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Re: [xmca] Vygotsky courses: Ensemble.2010



Just wanted to point out that about a dozen xmca'ers, at Mike's initiative, have recently started up a Google Group called Ensemble. 2010, which is discussing ways to collect CHAT-related course information - syllabi, video, text, etc. - from around the world. This was mentioned on this list a week or so ago. Shirley's work is a great start! We are discussing the pros and cons of YouTube, Vimeo, Moodle, and lots of other aspects and possibilities.

All xmca'ers are welcome to join the group, and listen in and participate.

Below are instructions on how to join if you have a Gmail account. I am not sure how to get in without one, but others might know.

To join Ensemble.2010@googlegroups.com

1. Go to this url:
http://groups.google.pt/group/Ensemble2010/sub?s=p53bRAwAAACnrfxpktePeQIgVzvAvvhX&hl=pt-PT

2. Click on: Inicie sessão e insceva-se para solicitar adesão (Log on and sign up for membership)

3. This will take you to a Google log-in page. Enter your G-mail account (these accounts are free). This will take you to the Google Group Ensemble.2010

4. At Ensemble.2010, click on the third choice if you want an email digest, or the fourth choice if you want individual emails.

5.  Click on:   Aplicar a este grupo    (Apply to this group).

6.  You will be contacted through your G-mail account.

Thanks for joining us!

- Steve










On Feb 11, 2010, at 8:33 PM, mike cole wrote:

OK by me on xmca website.
mike

On Thu, Feb 11, 2010 at 8:32 PM, Andy Blunden <ablunden@mira.net> wrote:

Could Shirley update her list? and maybe get Bruce to archive it on the
LCHC website for future reference?

Andy

mike cole wrote:

Great start with that list.
Who is Tonyan at Northridge and why are we not in touch with her??
mike

On Thu, Feb 11, 2010 at 3:57 PM, Ana Marjanovic-Shane <ana@zmajcenter.org
wrote:

Dear Shirley,

This is a great idea. Thanks for the work. I also have something to add,
as
Lois does.

But I am afraid that we will create many different copies of the
document.
I will just send you the information.

Reading through the document you sent, I became curious about details and
content of some of the mentioned course. I think that the next step
should
be for us (XMCA) to somehow create a repository of the Syllabi for these (and other) course. A place where we all can share and enrich our courses with the ideas from each other. Would something like that be possible?? There are already some websites where teachers share materials, lesson
plans, syllabi and/pr reading lists.

Thanks for such a great job, Shirley.

Ana


Here are details of my courses:
Module: Educational Psychology, Level: undergraduate and graduate,
Content:
human development, learning theories, Place: Chestnut Hill College,
Philadelphia, Name: Ana Marjanovic, Shane
Module: Culturally Responsive Teaching Practices in Special Education,
Level: Graduate, Content: social aspects of development, culture in
development and education, Place: Chestnut Hill College, Philadelphia,
Name:
Ana Marjanovic-Shane


__________________________
Dr. Ana Marjanovic-Shane
Assistant Professor of Education
Chestnut Hill College
e-mails:  Marjanovic-ShaneA@chc.edu
              ana@zmajcenter.org
Phone:    267-334-2905
Chestnut Hill College…celebrating 85 years of tradition and risk





On Feb 11, 2010, at 2:14 PM, Shirley Franklin wrote:

Thanks Lois.
That would be great. I won't feel so badly about the incompleteness of

it, if people add to it!

Shirley
On 11 Feb 2010, at 19:04, Lois Holzman wrote:

I have some to add to the list; shall I do so?
Lois


Lois Holzman, Director
East Side Institute for Group and Short Term Psychotherapy
920 Broadway, 14th floor
New York NY 10010
tel. 212.941.8906 ext. 324
fax 718.797.3966
lholzman@eastsideinstitute.org
www.eastsideinstitute.org
www.performingtheworld.org
loisholzman.org



On Feb 11, 2010, at 4:32 AM, Shirley Franklin wrote:

Various people have asked me for the collated list of courses on

Vygotsky.

I constructed the attached from the responses I received.I am sure this

is a just a soupcons of what people are doing.

Best


Shirley<Vygotsky Courses.doc>


On 11 Feb 2010, at 00:07, Andy Blunden wrote:

Shirley,
Any chance that you could share the results of your research last

year?

