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World University and School {in a virtual world}

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

Add or take a free, open The City course.

Select Courses[edit]

Add free, open The City courses below.

Courses[edit]

Add free, open The City courses	Web Site	Organization (if any)	Degree / Non-degree	Instructor's Name	Location	Other Info	Language	Tags
Advanced Seminar: Urban Nature and City Design	http://ocw.mit.edu/courses/urban-studies-and-planning/11-308j-advanced-seminar-urban-nature-and-city-design-fall-2012/	MIT	non-degree	Prof. Anne Whiston Spirn	Browser	Start anytime	English	Graduate
City to City: Comparing, Researching and Writing about Cities: New Orleans	http://ocw.mit.edu/courses/urban-studies-and-planning/11-027-city-to-city-comparing-researching-and-writing-about-cities-new-orleans-spring-2011/	MIT	non-degree	Cherie Miot Abbanat	Browser	Start anytime	English	Undergraduate
City Visions: Past and Future	http://ocw.mit.edu/courses/urban-studies-and-planning/11-949-city-visions-past-and-future-spring-2004/	MIT	non-degree	Prof. Diane Davis, Prof. Lawrence Vale	Browser	Start anytime	English	Graduate
Feeding Cities in the Global South: Challenges and Opportunities for Action in Cartagena	http://ocw.mit.edu/courses/urban-studies-and-planning/11-975-feeding-cities-in-the-global-south-challenges-and-opportunities-for-action-in-cartagena-fall-2009/	MIT	non-degree	Prof. Alejandro Guarín, Dr. Edgar Blanco Prof. Ralph Gakenheimer, Prof. Martha Bonilla, Ms. Alexa Mills	Browser	Start anytime	English	Graduate
Housing and Land Use in Rapidly Urbanizing Regions	http://ocw.mit.edu/courses/urban-studies-and-planning/11-483-housing-and-land-use-in-rapidly-urbanizing-regions-fall-2011/	MIT	non-degree	Prof. Annette M. Kim	Browser	Start anytime	English	Graduate
Imaging the City: The Place of Media in City Design and Development	http://ocw.mit.edu/courses/urban-studies-and-planning/11-947-imaging-the-city-the-place-of-media-in-city-design-and-development-fall-1998/	MIT	non-degree	Prof. Lawrence Vale, Prof. Sam Warner	Browser	Start anytime	English	Graduate
INNOVATION MANAGEMENT: DIGITAL SERVICE INNOVATIONS FOR SMARTER CITIES	https://www.linkedin.com/groups/INNOVATION-MANAGEMENT-DIGITAL-SERVICE-INNOVATIONS-4720974.S.5964561937269280768	IBM’s smarter planet solutions	non-degree	Haluk Demirkan	Browser	Start anytime	English
Theory of City Form	http://ocw.mit.edu/courses/architecture/4-241j-theory-of-city-form-spring-2013/index.htm	MIT	non-degree	Prof. Julian Beinart	Browser	Start anytime	English	Graduate
Urban Studies and Planning	http://ocw.mit.edu/courses/urban-studies-and-planning/	MIT	non-degree		Browser	Start anytime	English	undergraduate, graduate
Urbanizing China: A Reflective Dialogue	http://ocw.mit.edu/courses/urban-studies-and-planning/11-s945-urbanizing-china-a-reflective-dialogue-fall-2013/	MIT	non-degree	Prof. Jinhua Zhao	Browser	Start anytime	English	Graduate
Course's Name	http://		non-degree		Browser	Start anytime	English

WUaS Idea- and Academic Resources[edit]

Ideas[edit]

Publish my article in a WUaS academic journal in this subject[edit]

Open Journal Systems. 2012. Open Journal Systems. Public Knowledge Project.

(WUaS's wiki, information technologies and criteria for this - informed by the WUaS academic journal subject matter - are developing, since you can already publish your article at http://www.academia.edu).

Select Bibliographies[edit]

Select Blogs[edit]

Select Book Groups, Study Groups, Musical Groups, etc.[edit]

Begin a Google + Hangout: https://plus.google.com/u/0/108179352492243955816/posts

Calendar: https://www.google.com/calendar/

Select Book Reviews[edit]

Select Books[edit]

Calzado, Igor. 2012. Download here Basque City/Euskal Hiria Book & Executive Summary. Basque: Innobasque, Basque Innovation Agency.

Castells, Manuel. 2002. The Castells Reader on Cities and Social Theory by Manuel Castells.

Castells, Manuel. 1985. The City and the Grassroots: A Cross-Cultural Theory of Urban Social Movements.

Castells, Manuel. 1992. The Informational City: Economic Restructuring and Urban Development.

Castells, Manuel and Jordi Borja. 1997. Local and Global: The Management of Cities in the Information Age.

