would like to offer "Home Robotics" emerging from the idea of https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/experimental-study-group/es-293-lego-robotics-spring-2007/ - and potentially via the edX platform, for WUaS EECS, General Engineering, and General Science majors. You'll find our 6 planned CC-4 OCW Bachelor degree majors here - http://worlduniversityandschool.org/ - and in the WUaS course catalog -
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1VRHhXYsk-V9lvSh5onaU2hnEhwoapSN7HyBK1P09LIk/edit?usp=sharing. WUaS also seeks to offer potentially these ORAP edX courses - edX
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/10huGunGcPQQpsoJicL8ZDUrBaOKxtA5ODgOPKfsYokM/edit?usp=sharing.
In addition WUaS is somewhat informed by the Society of Friends (Quakers / Non-theist Friends), and is seeking to offer Ph.D., Law, M.D. and eventually IB high school degrees (too!), and online in creative ways with time. WUaS is also seeking to develop major online Universities offering these degrees in each of all ~200 countries' official / main languages, and wiki schools for open teaching and learning in all 7,117 known living languages.
If you'd like to explore in an open vein some of this further. WUaS holds an open Monday at 10am Pacific Time WUaS Q & A, News and Livestream and I would happily invite you to join the live conversation via LIghtStream if you might have questions, ideas, thoughts or even suggestions you'd like to share - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCdURAADdLc9ctxnbismtXzQ (accessible from
https://www.youtube.com/user/WorldUnivandSch).
I noticed too in Google Street picture that there's a medical college near Woodstock school, and I'd be interested in learning more about this. WUaS's online Medical Degrees 4 years out in English first, seeks to be fully online and in an online hospitals, for online clinical care, and even research, potentially collaborating with Stanford Medicine (and Stanford Law too for our Law Schools). Thanks to CC-4 best STEM OpenCourseWare in its 4 languages for the great beginnings of online Bachelor and Ph.D. degrees.
How might we best communicate further about this?
If you don't know each other, I'd like to e-introduce you here :)
Sincerely, Scott
https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/search/label/India
In Google Street View:
Woodstock school -
https://www.google.com/maps/place/Woodstock+School/@30.4542705,78.1005188,15z/data=!4m5!3m4!1s0x0:0xa5f06ad7169f496f!8m2!3d30.4542705!4d78.1005188
Landour, India -
https://www.google.com/maps/place/Landour,+Mussoorie,+Uttarakhand,+India/@30.4545773,78.0838504,14z/data=!3m1!4b1!4m5!3m4!1s0x3908da3d1b22a19f:0x493268b0b1f9efc2!8m2!3d30.4554533!4d78.1022729
https://www.linkedin.com/in/swatishrestha/
https://www.linkedin.com/in/saumitra-jha-6b81881/
https://www.linkedin.com/in/scottgkmacleod/
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June 25, 2020
Lantana camara: Bagpiping, Scottish Small Piping Re both expressivity and mastery learning * * * Avatar Bot Electronic Medical Records * Far-reaching Stanford conversation about "COVID-19: The Impact in India" * the beginning Clinical Trials' wiki subjec
Hi Taylor,
See you in a few hours! Re both expressivity and mastery learning, here are some interesting further examples.
I enjoyed thisThe Beaton Sisters Salmon Arm ROOTSandBLUES Festival
https://youtu.be/3_CW5_N-T3A
and could guess that it might pre-date 2012 - since Margie and Dawn Beaton look so young (and look at Margie's face part way through :)!
INTO
the Beaton Sisters - live @ ECMA 2010 - Celtic Colours Festival Club Stage
https://youtu.be/xCSk5waVkxI
interesting way of seeing what 'mastery learning' is ...
And here's a definition of 'mastery learning' I appreciate ... "Mastery learning simply means allowing a student to continue to work on a concept until they can master that concept or skill. ... At Khan Academy, we provide a personalized, mastery-based learning system. Students are supported and challenged to build skills over time."
