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Re: [xmca] Vygotsky courses



Great start with that list.
Who is Tonyan at Northridge and why are we not in touch with her??
mike

On Thu, Feb 11, 2010 at 3:57 PM, Ana Marjanovic-Shane <ana@zmajcenter.org>wrote:

> Dear Shirley,
>
> This is a great idea. Thanks for the work. I also have something to add, as
> Lois does.
>
> But I am afraid that we will create many different copies of the document.
> I will just send you the information.
>
> Reading through the document you sent, I became curious about details and
> content of some of the mentioned course. I think that the next step should
> be for us (XMCA) to somehow create a repository of the Syllabi for these
> (and other) course. A place where we all can share and enrich our courses
> with the ideas from each other. Would something like that be possible??
> There are already some websites where teachers share materials, lesson
> plans, syllabi and/pr reading lists.
>
> Thanks for such a great job, Shirley.
>
> Ana
>
>
> Here are details of my courses:
> Module: Educational Psychology, Level: undergraduate and graduate, Content:
> human development, learning theories, Place: Chestnut Hill College,
> Philadelphia, Name: Ana Marjanovic, Shane
> Module: Culturally Responsive Teaching Practices in Special Education,
> Level: Graduate, Content: social aspects of development, culture in
> development and education, Place: Chestnut Hill College, Philadelphia, Name:
> Ana Marjanovic-Shane
>
>
> __________________________
> Dr. Ana Marjanovic-Shane
> Assistant Professor of Education
> Chestnut Hill College
> e-mails:  Marjanovic-ShaneA@chc.edu
>                 ana@zmajcenter.org
> Phone:    267-334-2905
> Chestnut Hill College…celebrating 85 years of tradition and risk
>
>
>
>
>
> On Feb 11, 2010, at 2:14 PM, Shirley Franklin wrote:
>
> > Thanks Lois.
> > That would be great. I won't feel so badly about the incompleteness of
> it, if people add to it!
> > Shirley
> > On 11 Feb 2010, at 19:04, Lois Holzman wrote:
> >
> >> I have some to add to the list; shall I do so?
> >> Lois
> >>
> >>
> >> Lois Holzman, Director
> >> East Side Institute for Group and Short Term Psychotherapy
> >> 920 Broadway, 14th floor
> >> New York NY 10010
> >> tel. 212.941.8906 ext. 324
> >> fax 718.797.3966
> >> lholzman@eastsideinstitute.org
> >> www.eastsideinstitute.org
> >> www.performingtheworld.org
> >> loisholzman.org
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> On Feb 11, 2010, at 4:32 AM, Shirley Franklin wrote:
> >>
> >>> Various people have asked me for the collated list of courses on
> Vygotsky.
> >>> I constructed the attached from the responses I received.I am sure this
> is a just a soupcons of what people are doing.
> >>>
> >>> Best
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> Shirley<Vygotsky Courses.doc>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> On 11 Feb 2010, at 00:07, Andy Blunden wrote:
> >>>
> >>>> Shirley,
> >>>> Any chance that you could share the results of your research last
> year?
> >>>> Andy
> >>>>
> >>>> Andy Blunden wrote:
> >>>>> Steve, in May last year there was a discussion on xmca about
> "Teaching Vygotsky", initiated by Shirley Franklin. Here's the thread:
> >>>>>
> http://communication.ucsd.edu/MCA/Mail/xmcamail.2009_05.dir/msg00212.html
> >>>>> In this thread a lot of people gave information about the courses
> they teach in CHAT.
> >>>>> Andy
> >>>>> Steve Gabosch wrote:
> >>>>>> One aspect (of many) on the content side might be to collect course
> syllabi from around the world.  I am thinking along the lines - perhaps too
> grandly? - that this project could become a place where materials from and
> information about hundreds of CHAT-relevant and CHAT-related courses - and
> sections of courses - from a wide variety of places and venues could be
> assembled and organized ... perhaps via a wiki.  It might be a useful
> resource to see so many syllabi from so many places inter-linked by topics,
> keywords, readings, etc.  Am I thinking too big here?  I wonder how many
> such syllabi are on the computers of xmca'ers alone as we speak ...
> >>>>>>    - Steve
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> On Feb 9, 2010, at 8:44 PM, Andy Blunden wrote:
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>>> OK, so while we're investigating options for archiving the
> resources, we need a process for drawing up a grand list of topics I think,
> so we can start assigning topics to lecturers, and recruiting speakers. The
> latter task involves all sorts of quality issues, whether technical,
> pedagogic or scientific, but first we need a kind of master program,
> probably enough topics for a 3-year course. :) No need to skimp on
> resources.
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>> How do people want to start building that up?
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>> Andy
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>> Lois Holzman wrote:
> >>>>>>>> I'll be able to tell you about Vimeo tomorrow.
