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14:5014:50, 5 May 2026 Gov (hist | edit) [74 bytes] Robbie (talk | contribs) (Created page with "__NOTOC__ __NOTITLE__ {{Setup|tick=Tools}} <h1>Governmental resources</h1>")
14:4814:48, 5 May 2026 Info (hist | edit) [92 bytes] Robbie (talk | contribs) (Created page with "__NOTOC__ __NOTITLE__ {{Setup|tick=Tools}} <h1>Newspapers, Magazines, Information Sites</h1>")
14:4514:45, 5 May 2026 Orgs (hist | edit) [82 bytes] Robbie (talk | contribs) (Created page with "__NOTOC__ __NOTITLE__ {{Setup|tick=Tools}} <h1>Foundations, NGOs, Think Tanks</h1>")
14:4414:44, 5 May 2026 Edu (hist | edit) [73 bytes] Robbie (talk | contribs) (Created page with "__NOTOC__ __NOTITLE__ {{Setup|tick=Tools}} <h1>Educational resources</h1>")
14:4114:41, 5 May 2026 A-v (hist | edit) [70 bytes] Robbie (talk | contribs) (Created page with "__NOTOC__ __NOTITLE__ {{Setup|tick=Tools}} <h1>Film, Video, Audio</h1>")
14:4014:40, 5 May 2026 Arts (hist | edit) [87 bytes] Robbie (talk | contribs) (Created page with "NOTOC__ __NOTITLE__ {{Setup|tick=Tools}} <h1>Painting, Sculpture, Music, and Dance</h1>")
14:3914:39, 5 May 2026 Biblio (hist | edit) [2,505 bytes] Robbie (talk | contribs) (Created page with "__NOTOC__ __NOTITLE__ {{Setup|tick=Tools}} <h1>Books and Libraries</h1> <div class="numsoff"> * [https://openlibrary.org/ The Open Library] * [https://www.dart-europe.org/basic-search.php DART - Europe E-Theses Portal] * [http://network.bepress.com/ Digital Commons Network] * [https://doaj.org/ Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ)] * [https://eric.ed.gov/ ERIC: Education Resources Information Center] * [https://ethos.bl.uk/Home.do ETHOS: Electronic Theses Online Ser...")
14:3714:37, 5 May 2026 Apps (hist | edit) [1,387 bytes] Robbie (talk | contribs) (Created page with "__NOTOC__ __NOTITLE__ {{Setup|tick=apps}} <h1>Digital applications</h1> * [https://www.gimp.org/ GIMP] :Image editing tool for manipulating color, cropping and resizing, and optimizing file size for the web * [https://www.gimp.org/Inkscape] :Vector graphics editor for creating SVG and PDF files * [https://krita.org/ Krita] :Drawing and painting tool for use with a tablet Bulma: CSS framework for designing interfaces LazPaint: Lightweight raster and vector graphics edit...")
05:5605:56, 5 May 2026 Why.Learning-liberally (hist | edit) [4,767 bytes] Robbie (talk | contribs) (Created page with "Learnliberally: To this end, we begin by cultivating the theory and practice of liberal learning because we think and act freely, autonomously, in a complex, constraining world, and we bear the consequences of our efforts. In such a situation, we shape our judgment, informing and strengthening it while living with others in a world of force and fact. At bottom, the phrase “a liberal art” indicates a techne or form of activity that suits a free, autonomous person. In...")

21:0321:03, 4 May 2026 What/The-lore-of-life (hist | edit) [1,946 bytes] Robbie (talk | contribs) (Created page with "__NOTOC__ __NOTITLE__ {{Setup|tick=What}} <h1>The lore of life</h1> <p>Everyone, from time immemorial, engages creatively in forming themselves and learning liberally. We recount stories and relate myths. We sing, dance, and make music. We tell jokes and sketch caricatures. Under pressure we fearfully scapegoat, anathematize, and warn of dark conspiracies. We celebrate—holidays, festivals, carnival. We memorialize the stages of life—birth, coming of age, death. Some...")
21:0021:00, 4 May 2026 What/Possibility (hist | edit) [2,021 bytes] Robbie (talk | contribs) (Created page with "__NOTOC__ __NOTITLE__ {{Setup|tick=What}} <h1>Possibility, not prediction</h1> <p>In the vast complexity of life, historical experience—what takes place—emerges from the innumerable interactions among living beings that all strive to maintain themselves through their relentless reciprocal interaction. Each lives in a world facing indeterminacies, experiencing their determination with inexorable unpredictability in the unfolding present. Each day's news is <i>new</i...")
