Dear Larry,
(chair of the Board at World Univ & Sch, and MIT alumnus '69)
In this MIT talk yesterday - https://twitter.com/
- I started chatting 'privately' in Zoom video conferencing with MIT Professor Wyn Kelley, and added my email to one text message, and she emailed me, I'm glad to write. She's brilliant, receptive and engaging (see, for example, her 4 minutes' video on Moby Dick here - https://lit.mit.edu/people/
I haven't heard back from Yvain yet, but if MIT Profs like Wyn Kelley could do the 'migration' to the WUaS Open edX platform that would make our WUaS courses dynamically engaging. Am wondering too when WUaS can send out the July 18, 2020 Monthly Business Meeting minutes, and with the newly emerging WUaS Open edX PLATFORM, and hopefully even with a course or two. (Am wondering too what the conversation between Yvain at MOOCit France is with Open edX, and Ned and Anant, for example). In waiting mode!
Sincerely, Scott
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I’m glad to hear more about your program! Sorry, trying to listen to the Zoom talk as well.
Wyn Kelley
Literature Section
14N-413
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
77 Massachusetts Avenue
Cambridge, MA 02139
617-253-7655
Wyn Kelley
Literature Section
14N-413
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
77 Massachusetts Avenue
Cambridge, MA 02139
617-253-7655
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Prof. Kelley,
Fascinating video here about “Moby Dick” - https://lit.mit.edu/people/
Let's follow up after the talk. Thank you!
Best regards, Scott
I learned about this from Heather Paxson's retweeting of your -
I see a new course emerging . . . https://t.co/X400QVZJEr— Dr. Wyn Kelley (@kelley_wyn) July 25, 2020
https://twitter.com/kelley_
@LITatMIT
for a lecture and conversation TONIGHT with Sidnei Nogueira, a leading Black queer scholar, activist, and community leader in Brazil. Free and open to everyone: https://bit.ly/39vnFlg
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@LITatMIT
for a lecture and conversation TONIGHT with Sidnei Nogueira, a leading Black queer scholar, activist, and community leader in Brazil. Free and open to everyone: https://bit.ly/39vnFlg
Join @LITatMIT for a lecture and conversation TONIGHT with Sidnei Nogueira, a leading Black queer scholar, activist, and community leader in Brazil. Free and open to everyone: https://t.co/0gLPJhRCD4pic.twitter.com/KRMXUwBlzX— MIT SHASS for Students (@SHASS4Students) July 27, 2020
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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.
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Joaquín Terrones
https://lit.mit.edu/people/jterrones/Wyn Kelley
https://lit.mit.edu/people/wkelley/*
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Appreciating your literature expertise. WUaS is wiki, and also planning online accrediting degrees - Bachelor, Ph.D., Law, and M.D. and I.B. - in all ~200 countries’ official / main languages, emerging from MIT OCW in 4 languages now .. so in Portuguese … and our first majors in English this autumn are English literature, EECS, Gen. Engineering, History, Gen. Science & Business - worlduniversityandschool.org
I'll email Joaquin (and you) soon - thank you! Nice to meet you in this Nogueira talk.
Best regards, Scott
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Dear Prof Terrones,
Thanks for this excellent Nogueira talk in Zoom. At Prof. Kelley's suggestion, I'm writing to inquire about beginning Brazil World University and School online, and out of MIT OCW (see our texting below) in Portuguese https://wiki.
Thank you, and regards, Scott
Scott GK MacLeod
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Scott:
Re this talk and anti-racism online, am wondering about how to bring together the web even with a wiki aspect to online MIT OCW-centric university degrees in Portuguese, and how Brazilians such as Nogueira, MIT Prof Terrones and academic colleagues, could help create this, on both wiki and degree sides. Would this address some anti-racism issues of online academia, I wonder?
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Wyn:
I would write Joaquin if you want to look into Brazilian universities and terreiros. jsterron@mit.edu
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Wyn:
I would write Joaquin if you want to look into Brazilian universities and terreiros. jsterron@mit.edu
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Scott
Will do. Thank you. Do you speak Portuguese re ‘tereirors’? Here’s the archived MIT OCW in Portuguese - https://web.archive.org/web/
Scott
Will do. Thank you. Do you speak Portuguese re ‘tereirors’? Here’s the archived MIT OCW in Portuguese - https://web.archive.org/web/
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WUaS has a translation focus - and eventually machine learning-wise (think Google Translate for all countries’ language, and eventually for universities) - am wondering when we’ll see translation in Zoom so that we can hear real time translations of the Portuguese (which could possibly address some of the implicit questions in this talk too)
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How best, I wonder, further to ‘migrate’ or ‘adapt’ CC-4 MIT OCW into Open edX (at WUaS) via MOOCit France for 7-8 week long courses, and in English, and in Portuguese (as WUaS seeks to license in CA with BPPE and accredited with WASC senior, which accredits Stanford and UC Berkeley too), I’m asking myself? Education is a way to move away from racism (which may be a truism!). Thanks!
