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Thu, Jun 1, 2000 (06:38) |
austentestspring (sprin5)
Can austen.com become a University for works on Jane Austen?
I'm basing this on the recent launch of http://www.barnesandnobleuniversity.com and seeing this as the next hot area on the Internet, education. Is anyone inerested in helping with this project?
23 responses total.
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Response 1 of 23: austentestspring (sprin5) * Mon, Jun 19, 2000 (11:59) * 1 lines
I'm floating a trial balloon on this now, and am getting good early returns. It's discussed in a private conference now. More news to come.
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Response 2 of 23: austentestspring (sprin5) * Mon, Jun 19, 2000 (12:03) * 78 lines
Paul,
Sounds like there could be a great match. Gregory, our team's main contact
with b&n, is currently in NYC with them talking about upcoming course ideas,
etc. He'll be out all week, but he or someone from the curriculum team will
be in contact soon.
Thanks,
Kathy
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Subject: Austen University - a Content & Course Suggestion
I am currently working as a system administrator contractor at
notharvard.com, working on building the Solaris platform for the next
generation of notHarvard.com servers. But I have also spent the last ten
years developing several successful websites (austen.com, spring.net,
firth.com etc.) that have become heavily populated virtual communities.
I have an idea for a series of courses based on a popular website I own
called http://www.austen.com. It is the main Internet portal for the works
(books, movie adaptations, television adaptations) of Jane Austen. It
receives several hundred thousand hits a month, as does it's sister site
where Jane Austen discussion forums are held at http://www.spring.net.
The website has a fervent following, to say the least. Donations and
contributions sometimes are several thousand dollars a month, and the
membership is growing rapidly. I get about 40,000 unique individuals a
month visiting both spring.net and austen.com, comprised of a highly
literate, well educated audience who are into studying the works of Jane
Austen and doing literary adaptations of these works. The "Derbyshire
Writers Guild" is a unique educational area where anyone can put up a story
based on the writings of Jane Austen.
See http://www.austen.com/derby/contrib.htm for the Derbyshire Writers
Guild.
I would like to meet with someone at notharvard.com about the potential for
writing a series of courses on the works of Jane Austen as part of
BarnesandNobleUniversity.com or some other notHarvard.com venue. I could
enlist the support of this loyal austen.com community in putting these
courses together and would draw participants from the community. The
educommerce potential, I believe, would be enormous considering that this is
a well established and highly literature, book buying virtual community.
I also feel like the spring.net community as a whole could develop other
course opportunities that would be supported by the conferencing structure I
have developed at spring.net.
Will you please help me to evalute the potential merits of developing Jane
Austen courses that would be coupled with online discussion forums and see
if this has potential merit as an offering of notHarvard.com?
Thanks,
Paul Terry Walhus
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Response 3 of 23: austentestspring (sprin5) * Mon, Jun 19, 2000 (12:04) * 14 lines
And from another member of the content team:
Paul,
Thanks so much for your input. The recruiting and curriculum team (Gregory,
Adrienne, Ben, Tom and I) will certainly discuss this more, but B&N is very
keen on literature courses.
Gregory's out of town this week, but maybe we can all sit down next week to
discuss your ideas further. Of course, Gregory will determine all of this
since he's the big boss man...
Thanks,
Jan
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Response 4 of 23: MarciaH (MarciaH) * Mon, Jun 19, 2000 (13:52) * 1 lines
Great idea, Terry. waiting to hear more while I wait to hear in what way I might be of help...
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Response 5 of 23: austentestspring (sprin5) * Mon, Jun 19, 2000 (13:58) * 1 lines
You can help by identifying who might want to participate in this project.
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Response 6 of 23: austentestspring (sprin5) * Tue, Jun 20, 2000 (08:13) * 1 lines
The ante is upped on this project. We need ideas in all sorts of course areas. We need to know how many courses we can develop based on Spring conference topics and who can assist in developing these courses. How important is this? It's the most important project we've ever done and make a huge difference in the quality and direction we take in the future, not to mention that it can be a great source of revenue for the participants who help develop courseware and teach courses and run topics/conferences in conjunction with these courses.