20:5820:58, 4 May 2026 What/Predicaments (hist | edit) [2,540 bytes] Robbie (talk | contribs) (Created page with "__NOTOC__ __NOTITLE__ {{Setup|tick=What}} <h1>Predicaments</h1> Persons feel a ''concern'' as a doubt directed inward as they contemplate acting in a multifaceted world. In contrast, persons face their outer world when they find themselves in a ''predicament''. These life situations — ominous, troublesome, perplexing, perhaps even fortuitous ones — clamor for attention, a Rubik's cube of problems in which solving one aggravates another.</p> <p>Everyone faces passing...")
20:5720:57, 4 May 2026 What/Concern (hist | edit) [984 bytes] Robbie (talk | contribs) (Created page with "__NOTOC__ __NOTITLE__ {{Setup|tick=What}} <h1>Concern</h1> <p>We often worry whether we will measure up in meeting a challenge we face. It involves an inner uncertainty whether our abilities will enable us to achieve what we feel we can and should accomplish. We look inward and feel concern, moved to attend to our capacity, to heighten and perfect it. The concern involves a moving feeling that a difficult form of acting needs to rise to a demanding standard of accomplis...")
20:5420:54, 4 May 2026 What/Anticipation (hist | edit) [1,343 bytes] Robbie (talk | contribs) (Created page with "__NOTOC__ {{Setup|tick=What}} <h1>Anticipation</h1> <p>In this section, we will deal with the primary forms of human communication as we shape and use them in the course of our activities. </p> Here, let us set aside some common assumptions about the role of thinking in the course of acting. We do not think out a sequential course of action, issuing from it a set of instructions about what to do to guide the progression from start to finish. Rather we anticipate the res...")

09:0809:08, 29 April 2026 Dialog/Concepts (hist | edit) [12,388 bytes] Robbie (talk | contribs) (Created page with "__NOTOC__ __NOTITLE__ {{Setup|tick=Dialogs}} <h2>Concepts</h2> <p class="V">V {{#counter: || set = 0 }} — Hey, isn't there a difference between a ''concept'' and a ''keyword''? Why jam them together? You usually don't seem indecisive.</p> <p class="R">R {{#counter: }} — Uncertainty doesn't always signify indecision. Keywords help us classify forms of experience; concepts enter more generatively into how we construct the various forms of experience. They have to d...")
09:0609:06, 29 April 2026 Dialog/Anticipation (hist | edit) [3,043 bytes] Robbie (talk | contribs) (Created page with "__NOTOC__ __NOTITLE__ {{Setup|tick=Dialogs}} <h2>Anticipation</h2> <p class="V">V {{#counter: }} — You know, R, I'm a little confused by this page name. What do you mean? It doesn't make much sense to me to say, "We study anticipation." <p class="R">R {{#counter: }} — Fair enough. I've been wanting to find a way to group all the different forms of human communication, of expression or utterance, under one heading. I've thought about it quite a bit and most possibi...")
09:0309:03, 29 April 2026 A note on dialog (hist | edit) [199 bytes] Robbie (talk | contribs) (Created page with "__NOTOC__ {{Setup|tick=Dialogs}} <h1>A note on dialog in the drama of life</h1> <p>Life consists in an ongoing dialog between abilities to perceive and to effect in self-maintaining processes. </p>")
08:5508:55, 29 April 2026 Dialog/Dialog list (hist | edit) [5,076 bytes] Robbie (talk | contribs) (Created page with "__NOTOC__ __NOTITLE__ {{Setup|tick=Dialogs}} <h1>Dialogs (substantially drafted)</h1> * Anticipation ― On a basic function of human culture (draft in progress). * Concepts — On our use of concepts in lived experience (draft in progress). * Concerns to study — A feeling of concern combines "can I" with "should I". * Curating — On the meaning of <i>curating</i> on...")
08:2808:28, 29 April 2026 Dialogs (hist | edit) [6,412 bytes] Robbie (talk | contribs) (Created page with "__NOTOC__ {{Setup|tick=Dialogs}} <h1>A guide to our dialogs</h1> {{AR}} <div class="Inbox numsoff"><p>It's best to start with a sample... </p> * Hello — An introductory dialog about {{apts}}. * For its own sake — V and R try to make sense of what it means to do something for its own sake. * Persons, not individuals — Why we don't speak of individuals on {{apts}}. <!-- * Dialo...")
08:2708:27, 29 April 2026 On the job (hist | edit) [1,117 bytes] Robbie (talk | contribs) (Created page with "__NOTOC__ __NOTITLE__ {{Setup|tick=Work}} <h1>Making it work in a digital commons</h1> To Do List <p>On {{apts}} we aim to enhance our personal agency, forming ourselves and learning liberally in the digital commons. That purpose should inform the way we go about developing the skills and capacities with which we can pursue it. We bootstrap our abilities to work effectively here and throughout our lives. Each of us will want and need skills and capacities far e...")