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Wyn:
Sorry, not my expertise! But it sounds exciting.
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Scott:
Appreciating your literature expertise. WUaS is wiki, and also planning online accrediting degrees - Bachelor, Ph.D., Law, and M.D. and I.B. - in all ~200 countries’ official languages, emerging from MIT OCW in 4 languages now .. so in Portuguese … and our first majors in English this autumn are English literature, EECS, Gen. Engineering, History, Gen. Science & Business. Would be exciting to stay in touch about the English literature degrees, at both Bach and Ph.D. levels! :)
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passion vines: Upcoming WUaS Open edX platform - When might we be able to email out this new wuAs oPEN EDx platform, and the links to these 3-4 WUaS courses, for our WUaS prospective students to begin studying around September 1, 2020 even? ... https://open.edx.org/marketplace/moocit/ ~
https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2020/07/passion-vines-when-might-be-able-to.html
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Hi Taylor,
Just came across this Stuart Liddell Glen Fiddich 2019 performance (I think) - https://vimeo.com/371359345
https://youtu.be/NQ7E-hS0NGo Re-posted the MSR on FB, and separately re-posted a related Stuart Liddell / Gordon Duncan blog post - https://scott-macleod.
I now have space to set up my keyboard piano again (having cleaned my place yesterday) ... and will begin to explore on it the A and D chanters' 9 notes, and the B flat chanter, on sheet music (digital and paper), and potentially for writing harmony too. :)
See you Thursday - and for the Hornpipe and Jig in the Scots' Guards' book (and let's explore the D chanter further here too:)!
Musical cheers,
Scott
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It's interesting to me that all 4 bagpipe forms - strathspeys, reels, hornpipes and jigs - are all dance forms ... may explore both dancing with each form differentially, as well as playing with Stuart Liddell's reel here metronomically :)
Scott
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Stuart Liddell performs March, Strathspey and Reel at the Glenfiddich Piping Championship 2019
Stuart Liddell performs March, Strathspey and Reel at the Glenfiddich Piping Championship 2019 from The National Piping Centre on Vimeo.
https://vimeo.com/371359345
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Michael Grey, MSRHPJ, 2010 Livingstone Invitational
https://youtu.be/NQ7E-hS0NGo
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Hi Taylor,
Regarding Stuart Liddell's Glen Fiddich video, I see a meditative mind (possibly even learned in part from the drones) - so a Scottish meditation in a sense (and also re Sal Khan's Zen desk too) and remarkable mastery learning in Stuart.
I tried 'dancing' experimentally last night with Michael Grey's MSR HP J - and while I could imagine myself slaloming to the HP, I didn't find the jig very danceable at all. He wrote this, and he also composes Scottish pipe music in interesting complex rhythms 12/8s or similar for example, - and the jigs I like and find danceable as dance tunes I hope to be able to share with you in one way or another at some point.
As a heads' up, my smartphone died last Friday morning, and a new one is supposed to come on Thursday by around 5, and to a friends' house in Berkeley (since the shipper wouldn't send it to Canyon 94516, possibly because it might be risky). And my neighbor, and my landlady's fiance, wants to test mesh networking wifi tomorrow, Wednesday, afternoon. If something breaks, it's possible I won't have any connectivity on Thursday whatsoever. Will try to keep you informed in one way or another (but i'm letting you know here just in case). Am planning to be online on Thursday at this point.
Musical regards,
Scott
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Edward Smyth
Jul 28, 2020, 9:31 PM (10 hours ago)
to me
That's great. I'll be here!
Scott MacLeod
8:24 AM (2 minutes ago)
to Edward
Great, Ed! Thank you!
I see a meditative mind (possibly even learned in part in conversation with the drones) - regarding Stuart Liddell's Glen Fiddich video - https://vimeo.com/371359345 - so a Scottish MEDITATION in a sense (and also re Sal Khan's Zen desk too - more about this elsewhere in my blog, I think) and remarkable mastery learning in Stuart.
Just shared this above and this below with someone I'm giving Scottish small piping lessons to.
(And I tried 'dancing' experimentally the other night with Michael Grey's MSR HP J - https://youtu.be/NQ7E-hS0NGo - and while I could imagine myself slaloming to the HP, I didn't find the jig very danceable at all. He wrote this tune, and he also composes Scottish pipe music in interesting complex rhythms 12/8s or similar for example, - and the jigs I like and find danceable as dance tunes I hope to be able to share with you in one way or another at some point.)
What do you think of meditation thinking here, Ed? And - https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/search/label/meditation ? Will be learning further about bagpiping meditation from Stuart on my upcoming smartphone - Thank you!
Fondly, Scott
Have posted some of the above here too -
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