How could people "write" using knots, textures and colors in Andean cultures before the Conquest? Why call this writing? How does it compare to the earliest forms of writing usually discussed in the western tradition?
Starting off with Joanna Russ' The Female Man, Katie leads a discussion on feminist SF. Come prepared to name your own favorites and let's compare what we mean by feminist when it comes to SF.
Delia Lake & Perplexity Peccable are part of a group working to provide information, events, education & simulations in Second Life about the Gulf Oil Spill. Content focuses on environment, health, economics, & policy. Delia and Lexi will focus this brief introduction and conversation on the environmental & health aspects of the sim.
The new Linden Labs Terms of Service (ToS) take effect next week, April 30. We will have a conversation about the new ToS and their potential impacts Friday at noon eastern time.WHEN: April 23, Friday, 9AM SLT/PDT, noon EDTWHERE: Sea Turtle Island, Music IslandI blogged about this a little bit as part of general trends in social media.http://etechlib.wordpress.com/2010/04/21/social-media-sea-change-sea-sorrow-changing-the-rules/Here are the highlighted links from that section of the post.New…See More
For the musicians, artists and audience of Music Island to post notices and information about concerts, music streaming and other related stuff. Music Island is an ongoing project developed within the context of Cedar Island Open-Learning Community.See More
Cedar community members are welcome to join the University of MIchigan community's tour of Theorist Project, a counseling theories interactive classroom for graduate students in the Department of Counseling in the College of Education and Human Services at Montclair State University. Theories are: Freud, Adler, Gestalt and more. This is an interactive learning space and working classroom. Make sure to click on anything where your mouse turns into a hand. Also, as an active classroom, this is a…See More