Why Mastery Learning, by Sal Khan – Khan Academy Help ...khanacademy.zendesk.com
https://khanacademy.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/articles/360030753412-Why-Mastery-Learning-by-Sal-Khan
... and even with regards to a successive approximations' approach to learning ... which can lead to mastery learning ...
expressivity I appreciate too ...Catherine Ashcroft & Maurice Dickson (Mochara) - Táimse im' Chodladh/King of the Pipers
https://youtu.be/P40YOU8ggJk(but on Uilleann pipes, and with guitar too for expressive synergies)
Playing a tune one's learning with metronome can be a way of gauging one's own mastery learning - and especially re dot-cuts.
Cheers, and regards, Scott
-- - Scott MacLeod- http://scottmacleod.com
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Re tunes this evening,
Ghillie Callum (quick step)
Dorrator Bridge
Willie GrayHave you been able to access easily
Gillie Callum (quick step)
http://www.coloradopipers.com/highlanddance/CoPipers_HighlandDnaceTunes.pdf ?
Cheers, Scott
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Good lesson tonight, Scott.
Here's the Spotify links I mentioned.
Drops of Brandy, by Distant Oaks. Some of their music is a little new agey for my liking (lots of cheesy low whistles and synths), but now and again they'll play a trad tune like this one: https://open.spotify.com/track/4DITJFx8DFKTky0bar3PvU
Lark in the Morning, Alternative Pipers (etc): https://open.spotify.com/track/0ZkKYroU93YUepffXhQTcp
As a bonus, here's a quartet on youtube:
https://youtu.be/UcgBFrqqq5c
By the way, do you have an opinion one way or the other regarding the Falkirk Piper on Youtube? He's recorded most of the Scots Guards tunes and I consult his recordings when I need to confirm I'm reading a tune right.https://www.youtube.com/user/Heed229
Thanks again!
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9:56 PM (19 minutes ago)
to Taylor
Thanks so much, Taylor,
Both Spotify piping tracks sound good initially ... will listen further.
Are you familiar with the new SSP album -
The Reeling (2019)
Brighde Chaimbeul
https://open.spotify.com/artist/7AzZeX7Q9ziRE6mILhQZ8W
Brighde's from the Isle of Skye interestingly.
I have come across -
Ceolas Piping Concert, smallpipes.
https://youtu.be/UcgBFrqqq5c
- a couple of times, and with its singing ... good group model for SSP and singing possibly ... quite Scottish, with pipe band players too ... and, separately, Allan MacDonald (on left) may have revived in a new way an old different GHB piping style with his album "Colla Mo Rún" (2001 CD, Album) - https://www.discogs.com/artist/564972-Allan-Macdonald - and his University of Edinburgh thesis in the School of Celtic and Scottish Studies (but this Ceolas Youtube video with him and fellow pipers is not somehow entirely inspiring to me, somehow).
Am appreciative of Neil Clark's Falkirk Piping instruction in general.
It could be fun to explore playing duets together with time.
I have the recollection that Canntaireachd is used for learning Piobaireachd,
but searched on
'canntaireachd singing and ceol beag light music piping youtube"
and this is nice, and instructive ...
The Prince's Salute - Michael Grey - bagpipes and canntaireachd
https://youtu.be/ZCHRQuITwWs
( and it's also about St. Kilda which I did my University of Edinburgh thesis on in the School of Celtic and Scottish Studies - virtual St. Kilda as place even ... )
Lovely played Piobaireachd by Michael Grey as well! Nether Lorn Canntaireachd is best known both scholarly and
Piobaireachd - The Field of Gold.
https://youtu.be/aGufeIx37y4
(Canntaireachd as choral music starts after pipe band Piobaireachd at about 5:25 - and that's Jack Lee 'conducting-piping')
Both of these are creative uses of Canntaireachd
Band-Re: Hihorodo hiharara
https://youtu.be/o_b1hNtbsdI
(with Canntaireachd written out too)
The Canntaireachd Project – Trailer
https://youtu.be/M5T7RMiRBHU
(with Canntaireachd written out too - pointers to the scholarship too - Allan MacDonald again)
Oran Canntaireachd - Chris Armstrong, Finlay MacDonald (who's been a teacher of mine conducts)
https://youtu.be/Ljrz0GhQgs8
Am wondering about - for my upcoming "Honey in the Bag" album - even Blockchain ledger with tracks on a CD / internet video possibilities (and even creatively exploring making and coding Lego robots that might be coded somehow to dance to piping, and metronomically too - out of the box, and haven't seen this whatsoever yet).