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Select Communities, Email lists, etc.[edit]

(See also editable World University and School's 'You at World University' page: http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/You_at_World_University).

Select Conferences Online[edit]

Select Conversations / Dialogues / Idea Competitions[edit]

Select Databases[edit]

Detroit Open Data. 2015. Detroit Open Data. Detroit, MI: data.detroitmi.gov/ .

https://data.cityofboston.gov/

San Francisco Open Data. 2015. San Francisco Open Data. data.sfgov.org/.

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Select Films[edit]

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Select Funding Sources[edit]

Select Humor[edit]

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Select Institutes, etc.[edit]

Select Interviews[edit]

Select Journals, Serials, etc.[edit]

Select Labs[edit]

Select Lectures[edit]

Select Libraries, Archives, Collections, Repositories, etc.[edit]

(See also editable World University and School's Library Resources' page: http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Library_Resources).

Select Maps[edit]

Select Multimedia[edit]

Select Museums[edit]

(See also editable World University and School's Museums' page: http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Museums).

Select Newspapers, News[edit]

Select Office Hours[edit]

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Select Poetry[edit]

Select Programs, Applications, Languages, Software[edit]

San Francisco 311 App. 2015. San Francisco 311 App. sf311.org/.

Select Questions, Inquiries, Problems, FAQs[edit]

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Select RSS Feeds, SMS, etc.[edit]

Select Recordings[edit]

Select References[edit]

Creating healthier ecosystems in future cities by rethinking urban areas from scratch. 2013. Creating healthier ecosystems in future cities by rethinking urban areas from scratch. September 17. japantimes.co.jp.

Huntington, Lucia. 2013. Reshaping Manhattan’s Midtown: Design School alumni describe plan for new, taller buildings in long-developed area. April 26. Cambridge, MA: news.harvard.edu.

It’s Not a Fairytale: Seattle to Build Nation’s First Food Forest. 2013. It’s Not a Fairytale: Seattle to Build Nation’s First Food Forest. Jul 20. realfarmacy.com.

Landry, Lauren. 2013. MIT's ‘Hot or Not’ Site for Neighborhoods Aims to Redesign Tomorrow’s Cities. July 29. Boston, MA: bostinno.streetwise.co.

Lehrer, John. 2010. A Physicist Solves the City. December 17. New York, NY: The New York Times.

Making our cities attractive and sustainable. 2010. Making our cities attractive and sustainable: How the EU contributes to improving the urban environment. (Oxford Internet Institute is involved in a similar effort [to "The City Beat"] as part of an EU Urban Data to Decide (UD2D) project). Luxembourg, EU: European Commission.

Revkin, Andrew. 2013. Charting a Post-Pollution Path for Cities – From London, 1952, through Beijing, 2013. January 14. New York, NY: The New York Times.

samzenpus. 2013. Google Fiber Draws Startups To Kansas City. January 14. news.slashdot.org.

Saporito, Bill. 2013. Pittsburgh’s Lessons for Detroit: There is a roadmap for the bankrupt Motor City—if it can find a way to fund the trip. July 19. Time Magazine.

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Select Theses, Dissertations, Papers, etc.[edit]

Select Timelines[edit]

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Select Video and Audio[edit]

Hansen, Thomas Blom. 2013. Thomas Blom Hansen: The Sacred and the City - how religious identity shapes urban life. Oxford, UK: Oxford University.

Select Video Conferences[edit]

Select Videocasts and Podcasts[edit]

Select Websites[edit]

Boston Area Research Initiative. 2012. Boston Area Research Initiative. Boston MA: bostonarearesearchinitiative.net/

The City Beat. 2014. The City Beat. (CityBeat is a an academic research project set to develop an application that sources, monitors and analyzes hyper-local information from multiple social media platforms such as Instagram and Twitter in real time). (Oxford Internet Institute is involved in a similar effort [to "The City Beat"] as part of an EU Urban Data to Decide (UD2D) project). New York, NY: thecitybeat.org/.

Urban Modelling Interface. 2014. Urban Modelling Interface. Cambridge, MA: urbanmodellinginterface.ning.com/.

Select Wikis[edit]

Select Writers, Researchers, etc.[edit]

Subject's Social Networking Sites[edit]

Tutoring[edit]

WUaS Navigation[edit]

New WUaS in MediaWiki: http://worlduniversityandschool.org/mediawiki-1.24.1/index.php?title=Main_Page

Academic Advising at WUaS[edit]

Academic Press at World University and School[edit]

Academic Press at World University and School: http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Academic_Press_at_World_University_and_School

Access to Live, or Email, University Technical Expertise[edit]

Ask a question in a specific discipline, or find, for example, a Robotics' or Computer programmer, or Translator, easily and freely.

