Starting a new Tamil language World University and School for Tamil Nadu-ans, in Tamil, and thanks to Prasanth in Madurai, south India
Perhaps you've noted here for example - https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2020/12/tussilago-farfara-coltsfoot.html - that WUaS educational approach has 2 sides to it:
1) free to students' DEGREES - with students taking MIT OCW and NEWLY edX courses, as WUaS licensing with BPPE and accredits with WASC senior
2) WUaS is a free wiki, for open teaching and learning, where you or I can add free high quality courses, and teaching resources to our WUaS wikis - and eventually in Tamil, in French, in Arabic - now in English. But these resources, like Youtube videos you created teaching something in Tamil about Electronics' engineering, or free books like the ones you shared - or Coursera+Khan Academy courses - would NOT be for credit, toward WUaS free degrees.
There are a number of ways to add discussions, for example to a WUaS wiki subject page - https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Academic_Freedom_Studies - for example this subheading, which will be translated into potentially all 7,117 known living languages -
2.13Select Conversations / Dialogues / Idea Competitions
- and which will be added to all WIKI subjects via - https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/SUBJECT_TEMPLATE - and with artificial intelligence too,
- so that, for example, you could start a Google group with a group of WUaS students, or a Twitter conversation
I can see a number of directions that World Univ & Sch would head in with regarding to developing WUaS in the Tamil language:
1 Supporting scientific papers that are written in Tamil - perhaps in a Google Scholar sort of way
2 Creating online university and school on both sides (for degrees and as wiki schools) - and on WUaS platforms as they develop
3 Translation from many languages into Tamil language by developing the machine translation, both for poetry and STEM
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So Prasanth, entering a WUaS PhD program would involve your taking some edX courses (and not research) this summer - if and as WUaS proceeds with partnering with edX - to prepare you for entering this PhD program, and candidacy, in your major, and Imad, probably some Computer Science undergraduate courses
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Cognitive science & Twitter meeting (email thread)
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Hi Prasanth, I didn't receive anything yet, from your Yahoo email address. Please resend ...
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| Wed, Dec 30, 2020, 5:30 PM (7 days ago) | | ||
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I am available. How to we discuss on Education.
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| Wed, Dec 30, 2020, 7:53 PM (7 days ago) | | ||
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Hi Imad, and Prasanth,
I'd like to introduce you to one another. as prospective PhD students at WUaS in 2021. Prasanth is interested in potentially becoming a cognitive science Ph.D. student.
https://scott-macleod.
Best regards, Scott
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| Dec 31, 2020, 3:21 PM (6 days ago) | | ||
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Prasanth, and Imad,
can you please send your new resume here. (LinkedIn doesn't always work well for me, and I can't seem to be able to access your resume there).
Imad, do you happen to have a resume you could send as well please, as WUaS seeks to plan for our Ph.D. program. Thank you!
Thanks, Scott
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| Prasanth KP | Dec 31, 2020, 3:23 PM (6 days ago) | ||
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Thank you, Prasanth!
Have a glance at my blog where WUaS is heading currently platform-wise, and to understand what WUaS has so far and what we're planning to do.
For example, you can see our new WUaS Opencura WikiBase/WikiData here - http://scott-macleod.
Thanks, Scott
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| Thu, Dec 31, 2020, 3:32 PM (6 days ago) | | ||
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Thanks, I'll check it out.
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| Thu, Dec 31, 2020, 3:33 PM (6 days ago) | | ||
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Great, thanks!
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Of course.
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| Fri, Jan 1, 11:32 AM (5 days ago) | | ||
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Hi Prasanth and Imad,
What are the research works done in the EECS field at MIT College? I want to apply for an undergraduate course this year.
https://www.quora.com/
Thank you for your resumes, and your STEM focuses!
Prasanth, thank you for your question too in LI:
https://www.quora.com/
As you know, Prasanth, from my correspondence with Imad - https://scott-macleod.
Since you both have expressed interest in applying to the PhD program at WUaS - as WUaS first licenses with BPPE in California for PhD programs, in addition to licensing our WUaS Bachelor of Science programs - WUaS may suggest you take some undergraduate courses in our May-August 2021 term to prepare you both for the PhD programs in your new possible fields. Imad, I think you have expressed interest in a WUaS Computer Science PhD program (moving from and building upon your chemistry undergraduate Bachelor's degree), and Prasanth, I think you have expressed interest in first a Cognitive Science PhD program, and now possibly a EECS PhD program (moving from your Electrical and Electronics Engineering undergraduate Bachelor's degree major). What are your thoughts now about a possible PhD major, Prasanth?
