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Moore, Henrietta. 2011. [http://www.henriettalmoore.com/category/audiovideo/ Henrietta L. Moore Audio and Video]. (Professor Moore has a continuing long term research engagement with Africa. Her research programme has focused on gender, livelihood strategies, social transformation and symbolic systems.). Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University.
 
Odwazny, JD, Laura. 2014. [http://videocast.nih.gov/summary.asp?live=13932&bhcp=1 Conducting Internet Research: Challenges and Strategies for IRBs]. Washington, DC: videocast.nih.gov/summary.asp?live=13932&bhcp=1.
 
Swidler, A. 2010. [http://stream.fas.harvard.edu/ramgen/permanent/dept/social_science/sequence_02.rm Expert Hard Problem 2]. How do societies create or re-build effective, powerful, and resilient institutions (for instance, governments)? What do social scientists have to contribute to the analysis of why, for example, in Iraq or Afghanistan, certain local authorities such as chiefs or clan elders retain their influence, while many imported institutions fail?] Berkeley, CA: UC Berkeley.
 
Taleb, N. 2010. [http://stream.fas.harvard.edu/ramgen/permanent/dept/social_science/sequence_04.rm Expert Hard Problem 3] How can we be robust against "Black Swans"; that is, how can we (1) identify domains where these consequential rare events play a large role (these are too rare for any statistical models track them properly), and (2) instead of predicting Black Swans, build systems and societies that can resist their shocks?]. NYU/Polytechnic.
 
 
===Select Video Conferences===
 
 
===Select Videocasts, Podcasts, etc.===
 
National Institute for Health. 2014. [http://videocast.nih.gov/ Videocasts]. Washington, DC: videocast.nih.gov/.
 
 
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===Select Wikis===
 
 
===Select Writers, Researchers, etc.===
 
 
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Women's and Gender Studies: http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Women%27s_and_Gender_Studies
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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===In Virtual World===
 
(Search on the word 'lists' here, too: http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Virtual_Worlds)
 
3D Learn. 2013. http://www.learningin3d.info/
 
Active Worlds Educational Universe (AWEDU). 2012. http://www.activeworlds.com/edu/
 
Alice. 2012. http://www.alice.org/
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ISTE – SIGMS. 2013. http://sigms.iste.wikispaces.net/secondlifeplayground2010
 
Kaneva. 2014. http://www.kaneva.com/
 
Open Cobalt. 2013. http://www.opencobalt.org/
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Second Life - Harvard's virtual island. 2012. http://slurl.com/secondlife/Berkman/115/53/25 - and teach, learn and share ideas - in group voice chat, or in group type chat, and via building.
 
SmallWorlds. 2014. https://www.smallworlds.com/
 
There.com. 2014. http://www.there.com/
 
Twinity. 2014. http://www.twinity.com/en/choose-your-free-avatar
 
Unity3D. 2012. http://unity3d.com/
 
WiloStar3D. 2013. https://www.wilostar3d.com/
 
World of Warcraft in School. 2014. http://wowinschool.pbworks.com/w/page/5268731/FrontPage
 
 
 
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AnyMeeting - http://anymeeting.com/homepage/
 
Google + Hangout - https://tools.google.com/dlpage/hangoutplugin - http://www.google.com/+/learnmore/hangouts/
 
Meeting Burner - http://www.meetingburner.com/index?page=signup-v2 – up to 15 connection
 
ooVoo - http://www.oovoo.com/home.aspx
 
Paltalk - http://www.paltalk.com
 
sifonr - free communication - http://www.sifonr.com/‎
 
Tokbox | OpenTok - API - http://tokbox.com/opentok
 
Vyew - http://vyew.com/
Google + Hangout - https://tools.google.com/dlpage/hangoutplugin
 
Web Huddle - https://www.webhuddle.com/homepage.jsp - http://sourceforge.net/projects/webhuddle/
 
Zoom.us - Cloud HD Video Meetings - http://zoom.us/
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[[The "Universitian" Newspaper at World University and SchoolWUaS]]
 
 
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