> >>>>>>>> Lois
> >>>>>>>> Lois Holzman, Director
> >>>>>>>> East Side Institute for Group and Short Term Psychotherapy
> >>>>>>>> 920 Broadway, 14th floor
> >>>>>>>> New York NY 10010
> >>>>>>>> tel. 212.941.8906 ext. 324
> >>>>>>>> fax 718.797.3966
> >>>>>>>> lholzman@eastsideinstitute.org <mailto:
> lholzman@eastsideinstitute.org>
> >>>>>>>> www.eastsideinstitute.org <http://www.eastsideinstitute.org/>
> >>>>>>>> www.performingtheworld.org <http://www.performingtheworld.org> <
> http://loisholzman.net/>
> >>>>>>>> loisholzman.org <http://loisholzman.net/>
> >>>>>>>> On Feb 9, 2010, at 9:50 PM, Andy Blunden wrote:
> >>>>>>>>> Could you tell us about Vimeo, Lois? And Mike you will report
> back what Bruce can tell us. What we need to know is:
> >>>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>>> * is it free and public domain?
> >>>>>>>>> * is it likely to remain free and open for a decade?
> >>>>>>>>> * can videos be uploaded by any self-registered user?
> >>>>>>>>> * can it store and stream hour-long videos reliably?
> >>>>>>>>> * is it under the sway of corporate interests?
> >>>>>>>>> * is additional tech support needed?
> >>>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>>> Andy
> >>>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>>> Lois Holzman wrote:
> >>>>>>>>>> I haven't read the messages carefully so apologies if I am
> off...
> >>>>>>>>>> We use Vimeo as the place to see our videos. It works fine!
> >>>>>>>>>> Lois Holzman, Director
> >>>>>>>>>> East Side Institute for Group and Short Term Psychotherapy
> >>>>>>>>>> 920 Broadway, 14th floor
> >>>>>>>>>> New York NY 10010
> >>>>>>>>>> tel. 212.941.8906 ext. 324
> >>>>>>>>>> fax 718.797.3966
> >>>>>>>>>> lholzman@eastsideinstitute.org <mailto:
> lholzman@eastsideinstitute.org> <mailto:lholzman@eastsideinstitute.org>
> >>>>>>>>>> www.eastsideinstitute.org <http://www.eastsideinstitute.org> <
> http://www.eastsideinstitute.org/>
> >>>>>>>>>> www.performingtheworld.org <http://www.performingtheworld.org>
> <http://www.performingtheworld.org> <http://loisholzman.net/>
> >>>>>>>>>> loisholzman.org <http://loisholzman.org> <
> http://loisholzman.net/>
> >>>>>>>>>> On Feb 9, 2010, at 6:46 PM, Andy Blunden wrote:
> >>>>>>>>>>> This is not terribly good news.
> >>>>>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>>>>> I only ever watch youtube when people embed videos on their
> FaceBook sites and this is pretty much what we'd be doing.
> >>>>>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>>>>> The reasons I have not volunteered marxists.org <
> http://marxists.org> <http://marxists.org> for video streaming is that I
> fear it may place too much load on our server and the name of the URL may
> offend some. On the first point, I will speak to the tech guy and see if
> this is real.
> >>>>>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>>>>> Another point.
> >>>>>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>>>>> I was involved in setting up the lecture recording facility at
> Melbourne University. One of the factors was that we had to set up the
> streaming so that students had to be registered on the relevant course
> before they could view a lecture. An alternative was to prevent the video
> being watched from outside the university, but this was not good enough,
> because non-students could watch from within the university.
> >>>>>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>>>>> Surprisingly, it was not the bean counters who insisted on
> this, but the lecturers, and it was not so much their "intellectual
> property" that they were worried about, but their peers getting to watch
> their performance. It is one thing to make a factual error in front of a
> group of students who don't know any better and your words disappear into
> the ether as soon as they are spoken, but quite another if your colleagues
> can watch and re-watch it around a cup of coffee and have a good laugh.
> Likewise, 30-second ummmmms, scrambling around with your notes, speaking in
> monotones, etc. A lecturer in finance said that if the comments he made
> about named businesses to illustrate his lectures were made public it could
> cause disruption to the stock exchange and also get him sued.
> >>>>>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>>>>> So, the restriction of the videos turned out to be the /sine
> qua non/ of streaming. Sorry to throw in a wobbly, but we need to hear from
> some of our lecturers about this.
> >>>>>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>>>>> Andy
> >>>>>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>>>>> Steve Gabosch wrote:
> >>>>>>>>>>>> On this question of downloading from YouTube - here are some
> links with relevant information.  Apparently, this question of downloading
> from YouTube is in the process of changing.  YouTube is exploring how it can
> make money allowing that.
> >>>>>>>>>>>> First, on the YouTube terms and conditions.  One relevant
> condition is 5B, where it says: "You shall not copy or download any User
> Submission unless you see a “download” or similar link displayed by YouTube
> on the YouTube Website for that User Submission."
> >>>>>>>>>>>> http://www.youtube.com/t/terms
> >>>>>>>>>>>> Some political videos began to get "download" buttons about a
> year ago.
