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Scotch Bonnet: Happy Rabbie Burns' night, "To a Louse," Scottish languages

January 25, 2013, 3:28 pm
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Happy Rabbie Burns' night ...

Here's a famous poem and manuscript of his from the British Library -

"To celebrate, here is Robert Burn’s poem ‘To a Louse’ from his first published collection: Poems, Chiefly in the Scottish Dialect (1786), also known as the ‘Kilmarnock Volume’." (British Library).  


"To a Louse" 


(... again, chiefly published in the Scottish Dialect, -  http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Scots - not Scottish Gaelic (spoken in the Highlands) - http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Scottish_Gaelic).


Is Burns' Scottish Dialect one of "The Ethnologue's" 7,413 languages ...

http://www.ethnologue.com/show_language.asp?code=sco ?

Yes, it's 'Scots' language.


This poem is written in 'Scots,' and the Scottish Dialect referred to above, and in the Scottish language, (but not in Scottish English), and is the language in which Burns' wrote his poems ... Here's the Wikipedia entry with further clarifications: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scots_language.





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Olympics' Cedar: Seriously funny Economics (from a Reedie:) ... Yoram Bauman, Hyperinflation in Hell, , Cambridge, MA: http://gregmankiw.blogspot.com/2013/01/hyperinflation-in-hell.html, which I added to the Economics' wiki, subject page at WUaS ...

January 26, 2013, 7:13 pm
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Seriously funny Economics (from a Reedie:) ... 


http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=TsdSxk-qxZE

Bauman, Yoram. 2013. [http://gregmankiw.blogspot.com/2013/01/hyperinflation-in-hell.html Hyperinflation in Hell]. January 22. Cambridge, MA: gregmankiw.blogspot.com/2013/01/hyperinflation-in-hell.html. 


... which I added to the Economics' wiki, subject page at WUaS ... 

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






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wild grass: monty python football

January 27, 2013, 8:58 am
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Grey Crowned Crane: Democratic Republic of Congo Educational Resources, WUaS as a wiki educational resource for the Congo, Perhaps a Sal Khan of Congolese educational resources in Congolese languages will emerge

January 28, 2013, 9:35 am
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Hi R, 

Thanks for your question about educational resources on CD for the DRC.


World University and School is coming along in baby steps, and we'd like to matriculate our first, Creative Commons' licensed, MIT OCW-centric, undergraduate degree class, in English, in the autumn of 2014 (applying this autumn). 

Thanks so much for forwarding information about WUaS to the US lead for Congo Education work (of the Orinda-Lafayette Presbyterian Congo Team, or Friends of the Congo?)! 

What languages do you think would be most fruitful for educational resources in the DRC as these various, media resources grow? WUaS is planning for all languages eventually, but, after college degree programs in English get going, nad starting with UN languages, and possibly in Portuguese and Swahili, two lingua francas of Africa, early on, and eventually moving much MIT OCW into these languages at the high school/I.B., undergraduate/BA and graduate levels/Ph.D. And WUaS will plan for both handheld devices (relatively inexpensive) and CDs/DVDs (compact disks/digital versatile disks) and printable ones (see the "navigation section" at the WUaS Congo page), but I wasn't able to find any online, educational resources for the Congo on the web when I just looked. And WUaS would very much like to invite Congolese to become stakeholders and initiators in this WUaS, MIT-centric, WUaS process ... and to simply start teaching to the web at WUaS, in non-French languages. 

I did find this in Wikipedia, suggesting Belgium and resources in French would be something to build on: 
(In 2001 the literacy rate was estimated to be 67.2% (80.9% male and 54.1% female).[68] The education system in the Democratic Republic of the Congo is governed by three government ministries: the Ministère de l'Enseignement Primaire, Secondaire et Professionnel (MEPSP), the Ministère de l'Enseignement Supérieur et Universitaire (MESU) and the Ministère des Affaires Sociales (MAS). The educational system in the DRC is similar to that of Belgium. In 2002, there were over 19,000 primary schools serving 160,000 students; and 8,000 secondary schools serving 110,000 students. Primary education is free and compulsory (Article 43 of the 2005 Congolese Constitution).[69]
Gross enrollment ratios are based on the number of students formally registered in primary school and therefore do not necessarily reflect actual school attendance.[70] In 2000, 65 percent of children ages 10 to 14 years were attending school.[70] As a result of the 6-year civil war, over 5.2 million children in the country receive no education.[70])


Presently WUaS's pages are places where we can all add open, online resources we know of, and even create them by starting a wiki, subject page - http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/SUBJECT_TEMPLATE - or teaching to our web camera.  We can also create other, new pages. 

WUaS's Congo, and related, pages (e.g. languages ,etc.) - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democratic_Republic_of_the_Congo - are wiki and thus open. As Congolese and other people learn of this, and as the WUaS wiki improves (we're moving soon probably to a new Wikidata wiki), resources on this page will grow. Perhaps a Sal Khan of Congolese educational resources in Congolese languages will emerge. 