Thanks,
Scott
This may be a spotify URL for me ... https://open.spotify.com/user/scottworldunivandsch or similar ... but their new 'hard sell' and 90 seconds + of ads seems to be getting in the way of ease of use, so I don't head in the Spotify direction much.
Next week, the MSR: :)
Willie Gray
Dorrator Bridge ...
Devil in the Kitchen
--
- Scott MacLeod
- http://scottmacleod.com
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F, June 26, 2020
Taylor,
In searching a bit further, it seems Scot Rhona Lightfoot has musically explored canntaireachd with light music (Ceol Beag - or 'little music') - The Highland Sessions: canntaireachd
https://youtu.be/ctaMm37-Ud4
Found this:
"Has Canntaireachd ever been used to sing light music?
I've heard recordings of Ceol Beag tunes sung in syllables similar to Canntaireachd (the CD notes also said Canntaireachd), but when I tried to make out the syllables, they were only partly consistent with the conventional Canntaireachd syllables.
I'd like to emphasize this was neither Mouth Music nor lilting.
Mac Aindriú
05-13-2013, 07:11 AM
I agree somebody should invent a canntaireachd for light music. A few years ago it was brought up on this forum but the consensus was there would be too much bickering amongst the piping world but isn’t that what goes on now? I have three CD’s of canntaireachd by Donald F. Lindsay that I listen to and try to make canntaireachd like sound for light music, I’m almost tempted to contact him and ask him if he could devise a system for a price. At least something would be done and the rest of them could argue from now to the end of time on what is correct.
owendnash
05-13-2013, 09:08 AM
Correct me if I'm wrong, but wasn't it reported that Rona Lightfoot, did a recital/seminar last August, in the Piping Centre, regarding Canntaireachd and light music??.
Adam Sanderson
05-13-2013, 11:46 AM
Correct me if I'm wrong, but wasn't it reported that Rona Lightfoot, did a recital/seminar last August, in the Piping Centre, regarding Canntaireachd and light music??.
Thanks for reminding me, Owen. You can see and hear Rona here (https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=ctaMm37-Ud4#t=119s).
Her Eadarainn CD is full of this kind of thing too. :)
Desert Rose
05-13-2013, 01:14 PM
Thanks for reminding me, Owen. You can see and hear Rona here (https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=ctaMm37-Ud4#t=119s).
Her Eadarainn CD is full of this kind of thing too. :)
Thank you! I really like this.
Uri
05-16-2013, 03:12 PM
I agree somebody should invent a canntaireachd for light music. .
But, judging from Rona's example (and I'm sure many others exist), it IS already in use for light music? ?:( ... "
http://forums.bobdunsire.com/forums/archive/index.php/t-150925.html
Ceol Mor refers to Piobaireachd - and means literally "Great Music"
I appreciate all these Youtube examples of canntaireachd (literally meaning 'chanting') as innovative explorations of this old form of Scottish music-making (waulking songs could be a form of this too).
Appreciating too staying 'free' - and exploring a kind of 'freedom' in an ongoing way - with regards to light / traditional / classical piping music, (even while I learn from Yo Yo Ma re technique "The whole idea is service: You use your technique to transcend it, in order to serve ..." and in Ma / Marsalis's "Guidelines for practicing a musical instrument" - http://scottmacleod.com/GuidelinesPracticingMusicalInstrument.htm. While Canntaireachd can involve technique too, I'm keeping transcendence in mind (a lot) :)
Am appreciating, too, that Sal Khan's 'mastery learning' definition in a zendesk URL - https://khanacademy.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/articles/360030753412-Why-Mastery-Learning-by-Sal-Khan - (re a kind of meditation aspect of piping too)
On with the MSR :) Rhona Lightfoot would be a good person to learn light music canntaireachd from -
Traditional Celtic Song - Lal, lal, ars’ A’Chailleach
https://youtu.be/eVA1x0I_UoM
Musical cheers, Scott
And again here's a definition of 'mastery learning' I appreciate ... "Mastery learning simply means allowing a student to continue to work on a concept until they can master that concept or skill. ... At Khan Academy, we provide a personalized, mastery-based learning system. Students are supported and challenged to build skills over time."