Andy

Andy Blunden wrote:

Steve, in May last year there was a discussion on xmca about

"Teaching Vygotsky", initiated by Shirley Franklin. Here's the
thread:
http://communication.ucsd.edu/MCA/Mail/xmcamail.2009_05.dir/msg00212.html

In this thread a lot of people gave information about the courses

they teach in CHAT.

Andy
Steve Gabosch wrote:

One aspect (of many) on the content side might be to collect course

syllabi from around the world. I am thinking along the lines -
perhaps too
grandly? - that this project could become a place where materials from
and
information about hundreds of CHAT-relevant and CHAT-related courses -
and
sections of courses - from a wide variety of places and venues could be assembled and organized ... perhaps via a wiki. It might be a useful
resource to see so many syllabi from so many places inter-linked by
topics,
keywords, readings, etc. Am I thinking too big here? I wonder how many
such syllabi are on the computers of xmca'ers alone as we speak ...

 - Steve


On Feb 9, 2010, at 8:44 PM, Andy Blunden wrote:

OK, so while we're investigating options for archiving the

resources, we need a process for drawing up a grand list of topics
I think,
so we can start assigning topics to lecturers, and recruiting speakers.
The
latter task involves all sorts of quality issues, whether technical, pedagogic or scientific, but first we need a kind of master program,
probably enough topics for a 3-year course. :) No need to skimp on
resources.

How do people want to start building that up?

Andy

Lois Holzman wrote:

I'll be able to tell you about Vimeo tomorrow.
Lois
Lois Holzman, Director
East Side Institute for Group and Short Term Psychotherapy
920 Broadway, 14th floor
New York NY 10010
tel. 212.941.8906 ext. 324
fax 718.797.3966
lholzman@eastsideinstitute.org <mailto:

lholzman@eastsideinstitute.org>

www.eastsideinstitute.org <http://www.eastsideinstitute.org/>
www.performingtheworld.org <http://www.performingtheworld.org > <

http://loisholzman.net/>

loisholzman.org <http://loisholzman.net/>
On Feb 9, 2010, at 9:50 PM, Andy Blunden wrote:

Could you tell us about Vimeo, Lois? And Mike you will report

back what Bruce can tell us. What we need to know is:

* is it free and public domain?
* is it likely to remain free and open for a decade?
* can videos be uploaded by any self-registered user?
* can it store and stream hour-long videos reliably?
* is it under the sway of corporate interests?
* is additional tech support needed?

Andy

Lois Holzman wrote:

I haven't read the messages carefully so apologies if I am

off...

We use Vimeo as the place to see our videos. It works fine!
Lois Holzman, Director
East Side Institute for Group and Short Term Psychotherapy
920 Broadway, 14th floor
New York NY 10010
tel. 212.941.8906 ext. 324
fax 718.797.3966
lholzman@eastsideinstitute.org <mailto:

lholzman@eastsideinstitute.org> <mailto:
lholzman@eastsideinstitute.org>

www.eastsideinstitute.org <http://www.eastsideinstitute.org> <

http://www.eastsideinstitute.org/>

www.performingtheworld.org <http://www.performingtheworld.org>

<http://www.performingtheworld.org> <http://loisholzman.net/ >

loisholzman.org <http://loisholzman.org> <

http://loisholzman.net/>

On Feb 9, 2010, at 6:46 PM, Andy Blunden wrote:

This is not terribly good news.

I only ever watch youtube when people embed videos on their

FaceBook sites and this is pretty much what we'd be doing.

The reasons I have not volunteered marxists.org <

http://marxists.org> <http://marxists.org> for video streaming
is that I
fear it may place too much load on our server and the name of the URL may offend some. On the first point, I will speak to the tech guy and see if
this is real.

Another point.

I was involved in setting up the lecture recording facility at

Melbourne University. One of the factors was that we had to set
up the
streaming so that students had to be registered on the relevant course before they could view a lecture. An alternative was to prevent the video being watched from outside the university, but this was not good enough,
because non-students could watch from within the university.

