[Xmca-l] Re: XMCA home page?
Andy Blunden
ablunden@mira.net
Sat Mar 7 18:11:51 PST 2015
Well, CHAT is a very broad church. A kind of x-xmca home page. But yes,
let's say a CHAT home page.
And I agree: "a good CHAT 'homepage' should be something much more
dynamic involving community based 'gardening'."
Andy
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*Andy Blunden*
http://home.pacific.net.au/~andy/
Huw Lloyd wrote:
> 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
> <mailto: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/
> <http://home.pacific.net.au/%7Eandy/>
>
>
> 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>
> <mailto: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/>
> <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>
> <mailto: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/>
> <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>>
> <mailto: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/>
> <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
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> <mailto:ablunden@mira.net
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> <mailto:ablunden@mira.net>
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> <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/>
> <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
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> <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
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> <mailto:ablunden@mira.net
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> <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/>
>
> <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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