[Xmca-l] Re: The Concepts of CHAT
mike cole
mcole@ucsd.edu
Fri Mar 6 16:21:25 PST 2015
Thanks for the thoughts, Andy. I am not sure what it means to leave it
where it is AND have a blog (hosted at UCSD?). And not sure how fees would
be collected or who would agree, etc.
How about you organize a committee of willing volunteers, include me as ex
officio, and then come back to the list with a proposal?
mike
On Fri, Mar 6, 2015 at 4:07 PM, Andy Blunden <ablunden@mira.net> wrote:
> Would be goods to see the rest of your message, Renee.
> Mike, here's what I think.
> Leave xmca where it is. If some future leader of LCHC wants to delete it,
> that will have to be handled at the time.
> To develop the xmca community, I suggest you take up an offer you have had
> for a website on a non-university server and a technical manager who can
> just issue server permissions or something. Such a role which would be
> inherited by whoever took over the responsibility for the server in the
> future. Fees would be modest in this instance and easily raised through
> this list.
> All xmca participants would be offered a blog on this site. blogging is
> something which is verging on being a skill which everyone should have, and
> it is very flexible.
> If half a dozen xmca participants could operate blogs then we'd have
> something.
> Nominate an xmca-er - someone like Huw, to manage the coordination of the
> pages, for example, an index of blogs, news, link to xmca archives, etc. -
> a minimal front page.
> That's my view.
> Andy
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> *Andy Blunden*
> http://home.pacific.net.au/~andy/
>
>
> UCB wrote:
>
>> I'm
>> Sent from my iPhone
>>
>>
>>
>>> On Mar 5, 2015, at 8:16 PM, Andy Blunden <ablunden@mira.net> wrote:
>>>
>>> The compensation that our times gives for having melted everything into
>>> air is that Google can always find it, even if it is scattered to the four
>>> winds ... provided only that you know what you're looking for.
>>> Andy
>>> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
>>> *Andy Blunden*
>>> http://home.pacific.net.au/~andy/
>>>
>>>
>>> mike cole wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>> Right, Andy.
>>>>
>>>> LCHC has been a major source of support for MCA because it started
>>>> here. but it is an international journal, and whether it remains anchored
>>>> at UCSD. The xmca discussion
>>>> could or could not go on in any form imaginable. Whether or not there
>>>> is sufficient interest and willingness of people to collaborate in such an
>>>> effort is an open question. Like the future always is.
>>>>
>>>> As Alexander Luria wrote an eon ago in the last paragraph of his
>>>> autobiography:
>>>>
>>>> "People come and go, but the creative sources of great historical
>>>> events and important ideas and deeds remain." Its an optimistic view, but
>>>> seems appropriate to the circumstances.
>>>> mike
>>>>
>>>> On Thu, Mar 5, 2015 at 6:06 PM, Andy Blunden <ablunden@mira.net
>>>> <mailto:ablunden@mira.net>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> It's basically a judgment about longevity, I think.
>>>> Universities last forever, but sometimes the people who come after
>>>> don't see the point of preserving old archives. (That's really
>>>> true!).
>>>> Volunteer sites, where active participants control the webpages
>>>> last as long as the collective. How long will xmca live on after us?
>>>>
>>>> Andy
>>>> ------------------------------------------------------------
>>>> ------------
>>>> *Andy Blunden*
>>>> http://home.pacific.net.au/~andy/
>>>> <http://home.pacific.net.au/%7Eandy/>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> mike cole wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Any reason why xmca has to be located at LCHC? mike
>>>>
>>>> On Thu, Mar 5, 2015 at 4:23 PM, Andy Blunden
>>>> <ablunden@mira.net <mailto:ablunden@mira.net>
>>>> <mailto:ablunden@mira.net <mailto:ablunden@mira.net>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> 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
>>>> ------------------------------
>>>> ------------------------------------------
>>>> *Andy Blunden*
>>>> http://home.pacific.net.au/~andy/
>>>> <http://home.pacific.net.au/%7Eandy/>
>>>> <http://home.pacific.net.au/%7Eandy/>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> 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>
>>>> <mailto:greg.a.thompson@gmail.com
>>>> <mailto:greg.a.thompson@gmail.com>>
>>>> <mailto:greg.a.thompson@gmail.com
>>>> <mailto:greg.a.thompson@gmail.com>
>>>> <mailto: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>
>>>> <mailto:ablunden@mira.net <mailto:ablunden@mira.net>>
>>>> <mailto:ablunden@mira.net
>>>> <mailto:ablunden@mira.net> <mailto: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
>>>> > --
>>>> >
>>>> ------------------------------
>>>> ------------------------------------------
>>>> > *Andy Blunden*
>>>> > http://home.pacific.net.au/~andy/
>>>> <http://home.pacific.net.au/%7Eandy/>
>>>> <http://home.pacific.net.au/%7Eandy/>
>>>> <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.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> -- It is the dilemma of psychology to deal as a natural
>>>> science
>>>> with an object that creates history. Ernst Boesch.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> --
>>>> It is the dilemma of psychology to deal as a natural science with an
>>>> object that creates history. Ernst Boesch.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>
>>
>
>
--
It is the dilemma of psychology to deal as a natural science with an object
that creates history. Ernst Boesch.
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