Why Mastery Learning, by Sal Khan – Khan Academy Help ...khanacademy.zendesk.com
https://khanacademy.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/articles/360030753412-Why-Mastery-Learning-by-Sal-Khan
More like for Piobaireachd: Rhona Lightfoot Singing Canterach.
https://youtu.be/T51bAJuI0vs
-- - Scott MacLeod- http://scottmacleod.com
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Dear Naushad, Yamini, Steve, Saumitra,
Thank you for your far-reaching Stanford conversation about "COVID-19: The Impact in India" this morning PT (from the SF Bay Area, east bay hills) - https://kingcenter.stanford.edu/events/covid-19-impact-india. And nice to hear you again, Naushad; I last heard you speak, when we met too, in the Stanford India Center on 'India National Innovation System' on Oct 10 2017.
Saumitra, thanks especially for making this conversation available online, and your excellent moderation and speakers. Regarding online Covid-19 medicine, planning for densely populated cities, and the e-ICU idea you mentioned, Naushad, - I'm wondering what role the Google-Apple coronavirus tracing app might play in the future with viral epidemics in India (and see below). And in developing best STEM CC-4 OpenCourseWare-centric World University and School, with planned online medical schools in each of all ~200 countries and in their official / main languages too, and planned online teaching hospitals for online clinical care and online research, I'm writing to inquire how we might potentially collaborate? Planning for infectious diseases and viral epidemics in India in the future could be invaluable, but so could planning for medical degrees for Indians, and online clinical care.
Steve and All, I'm posting below an email I sent yesterday to another infectious disease MD (and Brown University Medicine Professor in Rhode Island), Dr. Curt Beckwith, who presented yesterday about Covid-19 too (in a Shady Side Academy alumni meeting - where we both went to high school), - potentially with much relevance to Covid-19 in India, and information technology approaches to this.
"Thank you! Dr. Beckwith - Curt - what role did information technology play in your response as a Brown Univ Med Sch infectious medicine MD, and esp the Google - Apple coronavirus tracing application, - hypothetically? If it had been ready, in what ways would you have used this? What do you think? And what did you see with electronic medical records? Could you see Covid-19 testing (via the Google-Apple tracing app even) with results transferred directly into online electronic medical records as helping significantly what you saw? (I ask this in the context of developing avatar bot electronic medical records - https://twitter.com/search?q=%23AvatarBotElectronicMedicalRecords&src=typeahead_click - for online medical schools with online teaching hospitals at best STEM CC-4 OpenCourseWare-centric World University and School, planned online in ~200 countries’ languages). Thank you Scott ’79 (sgkmacleod@worlduniversityandschool.org)"
How might we best further communicate about some or all of this, - and in the opening window of opportunity created by the coronavirus pandemic, where major universities are all going online this autumn? Thank you!
Best regards, Scott
Dear Curt,
Thanks so much for your excellent reply to my 'brainstorming' questions in this SSA meeting (which I've posted below). Here too is the beginning Clinical Trials' wiki subject page - https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Clinical_Trials_at_WUaS_(for_all_languages) at World Univ & Sch - planned for speakers of all 7,117 known living languages.
I noticed the photo of the beautiful coastline in the back of your office. It reminded much of Cuttyhunk Island, MA, not far from Providence, RI, at all - and where my family has a place (and to which we've been going since 1966). Where is this? It's gorgeous. Have you visited Cuttyhunk, by any chance? There are 1 or 2 families there with many Colby graduates. And where did you grow up in Pittsburgh? My family lived in Point Breeze when I went to Shady Side, and my mother now lives in Oakmont / Verona. (And do you happen to know Sid Mazumdar SSA '78 or '79, my best friend then, who works in the US Federal Government, and his sister, Maitreyi Mazumdar MD who is a Harvard pediatric neurologist, with a research focus on Bangladesh; both of their parents came from West Bengal to Cornell to do their Ph.D.s in 1962? She went to Taylor Allderdice, and Yale as an undergraduate; am not sure where she went to medical school).