And perhaps J.I. might have some insight in to developing such resources. 

Best, 
Scott



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Oryx: New 'Arabic language' wiki, subject page at WUaS, Video with Hillary Rodham Clinton introducing from the Ben Franklin Room a new Open Books' project focusing on educational resources in the Arabic language, and vis-a-vis the Arab League, New York Times' piece by Tom Friedman, "Revolution Hits the Universities," also emphasizing online education and the Arabic language.

January 29, 2013, 8:45 am
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New 'Arabic language' wiki, subject page at World University and School -

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


with a video with Hillary Rodham Clinton (outgoing Secretary of State)


Remarks at the Announcement of the 

Open Book Project


http://www.state.gov/secretary/rm/2013/01/203382.htm

introducing from the Ben Franklin Room a new Open Books' project, focusing on educational resources in the Arabic language, and vis-a-vis the Arab League,


The initiative will:
  • Support the creation of Arabic-language Open Educational Resources (OERs) and the translation of existing OERs into Arabic.
  • Disseminate the resources free of charge through our partners and their platforms.
  • Offer training and support to governments, educators, and students to put existing resources to use and develop their own.
  • Raise Awareness of the potential of open educational resources and promote uptake of online learning materials.

http://www.state.gov/p/nea/rls/203276.htm



and a New York Times' piece by Tom Friedman, "Revolution Hits the Universities," -

http://mobile.nytimes.com/article?a=1020686 -

also emphasizing education and the Arabic language.


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In conjunction with developing Creative Commons' licensed, MIT-OCW World University and School for online university (and I.B.) degrees in English, WUaS plans to begin developing in United Nations' languages, first, including Arabic.


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Some relevant, beginning WUaS links:


Arabic language: http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Arabic_language

Middle East: http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Middle_East

United Arab Emirates: http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/United_Arab_Emirates

United Nations: http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/United_Nations







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Barn owl: First, online, undergraduate, bachelor's degree - from the big University of Wisconsin, - that I've heard of, Here are the College at WUaS and Admissions at WUaS, WUaS would like to matriculate our first, free, Creative Commons' licensed, MIT OCW-centric, undergraduate class in the autumn of 2014, with students applying this autumn

January 30, 2013, 10:08 am
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Here's the first, online, undergraduate, bachelor's degree I've heard of, - from the big University of Wisconsin -


College Degree, No Class Time Required

University of Wisconsin to Offer a 

Bachelor's to Students Who Take 

Online Competency Tests About 

What They Know


http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424127887323301104578255992379228564.html -

which I've added to 'The College at WUaS,' as reference. 


It's great to have precedent 'out there' in path-making, from an already-accredited, good, big university.



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Here's the College at WUaS ...

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


and Admissions at WUaS ...

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


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East African elephant: Quakers, Nonviolence Strategy, Peace and Social Justice Studies, and World University and School

January 31, 2013, 8:05 am
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Dear George Lakey, 

Nice to see you today (we met decades ago at Pendle Hill) and thanks for an engaging, afternoon session in the San Francisco's Mission district on 'Nonviolent Strategy'. I had to leave with something previously planned, but I wanted to communicate with you in writing about Quaker-informed, wiki, MIT OCW-centric World University and School, which is like Wikipedia with MIT OpenCourseWare, and which plans to offer Creative Commons' licensed, MIT-centric, online, university degrees - bachelor (2014), Ph.D. (2015), law (2016) and M.D. (2017) in addition to International Baccalaureate (2015-ish?) in English - accredited eventually in many languages, beginning with United Nations' ones, as well as be in 7,413+ languages and 204+ countries, as open, free, online, wiki schools. We engage Quaker business process for our monthly business meetings. WUaS would like to matriculate our first, MIT-centric, undergraduate class in 2014, with students applying this autumn 2013. You could think of WUaS as a nonviolent strategy, in and of itself. And WUaS is very interested in reaching out to Quaker High School and College students, in particular. Free, MIT, and Wiki (as well as CC) and Friendly ... will appeal to many.


Here are a few examples of peace-oriented, wiki, subject pages at  World University and School: 

WUaS's 'Peace and Social Justice Studies,' wiki, subject page - 

and WUaS's 'Ahimsa - Nonharming - Nonviolence - To avoid violence,' wiki, subject page -

http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Ahimsa_-_Nonharming_-_Nonviolence_-_To_avoid_violence.


And here are some WUaS's Quaker pages: 


There are many familiar academic subject pages at WUaS, in addition to the main, WUaS pages which you'll find here at "Three, main, I.T. foci at World University & School, Music School, Universal Translator, Virtual Harbin Hot Springs / Earth as 'classroom'" - http://worlduniversityandschool.blogspot.com/2012/02/three-main-it-foci-at-world-university.html.

Looking forward to sharing ideas further.