So Prasanth, entering a WUaS PhD program would involve your taking some edX courses (and not research) this summer - if and as WUaS proceeds with partnering with edX - to prepare you for entering this PhD program, and candidacy, in your major, and Imad, probably some Computer Science undergraduate courses. And WUaS will refine our application and admissions' processes as we develop with both BPPE and WASC senior.
Questions or thoughts about all of this? Please let me know. (I'm including Larry Viehland in this email, who is the head of the WUaS Academic Accreditation committee, and who also went to MIT as an undergraduate in physics/chemistry, and to the Univ of Wisconsin for his Ph.D. in chemistry).
Thank you,
Scott
The undergraduate majors here - worlduniversityandschool.org - will probably be similar for WUaS PhD programs, with students studying both CC-4 MIT OCW and edX courses online at WUaS.
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Thank you for the information!
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| Fri, Jan 1, 11:49 AM (5 days ago) | | ||
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Hi Prasanth,
Thank you for this question too.
Is it possible to Combine application futures like (edX+Coursera+Khan Academy) + TED + (Telegram+Signal) + Quora + Google Meet + Researcher + Mendeley + Google Maps + Google Calendar + Kormo Jobs into an integrated platform at non-profit?
- https://www.quora.com/
- https://www.quora.com/
Perhaps you've noted here for example - https://scott-macleod.
1) free to students' DEGREES - with students taking MIT OCW and NEWLY edX courses, as WUaS licensing with BPPE and accredits with WASC senior
2) WUaS is a free wiki, for open teaching and learning, where you or I can add free high quality courses, and teaching resources to our WUaS wikis - and eventually in Tamil, in French, in Arabic - now in English. But these resources, like Youtube videos you created teaching something in Tamil about Electronics' engineering, or free books like the ones you shared - or Coursera+Khan Academy courses - would NOT be for credit, toward WUaS free degrees.
Try adding the resource you shared and I added, referencing it as follows -
Vilakkan, Prasanth Karuppasamy. 2020. Internet Resources for Electrical and Electronics Engineering: Hyperphysics; Tony R Kuphaldt. Madurai, India: cyperone.wordpress.com.
to another WUaS Wiki subject page - https://wiki.
Does this answer your question?
Thanks, Scott
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| Fri, Jan 1, 11:57 AM (5 days ago) | | ||
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No, it doesn't satisfied me. Is WUaS has any discussion platform for students and student's own notes sharing platforms
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| Fri, Jan 1, 12:08 PM (5 days ago) | | ||
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Thanks, Prasanth,
WUaS doesn't have any students, or matriculated students as we license with BPPE and begin the accreditation process with WASC. Thanks too for learning about the WUaS platform, as it develops.
Perhaps you've noticed that there are a number of ways to add discussions, for example to a WUaS wiki subject page - https://wiki.
- and which will be added to all WIKI subjects via - https://wiki.
- so that, for example, you could start a Google group with a group of WUaS students, or a Twitter conversation, and discuss an issue, say free speech, and then add it to the above wiki Academic Freedom Studies' page. As you look over the platform building blocks I've shared with you (see below), you may see multiple opportunities with students' dialogues.
Scott
the developing WUaS platform 'building blocks' -
For example, you can see our new WUaS Opencura WikiBase/WikiData here - http://scott-macleod.
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| Fri, Jan 1, 12:13 PM (5 days ago) | | ||
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Thanks, I'll check them out. How to get all of the WUaS students contact for discussion?
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| Fri, Jan 1, 12:17 PM (5 days ago) | | ||
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Great, thanks!
As I wrote WUaS doesn't have any students yet, and is aiming for 150 undergraduate students taking edX courses, AS WUAS partners with edX, to begin May 1, with PhD graduate students POSSIBLY beginning in September.
See you soon,
Scott
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| Fri, Jan 1, 12:20 PM (5 days ago) | | ||
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Sounds good, thanks!
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| Fri, Jan 1, 12:22 PM (5 days ago) | | ||
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Is it possible to see the WUaS courses in edX? Or already in it?
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| Fri, Jan 1, 12:28 PM (5 days ago) | | ||
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You're welcome! Might you be applying for other PhD positions, (like at MIT, or the Univ of Illinois, where all of them have stipends available, or in India)?
If you were to gain admittance into such a program, I'm curious what their policies would be for student information access by other matriculated students. Applying to a number of PhD programs would increase the strength of your application, Prasanth! WUaS is seeking highest achieving graduate students (such as would apply to and get accepted at Harvard, Stanford or Cambridge) and interested in their STEM PhD major as a career.