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Response 7 of 23: Marcia (MarciaH) * Tue, Jun 20, 2000 (21:23) * 1 lines
I posted course topic suggestions from Geo. I tried to access B&N university but have not logged in and cannot find it from the B&N.com page. Suggestions?
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Response 8 of 23: austentestspring (sprin5) * Wed, Jun 21, 2000 (07:36) * 15 lines
http://www.barnesandnobleuniversity.com
Also look at
http://www.talkcity.com in the section called "free courses"
And follow the links on http://www.notharvard.com
And on the main page of http://www.barnesandnoble.com there's a yellow box to the right middle of the page that says
Also on the Way...
Free online courses at Barnes & Noble University
Follow this if all else fails.
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Response 9 of 23: nhspring (sprin5) * Wed, Jun 21, 2000 (07:45) * 1 lines
I'd like to get some course ideas from as many folks as possible and I'm waiting to hear from Ann if she's game to mock up a page for Friday's presentation. I'd like to get a couple of dozen ideas for courses based on Jane Austen, geo, and other hot areas of the Spring and put them on a mock up page for discussion on Friday. I left a voicemail for Ann last night.
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Response 10 of 23: Marcia (MarciaH) * Thu, Jun 22, 2000 (22:11) * 1 lines
I put a list elsewhere, but add Basic Astronomy - The Night Sky
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Response 11 of 23: austentestspring (sprin5) * Fri, Jun 23, 2000 (07:23) * 1 lines
Where'd you put the list?
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Response 12 of 23: Marcia (MarciaH) * Fri, Jun 23, 2000 (19:59) * 9 lines
It was inner 50.18 but here it is copied:
Basic Rockhounding
Leylines and E lines - Earth energy
Volcanoes - introduction
Plate tectonics - Introduction
GeoArchaeology
(any of my topics actually)
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Response 13 of 23: Marcia (MarciaH) * Fri, Jun 23, 2000 (20:00) * 1 lines
The Night Sky - Basic Astronomy
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Response 14 of 23: austentestspring (sprin5) * Sat, Jun 24, 2000 (07:49) * 1 lines
Alright, great. These are for Ann to include in mock up page of courses we could offer. Do you have any ideas for courses that other folks could teach, What courses and who could teach them? Maybe we could lure Ray back to teach something, maybe a cooking class, etc.
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Response 15 of 23: Marcia (MarciaH) * Sat, Jun 24, 2000 (19:41) * 8 lines
Hiatus Man to do anything!!! Cooking, webpage design... There is much he can contribute including trail blazing and other outdoor things. Problem here is he hasn't the time.
There are many talented people here but with little time.....
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Response 16 of 23: austentestspring (sprin5) * Sun, Jun 25, 2000 (11:37) * 1 lines
Amy Bellinger wrote me some suggestions and she mentioned a possible alliance that I am going to follow up on.
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Response 17 of 23: Marcia (MarciaH) * Sun, Jun 25, 2000 (19:21) * 1 lines
Let us know of your success. I am still working on the recruiting-for-Spring level(success with the Seismology student from Tehran) and trying to think of something constructive add to your mix.
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Response 18 of 23: austentestspring (sprin5) * Mon, Jun 26, 2000 (06:15) * 1 lines
Amy just launched a major project at http://www.webfaucet.com, no wonder she's been so back in the woodwork for the past couple of years.
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Response 19 of 23: Marcia (MarciaH) * Mon, Jun 26, 2000 (18:19) * 1 lines
Just looked....Wow!
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Response 20 of 23: nhspring (sprin5) * Tue, Jun 27, 2000 (12:50) * 1 lines
This isn't just a weekends work.
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Response 21 of 23: Nan (nan) * Tue, Jun 27, 2000 (13:11) * 1 lines
Just a little clarification about WebFaucet...it's actually a portion of my thesis for the graduate program I just completed at NYU. Amy isn't involved in it, though I wish she were ;-)
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Response 22 of 23: Marcia (MarciaH) * Tue, Jun 27, 2000 (14:01) * 1 lines
You Go, Girl!! Terry is right - that was no weekend endeavor. Brava Nan! Hugs, too!
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Response 23 of 23: Paul Terry Walhus (terry) * Tue, May 1, 2001 (06:22) * 1 lines
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