With friendly regards,
Scott


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I added the following books, databases and resources that George wrote on the board at this session in the WUaS Ahimsa, wiki page -

http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Ahimsa_-_Nonharming_-_Nonviolence_-_To_avoid_violence -


Lakey, George. 2012. Toward a living revolution: A five-stage framework for creating radical social change. London, UK: Peace News Press.

Moyer, Bill, JoAmn McAllister, Mary Lou Finley, Steven Soifer. 2001. Doing Democracy: The MAP Model for Organizing Social Movements. Philadelphia, PA: New Society Publishers.

Global Nonviolent Action Database. 2013. Global Nonviolent Action Database. Swarthmore, PA: nvdatabase.swarthmore.edu








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World University and School
(like Wikipedia with MIT Open Course Ware)


P.O. Box 442,   
(86 Ridgecrest Road), 
Canyon, CA 94516

Skype: scottm100

Google + main, WUaS page: 


Please contribute, and invite friends to contribute, tax deductibly, via PayPal and credit card: 
World University and School is a 501 (c) (3) tax-exempt educational organization. 

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Loggerhead turtle hatchling: Harvard research - "How much exercise is enough?: Physical activity and gain in life expectancy — quantified," What this Harvard research doesn't seem to take into account is the role that exercise as a form, not of calorie-restriction but, of calorie-burning, might play in the context of the evidence that calorie restriction prolongs life, cross-species, by 10-15% (see references on WUaS Longevity page), How does the mechanism for life prolongation / aging work vis-a-vis calorie-restriction?

February 1, 2013, 12:25 pm
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Just found this interesting article with Harvard research:

How much exercise is enough? 2012. [http://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2012/11/how-much-exercise-is-enough/ How much exercise is enough?: Physical activity and gain in life expectancy — quantified]. November 6. Cambridge, MA: news.harvard.edu.


which I've added to World University and School's

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

which currently has a calorie-restriction focus, because of the cross-species evidence for life-prolongation, and -

Athletics, Physical Education and Recreation -
http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Athletics,_Physical_Education_and_Recreation.



What this Harvard research doesn't seem to take into account is the role that exercise as a form, not of calorie-restriction, but, of calorie-burning, might play in the context of the evidence that calorie-restriction prolongs life, cross-species, by 10-15% (see references on WUaS Longevity, wiki, subject page).  One reason cross-species' calorie-restriction research is so difficult is that mammals studied, in particular, seem to start to live too long to make such studies easy (see the Wikipedia article).


How does the mechanism for life prolongation / aging work vis-a-vis calorie-restriction? How could scientists build on, or refine, such mechanisms? What can we learn from this particular, extensive, quantitative study, that would inform further approaches to studying calore-burning (dancing?) vis-a-vis calorie-restriction, or the 'process' of calorie-restriction? What, besides exercise, as well as calorie restriction and related bodymind mechanisms, contributes to life-prolongation?


Where does enjoyment fit into the science of longevity, especially vis-a-vis calorie-restriction?


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In terms of calorie restriction, I'm currently eating a two bowl (e.g. vegetables, fruits, grains, legumes, rice, pasta, plus a multivitamin and 1000 mg of omega 3 fatty acids 5-7 times per day), two egg diet, and walking some, to bring my weight down about 20 pounds to just under 180 pounds (82 kilos), and for subjective, personal and anecdotal exploration of how and why this might prolong life. I exercise with walking, dancing, and yoga (sun salutations) more than the 75 minutes per week the Harvard article examined / measured.





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Turkish condor: Powerful poetry from Alysia Harris (who's doing a Ph.D. at Yale in linguistics) ... "Cab Rides and the Morning After" and a duet "Harris and Jasmine Mans "Black and Blue"" ...

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Powerful poetry from Alysia Harris (who's doing a Ph.D. at Yale in linguistics) ... 

"Cab Rides and the Morning After" 

Alysia Harris - "Cab Rides and the Morning After" ... 


and a duet "Harris and Jasmine Mans "Black and Blue"" ... 



Alysia Harris and Jasmine Mans "Black and Blue" ...




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Curious how to begin to read my poetry in this blog on video in ways that get to a kind of bliss or transcendence in the readings - http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/search/label/poetry. The Grateful Dead {http://archive.org/details/GratefulDead} come closest to regularly eliciting a kind of bliss for me these days, and sometimes quite far-reachingly so ... mmm, loving bliss :). The Dead are a good model, but they do so much through a series of tones, and poetry read aloud is significantly words. 






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Waterlillies: Monet, Monet, Monet ... and as models for real time, interactive, movie realism as art … for representing the Harbin warm pool, as ethnographic field site, for comparison, for example? :), Les Nymphéas - Musée de l'Orangerie in Paris are amazing :), Museums at WUaS (eventually all museums in all languages with significant free, open, online content), Art at WUaS

February 3, 2013, 8:48 am
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Monet, Monet, Monet ... Waterlillies


and as models for real time, interactive, movie realism, as art …


for representing the Harbin warm pool, as ethnographic field site, for comparison, for example? :)



Les Nymphéas - Musée de l'Orangerie 
... in Paris are amazing :)

Monet is cosmic ...