World University and School's planned online medical schools with online teaching hospitals for online clinical care will likely first emerge first in English 4 years from now, and would love to explore collaboration opportunities with time with Brown and Yale (where my father was on the faculty in the late 1960s / early 1970s).
The Avatar Bot Electronic Medical Records I asked about would be a part of a single realistic virtual earth, and even with a a #RealisticVirtualEarthForSurgery - https://twitter.com/hashtag/RealisticVirtualEarthForSurgery?src=hashtag_click - and potentially tele-robotic surgery. Am interested in an ongoing way in the actual-virtual, physical-digital developments, and for all of the above. This is the idea - https://twitter.com/scottmacleod/status/1189649081175379968?s=20 . You'll find the best way to conceive of 'Avatar Bot Electronic Medical Records' in the images here - http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2019/09/strategy-brainstorming-medicine-and.html and https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2019/09/oregon-coast-wuas-avatarbotelectronicme.html (and elsewhere in my blog) - and here -
Example of a beginning Avatar Bot Electronic Medical Records #AvatarBotElectronicMedicalRecords ~https://t.co/x5f5vA2f8i ~ Into a #RealisticVirtualEarth ~ #RealisticVirtualEarthForSurgery > https://t.co/SpuwGvCarz @WorldUnivAndSch @WUaSPress Languages-WorldUni @sgkmacleod ~— WorldUnivandSch (@WorldUnivAndSch) September 26, 2019
https://twitter.com/WorldUnivAndSch/status/1177364462858227713 - with related ideas.
How might we best further communicate about some or all of this, - and in the window of opportunity opening created by the coronavirus pandemic, where major universities are all going online this autumn? Thank you!
Best regards, Scott
https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/World_University_Medical_Schoolhttps://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Nation_Stateshttps://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Languages
https://cira.yale.edu/people/curt-g-beckwith-mdhttp://brownmedicine.org/3/infectious-diseases-beckwith/https://vivo.brown.edu/display/cbeckwit
https://twitter.com/WorldUnivAndSch/
https://twitter.com/scottmacleod/
https://twitter.com/sgkmacleod/
https://twitter.com/WUaSPress/
Thank you! Dr. Beckwith - Curt - what role did information technology play in your response as a Brown Univ Med Sch infectious medicine MD, and esp the Google - Apple coronavirus tracing application hypothetically? If it had been ready, in what ways would you have used this, do you think? And what did you see on electronic medical records? Could you see Covid-19 testing (via Google-Apple tracing app even) into online electronic medical records as helping significantly what you saw? (I ask this in the context of developing avatar bot electronic medical records - https://twitter.com/search?q=%23AvatarBotElectronicMedicalRecords&src=typeahead_click - for online medical schools with online teaching hospitals at best STEM CC-4 OpenCourseWare-centric World University and School, planned online in ~200 countries’ languages). Thank you Scott ’79 (sgkmacleod@worlduniversityandschool.org)
Avatar Bot Electronic Medical Record image- https://web.archive.org/web/20170831212017/https://www.topbots.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/ai_healthcare_challenges_800x350.jpg (with this image and one more heart in avatar bot image from MIT here - https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2019/09/oregon-coast-wuas-avatarbotelectronicme.html).
Stanford India Center Naushad Forbes India National Innovation System Oct 10 17
http://events.stanford.edu/events/720/72015/
http://ati.stanford.edu/india_speakers.htm
https://www.cprindia.org/people/yamini-aiyarhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yamini_Aiyarhttps://www.ideasforindia.in/profile/yamini.html
https://profiles.stanford.edu/stephen-lubyhttps://woods.stanford.edu/people/stephen-luby
https://saumitra.people.stanford.edu/contacthttps://saumitra.people.stanford.edu--
-- - Scott MacLeod - Founder, President & Professor
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- 415 480 4577- http://scottmacleod.com
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Lantana camara: Bagpiping, Scottish Small Piping Re both expressivity and mastery learnin * * * far-reaching Stanford conversation about "COVID-19: The Impact in India"
Hi Taylor,
See you in a few hours! Re both expressivity and mastery learning, here are some interesting further examples.