Additional Categories[edit]

Admissions at World University and School[edit]

Admissions' Department: http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Admissions_at_World_University_and_School

Flyer seeking degree-oriented, WUaS students: 'Quaker-informed World University & School seeks friendly, undergraduate students for free, online, Greatest Universities-centric, bachelor’s degrees to apply in the autumn of 2013, for matriculation in autumn 2014' - http://scottmacleod.com/WUaSFriendsFlyerforProspectiveStudentApplicants.pdf - and accessible here, also - http://scottmacleod.com/WUaSNoticeArchive.html. WUaS holds open, electronically-mediated, hour-long, monthly business meeting on the second Saturdays at 9 am Pacific Time, in the manner of Quakers - email worlduniversityandschool@gmail.com if you'd like to participate.

Digital and Print catalog

Assistive Technologies[edit]

WUaS plans to anticipate numerous developing assistive technologies for sight-impaired, hearing-impaired, and similar -

Assistive Technologies: http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Assistive_Technologies

Blog at World University and School[edit]

http://worlduniversityandschool.blogspot.com/

Bookstore / Computer Store (New & Used) at World University and School[edit]

Bookstore / Computer Store (New & Used) at WUaS: http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Bookstore_/_Computer_Store_%28New_%26_Used%29_at_WUaS

with educational electronics, as well; with musical instruments; value pricing ... 2% below market, consistently; available via mail and electronically;

Calendar (Schedule what you'd like to teach)[edit]

Calendar: https://www.google.com/calendar/

Join the World University and School Google + Group to add to its wiki-like calendar to teach an open, free class or course, converse about ideas, and jam (e.g. musically or theater improvisation): https://plus.google.com/u/0/b/108179352492243955816/ .

Careers[edit]

Career counseling: http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Career_counseling

Finding / creating a job you really love: http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Finding_/_creating_a_job_you_really_love

WUaS Job hunting: http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/WUaS_Job_hunting

Counseling[edit]

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

Coordinates[edit]

Geodetic datums such as WGS84 or GPS

Geohash keys

... in a virtual world

Credits[edit]

Many thanks to each of you!

Please feel free to hyperlink your name to a location of your choice (or tell WUaS where to link to - worlduniversityandschool@gmail.com). Please do not hesitate to let WUaS know if you think that somebody (including yourself) has been forgotten, now or in the future; please include a URL, which is, of course, one main way identity created on the internet.

Digital To Do[edit]

Android

Brainwave device / Headset

Broadcast to radio frequencies

Broadcast to TV / television

Create EMail group for page

Digital Text to Audio file format (Browse Aloud / Read Aloud?)

Google Glass

MIT OCW Mirror Site Instructions: http://ocw.mit.edu/about/mirror-site-program/mirror-site-instructions/

Oculus Rift

Print

Publish to DVD

Recommend

Send to phone

Tablets

Translate

Videophone

Free Degrees / Credit[edit]

MIT OCW Audio Video Courses: http://ocw.mit.edu/courses/audio-video-courses/

Admissions at World University and School: http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Admissions_at_World_University_and_School

Conference Method of Teaching and Learning: http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Conference_Method_of_Teaching_and_Learning

The College at World University and School: http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/The_College_at_World_University_and_School

Ph.D. Degrees at World University and School: http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Ph.D._Degrees_at_World_University_and_School

World University Law School: http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/World_University_Law_School

World University Medical School: http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/World_University_Medical_School

World University Music School: http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/World_University_Music_School

WUaS International Baccalaureate Diploma and Programme: http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/WUaS_International_Baccalaureate_Diploma_and_Programme
(beginning with United Nations' languages - Arabic, Chinese (Mandarin), English, French, Russian, Spanish)

In Google Earth[edit]

Google Earth.

In Virtual World[edit]

(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

Alice. 2012. http://www.alice.org/

Minecraft. 2012. www.minecraft.net

Edusim. 2013. http://edusim3d.com/

Gifted Kids.ie. 2013. http://www.giftedkids.ie/daynuv.html

ISTE – SIGMS. 2013. http://sigms.iste.wikispaces.net/secondlifeplayground2010

Kaneva. 2014. http://www.kaneva.com/

Open Cobalt. 2013. http://www.opencobalt.org/

OpenSim. 2012. http://opensimulator.org/wiki/Main_Page (http://www.scribd.com/doc/57959626/OpenSimulator-School-Quick-Start-Guide)

Open Croquet. 2012. http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?OpenCroquet and http://www.opencroquet.org/

Open Wonderland. 2012. http://openwonderland.org/

Primary Games. 2013. http://www.primarygames.com/arcade/virtualworlds.php

Quest Atlantis. 2012. http://atlantisremixed.org/ (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SZoT3pilNPI).