Les Nymphéas


Visit Virtually the First Hall 
alle 1

http://www.musee-orangerie.fr/pages/page_id19424_u1l2.htm



Visit Virtually the Second Hall 

http://www.musee-orangerie.fr/pages/page_id19459_u1l2.htm


Art, the virtual and interactivity ...


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See, too -

Claude Monet in Google Art Projects -

http://www.googleartproject.com/galleries/23618193/23769768/

http://www.googleartproject.com/artist/claude-monet/4127022/



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... will add these halls from Paris' Musée de l'Orangerie to World University and School's

Museums at WUaS:
http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Museums
(eventually all museums in all languages with significant free, open, online content) &

Art at WUaS:
http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Art



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Mt. Ritter and Lake Ediza in the Sierras: Good, John Muir PBS documentary, which I've added to World University and School's 'Conservation' and 'Film - Documentaries,' wiki subject pages

February 4, 2013, 10:07 am
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Good, John Muir, PBS documentary ...


Watch John Muir in the New World on PBS. See more from American Masters.

http://www.pbs.org/wnet/americanmasters/episodes/john-muir-in-the-new-world/watch-the-full-documentary-film/1823/ ...

(Gary Snyder - writer, poet and environmentalist - makes a brief appearance in this documentary) ...

which I've added to World University and School's 'Conservation' -

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


and 'Film - Documentaries,' -

http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Film_-_Documentaries -

wiki subject pages ...


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Quercus robur: First, Stanford, Coursera course "Statement of Accomplishment" for - 'Startup Boards: Advanced Entrepreneurship' - taken for World University and School (Autumn 2012) ... with student, Board Meetings recorded (in Google + Hangouts)

February 5, 2013, 12:58 pm
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First, Stanford Coursera course "Statement of Accomplishment" -


FEBRUARY 5, 2013


Online Course

Statement of Accomplishment





SCOTT MACLEOD


HAS SUCCESSFULLY COMPLETED AS TEAM LEADER, A FREE ONLINE OFFERING OF STARTUP BOARDS: ADVANCED ENTREPRENEURSHIP PROVIDED BY STANFORD UNIVERSITY THROUGH VENTURE LAB.



Startup Boards: Advanced Entrepreneurship


Accelerate your startup through hands-on guidance from a board of peers and experts custom-built for your venture. Learn how the most successful startups seek guidance from the smartest people in their industry to avoid common startup traps. Immediately apply your learning to your new venture, working with your board to identify and achieve your important milestones.





Professor Clint Korver, Adjunct Professor, Stanford University, Partner at Ulu Ventures



PLEASE NOTE: SOME ONLINE COURSES MAY DRAW ON MATERIAL FROM COURSES TAUGHT ON CAMPUS BUT THEY ARE NOT EQUIVALENT TO ON-CAMPUS COURSES. THIS STATEMENT DOES NOT AFFIRM THAT THIS STUDENT WAS ENROLLED AS A STUDENT AT STANFORD UNIVERSITY IN ANY WAY. IT DOES NOT CONFER A STANFORD UNIVERSITY GRADE, COURSE CREDIT OR DEGREE, AND IT DOES NOT VERIFY THE IDENTITY OF THE STUDENT.


http://venture-lab.org/advanced_venture/statement?user=102174 -

for - 'Startup Boards: Advanced Entrepreneurship' (Autumn 2012) -

taken for World University and School ...

with student, Board Meetings recorded (in Google + Hangouts) ...

(here's WUaS's Board - http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/World_University_Foundation) -

which are accessible here ...

World University and School Youtube channel -
https://www.youtube.com/user/WorldUnivandSch ...

Academe page on Scott MacLeod's web site -
http://scottmacleod.com/papers.htm ...



World University and School Board / Team 1st meeting 3 Nov 2012







World Univ & Sch Board Meeting (Stanford) 1 Dec 2012







World Univ & Sch Startup Board Meeting 15 Dec 2012






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World University and School's hour-long, monthly business meetings happen on the 2nd Saturdays of the month, and are open; WUaS uses Quaker-informed business meeting process. We're holding them presently in Google + group video Hangouts, and here's an example from January 2013:


World Univ and Sch monthly business meeting 12 Jan 2013





Please let WUaS know if you'd like to participate here: worlduniversityandschool@gmail.com.




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Indonesian rainforest: "'my real contribution' for WuaS," Bringing wiki, MIT OCW WUaS to Indonesia in Indonesian and help facilitate a WUAS committee for this, Amara Translation's First Newsletter, Educational Software, Universal Translator at WUaS, Languages (all 7, 413 +) at WUaS

February 6, 2013, 10:28 am
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tito dimas
Feb 6 (1 day ago)
to me
Dear Scott,

Great on your good job. Keep Fire Up Scott!

When will we have next meeting? and what can be 'my real contribution' for WuaS..
looking for the lunching of WuaS...