Thanks!
Best, Scott
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| Fri, Jan 1, 12:31 PM (5 days ago) | | ||
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OK
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| Fri, Jan 1, 1:22 PM (5 days ago) | | ||
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Acceptance is main thing, I think.
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| Fri, Jan 1, 1:50 PM (5 days ago) | | ||
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Thanks! World Univ & Sch had one student (from India) this year (before we've begun licensing/accreditation, and before we've completed partnering with edX) who was accepted as a Bachelor's Degree student in English literature, but could only audit the edX courses, not take them from the inside (because WUaS has completely partnered with edX). He very much wanted to do a free-to-students' Bachelor's degree (taking about 4 years, from home in India), and he has since dropped out, and is no longer interested in taking edX courses 'from the inside' at WUaS. So in the WUaS Application process for PhD candidacy, WUaS seeks to see if WUaS can learn whether accepted student candidates will complete the PhD (with an estimated average 7 year completion time). Stay tuned, and on your upcoming exams in India, as the WUaS application process develops! And thanks for your interest, Prasanth!
Some of the WUaS PhD process may take place newly in a single realistic virtual earth (think Google Street View with TIME SLIDER and TensorFlow AI +) ... https://twitter.com/
Best, Scott
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| Fri, Jan 1, 1:54 PM (5 days ago) | | ||
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Very interesting!
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You're welcome! Can I give my father's number for you to use Telegram?
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| Fri, Jan 1, 4:44 PM (5 days ago) | | ||
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I've had some negative experiences with that App - am not heading into it, Prasanth. Thanks, Scott
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| Fri, Jan 1, 4:44 PM (5 days ago) | | ||
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Cool, thanks!
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Sir, We have to plan a discussion on Machine Learning, Tamil Computing, Natural Language Processing via Google Meet. Can you have any chance for to attend that?
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Hi Prasanth,
I can see a number of directions that World Univ & Sch would head in with regarding to developing WUaS in the Tamil language:
1 Supporting scientific papers that are written in Tamil - perhaps in a Google Scholar sort of way
2 Creating online university and school on both sides (for degrees and as wiki schools) - and on WUaS platforms as they develop
3 Translation from many languages into Tamil language by developing the machine translation, both for poetry and STEM
So, perhaps I'd attend the second machine learning and Tamil Google Meet, so you can get organized a bit ...
Glad to have just published yesterday my 5th book, 4th book of poetry; now how experimentally to translate these into Tamil while improving Google Translate :
~Light, Float, Sit, Watsu ~ Virtually '21
~Honey in the Bag '20 (Scottish Small Pipes' album)
~To the Dance or the Pools? in #VR '19
~Winding Road Rainbow '18
~Haiku-ish and Other Loving Hippy Harbin Poetry '17
~Naked Harbin Ethnography '16
http://amazon.com/author/
https://twitter.com/
https://twitter.com/
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*Light, Float, Sit, Watsu ~ Virtually '21
*Honey in the Bag '20 (Scottish Small Pipes' album)
*To the Dance or the Pools? in #VR '19
*Winding Road Rainbow '18
*Haiku-ish and Other Loving Hippy Harbin Poetry '17
*Naked Harbin Ethnography '16
http://
https://twitter.com/
https://twitter.com/
Here are the slides and video from my UC Berkeley Anthropology talk on 12/18/20 -
Slides -
With about 50 further slides (in addition to those in my talk) - here "Creating a Realistic Virtual Earth for Tourism and Tourism Studies with Actual-Virtual Harbin Hot Springs: A Case Study" UC Berkeley Anthropology TSWG presentation (slides) - 12/18/20 Fr ~ https://docs.google.com/
Video talk -
And in my UC BERKELEY Anthropology talk on 12/18/21, on creating a realistic virtual Harbin, I mention Friends Hospital (1813) as an asylum (philosophy even?), and in regards to Harbin Hot Springs as a hot springs's retreat center, and even regarding online psychiatry at WUaS (for Harbin circles esp too) http://scott-macleod.
https://drive.google.com/file/
Scott
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Thanks, I'll check them out.
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Hi Prasanth,
As one approach to developing the Tamil language at Tamil Nadu World University and School, perhaps we can explore the following. I'm waiting partly to hear back too from Volcano (Aurelien M Wende) in these regards.
Cheers, Scott
Hi Sri Lanka WUaS, Peter, and Universitians and All,
As you may have read in yesterday's WUaS News and Q&A, it's now possible - due to Covid-19 pandemic - to record (and live stream too) from WUaS's G Suite for Education::
And here's the Video recording from yesterday - https://scott-macleod.
