TOPICS: DOC: a list of porposed topics for UU
Jyrki Kuoppala
topics which might be implemented in UU:
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Esperanto
UU groups with overview of traffic:
- alt.uu.lang.esperanto.misc
- just starting
Interested people:
- n/a
Usenet groups:
- soc.culture.esperanto
FTP site/dir for UU:
- n/a
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Virtual reality (virtual worlds)
UU groups with overview of traffic:
- alt.uu.virtual-worlds.misc
- just starting
Interested people:
- n/a
Usenet groups:
- sci.virtual-worlds
FTP site/dir for UU:
- n/a
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BALTICS
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Comparative cultural studies
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Multilingual computing (representing several languages etc.)
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MATHS
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HUMAN LANGUAGES
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MISC
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COMPUTERS
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From: e...@msen.com (Edward Vielmetti)
Newsgroups: alt.uu.future,alt.education.distance
Subject: Usenet University course materials
Date: 7 Jul 1992 10:16:31 -0400
Organization: Msen, Inc. -- Ann Arbor, Michigan
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I have some course materials used to teach a class on Emacs Lisp.
(They are in Swedish, but elisp is elisp, and it should be a good
start). If anyone is organizing an emacs lisp study group / course
I'd be happy to pass them along.
--Ed
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From: do...@elaine27.Stanford.EDU (Joseph Brenner)
Subject: A simple way to start
Message-ID: <DOOM.92Ju...@elaine27.Stanford.EDU>
Organization: DSG, Stanford University
Date: 14 Jul 92 04:25:28
You know, I would be happy with a moderated newsgroup where
everyone had agreed to read the material that was being
discussed. The moderator's main function would be to screen
new people trying to post (have you read the material? Can I
get you to read an archive of all the previous discussion?).
This is something I'd be willing to do, if the topic sounds
like any fun to get into.
Now, it might be ideal to have the moderator be an
"instructor" with previous background in the material, but I
doubt it's necessary. It also might be ideal to have some
assignments to be completed, but I don't think exercises
should be invented for their own sake (I've had enough make
work in my life), so maybe we should skip it for now.
I would select a topic where the material is available on
line already, and then post some notices to relevent
newsgroups to see who's interested. Here's some suggestions:
_The Federalist Papers_ by Hamilton, Madison and Jay
(by ftp from mrcnext.cso.uiuc.edu in directory /etext/etext91).
Books by H.G. Wells
(by ftp from info.umd.edu, in directories under info/ReadingRoom/Fiction,
or so I've heard: I haven't gotten in there to check this, yet.)
Complete works of Shakespeare.
(On any NeXT machine, though perhaps not quite available by FTP.)
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From: esz...@cck.coventry.ac.uk (Will Overington)
Newsgroups: alt.uu.future,alt.education.distance
Subject: MOTION Course on Russian, in English, with Esperanto mentions.
Message-ID: <wz1m...@cck.coventry.ac.uk>
Date: 20 Jul 92 14:07:13 GMT
Organization: Coventry University, Coventry, UK
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20th July 1992
MOTION Course on Russian, in English, with Esperanto mentions.
I put forward the motion that we should seek to create a course
on learning Russian, for beginners, with the instruction being
in English.
The course will use Esperanto, with its regularity and logical
structure as an aid by comparing and contrasting it with Russian, which
like many (all?) natural languages has irregularities.
This course should appeal to people who have found that the
learning of Esperanto, even but a little Esperanto, has increased
their knowledge of how grammatical structures work in a language.
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From: ru...@media.mit.edu (Paul Berland)
Subject: UU course proposal
Message-ID: <RUNE.92Ju...@scarface.media.mit.edu>
Organization: M.I.T. Media Laboratory
Distribution: alt
Date: Sat, 13 Jun 1992 22:05:33 GMT
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I would like to see a course taught at the future UU about how to argue
(or present information) **CONSTRUCTIVELY** via the electronic medium.
Future UU pupils could carry on trial arguments and the UU profs would
make useful comments.
I guess it would be kind of like a writing course except that writing
over the internet (usenet, whatever) requires a whole different set of
skills than any other medium.
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From: cs...@cox.nsac.ns.ca (JEFF HOYLE)
Subject: Further on - A great idea
Message-ID: <cs_j...@cox.nsac.ns.ca>
Organization: Nova Scotia AC
Date: Sun, 14 Jun 1992 23:10:48 GMT
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Oh yes! I would like to see a course on how to actually go about buying big
ticket items like cars and homes etc.... It seems that we all have a lot to
learn in this department!
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From: ae...@yfn.ysu.edu (Ronda Hauben)
Newsgroups: alt.uu.future
Subject: How about a seminar in History of Economic Thought newsgroup
Message-ID: <1992Jun16.1...@news.ysu.edu>
Date: 16 Jun 92 17:27:23 GMT
Reply-To: ae...@yfn.ysu.edu (Ronda Hauben)
Organization: St. Elizabeth Hospital, Youngstown, OH
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How about a seminar form in a newsgroup? For example, one
newsgroup would be a history of economic thought. People
could post papers on line, comments on the papers, etc.
For example, I have a paper I am working on about
David Hume and Usenet News which discusses the attitude toward
the development of technology and its effect on society of
early English economists, especially David Hume. It draws
on some of his writings. If I posted the paper, people could
be encouraged to read some of his writings and then discuss
the paper. This could happen as part of a newsgroup under
alt.uu.future, for example, alt.uu.future.seminar.econ.history
Ronda au...@cleveland.freenet.edu
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From: j...@cs.HUT.FI (Jyrki Kuoppala)
Subject: Re: purpose?
Message-ID: <1992Jul5....@nntp.hut.fi>
Reply-To: j...@cs.HUT.FI (Jyrki Kuoppala)
Organization: Helsinki University of Technology, Finland
References: <RV.92Ju...@tahoe.cs.brown.edu>
Distribution: alt
Date: Sun, 5 Jul 1992 12:48:45 GMT
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To continue on the idea of "natural topics" or "natural applications"
for the media, or where the media has advantages over more
conventional ones, language studies would make a good target, as the
net spans a wide area and no doubt native speakers of many different
languages. People studying languages could get help from native
speakers on their writings - perhaps even dictionaries for some
languages could be collected for some fields of language. Students
could translate documents to other languages, and then errors would be
corrected by native speakers - a UU translation service provided for
the net?
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From: (John Sechrest) <jasmic!sech...@CS.ORST.EDU>
Date: Wed, 08 Jul 92 06:55:55 +42100
Some suggestions for courses:
Computers
Unix
Shell programming
Mail systems
Perl
Internet tools
Gopher
almanac
Wais
Agriculture
Gardening
plant identification
growing patterns
pests
....
Languages
Italian
Grammer
Writting
History
vocabularly
....
Journalism
Writing
Editing
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I feel that a third and fourth set of topics should also have groups
created. Discussion can proceed as to what topics to choose.
Usenet University will need to have a variety of disciplines so as
to get a breadth of outlook. What about history? What about mathematics?
What about art?
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How about the legal and/or political system of some country, or
comparative stduies from a few systems? Comparative cultural studies?
These would show an advantage of having participants from different
frames of reference and different parts of the globe.
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aug 3 1992
A "freshman's course", a meta-course to learn to study in UU
and use the services of UU
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//Jyrki