Thanks
Scott MacLeod 
3:21 PM (19 hours ago)
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Hi Tito,

Monthly, open, business meeting for an hour is this Saturday, February 9th, at 9 am PT (2nd Saturdays of the month), with announcement  and agenda to follow.

Would you like to help bring wiki, MIT OCW WUaS to Indonesia in Indonesian and help facilitate a WUAS committee for this and other similar projects in other languages and countries?

Did you get caught in Jakarta flooding recently?

Hope to talk further with you in business meeting as well as here.

Regards,
Scott
tito dimas
8:30 PM (13 hours ago)
to me
Hi Scott,

Great to see your reply.

I have opened MIT OCW WUaS,should I translate all materials into Indonesia? or only certain materials?

Of course I got caught in flood Scott, even though my house was safe..
Almost all the roads in Jakarta got caught in flood.  But, now it is normal again.

How about you there? I watched the news about heavy bus accident which had more than 10 victims? are u okay?

So, this Saturday, we are going to meet,, don't forget to invite gerd, juan, and etc

Regards,
Tito



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Hi Tito,

Here are some great translation resources ...

Amara Subtitles ... Amara Translation

http://blog.universalsubtitles.org/volunteer/


which you'll find at WUaS here -

Educational Software -
http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Educational_Software - and here -

Universal Translator at WUaS -
http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/WUaS_Universal_Translator - and here -

Languages (all 7, 413 +) at WUaS -
http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Languages.


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Amara Translation's First Newsletter ...

http://www.amara.org/en/

"The easiest way to caption and translate any video, with crowdsourcing, volunteers, and professional services."


Got a YouTube account?

New: enable viewer-created translations and captions on your YouTube channel!


(Amara's Wiki-Style Translation Platform Enables Global Growth Of Education Startups - http://www.forbes.com/sites/jamesmarshallcrotty/2012/08/31/amaras-wiki-style-translation-platform-enables-global-expansion-of-education-startups/)



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Bird with food: How does World University and School differ from MIT OCW, edX, Open Yale Courses (OYC), Coursera, iTunes U, Udacity, and all the other great, free, online, course-oriented, university, educational projects on the web, especially MOOCs?

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How does World University and School differ from MIT OCW, edX, Open Yale Courses (OYC),  Coursera, iTunes U, Udacity, and all the other great, free, online, course-oriented, university, educational projects on the web, especially MOOCs? 


- WUaS plans to accredit with WASC senior - see http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2013/01/steller-sea-lion-pups-questions-about.html - for its MIT-centric, undergraduate degrees. WUaS hasn't heard of any accreditation plans among the other, above educational initiatives. 

- WUaS is MIT OCW-centric, especially its MIT OCW's Video and Audio courses - http://ocw.mit.edu/courses/audio-video-courses/ - to begin. 

- WUaS plans to engage the Conference Method - http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Conference_Method_of_Teaching_and_Learning - learning from Reed College's approach to this, but developing this online, whereas WUaS haven't heard any other educational project doing this. 

- WUaS does not plan on becoming a MOOC (massive open online course) provider, as are Coursera, Udacity, and edX (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mooc), although WUaS may scale in other ways vis-a-vis courses. 

- WUaS seeks overachievers - overachieving high school and college students - who might transfer to MIT for a year, as well as Quaker high school students, for example, to begin. 

- WUaS is STEM-centric, - http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/STEM_Education_-_Science,_Technologies,_Engineering_and_Mathematics - building on MIT and MIT OCW. 

- WUaS is planning 5, CC licensed, degrees/diplomas - bachelor, Ph.D., I.B., law and M.D. - and in many languages and countries. 

- WUaS is a non-profit educational institution / company, as is edX, whereas Coursera is a for-profit company, and Udacity is unfolding in this respect.

- Like MIT OCW and Yale OYC, World University and School is Creative Commons' licensed - http://creativecommons.org/. See, too: http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Creative_Commons_Law. 

(Revisiting some posts from last month (1/13 and 1/14/13) ... )


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OpenCourseWare - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenCourseWare


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Coursera - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coursera

edX - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EdX  (MITx builds on edX)

iTunes U - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Itunes_University#iTunes_U

MIT OCW - http://ocw.mit.edu/


Open Yale Courses (OYC) - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_Yale_Courses 

Udacity - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Udacity 

World University and School - http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/World_University


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Comparing and contrasting salient aspects of visible, online, University, educational projects, with these criteria: 1. offered this many courses, 2. had this many learners participate, 3. and its web interface technology worked like this, 4. certification offered, 5. business model









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Macaques in hot springs grooming: MIT OCW WUaS into other Languages, Developing WUaS plan, On the WUaS, wiki side of things, On the WUaS, wiki degree of things, MIT translated courses as basis

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Hi, Juan,

I'll look to add the Spanish OCW web site - http://ocw.universia.net/es/ - to WUaS's Spanish page.