I enjoyed thisThe Beaton Sisters Salmon Arm ROOTSandBLUES Festival
https://youtu.be/3_CW5_N-T3A
and could guess that it might pre-date 2012 - since Margie and Dawn Beaton look so young (and look at Margie's face part way through :)!
INTO
the Beaton Sisters - live @ ECMA 2010 - Celtic Colours Festival Club Stagehttps://youtu.be/xCSk5waVkxI
interesting way of seeing what 'mastery learning' is ...
And here's a definition of 'mastery learning' I appreciate ... "Mastery learning simply means allowing a student to continue to work on a concept until they can master that concept or skill. ... At Khan Academy, we provide a personalized, mastery-based learning system. Students are supported and challenged to build skills over time."
Why Mastery Learning, by Sal Khan – Khan Academy Help ...khanacademy.zendesk.com
https://khanacademy.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/articles/360030753412-Why-Mastery-Learning-by-Sal-Khan
... and even with regards to a successive approximations' approach to learning ... which can lead to mastery learning ...
expressivity I appreciate too ...Catherine Ashcroft & Maurice Dickson (Mochara) - Táimse im' Chodladh/King of the Pipers
https://youtu.be/P40YOU8ggJk(but on Uilleann pipes, and with guitar too for expressive synergies)
Playing a tune one's learning with metronome can be a way of gauging one's own mastery learning - and especially re dot-cuts.
Cheers, and regards, Scott
-- - Scott MacLeod- http://scottmacleod.com
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Re tunes this evening,
Gillie Callum (quick step)
Dorrator Bridge
Willie Gray
Have you been able to access easily
Gillie Callum (quick step)
http://www.coloradopipers.com/highlanddance/CoPipers_HighlandDnaceTunes.pdf ?
Cheers, Scott
-- - Scott MacLeod- http://scottmacleod.com
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Good lesson tonight, Scott.
Here's the Spotify links I mentioned.
Drops of Brandy, by Distant Oaks. Some of their music is a little new agey for my liking (lots of cheesy low whistles and synths), but now and again they'll play a trad tune like this one: https://open.spotify.com/track/4DITJFx8DFKTky0bar3PvU
Lark in the Morning, Alternative Pipers (etc): https://open.spotify.com/track/0ZkKYroU93YUepffXhQTcp
As a bonus, here's a quartet on youtube:https://youtu.be/UcgBFrqqq5c
By the way, do you have an opinion one way or the other regarding the Falkirk Piper on Youtube? He's recorded most of the Scots Guards tunes and I consult his recordings when I need to confirm I'm reading a tune right.https://www.youtube.com/user/Heed229
Thanks again!
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Scott MacLeod
9:56 PM (19 minutes ago)
to Taylor
Thanks so much, Taylor,
Both Spotify piping tracks sound good initially ... will listen further.
Are you familiar with the new SSP album -
The Reeling (2019)
Brighde Chaimbeul
https://open.spotify.com/artist/7AzZe...
Brighde's from the Isle of Skye interestingly.
I have come across -
Ceolas Piping Concert, smallpipes.
https://youtu.be/UcgBFrqqq5c
- a couple of times, and with its singing ... good group model for SSP and singing possibly ... quite Scottish, with pipe band players too ... and, separately, Allan MacDonald (on left) may have revived in a new way an old different GHB piping style with his album "Colla Mo Rún "(CD, Album) - https://www.discogs.com/artist/564972... - and his University of Edinburgh thesis in the School of Celtic and Scottish Studies (but this Ceolas Youtube video with him and fellow pipers is not somehow entirely inspiring to me, somehow).
Am appreciative of Neil Clark's Falkirk Piping instruction in general.
It could be fun to explore playing duets together with time.
I have the recollection that Canntaireachd is used for learning Piobaireachd,
but searched on
'canntaireachd singing and ceol beag light music piping youtube"
and this is nice, and instructive ...
