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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 Virtual Worlds course.

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Add free, open Virtual Worlds courses below.

Courses

Add free, open Virtual Worlds courses	Web Site	Organization (if any)	Degree / Non-degree	Instructor's Name	Location	Other Info	Language	Tags
The Anthropology of Cybercultures	http://ocw.mit.edu/courses/anthropology/21a-850j-the-anthropology-of-cybercultures-spring-2009/	MIT	non-degree	Prof. Lucy Suchman	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
Reflective Practice: An Approach for Expanding Your Learning Frontiers	http://ocw.mit.edu/courses/urban-studies-and-planning/11-965-reflective-practice-an-approach-for-expanding-your-learning-frontiers-january-iap-2007/	MIT	non-degree	Prof. Ceasar McDowell, Claudia Canepa, (Teaching Assistant), Sebastiao Ferriera	Browser	Start anytime	English	Graduate
Virtual Worlds	http://www.eecs.harvard.edu/~nesson/e4/	Harvard Ext.	Non-degree	R. Nesson	Browser, Second Life	Autumn 2007	English	Second Life
Course's Name	http://		non-degree		Browser	Start anytime	English

WUaS Idea- and Academic Resources

Ideas

Publish my article in a WUaS academic journal in this subject

Select Bibliographies

Select Blogs

Select Book Reviews

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Select Databases

Select Films

Moshel, Daniel. 2009. Login2Life. (login2life trailer - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=znOJCDXSAMI). (http://www.login2life.net/ - Login 2 Life is a documentary film, directed by Daniel Moshel, which portrays people, some of whom are handicapped, who have found an alternate home in an online world in Second Life. This is the starting point of a journey into fascinating virtual realities, meeting diverse human beings in different parts of the world who have one thing in common – they are savvy in using virtual worlds as an extension of their real lives). Munich, Germany: Eidolon Entertainment in Coproduction with Moshel Film, ZDF - Das kleine Fernsehspiel and ORF.

Select Idea Competitions / Conversations

Select Interviews

Select Journals, Serials, etc.

Select Labs

Select Lectures

Select Libraries, Archives, etc.

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

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Select Programs, Applications, Software

Select Questions, Inquiries, Problems

Select References

Allen, Tim. 2011. Auto Draft - Wharton Higher Ed Web Symposium. July 15. Philadelphia, PA: peregrinesalon.com.

Applications and Network Futurists. 2007. Applications and Network Futurists. UC Davis/Intel.

Au, Wagner James. 2011. The BBC Covers SL-to-RL 3D Printed Fractal Cubes. December 7. New World Notes.

Au, Wagner James. 2011. Ms. Ohmai's Excellent Second Life Inventory Sorting Tutorial (But Oh If Only We Didn't Need This Tutorial at All). July 8. New World Notes.

Au, Wagner James. 2011. Neal Stephenson: Enough On Me & the Metaverse Already!. December 6. New World Notes.

Au, Wagner James. 2011. New World Gaming: World of Warcraft, You're Losing Subscribers; Please Grow the Market by Going Free-to-Play. May 10. New World Notes.

Au, Wagner James. 2011. Top 50 Popular Second Life Sims for June 2011. May 10. New World Notes.

Boyle, Alan. 2011. Science thrives in virtual worlds. March 25. cosmiclog.msnbc.msn.com

Castronova, Edward. 2011. Insurance for Virtual Goods. July 11. Terra Nova.

Dibbell, Julian. 2011. Google+ to Second Lifers: Get Real. July 12. terranova.blogs.com.

Marshall, Gary. 2011. Whatever happened to Second Life? In Depth: Why the hype didn't help - and where SL's headed now. September 30. techradar.com.

Select RSS Feeds

Select Simulations, Applets and Visualizations

Select Slideshows

Allen, Tim. 2010. 1/26/2010: The Magic Circle: Realistic Expectations for Virtual Worlds. January 25. Philadelphia, PA: peregrinesalon.com.

Select Societies, Associations, Groups, Networks, etc.

Select Study Guides

Select Syllabi

Select Teachers with Email Addresses/Contact Information

Select Tests, Exams, etc.

Select Textbooks

Select Timelines

Select Video and Audio

Djorski, S. George. 2011. TEDxCaltech - S. George Djorgovski - Evolving Science and Technology in Cyberspace. Pasadena, CA: TEDxTalks.

Kassabian, Deke. 2011. Video: Penn in Second Life. April 19. (http://www.upenn.edu/computing/isc/virtual-worlds/PennInSL.html). Philadelphia, PA: peregrinesalon.com.

Kassabian, Deke. 2011. Virtual Worlds at the University of Pennsylvania. Philadelphia, PA: University of Pennsylvania.

In German

German TV Live Show featuring LOGIN2LIFE. 2011. ON3 Südwild TV SHOW featuring LOGIN2LIFE. (http://on3.de/element/11928/on3-suedwild-vom-18-bis-21-oktober-2011-graz#/element/12006/on3-suedwild-aus-graz-die-sendung-vom-freitag). ON3 Südwild.

