[Xmca-l] Re: The Concepts of CHAT

[Andy Blunden]

A web page without an interested and active webmaster looking after and 
updating will always be a fossil.
A volunteer to maintain the UCSD webpages has to be a part of the CHAT 
discussion AND an employee of UCSD with permissions on the server.
Andy
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*Andy Blunden*
http://home.pacific.net.au/~andy/


mike cole wrote:
> Now what to do about that clunky xmca web page?
> Any volunteers to provide the proper facilities?
> mike
>
> On Thu, Mar 5, 2015 at 11:46 AM, Greg Thompson 
> <greg.a.thompson@gmail.com <mailto:greg.a.thompson@gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>     Is there a website somewhere that these sorts of things can be
>     archived?
>     E.g., I just noticed that XMCA's (kinda clunky!) home page has
>     links to
>     videos from 2010 and 2008 but nothing more recent.
>     http://lchc.ucsd.edu/mca/
>
>     Seems a shame for this link only to appear on Andy's page and in
>     this email
>     that will soon be buried...
>
>     Anyone have any ideas?
>
>     -greg
>
>     On Wed, Mar 4, 2015 at 4:47 PM, Andy Blunden <ablunden@mira.net
>     <mailto:ablunden@mira.net>> wrote:
>
>     > In January and February, I delivered 10 lectures on *The
>     Concepts of CHAT*
>     > in Melbourne.
>     > I have edited them up into a series of videos, using the PowerPoint
>     > slides, subtitles and audience views to enhance the talking head.
>     > Shukla Sikder and Feiyan Chen did a great job in video recording
>     the whole
>     > thing and the quality is good.
>     > The concepts covered are: Action, behaviour and consciousness;
>     Genetic
>     > method; unity and dichotomy;  Analysis by units and germ cell;  Word
>     > meaning and artefact-mediated action, dual stimulation; 
>     Perezhivanie and
>     > catharsis, social situation of development, disability/compensation;
>     > Concepts during childhood;  Spontaneous, true and actual
>     concepts; the
>     > emotions; Activity: operations, actions and activities; Object
>     of activity
>     > in Leontyev, Engeström and Vygotsky; Project as unit of social life.
>     > The videos and a link to the prescribed reading is at
>     > https://vimeo.com/groups/301100/
>     >
>     > There's 10 hours of video there, so I don't expect reviews from
>     xmca-ers,
>     > but anyone teaching CHAT might consider whether it meets some of
>     your
>     > needs. I try to confine myself to what I know something about
>     and as best I
>     > could, stayed away from issues of Psychology and Learning
>     Science of which
>     > I am ignorant. Just the Concepts.
>     >
>     > Andy
>     > --
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>     > *Andy Blunden*
>     > http://home.pacific.net.au/~andy/
>     <http://home.pacific.net.au/%7Eandy/>
>     >
>     >
>
>
>     --
>     Gregory A. Thompson, Ph.D.
>     Assistant Professor
>     Department of Anthropology
>     880 Spencer W. Kimball Tower
>     Brigham Young University
>     Provo, UT 84602
>     http://byu.academia.edu/GregoryThompson
>
>
>
>
> -- 
> It is the dilemma of psychology to deal as a natural science with an 
> object that creates history. Ernst Boesch.
>
>