19:1319:13, 28 April 2026 Curating (hist | edit) [338 bytes] Robbie (talk | contribs) (Created page with "__NOTOC__ __NOTITLE__ {{Setup|tick=curating}} <h1>Curating the Digital Commons</h1> <h5>What principles and guidelines can enable a sustained effort by a self-chosen assemblage of volunteers to crowd-curate the Internet to make it an effective resource supporting self-formation and liberal learning throughout the digital commons?</h5>")
19:0919:09, 28 April 2026 Tools (hist | edit) [3,247 bytes] Robbie (talk | contribs) (Created page with "__NOTOC__ __NOTITLE__ {{Setup|tick=Tools}} <h1>Gearing up</h1> <p>Everyone shapes themselves by gearing up, by selecting and using tools of various sorts to advance their purposes. Humans comprise the tool-making species, not uniquely, but characteristically. What's a rattle to an infant but an instrument with which to make a particular noise — one astonishing, pleasing, puzzling? Each person lives life by gearing up, starting very young, and we keep doing it througho...")
15:5015:50, 28 April 2026 Why.Disclosing-the-commons (hist | edit) [4,318 bytes] Robbie (talk | contribs) (Created page with "__NOTOC__ {{Setup|tick=Why}} <h1>Disclosing the commons</h1> <p>During the modern era, material means of production and consumption worked best using principles of enclosure, figuratively and literally fencing people, places, and things off to exploit their potentialities in a concentrated, well-organized manner. A post-modern era is beginning in which digital means to realize our hopes and purposes are complementing the familiar material ones with different constraints...")
15:4815:48, 28 April 2026 Why.Forming ourselves (hist | edit) [2,781 bytes] Robbie (talk | contribs) (Created page with "__NOTOC__ {{Setup|tick=Why}} <h1>To form ourselves</h1> <p>On {{apts}}, what do we mean by <i>to form ourselves</i>? We all pretty much grow up in similar ways. We develop, start to toddle and talk, play, go to school and learn similar stuff, better or worse. At a certain point, we decide our parents didn't know everything and then soon enough learn that we don't either. It all seems to happen in a flow of experience that mostly comes to us by surprise. Suddenly we've go...")
15:4615:46, 28 April 2026 Why (hist | edit) [5,091 bytes] Robbie (talk | contribs) (Created page with "__NOTOC__ {{Setup|tick=Why}} <h1><i>Why?</i> directs and motivates effort</h1> {{AR}} <p>Asking why we study engages us in thinking, but we too easily short-circuit the thinking asking why in the form of <i>Why bother?</i>, why should we take the trouble to study when we feel so busy, so pressed by many cares, just wanting some relaxation, escape, a "good time." </p> <p><i>Why bother?</i> preempts <i>asking why</i>. It pretends that we don't do these activities and may...")
15:4315:43, 28 April 2026 Where/Library listing (hist | edit) [9,429 bytes] Robbie (talk | contribs) (Created page with "__NOTOC__ {{Setup|tick=Where}} <h1>Our library</h1> <p>{{apts}} is not a library, but we have one. It contains many of the resources with which we study. Currently it holds a sparse, initial collection as part of developing our prototype. It lacks lots that should be there, includes perhaps some things that should not be there, and what's there tilts perilously towards the work of dead, white, Western males. And further, we've been acquiri...")
15:4215:42, 28 April 2026 Where/Our library (hist | edit) [5,201 bytes] Robbie (talk | contribs) (Created page with "__NOTOC__ {{Setup|tick=Where}} <h1>Our library</h1> <p>{{apts}} is not a library, but we have one. It contains many of the resources with which we study. Currently it holds a sparse, initial collection as part of developing our prototype. It lacks lots that should be there, includes perhaps some things that should not be there, and what's there tilts perilously towards the work of dead, white, Western males. And further, we've been acquiri...")
15:4115:41, 28 April 2026 Where/Studios (hist | edit) [6,232 bytes] Robbie (talk | contribs) (Created page with "__NOTOC__ {{Setup|tick=Where}} <h1>Studios</h1> <!-- <h2>Notes for introductory page</h2> <p class="V">An encyclopedia compiles impersonal knowledge about many topics. Hence, readers want a sense of authority in its treatments, which gets established through the frequent citation of sound sources. ''A Place to Study'' is NOT and encyclopedia.</p> <p class="R">''A Place to Study'' fosters the autonomous judgment , especially about self-formation and liberal learning, by i...")
15:4015:40, 28 April 2026 Where/Study skills (hist | edit) [1,940 bytes] Robbie (talk | contribs) (Created page with "__NOTOC__ {{Setup|tick=Where}} <h1>Study skills</h1> <p>Let's concentrate on the basics, the study skills that each and all have acquired. We can speak. We read and write. We use our senses, especially seeing and hearing, to perceive what's around us. Why should we stop now to study these? We've used them to come this far. Why not keep at matters where we're more thoroughly ignorant?</p> <p>Life takes place 24/7. We are not born with an empty slate, so many blank spaces...")
