[Xmca-l] Re: XMCA home page?
Huw Lloyd
huw.softdesigns@gmail.com
Sat Mar 7 14:45:47 PST 2015
Do you mean an XMCA homepage or a CHAT homepage?
XMCA seems fine as a static entity, but a good CHAT 'homepage' should be
something much more dynamic involving community based 'gardening'.
The wiki does support fairly rich structures (consult the system help
files), and a homepage on it could conceivably lead folk into discovering
the modestly exciting power of a wiki to organise ideas and collective
efforts.
Huw
On 7 March 2015 at 00:27, Andy Blunden <ablunden@mira.net> wrote:
> The whole idea of the blogs, etc., is that it would NOT be hosted at UCSD.
> If it is hosted at UCSD everything has to be done via a technician
> employed by UCSD who is not a participant in XMCA, or, is limited in its
> flexibility. Possibly there *are* software packages which could be
> installed on a UCSD server which could allow fairly free and easy use by
> xmca participants. But it has not happened so far. Perhaps the Wiki could
> be adapted to this purpose (i.e. to create a "home page" for xmca)?
> I'd like to hear Huw's view on this.
> Andy
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> *Andy Blunden*
> http://home.pacific.net.au/~andy/
>
>
> mike cole wrote:
>
>> 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 <mailto:
>> 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/
>> <http://home.pacific.net.au/%7Eandy/>
>>
>>
>> UCB wrote:
>>
>> I'm
>> Sent from my iPhone
>>
>>
>> On Mar 5, 2015, at 8:16 PM, Andy Blunden
>> <ablunden@mira.net <mailto: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/
>> <http://home.pacific.net.au/%7Eandy/>
>>
>>
>> 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>
>> <mailto: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/>
>> <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>>
>> <mailto: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/>
>> <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>>>
>> <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
>> <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>>>
>> <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
>> <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/>
>> <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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