Surprisingly, it was not the bean counters who insisted on

this, but the lecturers, and it was not so much their
"intellectual
property" that they were worried about, but their peers getting to watch their performance. It is one thing to make a factual error in front of a group of students who don't know any better and your words disappear into
the ether as soon as they are spoken, but quite another if your
colleagues
can watch and re-watch it around a cup of coffee and have a good laugh. Likewise, 30-second ummmmms, scrambling around with your notes, speaking
in
monotones, etc. A lecturer in finance said that if the comments he made about named businesses to illustrate his lectures were made public it
could
cause disruption to the stock exchange and also get him sued.

So, the restriction of the videos turned out to be the /sine

qua non/ of streaming. Sorry to throw in a wobbly, but we need
to hear from
some of our lecturers about this.

Andy

Steve Gabosch wrote:

On this question of downloading from YouTube - here are some

links with relevant information. Apparently, this question of
downloading
from YouTube is in the process of changing. YouTube is exploring how it
can
make money allowing that.

First, on the YouTube terms and conditions.  One relevant

condition is 5B, where it says: "You shall not copy or
download any User
Submission unless you see a “download” or similar link displayed by
YouTube
on the YouTube Website for that User Submission."

http://www.youtube.com/t/terms
Some political videos began to get "download" buttons about a

year ago.

http://news.cnet.com/some-youtube-videos-get-download-option/
Video ripping has become more difficult, and is obviously not

an option for us.

http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/technology/2009/02/---mark-milian.html?cid=149000259

The really important thing from our point of view that is

changing is YouTube is starting to charge fees for that
download button.
Note that, according to this next article, some universities are using YouTube to provide lectures free. But are they paying YouTube some kind
of
fee for this service? And most important, does, or might YouTube and Google, provide a free download option to non-profit, educational efforts
such as ours?

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/02/12/AR2009021203239.html

All the above articles are about a year old, so there are

probably newer developments. I am just learning about all
this.

The above links are all from the current article on YouTube in

Wikipedia. A relevant passage from that article is copied
below.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/YouTube
Content accessibility
One of the key features of YouTube is the ability of users to

view its videos on web pages outside the site. Each YouTube
video is
accompanied by a piece of HTML <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTML>,
which
can be used to embed it on a page outside the YouTube website. This
functionality is often used to embed YouTube videos in social networking
<
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_networking> pages and blogs <
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blog>.^[80] <
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/YouTube#cite_note-79>

YouTube does not usually offer a download link for its videos,

and intends that they are viewed through its website
interface.^[81] <
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/YouTube#cite_note-80> A small number of
videos, such as the weekly addresses by President Barack Obama <
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barack_Obama>, can be downloaded as MP4 <
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MPEG-4_Part_14> files.^[82] <
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/YouTube#cite_note-81> Numerous third-party
web sites, applications and browser plug-ins <
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plug-in_(computing)<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plug-in_%28computing%29 >
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plug-in_%28computing%29>>

allow users to download YouTube videos.^[83] <
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/YouTube#cite_note-82> In February 2009, YouTube announced a test service, allowing some partners to offer video
downloads for free or for a fee paid through Google Checkout <
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Checkout>.^[84] <
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/YouTube#cite_note-83>

*****************
- Steve
On Feb 9, 2010, at 8:43 AM, Mabel Encinas wrote:

Yes, you can. I have done it.
Mabel

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Date: Tue, 9 Feb 2010 15:56:06 +0000
Subject: Re: infrastructure
From: laires11@gmail.com <mailto:laires11@gmail.com>

<mailto:laires11@gmail.com> <mailto:laires11@gmail.com>

To: ensemble2010@googlegroups.com <mailto:

ensemble2010@googlegroups.com> <mailto:
ensemble2010@googlegroups.com>
<mailto:ensemble2010@googlegroups.com>


Steve
I am not sure about that (but I think it´s possible).
Luísa

On 9 February 2010 11:43, Steve Gabosch <

stevegabosch99@gmail.com <mailto:stevegabosch99@gmail.com >
<mailto:
stevegabosch99@gmail.com> <mailto:stevegabosch99@gmail.com>> wrote:

I have an interesting technical question about YouTube.  One

can

of course get a streaming download from YouTube while

connected to

the internet, but can one also download the file of a video

so

they can show it later without being connected to the

internet?

- Steve



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