Airfoils in nature: realistic virtual UNESCO World Heritage Sites? Making realistic virtual field sites together: Honghe Hani Terraced Fields and villages and Harbin Hot Springs?, Visit the Harbin Gate here ~ http://tinyurl.com/p62rpcg - in Google Street View and "walk" down the road 4 miles to Middletown, and "amble" around the streets there, If I get the MIT Media Lab faculty position, Fascinating and edifying TSWG talk - "TOURISM AND LIVELIHOODS IN CHINA'S CULTURAL HERITAGE, Egypt and China wiki World University and School links, planned in main languages there

Hi Amir,

Very nice to have dinner together. FB isn't always the best way to communicate, but I hope this will appear on Ahmed's page:

"Hi Amir (Amir H. Gohar), I just tried to post this to Ahmed Ouf's FB page (before he friended me), but it was marked as spam:

Hello Ahmed! (Ahmed Ouf) I just had dinner with Amir H. Gohar last night after the TSWG at UC Berkeley, and he suggested inquiring with you if we could possibly please find one graduate student in architecture at Cairo University, fluent in Arabic and English, and if s/he could begin to teach an online course in Arabic at Egypt World University and School -https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Egypt (worlduniversityandschool.org) by translating a course from CC-4 MIT MIT OpenCourseWare possibly - https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/architecture/4-614-religious-architecture-and-islamic-cultures-fall-2002/ - or something from here https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/architecture/? Thank you, and nice to meet you! Cheers, Scott MacLeod"

Just broached the idea with Cedric to create realistic virtual UNESCO World Heritage Sites plus:

"First, I'm curious if we might talk and collaborate further even in making realistic virtual field sites together: Honghe Hani Terraced Fields and villages and Harbin Hot Springs. (Think Google Street View with TIME SLIDER / Maps / Earth / Brain and in all 7,099 living languages, and at the cellular and atomic levels too, and group-build-able in MineCraft for Lego-use / SL / OpenSimulator, so both cartoon-esque and realistic).

Second, I'm curious if we might do this with ALL UNESCO World Heritage Sites, which I've also studied. "

For your information, I'm attaching (not here) some related Tourism Studies, UNESCO WHS and internet/virtual reality papers I've written re TSWG.

a tourism chapter I wrote re the Internet, online UNESCO World Heritage Sites in the Middle East, and Said's Orientalism -

MacLeod, Scott Gordon K. 2006.

"Digital Spatial Representations: New Communication Processes and 'Middle Eastern' UNESCO World Heritage Sites Online" in 'Tourism in the Middle East: Continuity, Change and Transformation.' Edited by Rami Farouk Daher, University of Jordan. Tourism and Cultural Change Series, #9, edited by Mike Robinson of Sheffield Hallam University, England, and Dr. Alison Phipps of Glasgow University. Channel View Publications. ISBN: 1845410505.

- for your interest. I suggest that the German "Schaetze der Welt" (Treasures of the World - Heritage of Humanity is a documentary series of German public service broadcasters) inscribe a kind of Orientalism in their representations of specific online Middle Eastern World Heritage Sites. It's in the "Tourism in the Middle East" book below.

Physical and Online St. Kilda: A Comparison of 'Senses of Place’

by Scott GK Macleod (2004) ... M.Sc. dissertation at the University of Edinburgh from 2004 ... http://scottmacleod.com/MacLeod%20Physical%20and%20Online%20St%20Kilda%20A%20%20Comparison%20of%20Senses%20of%20Place%20MSc%20Dissertation%20University%20of%20Edinburgh.pdf.

And lastly, here's the paper I mentioned writing in Nelson's course, which theorizes Tourism Studies in new ways -

https://www.academia.edu/15259682/Gazing_at_the_Box_Tourism_in_the_Context_of_the_Internet_and_Globalization_Internetity_ - with a focus on the Internet.

I'm seeking to create an interactive realistic virtual earth/Harbin Hot Springs for STEM researchers in all living languages for a new STEM and social science method I'm calling ethno-wiki-virtual-world-graphy - https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/search/label/ethno-wiki-virtual-world-graphy.

You can visit the Harbin Gate here ~ http://tinyurl.com/p62rpcg - in Google Street View and "walk" down the road 4 miles to Middletown, and "amble" around the streets there. Check out the early time slider too.

If I get the MIT Media Lab faculty position, maybe we can see what might emerge with a Directors' Fellow position - http://directorsfellows.media.mit.edu/ - there re https://ced.berkeley.edu/ced/faculty-staff/amir-gohar-phd .