Here are some main steps as I'm thinking them through at present for developing WUaS, online universities in Spanish, Greek, Indonesian, and possibly in German, Norwegian and Mandarin languages (the languages emerging from our 'Startup Boards: Advanced Entrepreneurship' course - about which I've blogged here with resources - http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2013/02/quercus-robur-first-stanford-coursera.html - and congratulations on this Coursera accomplishment!) : 


On the WUaS, wiki side of things: 

- get the WUaS wiki up and running in Wikidata / Wikibase in these languages, and with about 500 pages from the current WUaS Wikia wiki, with translated a) WUaS, page, Subject names, b) section headings and sections, etc., so people in these languages can start openly wiki teaching to and learning from each other. 


On the WUaS, degree side of things for large languages (1-5+ million speakers, each): 

- begin to develop a plan for MIT OCW in these languages. MIT OCW has already translated some of its courses, which is a basis - http://ocw.mit.edu/courses/translated-courses/  ...

- MIT OCW-centric WUaS would also like to accredit in many of these countries with the above languages for MIT-centric, bachelor, Ph.D., I.B., law and M.D., degrees, so beginning the first steps of accreditation in these languages is part of this process (while adding what one loves to think about and teach about to the WUaS wiki, if one likes). And while there are great OCW resources emerging in many languages, such as the ones you point to, Juan, WUaS wants to develop, and build on, MIT OCW courses (and possibly Yale OYC, and Harvard if possible - so as to become the online MIT / Harvard of the internet) to a very large degree, - for a standard, as a basis, for content, for grading and credentials, for faculty, plus for many other reasons ...

- begin to develop a funding / fundraising plan in each country, potentially in conjunction with MIT itself (I've applied for a faculty position in the MIT Media Lab and will hear in mid-February) with each countries' governments' Department of Education, or similar, and with companies in these countries. ...

- begin to develop a calendar and budget for all of this ... 

MIT, Free (to students), C.C., wiki, ... friendly  ... e.e.

So before we develop what each of us can do individually, it would be great, as an email, WUaS "Languages and Countries" committee, which it seems we're becoming, to develop this unfolding plan a little further, which both of you, Juan and Tito, are already helping to do with your questions and thoughts. 

Regards,
Scott







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Caribbean reef octopus, Octopus briareus: World University and School's open, monthly, hour-long, business meeting meets tomorrow, Saturday, February 9th, (2nd Saturdays of the month), at 9 am Pacific Time, in a Google + group video Hangout ... and here's the agenda, with an invitation to participate

February 8, 2013, 5:37 pm
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Dolphin: Profile of World University and School, Project Happiness, The 'Happiness,' wiki, subject page at WUaS, PRESS RELEASE for WUaS, 'Three, main, I.T. foci at World University & School, Music School, Universal Translator, Virtual Harbin Hot Springs/Earth as 'classroom''

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Hi Shankar and Project Happiness Execs, 

It would be great to meet all of you, and here's a brief profile of World University and School: 

WUaS is like Wikipedia with MIT OpenCourseWare, with free, online, Creative Commons' licensed, accredited, MIT-centric, degrees planned - bachelor (matriculating in 2014), Ph.D. (2015), International Baccalaureate (possibly matriculating in 2015), law (2016), and M.D., (2017) in English, and eventually in many, many languages. WUaS also plans to be in all 7,413+ languages and 204+ countries, as online, CC, wiki schools; Wikipedia is in 285 languages by way of comparison. 

Here's the 'Happiness,' wiki, subject page at WUaS for free, open resources, as an example of a wiki, Subject page anyone can create or edit for open teaching and learning, like in Wikipedia - http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Happiness - with an invitation to teach to your web camera, to teach a course, or in other ways you create. You'll see the Project Happiness web page - http://www.projecthappiness.org/ - under the "Select Websites" section

(Here's an interesting video I just found on happiness from MIT OCW and added to WUaS - http://ocw.mit.edu/courses/brain-and-cognitive-sciences/9-00sc-introduction-to-psychology-fall-2011/conclusions/ . :)

I've also posted four, further WUaS Profile blog entries below. 

Looking forward to meeting you on Monday. 

Best regards, 
Scott




A press release: 

'PRESS RELEASE for World University and School, like Wikipedia with MIT OCW, offering free, online, bachelor, Ph.D., law, and M.D. degrees, beginning in 2014, Celebrating its Second, Annual, Business Meeting' - 



'How does World University and School differ from edX, MITx, Yale OYC, Coursera, iTunes University, Udacity, and all the other, great, free, online, course-oriented, university, educational projects on the web?' - 



'Comparing and contrasting salient aspects of visible, online, University, educational projects, with these criteria: 1. offered this many courses, 2. had this many learners participate, 3. and its web interface technology worked like this, 4. certification offered, 5. business model' - 




'Three, main, I.T. foci at World University & School, Music School, Universal Translator, Virtual Harbin Hot Springs/Earth as 'classroom'' - 







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Scott MacLeod 
Founder & President 



http://scottmacleod.com 

-- 
World University and School 
(like Wikipedia with MIT Open Course Ware) 

http://worlduniversityandschool.blogspot.com/ 

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

P.O. Box 442, 
(86 Ridgecrest Road), 
Canyon, CA 94516 

415 480 4577 
worlduniversityandschool@gmail.com 
Skype: scottm100 

Google + main, WUaS pages: 
https://plus.google.com/u/0/115890623333932577910/posts
https://plus.google.com/u/0/b/108179352492243955816/108179352492243955816/posts

Please contribute, and invite friends to contribute, tax deductibly, via PayPal and credit card:

http://scottmacleod.com/worlduniversityandschool.htm

World University and School is a 501 (c) (3) tax-exempt educational organization.




