[Xmca-l] Re: XMCA home page?
Andy Blunden
ablunden@mira.net
Mon Mar 9 04:53:19 PDT 2015
Well, the "X" in "XMCA" means eXtended, you know. But be that as it may,
what software would you recommend for a low maintenance on-line
community CHAT garden?
Andy
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*Andy Blunden*
http://home.pacific.net.au/~andy/
Huw Lloyd wrote:
> I don't think you'd need it to support MCA, Andy. MCA is a different
> project to that of communicating CHAT concepts, practices and resources.
> MCA endeavours to do a portion of that, in a particular way. XMCA usually
> reflects a certain impatience with that, it reflects a need to work over,
> discuss and critique the knowledge and concepts themselves rather than
> papers built out of a few personalised conceptions related to CHAT.
>
> MCA helps academics keep their publication count up and it helps to keep
> CHAT ideas in circulation within academic settings. But I am not convinced
> that CHAT can be successfully accommodated by educational institutions as
> we know them. So, the point is to take an educational project based on
> CHAT principles (which can often be taken as a scientific exposition of
> common good sense) and build a truer educational resource out of it. That
> kind of effort necessitates 'gardening' both for the production of
> resources and for their accommodation.
>
> Huw
>
>
>
> On 8 March 2015 at 23:47, Andy Blunden <ablunden@mira.net> wrote:
>
>
>> How would you implement a "community garden" to support MCA and xmca, Huw?
>> Andy
>> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
>> *Andy Blunden*
>> http://home.pacific.net.au/~andy/
>>
>>
>> Huw Lloyd wrote:
>>
>>
>>> Well I wrote a server-side library to achieve a broader version of that 5
>>> years ago. But that is peripheral to what Andy's question is about.
>>>
>>> Huw
>>>
>>> On 8 March 2015 at 21:34, Greg Thompson <greg.a.thompson@gmail.com>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>> Ha! Huw, I was looking at another, much simpler way of doing a feed than
>>>> what Annalisa had shown (and I don't really know how I got there since it
>>>> doesn't seem to be included in Annalisa's email).
>>>>
>>>> I was looking at a Quora page but I seem to recall that there are other
>>>> websites that will let you set up a page that will feed from other sites.
>>>> The idea being that you can set up a page and determine multiple other
>>>> sites that will feed to it (e.g., the XMCA home page, Andy's Vimeo page,
>>>> etc.). Seems like there was even a feature that you can set so that it
>>>> will
>>>> regularly search the web and display new content that appears on the web
>>>> (e.g., you could set a search term for "cultural historical activity
>>>> theory" and there would be a section of the page that would display
>>>> everything that is recent on the web that relates to those search terms).
>>>>
>>>> I know there is at least one site out there that can do this but I can't
>>>> recall what it was called (I learned of it from Mike Wesch who used it
>>>> for
>>>> one of his classes).
>>>>
>>>> Huw or anyone else, do you know what I'm talking about?
>>>>
>>>> That was what I meant when I said that it would be minimal time to
>>>> maintain
>>>> and could be set up by anyone with minimal cost.
>>>>
>>>> But maybe that was all just a dream...
>>>> -greg
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On Sun, Mar 8, 2015 at 2:17 PM, Huw Lloyd <huw.softdesigns@gmail.com>
>>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>> On 8 March 2015 at 18:40, <greg.a.thompson@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>> [...]
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>> .Anyway, it seems like it would be an easy thing to set up. And anyone
>>>>>> could do it, right?
>>>>>> So why not prototype it and see what works and what doesn't? And then
>>>>>> refine as needed.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>> It is easy only to the extent that anyone could use their spontaneous
>>>>> notions of what is required. If they are persistent and thorough they
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>> will
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>> end up with some conceptions regarding how certain mistakes might be
>>>>> avoided. If they reflected on that process with equal thoroughness,
>>>>> then
>>>>> they might end up with some concepts with which to start the work all
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>> over
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>> again.
>>>>>
>>>>> So, no, it isn't easy. And it isn't actually cheap either.
>>>>>
>>>>> Huw
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>> Greg
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Sent from my iPhone
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> On Mar 7, 2015, at 10:43 PM, Annalisa Aguilar <annalisa@unm.edu>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>> Hi Andy,
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> My apologies, I did not mean to sound suspicious, I sincerely thought
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>> you both had something in mind.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> The site you link to doesn't look like a garden to me. It looks like
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>> a
>>>>>>
>>>>
>>>>> regular website.
>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> How about these links below?
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> The 1st site might be a drupal site, Drupal has something called
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>> "drupal
>>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>> planet" that will collect feeds, but I'm not sure how it works exactly.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> [A feed assembly site might be more like a garden? Then there is no
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>> need
>>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>> for permissions, just program the newsfeed and it sucks in links from
>>>>>> various independent sites? Does wordpress do something like this?]
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> The 2nd, 3rd, and 4th sites below are wordpress sites.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> The 5th is site is using Open Journal.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Not sure what the 6th is, but I couldn't resist to see what a real
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>> garden website might look like! :)
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> http://www.knightfoundation.org/
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>> http://www.knightfoundation.org/blogs/knightblog/2015/3/5/
>>>>>>
>>>> four-knight-fellows-how-community-shapes-creativity/
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>> or
>>>>>
>>>>>>> https://sweden.se/
>>>>>>> https://sweden.se/society/gender-equality-in-sweden/
>>>>>>> or
>>>>>>> http://ilovetypography.com/
>>>>>>> http://ilovetypography.com/2014/10/15/the-first-female-typographer/
>>>>>>> or
>>>>>>> http://www.clouds365.com/
>>>>>>> http://www.clouds365.com/6-22-14/
>>>>>>> or
>>>>>>> http://www.haujournal.org/index.php/hau/issue/view/13
>>>>>>> http://www.haujournal.org/index.php/hau/article/view/hau4.3.002
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Of course, here is the bona fide garden site:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> http://www.missouribotanicalgarden.org/
>>>>>>> http://www.missouribotanicalgarden.org/sustainability/
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> On that happy note...
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Cheers,
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Annalisa
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>> --
>>>> 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
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>>
>>
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