Shall we explore a realistic virtual field sites in Egypt together? (I'm planning to give a TSWG talk on February 23rd as well). Great to share dinner together too!

Cheers, Scott

- https://twitter.com/HarbinBook

- amazon.com/author/scottmacleodworlduniversity

Dear Scott. Dear Muneer ..

I created this group for you both to connect

Scott is leading World University ON Line and he is interested brining in arabic and arabic partners

Muneer is an international practitioner in the filed of Architecture and Heritage buildings. He worked in many contras across the globe. He is now based in Gazza

Scott. I will leave it here to you to explain to Muneer what impressed you in RamAllah School and how can he be of help in making same effort in Gaza

I hope that you both find this connection fretful and rewarding.

I will leave it there. So go ahead and discuss potential collaboration in this chat room or directly together.

Muneer:

:)

Muneer and Amir:

Hi Muneer, The Ramallah Friends' Schools is taught in Arabic in K-12 with more English in high school. It's an international baccalaureate school with a standard recognized around the world. It's also been Quaker since the late 1800s (kind of a Switzerland in that part of the world possibly) and it's considered by some to be the best high school in the Middle East, with students from many countries coming there.

Some students then come to the US to attend college after Ramallah Friends' Schools, to some of the highest achieving universities here (in US).

WUaS would like to create online high schools and universities in all countries' in the middle east and in Arabic for free MIT OpenCourseWare-centric online degrees.

Here's my recent communication with Ahmed Ouf and @Amir H. Gohar about this to give you further information:

"Hi Amir (Amir H. Gohar), I just tried to post this to Ahmed Ouf's FB page (before he friended me), but it was marked as spam:

Hello Ahmed! (Ahmed Ouf) I just had dinner with Amir H. Gohar last night after the TSWG at UC Berkeley, and he suggested inquiring with you if we could possibly please find one graduate student in architecture at Cairo University, fluent in Arabic and English, and if s/he could begin to teach an online course in Arabic at Egypt World University and School -https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Egypt ... (worlduniversityandschool.org) by translating a course from CC-4 MIT MIT OpenCourseWare possibly - https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/architecture/4-614-religious-architecture-and-islamic-cultures-fall-2002/ - or something from here ... https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/architecture/? Thank you, and nice to meet you! Cheers, Scott MacLeod"

Egypt - World University and School Wiki

Welcome to World University and School Wiki which anyone can add to or edit. The Global, Virtual/Digital, Open, Free, {potentially Degree- and Credit-Granting}, Multilingual University & School where anyone can teach or take a class or course

wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org

Do you know of students who might have gone to something similar to the Ramallah Friends School interested in free online Bachelor degrees, by any chance?

... in Arabic?

Let's stay in touch further about this 

Scott

World University and School is also WIKI (open editable web pages) like Wikipedia in 299 languages, and will improve as we develop in Wikidata/Wikibase as a back end hopefully soon-ish. 

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- 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.

Hi Cedric (Wang Zhe),

Thanks for your fascinating and edifying TSWG talk - "TOURISM AND LIVELIHOODS IN CHINA'S CULTURAL HERITAGE: A Case of Honghe Hani Terraced Fields" ... http://campaign.r20.constantcontact.com/render?m=1103050552852&ca=fbebd5ce-168e-4e26-a4a5-53070b2b4cff .

I'm interested in many aspects of your talk, but first the technology and mapping aspects. In these regards, please check out - https://twitter.com/CNN/status/962216082395168768 - and - https://twitter.com/techreview/status/962473011768188929 .

First, I'm curious if we might talk and collaborate further even in making realistic virtual field sites together: Honghe Hani Terraced Fields and villages and Harbin Hot Springs. (Think Google Street View with TIME SLIDER / Maps / Earth / Brain and in all 7,099 living languages, and at the cellular and atomic levels too, and group-build-able in MineCraft for Lego-use / SL / OpenSimulator, so both cartoon-esque and realistic).

Second, I'm curious if we might do this with ALL UNESCO World Heritage Sites, which I've also studied.

I'm attaching (not here)

a tourism chapter I wrote re the Internet, online UNESCO World Heritage Sites in the Middle East, and Said's Orientalism -

MacLeod, Scott Gordon K. 2006.

Physical and Online St. Kilda: A Comparison of 'Senses of Place’

And lastly, here's the paper I mentioned writing in Nelson's course, which theorizes Tourism Studies in new ways -

https://www.academia.edu/15259682/Gazing_at_the_Box_Tourism_in_the_Context_of_the_Internet_and_Globalization_Internetity_ - with a focus on the Internet.