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 'remove' in the subject line. Thank you.

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Grass species: New, Nation States' and Languages' wiki, subject pages in United Nations' languages and countries vis-a-vis WUaS's Bookstore, Language combinations at WUaS, Translated Courses at MIT OCW, New, wiki, language and country pages, Eventual Quota Funding System

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Universitians, 


I just created and posted below a number of new, Nation States' and Languages' wiki, subject pages at WUaS, which I hope will become accredited-in-those-languages-and countries, MIT OCW-centric, WUaS universities, for United Nations' languages, - Arabic, English, French, Mandarin, Russian and Spanish - which, in some ways, are the lingua francas of the world. And eventually these will be linked with WUaS's online Bookstore - http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Bookstore_/_Computer_Store_(New_&_Used)_at_WUaS .

For those of you who speak some of these languages, or hail from some of these countries, these are the beginnings of universities in these languages.

WUaS will eventually seek to translate the Subject names, and this Subject Template - http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/SUBJECT_TEMPLATE - as we move into Wikidata.  

Best, 
Scott





Arabic 

English 

French 

Mandarin (Chinese) 

Russian 

Spanish 




Arabic



English 




French 


Mandarin (Chinese)




Russian



Spanish


... where, again, each of these languages will become a WUaS university unto itself in that language...


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Language combinations ...

there are so many at World University and School ...


beginning with the United Nations' languages' combinations ...

(there's lots of precedent for translation at the United Nations,

but not in terms of MIT OpenCourseWare's translations of their courses -

http://ocw.mit.edu/courses/translated-courses/ -

which is great precedent for WUaS's plans to move MIT OCW into other languages).


So, again ...

Arabic language -
http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Arabic_language

English language
http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/English_language

French language
http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/French_language


Mandarin language (Chinese)
http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Mandarin_language_(Chinese)

Russian language


Spanish language



And then there are many of these pairs ...


Arabic - English

Arabic - French

Arabic - Mandarin

Arabic - Russian

Arabic - Spanish


English - French

English - Mandarin

English - Russian

English - Spanish


French - Mandarin

French - Russian

French - Spanish


Mandarin - Russian

Mandarin - Spanish


Russian - Spanish 


... in terms of learning languages, cultures, and much more.


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And then there are Nation States / countries ... and relations to languages ...


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And then there are so many, further pairings ... 


e.g. 
Scots' Gaelic - German


Hi, Axel,

Thanks for your email. WUaS welcomes volunteer teachers, editors and other creative symbolizers, - as wiki ... and Wikipedia is our model for volunteer contributors. Have you edited Wikipedia? ... Here's WUaS's Scots' Gaelic page ... http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Scottish_Gaelic ... and your German-Scots' Gaelic-English axes are particularly interesting (http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/German_language), since WUaS would like to articulate between all (7,413+) languages and become accredited in all (204+) countries, and Wikipedia by way of comparison is in 285 languages, and they're building a new Wikidata database for language and database reasons.

WUaS hasn't begun to hire, and when we do, we're planning to begin with interns and job postings, and eventually look for Ph.D.s. for faculty. As MIT-centric WUaS grows into other languages (all) and countries (all), our business model will eventually focus on companies, governments, (and philanthropists), probably on a kind of quota system, so please, in your scholarly pursuits, stay tuned to sources in Germany and Scotland (e.g. governments, companies and philanthropists) which fund education (e.g. who, for example, may have had previous relations with MIT), and let me/WUaS know of these. An online, CC, STEM-centric, MIT-centric education at WUaS in various languages will appeal to many, different countries ... Please stay tuned and in touch, - but all of this will take a while.

Best,
Scott





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Male Orangutan Baring His Teeth: Anger, Daoism, Neurophysiology, Culture?, When I am pissed off ... far-reaching symbolizing (the texts, 'Tao te Ching,' 'Inner Chapters'), giving form to a kind of sociocultural context, Raga, Omega 3 Fatty Acids, Happy, Chinese New Year!, "Tao Te Ching" Written by Lao-tzu, From a translation by S. Mitchell, "The Complete Works Of Chuang Tzu" Translated by Burton Watson

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Anger, Daoism, Neurophysiology, Culture?



