WUaS Information Technologies and Data Plan

As World University & School's wiki grows potentially in all languages, with individuals teaching and learning at youtube.com and other video hosting sites, and in virtual worlds - as both educational content and archive - WUaS will develop the following information technology and data management plan.

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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

What might you add to this - http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/WUaS_Information_Technologies_and_Data_Plan ? ... Please click 'edit this page' and add your ideas ... :)

World University and School's Information Technologies and Data Plan

(Master Plan - http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Master_Plan)

- Wiki (editable web pages, like Wikipedia) and modular

- MediaWiki (including output to a 2x3 inch screen) and Plone (a Content Resource Management - CRM - system, which MIT OCW recently moved to) are the best directions for World University & School, given the benefits of wiki in terms of openness and group knowledge production, and MIT OCW for academic standards and content; by way of comparison, Wikipedia is in around 272 languages. WUaS would like to integrate great universities open content, potentially centering on Plone, but be flexible to use integrate their open course ware.

And WUaS would like to include these goals:

- will prioritize for DESIGN (think Apple) & robust information technological development in hiring, as we aim for a billion Universitians on the SCHOOL idea-social network side of WUaS - http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/WUaS_Information_Technologies_and_Data_Plan - and for around 100 undergraduate students on the UNIVERSITY, free, degree-granting side, first matriculating in 2014, with MIT OCW for course curriculum (32 15 week MIT courses over 4 years).

- WUaS Wiki Universal Translator, building on Google Translate, Sugar Labs Translate, and other language translation projects

- plan for 8000 languages, plus so-called 'dead' languages, and wiki-extensible beyond.

- plan for 10,000-100,000 musical instruments, in text and voice, and wiki-extensible beyond.

- plan with OBJECT TEMPLATE - like http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/SUBJECT_TEMPLATE - to be able to add individual archaeological and museum objects

- httpS:// for "secure registrar" for 3000-8000 languages - here's one example from wikimedia of secure wiki - https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Nontheist_Friend

- an advertisement-free wiki

- .edu suffix (educational domain names network together and have advantages)

- e.g. www.worlduniversityandschool.edu = and = www.wuas.edu

- a robust Computer Science department (subject), - who will eventually develop this.

- very easy-to-use

- very attractive, in order to grow community easily

- fast computer servers and bandwidth

- multiple email lists, in all languages

- plan to html code for assistive technologies, from the beginning, and as the internet develops (http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Assistive_Technologies) ...

- design the upcoming WUaS MediaWiki with 18+ year olds and 2014, incoming, MIT-like undergraduate students.

World University and School would like to partner with MIT OCW, Berkeley Webcast and other great universities, for university academic standards and open course ware, and sharing of resources.

WUaS is looking for a Wiki / database / Plone / SQL programmer to develop MediaWiki (for handheld, too) and Plone, aiming for 3000-8000 languages and perhaps drawing, for example, from Wikipedia and the International Music Score Library Project databases for its Subjects' page - http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Subjects .

Years 2011 - 2012

Technological goals:

- Database of open Teaching and Learning Materials, in all languages; anyone may teach to their web camera in this open wiki. Information technologies here include human minds. Anyone may teach to and learn, in real time, in a virtual world, like Second Life, using the wiki-like Google calendar, for example.

- Video capable hand held computer devices (e.g. OLPC and mobile computer devices - with robust video bandwidth and infrastructure in OLPC countries, and everywhere).

- Translation between all languages. Using Google Wave for translation? Be able to add Languages wiki-like?

- WUaS ability to provide high bandwidth infrastructure for OLPC countries

(- Semantic Wiki? - http://www.technologyreview.com/web/25728/?a=f ? What interface, and how much can people add? Wikipedia is remarkable because of its community.)

Outputs:

Laptop/Desktop: One Laptop per Child size screen (6x4 inches), capable of virtual worlds like Second Life, and all related technologies as they develop, and streaming video; web pages - markup languages, what people create and do with this, etc.

Mobile: Handheld size screen (3x2 inches); NY Times' mobile format, with video, and translation of this, as video broadband develops

Televsion: ubiquitous around the world

Printer: Printable teaching and learning materials from World University & School for OLPC countries, and everyone, from OLPC and hand held devices.

New Technologies:

Engage, and help to generate, new technological developments (partnering with MIT?) robustly, as they emerge.

Budget robustly for technological innovation and experimentation.

Become the low cost worldwide provider of internet access, focusing on the OLPC countries.

Plone certificate? (http://plone.org/ - A powerful, flexible Content Management solution that is easy to install, use and extend. Plone lets non-technical people create and maintain information using only a web browser. Perfect for web sites or intranets, Plone offers superior security without sacrificing extensibility or ease of use.)

Technological specifics

UTF-8 for all possible symbols in all 3,000-8,000 languages and musical notation, as well as symbolic/mathematical (LaTeX), etc.

database for 10,000-100,000 musical instruments, and extensible beyond?

universal translator - Google Translate to 3000-8000 language with sound possibilities

Secure - SSL - secure socket layer especially for searches, and, in general, as it grows

50 years out?

Open formats - like .xml - data portability

Multimedia formats .flac - archival purposes (e.g. free lossless)

Metadata - Resource Description Framework (.RDF) - (Calais?)

Open Archives Initiative - http://www.openarchives.org/

Generative

Good Architecture

Maintainability

Robustness

Reliability

WUaS Idea- and Academic Resources

Ideas

Publish my article in a WUaS journal in this discipline

Select Bibliographies

Select Blogs

Select Book Reviews

Select Books

Select Databases

Select Films

Select Idea Competitions / Conversations

Select Interviews

Select Journals, Serials, etc.

Select Labs

Select Lectures

Select Libraries

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

Select Maps

Select Museums

Select Photos

Select Programs, Applications, Software

Select Questions, Inquiries, Problems

Select References

Select Simulations, Applets and Visualizations

Select Slideshows

Select Societies, Associations, Groups, 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

Select Websites

Select Wikis

World University and School Links

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

WUaS Navigation

Academic Advising at WUaS

Academic Press at World University and School

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

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

Additional Categories

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)

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

Credits

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

Android

Broadcast to radio frequency

Create EMail group for page

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

Print

Publish to DVD

Recommend

Send to phone

Translate

Videophone

Free Degrees / Credit

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

WUaS International Baccalaureate Diploma and Programme: http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/WUaS_International_Baccalaureate_Diploma_and_Programme

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

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.

Add a learning-oriented virtual world here:

Travel to this virtual island to learn building:

Item Number

Labels

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://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

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

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/

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

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

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

World University and School Licensing

World University and School incorporated as a nonprofit in April 2010 and is treated as a 501(c)(3) tax-exempt charity (Pub. 557, p. 19).

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-ShareAlike 3.0 license - http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/us/ .

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