The Prince's Salute - Michael Grey - bagpipes and canntaireachd
https://youtu.be/ZCHRQuITwWs
( and it's also about St. Kilda which I did my University of Edinburgh thesis on in the School of Celtic and Scottish Studies - virtual St. Kilda as place even ... )
Lovely played Piobaireachd by Michael Grey as well! Nether Lorn Canntaireachd is best known both scholarly and
Piobaireachd - The Field of Gold.
https://youtu.be/aGufeIx37y4
(Canntaireachd as choral music starts after pipe band Piobaireachd at about 5:25 - and that's Jack Lee 'conducting-piping')
Both of these are creative uses of Canntaireachd
Band-Re: Hihorodo hiharara
https://youtu.be/o_b1hNtbsdI
(with Canntaireachd written out too)
The Canntaireachd Project – Trailer
https://youtu.be/M5T7RMiRBHU
(with Canntaireachd written out too - pointers to the scholarship too - Allan MacDonald again)
Oran Canntaireachd - Chris Armstrong, Finlay MacDonald (who's been a teacher of mine conducts)
https://youtu.be/Ljrz0GhQgs8
Am wondering about - for my upcoming "Honey in the Bag" album - even Blockchain ledger with tracks on a CD / internet video possibilities (and even creatively exploring making and coding Lego robots that might be coded somehow to dance to piping, and metronomically too - out of the box, and haven't seen this whatsoever yet).
Thanks,
Scott
This may be a spotify URL for me ... https://open.spotify.com/user/scottwo... or similar ... but their new 'hard sell' and 90 seconds + of ads seems to be getting in the way of ease of use, so I don't head in the Spotify direction much.
Next week, the MSR: :)
Willie Gray
Dorrator Bridge ...
Devil in the Kitchen
--
- Scott MacLeod
- http://scottmacleod.com
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Dear Naushad, Yamini, Steve, Saumitra,
Thank you for your far-reaching Stanford conversation about "COVID-19: The Impact in India" this morning PT (from the SF Bay Area, east bay hills) - https://kingcenter.stanford.edu/events/covid-19-impact-india. And nice to hear you again, Naushad; I last heard you speak, when we met too, in the Stanford India Center on 'India National Innovation System' on Oct 10 2017.
Saumitra, thanks especially for making this conversation available online, and your excellent moderation and speakers. Regarding online Covid-19 medicine, planning for densely populated cities, and the e-ICU idea you mentioned, Naushad, - I'm wondering what role the Google-Apple coronavirus tracing app might play in the future with viral epidemics in India (and see below). And in developing best STEM CC-4 OpenCourseWare-centric World University and School, with planned online medical schools in each of all ~200 countries and in their official / main languages too, and planned online teaching hospitals for online clinical care and online research, I'm writing to inquire how we might potentially collaborate? Planning for infectious diseases and viral epidemics in India in the future could be invaluable, but so could planning for medical degrees for Indians, and online clinical care.
Steve and All, I'm posting below an email I sent yesterday to another infectious disease MD (and Brown University Medicine Professor in Rhode Island), Dr. Curt Beckwith, who presented yesterday about Covid-19 too (in a Shady Side Academy alumni meeting - where we both went to high school), - potentially with much relevance to Covid-19 in India, and information technology approaches to this.
"Thank you! Dr. Beckwith - Curt - what role did information technology play in your response as a Brown Univ Med Sch infectious medicine MD, and esp the Google - Apple coronavirus tracing application, - hypothetically? If it had been ready, in what ways would you have used this? What do you think? And what did you see with electronic medical records? Could you see Covid-19 testing (via the Google-Apple tracing app even) with results transferred directly into online electronic medical records as helping significantly what you saw? (I ask this in the context of developing avatar bot electronic medical records - https://twitter.com/search?q=%23AvatarBotElectronicMedicalRecords&src=typeahead_click - for online medical schools with online teaching hospitals at best STEM CC-4 OpenCourseWare-centric World University and School, planned online in ~200 countries’ languages). Thank you Scott ’79 (sgkmacleod@worlduniversityandschool.org)"
How might we best further communicate about some or all of this, - and in the opening window of opportunity created by the coronavirus pandemic, where major universities are all going online this autumn? Thank you!