Raymond Sigrist
When I am pissed off it is beneficial to ask myself: Why does daoism claim that this is an ideal place to practice embodying the dao 體 道? (ti dao)


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  • Scott MacLeod: not sure about daoism ... but ... neurophysiology? ... flax seed oil for omega 3s is a sweetness of life  ... Here's the Omega 3s wiki, subject page at World University and School ...http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Omega_3_Fatty_Acids ... and the Neurophysiology wiki page ...http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Neurophysiology ... In terms of language, I turn to music ... Ravi Shankar, Nikhil Bannerjee ... and 'flow' / focus there/here/now ... Reading Laotzi and Zhuangzi opens worlds away from pissedness for mee, as well 

    Omega 3 Fatty Acids
    worlduniversity.wikia.com
    Welcome to World University which anyone can add to or edit. The Global, Virtual/Digital, Open...
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  • Raymond Sigrist: Yes, neurophysiology. It is not enough for me to intellectually know that it is useful to be in the shit. I have to realize it in my neurological disposition.
  • Spencer W.: It seems that anger is generally a secondary response to "losing control" of a situation. When we're "controlling" the situation (or think that we are), we may not feel the need to practice flowing with the situation.

    It's good to step back when you feel pissed off and first recognize that we don't ever really "control" the totality of any situation, then see how we can utilize the elements of the situation to accomplish our affairs.
  • Raymond Sigrist: Yes, I think this is key: "see how we can utilize the elements of the situation to accomplish our affairs." It is hard to believe, but we can make good use of anything. 

    Zhuangzi: "Its very uselessness is what makes it so useful." 無用之為用也 Wu yong zhi wei yong ye Chapter 26
    February 7 at 10:57am · Like · 1
  • Scott MacLeod: But, as I see it, far-reaching symbolizing ('Tao te Ching,' 'Inner Chapters'), giving form to a kind of sociocultural context, which I see in the two, main, daoist writers, can inform neurophysiologies like anger, but may do so differently, for example, with Chinese, and Americans, in engaging these texts and this alternative 'culture'. (I'm a little bit of an anthropologist 
    February 7 at 11:21am · Like · 1
  • Raymond Sigrist:  Yes. Laozi tells us what is right. For Zhuangzi the bottom line is that he can't be sure what is right. (wei ding = nothing can be fixed as a sure thing)
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  • Isabeau V.: hahahahahahaahahahahahahahaha!!!!! been there....and yes it sucks, and yet,
    yes, it works! it's like nietzsche's downgoing, but on a smaller scale
    with a really sarcastic/ironic twist to it....sort of like my reaction when stepping on a yellow jacket     years ago with bare feet (oh yeah, i got stung). First thing i i said -- SHIT!!! then the 2nd thing i said --shit, i'm
    sorry, i didn't mean to kill you. Then 3rd thing...take the yin qiao pills, put white flower oil on my foot, get out the ice pack, elevate the foot, and
    watch an episode of highlander . swelling was all gone in about 20 min or so, but had to finish watching highlander ... yes, there can be only one...



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Happy, Chinese New Year! I wish you a happy, healthy and prosperous Year of the Snake. Gung Hay Fat Choy! (http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Mandarin_language_(Chinese) ... and ...http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/China))



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"Tao Te Ching"

Written by Lao-tzu
From a translation by S. Mitchell

http://acc6.its.brooklyn.cuny.edu/~phalsall/texts/taote-v3.html




"The Complete Works Of Chuang Tzu"

Translated by Burton Watson

http://terebess.hu/english/chuangtzu.html







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Ice plant: Some, new, wiki, Subject pages ... WUaS will probably first open its eventual, on-the-ground bookstores (like Apple Stores?) for textbooks and other intellectual resources in main cities of the United Nations' languages in these countries / places: Hong Kong, Mexico, Switzerland, United Arab Emirates, Great Britain

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Some, new, wiki, Subject pages at WUaS ...

World University and School will probably first open its eventual, on-the-ground bookstores (like Apple Stores?) for textbooks, and other intellectual resources, in those languages, in main cities of the United Nations' languages in these countries, and after the WUaS begins its online bookstore / computer store in these languages -


Bookstore / Computer Store (New & Used) at WUaS -

http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Bookstore_/_Computer_Store_(New_&_Used)_at_WUaS -


Mandarin (Chinese) - Hong Kong?
http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Hong_Kong

Spanish - Mexico City? 
http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Mexico

Russian - Moscow?
http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Russian_Federation

French - Geneva?
http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Switzerland

Arabic - Dubai?
http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/United_Arab_Emirates

English - London? 
http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/United_Kingdom_of_Great_Britain_and_Northern_Ireland




Some, other, new, wiki, Subject pages at WUaS


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

German -
http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/German_language

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

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

Russian -
http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Russian_language

English -
http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/English_language

Mandarin -
http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Mandarin_language_(Chinese)

French -
http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/French_language

Qatar -
http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Qatar,_State_of

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

South Korea -
http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Korea,_Republic_of_(South_Korea)

North Korea -
http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Korea,_Democratic_People%27s_Republic_of_(North_Korea)

U.S.A.
http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/United_States_of_America




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