WUaS News, Q&A, and Conversation 1/4/21 (2021-01-04 at 10:02 GMT-8)"
in a new video format in GDocs ... (which you're all welcome to use too re WUaS)
And if you may recall too, Rifai (head of Sri Lanka WUaS), created Sri Lanka WUaS in the Sinhala Language in Google Sites - and for a smartphone too - a few months ago:
"Here's the English version of WUaS on Google Sites - http
I think this is the language in Sinhala, to be added in Hindi:
මෙම (2020) සරත් සමයේ නොමිලේ උපාධි ලබා ගැනීම සඳහා ඉංග්රීසි භාෂා ප්රවීණතාවය විශ්ව විද්යාල මට්ටමින් විය යුතුයි. සිංහල විද්යාලය ඉගැන්වීම සහ ඉගෙනීම සඳහා විවෘත වනු ඇත
It could be great if this process of WUaS in many languages could be automated partly.
And here's the beginning of Sri Lanka WUaS - https://
While I've tried to develop WUaS a number of times in Google Sites over the years, it hasn't worked very well, and I'm wondering if Google Sites has iterated further due to the Covid-19 pandemic. Someone named Volcano (Aurelien M Wende) has volunteered to develop the WUaS web site further. Thoughts about all of this? Google Translate will be invaluable for the development of WUaS's web platform, thanks too to Google's AI / TensorFlow ...
Questions, thoughts, ideas, suggestions?
Could I reach out to some of you further regarding your native languages in particular, and developing WUaS, perhaps beginning with the above WUaS on a smartphone re Sri Lanka WUaS? Thank you!
Cheers, Scott
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Email to Volcano just now:
Hi VOLCANO (Aurelien M Wende),
Thanks so much for your email and offer. Have you developed websites in multiple languages - and even with Google Translate (including in G Suite for Education)?
Thank you,
Scott
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Prasanth, are these people whom you have in mind for helping to develop Tamil language related universities and schools? - Scott ...
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Hi Prasanth,
Here's our conversation about starting a new online Tamil language world Univ & Sch in Tamil Nadu (in my daily blog post from today, jan 6, 2021) - https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2021/01/karthigaipoo-gloriosa-flower.html - including regarding free speech, for ex., and with some of the important ideas at the top. (And could I ask you please not to call me sir, and perhaps whenever you're about to write sir, substitute for the 'IR' the letters "COTT" for Scott - thank you! ... As I see this, calling people Sir for you is a cultural practice, and for me I think we're equals, and people, and I'm wary of names or titles like 'Sir' - perhaps it's a Quaker or a Gandhian thing" )
Namaste,
Scott
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Natural Arch, Tirumala hills (India): SOFT COPY - now I see on a larger-than-my-smartphone's screen that you're asking about my new book "Light, Float, Sit, #Watsu ~ Virtually: Bodymind Electricity Sings to Me at Harbin Hot Springs & Other Traveling Poems" for translation
https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2021/01/natural-arch-tirumala-hills.html
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Hi Prasanth, Larry, Imad, Koh, Sri Lanka WUaS,
Developments of a new WUaS Press in the Tamil language are underway, I think, and in GDocs - and thanks to Prasanth furthering this conversation.
And Prasanth, and All,
here's our conversation about starting a new online Tamil language world Univ & Sch in Tamil Nadu (in my daily blog post from today, jan 6, 2021) - https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2021/01/karthigaipoo-gloriosa-flower.html - including regarding free speech, for ex., and with some of the important ideas at the top. (And could I ask you please not to call me sir, and perhaps whenever you're about to write sir, substitute for the 'IR' the letters "COTT" for Scott - thank you! ... As I see this, calling people Sir for you is a cultural practice, and for me I think we're equals, and people, and I'm wary of names or titles like 'Sir' - perhaps it's a Quaker or a Gandhian thing" )
Exciting to be developing both a Tamil language WUaS Press, as well as WHOLE Tamil language World University and School, and regarding planning our WUaS platforms for this - and even with Tamil speaking people that Prasanth knows of (toward bottom of blog post above).
Thank you Prasanth, and All! Shall we begin to call a Google Meet meeting of the Tamil speakers - https://twitter.com/Prasanth0Nature/status/1346230969917870080?s=20 (what would be some good times, Prasanth?) - and even so that this could approach could become a possible model for developing World University and School in all ~200 countries' official and main languages, - and even in all 7,117 known living languages? :))
Namaste,
Scott
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