Third, I wonder if I might be willing please to share a copy of your slides so I can think further about your talk, which I found very interesting in numerous ways.

You can Visit the Harbin Gate here ~ http://tinyurl.com/p62rpcg - in Google Street View and "walk" down the road 4 miles to Middletown, and amble around the street there. Check out the early time slider too.

More conversation about your talk later if we have the chance. (I'm planning to give a TSWG talk on February 23rd as well - and may come a bit in conversation with your talk!) Thank you, Cedric, and great to meet you and share dinner together too!

Happy Spring Festival!

Cheers, Scott

- https://twitter.com/HarbinBook

- amazon.com/author/scottmacleodworlduniversity

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Hi Greg,

Nice to talk with you yesterday evening after the TSWG talk.

Here's the paper I mentioned writing in Nelson's course, which theorizes Tourism Studies anew -

https://www.academia.edu/15259682/Gazing_at_the_Box_Tourism_in_the_Context_of_the_Internet_and_Globalization_Internetity_ - with a focus on the Internet.

And I'm attaching (not here) a tourism chapter I wrote re the Internet, online UNESCO World Heritage Sites in the Middle East, and Said's Orientalism -

MacLeod, Scott Gordon K. 2006.

- for your interest. I suggest that the German "Schaetze der Welt" (Treasures of the World - Heritage of Humanity is a documentary series of German public service broadcasters) inscribes a kind of Orientalism in their representations of specific online Middle Eastern World Heritage Sites. It's in the "Tourism in the Middle East" book below.

Seeking to create an interactive realistic virtual earth/Harbin for STEM researchers in all living languages for a new STEM and social science method I'm calling ethno-wiki-virtual-world-graphy - https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/search/label/ethno-wiki-virtual-world-graphy.

Cheers, Scott

- amazon.com/author/scottmacleodworlduniversity

Hi Greg,

Eric Thun is his name - https://www.sbs.ox.ac.uk/community/people/eric-thun .

China World University and School - https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/China (see too http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/China_Law_School_at_WUaS) - in both Chinese (since CC-4 MIT OCW is already in Chinese) and English+ will likely head in directions such as - https://twitter.com/MIT/status/962356767979077634 .

Lots of creative academic potential at WUAS, but no monies yet whatsoever.

Are you on Twitter?

Best, Scott
@WorldUnivAndSch
- https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Nation_States

Dear Nelson, and Kathy,

Thank you for giving me the book "Indigenous Tourism Movements" which you and Alexis edited. I enjoyed reading you epilogue (e.g. interesting syndrome, and universities) in this new 2018 book. Perhaps receiving and readiing it will open avenues, if I get the Media Lab faculty position, to engaging further all indigenous peoples (in all 7,099 living languages even:) and online in media. As an award of sorts, I added this in a new "AWARDS" category to my CV calling it "Nelson H.H. Graburn Book Award" - https://docs.google.com/document/d/1y4vXG-QoGZkMWqK6Y5WbuNqdDihPyUVqMAgp2HS6hpU/edit?usp=sharing (accessible here - http://scottmacleod.com/papers.htm). I appreciate too the alternative tourism definitions to Dean's implicit in your epilogue, Nelson, and inherent in indigenous tourism.

Thanks too, Kathy, for our conversation about another follow up inquiry by me to the MIT Media Lab (to directors' Joi Ito and Hiroshi Ishii), and what I took to be your suggestion to wait a bit longer before following up again - which makes sense to me at this point. (Kathy, I've been following Nelson - https://twitter.com/NelsonGraburn - for a while on Twitter, Kathy, from here - https://twitter.com/WorldUnivAndSch - and more recently from here - https://twitter.com/TheOpenBand).

Hope to be leading a group there in the Media Lab this autumn, and teaching, and to exploring coming back to California to do Harbin field work in January. For my talk on February 23rd, I may think through how this would work, as well as focus on avatars and Harbin too. I'll continue to add some working titles of my talk here - http://www.scottmacleod.com/ActualVirtualHarbinBook.html - as they unfold. These are some interesting possible developments too for this, and re the actual/physical and the virtual - https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2018/01/aerial-root-amazing-actual-virtual.html .

Thank you,
Scott

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- Languages-World Univ: https://twitter.com/sgkmacleod

- https://twitter.com/TheOpenBand (Berkeley)

P.S.

The Copenhagen Wheel looks interesting - http://senseable.mit.edu/copenhagenwheel/ - especially when it can get me home over hills effortlessly to Canyon from Berkeley, for example.

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