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World University and School Links

Artificial Intelligence: http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Artificial_Intelligence

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

Computer Science: http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Computer_Science

Educational Software: http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Educational_Software

Gaming - Digital: http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Gaming_-_Digital

Hacking - Computers (certified, ethical): http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Hacking_-_Computers_%28certified,_ethical%29

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

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

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

Virtual Worlds: http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Virtual_Worlds

WUaS Navigation

Access to Live, or Email, University Technical Expertise

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

Additional Categories

Calendar (Schedule what you'd like to teach)

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

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

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

Digital To Do

Android

Broadcast to radio frequency

Create EMail group for page

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

Print

Recommend

Send to phone

Translate

Videophone

Free Degrees / Credit

In Google Earth

Google Earth.

In Virtual World

OpenSim. http://opensimulator.org/wiki/Main_Page

ScienceSim. 2011. http://www.sciencesim.com/wiki/doku.php . Research, teach, learn and share ideas - in voice or in type chat.

Second Life - Harvard's virtual island: http://slurl.com/secondlife/Berkman/115/53/25 and teach, learn and share ideas - in voice or in type chat.

Travel to this virtual island to learn building:

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Learning Networking

Teach and Learn using free Social Bookmarking software to identify what courses, etc. you find edifying.

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

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

Digg.com's World University and School - http://digg.com/worlduniversityandschool

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

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

Google Profiles World University and School - https://profiles.google.com/WorldUniversityAndSchool

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

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

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

World University & School subject group

World University & School Share This

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

RSS Feed

Tutoring

TV-Live Broadcasting

Broadcast to television

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

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

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

Ustream TV - http://ustream.tv

Video Communication

Teach and learn using free TV-Live Broadcasting software

Google Video Conferencing - in Gmail

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

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

Wiki Software for Courses

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

PB Works - http://pbworks.com/

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

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 ===Ideas===
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-===Select Libraries===
+===Select Libraries, Archives, etc.===
 (See also editable World University and School's Library Resources page: http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Library_Resources).
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 Applications and Network Futurists. 2007. [http://cfit.ucdavis.edu/internet_futures/speakers.html Applications and Network Futurists]. UC Davis/Intel.
-Au, Wagner James. 2011. [http://nwn.blogs.com/nwn/2011/05/new-world-gaming-wow-should-go-free-to-play.html New World Gaming: World of Warcraft, You're Losing Subscribers; Please Grow the Market by Going Free-to-Play]. May 10. New World Notes.
+Au, Wagner James. 2011. [http://nwn.blogs.com/nwn/2011/12/bbc-covers-sl-3d-printed-rl-fractal-cubes.html The BBC Covers SL-to-RL 3D Printed Fractal Cubes]. December 7. New World Notes.
 Au, Wagner James. 2011. [http://nwn.blogs.com/nwn/2011/07/second-life-inventory-sorting-tutorial.html Ms. Ohmai's Excellent Second Life Inventory Sorting Tutorial (But Oh If Only We Didn't Need This Tutorial at All)]. July 8. New World Notes.
+Au, Wagner James. 2011. [http://nwn.blogs.com/nwn/2011/12/neal-stephenson-second-life-metaverse.html Neal Stephenson: Enough On Me & the Metaverse Already!]. December 6. New World Notes.
+Au, Wagner James. 2011. [http://nwn.blogs.com/nwn/2011/05/new-world-gaming-wow-should-go-free-to-play.html New World Gaming: World of Warcraft, You're Losing Subscribers; Please Grow the Market by Going Free-to-Play]. May 10. New World Notes.
 Au, Wagner James. 2011. [http://nwn.blogs.com/nwn/2011/07/most-popular-second-life-sims-june-2011.html Top 50 Popular Second Life Sims for June 2011]. May 10. New World Notes.
+Boyle, Alan. 2011. [http://cosmiclog.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2011/03/25/6344843-science-thrives-in-virtual-worlds Science thrives in virtual worlds]. March 25. cosmiclog.msnbc.msn.com
 Castronova, Edward. 2011. [http://terranova.blogs.com/terra_nova/2011/07/insurance-for-virtual-goods.html Insurance for Virtual Goods]. July 11. Terra Nova.
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 Marshall, Gary. 2011. [http://www.techradar.com/news/internet/whatever-happened-to-second-life--1030314 Whatever happened to Second Life? In Depth: Why the hype didn't help - and where SL's headed now]. September 30. techradar.com.
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-===Select Societies, Associations, etc.===
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 ===Select Textbooks===
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 ===Select Video and Audio===
+Djorski, S. George. 2011. [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FB33pV2L0Vo TEDxCaltech - S. George Djorgovski - Evolving Science and Technology in Cyberspace]. Pasadena, CA: TEDxTalks.
 Kassabian, Deke. 2011. [http://www.peregrinesalon.com/2010/04/19/video-penn-in-second-life/ Video: Penn in Second Life]. April 19. (http://www.upenn.edu/computing/isc/virtual-worlds/PennInSL.html). Philadelphia, PA: peregrinesalon.com.
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 Robotics: http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Robotics
+Science: http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Science
 Virtual Worlds: http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Virtual_Worlds
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 Ask a question in a specific discipline, for find, for example, a Robotics' or Computer programmer, or Translator, easily and freely.
+===Additional Categories===
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 ===Calendar (Schedule what you'd like to teach)===
-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): http://groups.google.com/group/World-University-and-School.
+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/ .
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 ===In Virtual World===
+OpenSim. http://opensimulator.org/wiki/Main_Page
 ScienceSim. 2011. http://www.sciencesim.com/wiki/doku.php . Research, teach, learn and share ideas - in voice or in type chat.
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+Volunteers at World University and School: http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Volunteers
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