> >>>>>>>>>>>> http://news.cnet.com/some-youtube-videos-get-download-option/
> >>>>>>>>>>>> Video ripping has become more difficult, and is obviously not
> an option for us.
> http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/technology/2009/02/---mark-milian.html?cid=149000259
> >>>>>>>>>>>> The really important thing from our point of view that is
> changing is YouTube is starting to charge fees for that download button.
>  Note that, according to this next article, some universities are using
> YouTube to provide lectures free.  But are they paying YouTube some kind of
> fee for this service?  And most important, does, or might YouTube and
> Google, provide a free download option to non-profit, educational efforts
> such as ours?
> http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/02/12/AR2009021203239.html
> >>>>>>>>>>>> All the above articles are about a year old, so there are
> probably newer developments.  I am just learning about all this.
> >>>>>>>>>>>> The above links are all from the current article on YouTube in
> Wikipedia.  A relevant passage from that article is copied below.
> >>>>>>>>>>>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/YouTube
> >>>>>>>>>>>> Content accessibility
> >>>>>>>>>>>> One of the key features of YouTube is the ability of users to
> view its videos on web pages outside the site. Each YouTube video is
> accompanied by a piece of HTML <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTML>, which
> can be used to embed it on a page outside the YouTube website. This
> functionality is often used to embed YouTube videos in social networking <
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_networking> pages and blogs <
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blog>.^[80] <
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/YouTube#cite_note-79>
> >>>>>>>>>>>> YouTube does not usually offer a download link for its videos,
> and intends that they are viewed through its website interface.^[81] <
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/YouTube#cite_note-80>  A small number of
> videos, such as the weekly addresses by President Barack Obama <
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barack_Obama>, can be downloaded as MP4 <
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MPEG-4_Part_14> files.^[82] <
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/YouTube#cite_note-81>  Numerous third-party
> web sites, applications and browser plug-ins <
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plug-in_(computing)<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plug-in_%28computing%29>>
> allow users to download YouTube videos.^[83] <
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/YouTube#cite_note-82>  In February 2009,
> YouTube announced a test service, allowing some partners to offer video
> downloads for free or for a fee paid through Google Checkout <
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Checkout>.^[84] <
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/YouTube#cite_note-83>
> >>>>>>>>>>>> *****************
> >>>>>>>>>>>> - Steve
> >>>>>>>>>>>> On Feb 9, 2010, at 8:43 AM, Mabel Encinas wrote:
> >>>>>>>>>>>>> Yes, you can. I have done it.
> >>>>>>>>>>>>> Mabel
> >>>>>>>>>>>>>
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> >>>>>>>>>>>>> Date: Tue, 9 Feb 2010 15:56:06 +0000
> >>>>>>>>>>>>> Subject: Re: infrastructure
> >>>>>>>>>>>>> From: laires11@gmail.com <mailto:laires11@gmail.com>
> <mailto:laires11@gmail.com> <mailto:laires11@gmail.com>
> >>>>>>>>>>>>> To: ensemble2010@googlegroups.com <mailto:
> ensemble2010@googlegroups.com> <mailto:ensemble2010@googlegroups.com>
> <mailto:ensemble2010@googlegroups.com>
> >>>>>>>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>>>>>>> Steve
> >>>>>>>>>>>>> I am not sure about that (but I think it´s possible).
> >>>>>>>>>>>>> Luísa
> >>>>>>>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>>>>>>> On 9 February 2010 11:43, Steve Gabosch <
> stevegabosch99@gmail.com <mailto:stevegabosch99@gmail.com> <mailto:
> stevegabosch99@gmail.com> <mailto:stevegabosch99@gmail.com>> wrote:
> >>>>>>>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>>>>>>> I have an interesting technical question about YouTube.  One
> can
> >>>>>>>>>>>>> of course get a streaming download from YouTube while
> connected to
> >>>>>>>>>>>>> the internet, but can one also download the file of a video
> so
> >>>>>>>>>>>>> they can show it later without being connected to the
> internet?
> >>>>>>>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>>>>>>> - Steve
> >>>>>>>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>>>>> --
> >>>>>>>>>>>
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> >>>>>>>>>>> Hegel Summer School
> >>>>>>>>>>> http://www.ethicalpolitics.org/seminars/hss10.htm
> >>>>>>>>>>> Hegel, Goethe and the Planet: 13 February 2010.
> >>>>>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>>> --
> >>>>>>>>>
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> >>>>>>>>> Hegel Summer School
> >>>>>>>>> http://www.ethicalpolitics.org/seminars/hss10.htm
> >>>>>>>>> Hegel, Goethe and the Planet: 13 February 2010.
> >>>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>> --
> >>>>>>>
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> >>>>>>> Hegel Summer School
> >>>>>>> http://www.ethicalpolitics.org/seminars/hss10.htm
> >>>>>>> Hegel, Goethe and the Planet: 13 February 2010.
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>>
> >>>>
> >>>> --
> >>>>
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> >>>> Hegel Summer School
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> >>>> Hegel, Goethe and the Planet: 13 February 2010.
> >>>>
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