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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

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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).

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

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

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

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

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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/.

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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

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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

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

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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

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Broadcast to radio frequencies

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Create EMail group for page

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Google Glass

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

Oculus Rift

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Tablets

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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

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

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

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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:

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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/ .

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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 .

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The "Universitian" Newspaper at WUaS

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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

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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.

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