SimScience. 2012. http://simscience.org/

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

Add a learning-oriented virtual world here:

Travel to this virtual island to learn building:

Item Number[edit]

Global ID and Multiple IDs - see https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Requests_for_comment/New_sites_system

Bar code

Labels[edit]

Learning Networking[edit]

Teach and Learn using free Social Networking software to share what courses, etc., you find edifying, what you enjoy learning ....

About Me - World University and School - http://about.me

Academia.edu's World University and School - http://worlduniversityandschool.academia.edu/

Delicious.com's World University and School - http://www.delicious.com/WorldUniversityandSchool

Facebook.com's World University and School - http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=48753608141 ('This group may be archived').

Good Reads - http://www.goodreads.com/group/show/99021-worlduniversityandschool

Google + Profiles - worlduniversityandschool@gmail.com - Scott MacLeod - https://plus.google.com/115890623333932577910/

Google + Profiles Company page - worlduniversityandschool@gmail.com - World University and School - https://plus.google.com/u/0/b/108179352492243955816/108179352492243955816/posts

Google Groups' World University and School - http://groups.google.com/group/World-University-and-School

Like

LinkedIn's World University and School - http://www.linkedin.com/groups/World-University-School-4024337

Quora - http://www.quora.com/

Research Gate - http://www.researchgate.net/

Redditt.com's World University and School - http://www.reddit.com/user/WorldUnivandSch/

Tribe.net's World University and School - http://tribes.tribe.net/worlduniversityandschool

Twitter.com's World University and School - http://twitter.com/WorldUnivandSch

Wer Kennt Wen - World University and School - http://www.wer-kennt-wen.de/

World University & School 'subject page' group

World University & School Share This

Yahoo Groups' World University and School: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/worlduniversityandschool/

RSS Feed[edit]

Save this page for download in the following formats[edit]

atom

GeoJSON

csv.csvm

map.html

csv

xls

rdf

klm

TV-Live Broadcasting[edit]

Broadcast to television

Teach and learn using free TV-Live Broadcasting software to the web:

Google + Hangouts - https://plus.google.com/hangouts

Justin TV - http://www.justin.tv

Livestream TV - http://www.livestream.com

Ustream TV - http://ustream.tv

Video Communication[edit]

Teach and learn using free TV-Live Broadcasting software

Free video conferencing

iChat - http://www.apple.com/macosx/what-is-macosx/ichat.html

Skype - http://www.skype.com/

Free, group video conferencing

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/

Web Huddle - https://www.webhuddle.com/homepage.jsp - http://sourceforge.net/projects/webhuddle/

Zoom.us - Cloud HD Video Meetings - http://zoom.us/

Universal Translator at WUaS[edit]

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

Google Translate language:

Sugar Labs: Translation System language:

Region:

Select Translators

Babelxl. 2015. Babelxl: the best translator. http://babelxl.com/ .

Babylon Online Translation. 2015. Babylon Online Translation. (Offering hundreds of dictionaries and translation in more than 800 language pairs). translation.babylon.com/ .

Free-translator.com. 2015. Free-translator.com. free-translator.com/ .

Google Translate. 2015. Google Translate. translate.google.com/ .

SDL Free Translation. 2015. SDL Free Translation. freetranslation.com/ .

Word Lingo Free Translation Tools. 2015. Word Lingo Free Translation Tools and Machine Translation Products. worldlingo.com/en/products/ .

Select Video with Subtitles for Translation

Amara.org. 2015. Amara.org: Captions, subtitles, and translations simplified. (Amara makes video globally accessible: Captions, subtitles, and translations simplified). amara.org/en/

TED Open Translation Project. 2015. TED Open Translation Project. (See - https://www.ted.com/about/programs-initiatives/ted-open-translation-project - and - https://www.ted.com/participate/translate/get-started). ted.com/about/programs-initiatives/ted-open-translation-project .

The "Universitian" Newspaper at World University and School[edit]

The "Universitian" Newspaper at WUaS

Wiki Software for Courses[edit]

Media Wiki - http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki

PB Works - http://pbworks.com/

Wet Paint - http://wikisineducation.wikifoundry.com/

Wikia - http://www.wikia.com/Wikia

Wikispaces - http://www.wikispaces.com/

Wikidata / Bots[edit]

http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikidata/Bots

World University and School Licensing[edit]

World University and School - like Wikipedia with Greatest Universities' OpenCourseWare - incorporated as a nonprofit effective April 2010 and is a 501(c)(3) tax-exempt, educational organization charity.

World University & School is a community of learners and teachers who value — and are themselves strengthened by — the rich diversity of its participants. In order to cultivate a flourishing teaching, learning and creating conversation in a diverse and complex world, WUaS welcomes all languages, students, families, faculty, board members, and staff with differences based on (but not limited to) race, color, ethnicity, religion, age, gender, sexual orientation, family structure, and economic background.

All content on this site is freely available under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0) - http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/ .

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