Best regards, Scott
Dear Curt,
Thanks so much for your excellent reply to my 'brainstorming' questions in this SSA meeting (which I've posted below). Here too is the beginning Clinical Trials' wiki subject page - https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Clinical_Trials_at_WUaS_(for_all_languages) at World Univ & Sch - planned for speakers of all 7,117 known living languages.
I noticed the photo of the beautiful coastline in the back of your office. It reminded much of Cuttyhunk Island, MA, not far from Providence, RI, at all - and where my family has a place (and to which we've been going since 1966). Where is this? It's gorgeous. Have you visited Cuttyhunk, by any chance? There are 1 or 2 families there with many Colby graduates. And where did you grow up in Pittsburgh? My family lived in Point Breeze when I went to Shady Side, and my mother now lives in Oakmont / Verona. (And do you happen to know Sid Mazumdar SSA '78 or '79, my best friend then, who works in the US Federal Government, and his sister, Maitreyi Mazumdar MD who is a Harvard pediatric neurologist, with a research focus on Bangladesh; both of their parents came from West Bengal to Cornell to do their Ph.D.s in 1962? She went to Taylor Allderdice, and Yale as an undergraduate; am not sure where she went to medical school).
World University and School's planned online medical schools with online teaching hospitals for online clinical care will likely first emerge first in English 4 years from now, and would love to explore collaboration opportunities with time with Brown and Yale (where my father was on the faculty in the late 1960s / early 1970s).
The Avatar Bot Electronic Medical Records I asked about would be a part of a single realistic virtual earth, and even with a a #RealisticVirtualEarthForSurgery - https://twitter.com/hashtag/RealisticVirtualEarthForSurgery?src=hashtag_click - and potentially tele-robotic surgery. Am interested in an ongoing way in the actual-virtual, physical-digital developments, and for all of the above. This is the idea - https://twitter.com/scottmacleod/status/1189649081175379968?s=20 . You'll find the best way to conceive of 'Avatar Bot Electronic Medical Records' in the images here - http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2019/09/strategy-brainstorming-medicine-and.html and https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2019/09/oregon-coast-wuas-avatarbotelectronicme.html (and elsewhere in my blog) - and here - - https://twitter.com/WorldUnivAndSch/status/1177364462858227713 - with related ideas.
How might we best further communicate about some or all of this, - and in the window of opportunity opening created by the coronavirus pandemic, where major universities are all going online this autumn? Thank you!
Best regards, Scott
https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/World_University_Medical_Schoolhttps://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Nation_Stateshttps://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Languages
https://cira.yale.edu/people/curt-g-beckwith-mdhttp://brownmedicine.org/3/infectious-diseases-beckwith/https://vivo.brown.edu/display/cbeckwit
https://twitter.com/WorldUnivAndSch/
https://twitter.com/scottmacleod/
https://twitter.com/sgkmacleod/
https://twitter.com/WUaSPress/
Thank you! Dr. Beckwith - Curt - what role did information technology play in your response as a Brown Univ Med Sch infectious medicine MD, and esp the Google - Apple coronavirus tracing application hypothetically? If it had been ready, in what ways would you have used this, do you think? And what did you see on electronic medical records? Could you see Covid-19 testing (via Google-Apple tracing app even) into online electronic medical records as helping significantly what you saw? (I ask this in the context of developing avatar bot electronic medical records - https://twitter.com/search?q=%23AvatarBotElectronicMedicalRecords&src=typeahead_click - for online medical schools with online teaching hospitals at best STEM CC-4 OpenCourseWare-centric World University and School, planned online in ~200 countries’ languages). Thank you Scott ’79 (sgkmacleod@worlduniversityandschool.org)
Stanford India Center Naushad Forbes India National Innovation System Oct 10 17
http://events.stanford.edu/events/720/72015/
http://ati.stanford.edu/india_speakers.htm
https://www.cprindia.org/people/yamini-aiyarhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yamini_Aiyarhttps://www.ideasforindia.in/profile/yamini.html
https://profiles.stanford.edu/stephen-lubyhttps://woods.stanford.edu/people/stephen-luby
https://saumitra.people.stanford.edu/contacthttps://saumitra.people.stanford.edu--
-- - 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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