15:3915:39, 28 April 2026 Where/Montaigne1 (hist | edit) [11,564 bytes] Robbie (talk | contribs) (Created page with "__NOTOC__ __NOTITLE__ {{Setup|tick=Where}} <h1> </h1> <p>'''Talk teasers:'''<p><h1 style="text-align: center;">from Montaigne's study</h1> <p style="padding-right: 1em; font-weight: 700; text-indent: 0;">Here's a thought. Consider it. If you find parts that make no sense, try to make sense of them. Look things up. Understand the passage. Then tell yourself and others what you think in response. If that's, "Eh....," that's fine, pass over it — the world holds many...")
15:3815:38, 28 April 2026 Where/Goethe (hist | edit) [3,423 bytes] Robbie (talk | contribs) (Created page with "__NOTOC__ {{Setup|tick=Where}} <p>Quick thoughts:</p> <h1 style="text-align: center;">Goethe said,....</i></h1> <p style="padding: 1em; font-weight: 700; text-indent: 0;">Here's a thought. Consider it. If you find parts that make no sense, try to make sense of them. Look things up. Understand the passage. Then tell yourself and others what you think in response. If that's, "meh...," that's fine, pass over it — the world holds many thoughts. If you have a response, gr...")
15:3715:37, 28 April 2026 Where/Key quotes (hist | edit) [3,427 bytes] Robbie (talk | contribs) (Created page with "__NOTOC__ {{Setup|tick=Where}} <p>Quick thoughts:</p> <h1 style="text-align: center;">Quotations to ponder</i></h1> <p style="padding: 1em; font-weight: 700; text-indent: 0;">Here's a thought. Consider it. If you find parts that make no sense, try to make sense of them. Look things up. Understand the passage. Then tell yourself and others what you think in response. If that's, "meh...," that's fine, pass over it — the world holds many thoughts. If you have a response...")
15:3615:36, 28 April 2026 Where/Quick study (hist | edit) [408 bytes] Robbie (talk | contribs) (Created page with "__NOTOC__ {{Setup|tick=Where}} <h1>Quick thoughts</h1> <p style="margin: 0 0 0 10%; padding-right: 10em; font-weight: 700; text-indent: 0;">Yes, we take things seriously. But time's short. Here's some quick thoughts to grab on the run. What's your response? </p> <hr> * Quotations to ponder * Goethe said.... * Maxims from Montaigne's study ")
15:3415:34, 28 April 2026 Where/Study pages (hist | edit) [5,503 bytes] Robbie (talk | contribs) (Created page with "__NOTOC__ {{Setup|tick=Where}} <h1>Study pages</h1> <blockquote>Critics obsessed with [Milton's] great reputation and great scholarship tend to look exclusively to literary sources for his ideas. . . . My not very daring suggestion is that Milton got his ideas not only from books but also by talking to his contemporaries.<ref>Christopher Hill. <i>Milton and the English Reolution</i> (New York: The Viking Press, 1977) p. 5.</ref></blockquote> <p>We use <i>study pages</i...")

21:1021:10, 27 April 2026 Where/Study groups (hist | edit) [16,269 bytes] Robbie (talk | contribs) (Created page with "__NOTOC__ {{Setup|tick=Where}} <h1>Study groups</h1> <blockquote><i>We start with a proposal for a study group on Michel de Montaigne as an initial write-up of an effort to prototype a study group on {{apts}}. As we gain experience with such prototypes, we will draft a general discussion about forming our study groups.<br>Montaigne study group 01/17/2022 to 03/21/2022.</span></i></blockquote> <p>Study groups occur often in instructional setting...")
21:0921:09, 27 April 2026 Where/Study nodes (hist | edit) [51 bytes] Robbie (talk | contribs) (Created page with "__NOTOC__ {{Setup|tick=Where}} <h1>Study Nodes</h1>")
21:0821:08, 27 April 2026 Where/Our landmarks (hist | edit) [5,273 bytes] Robbie (talk | contribs) (Created page with "__NOTOC__ {{Setup|tick=Where}} <h1>Our landmarks</h1> <div style="float: left; max-width: 200px; margin: 1em 1em 1em 0;">200px<p class="s1 noind>"Keep, ancient lands, your storied pomp!" cries she / With silent lips. "Give me your tired, your poor, / Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, / The wretched refuse of your teeming shore. / Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me, / I lift my lamp beside the golden door!"<re...")
21:0421:04, 27 April 2026 Where (hist | edit) [4,361 bytes] Robbie (talk | contribs) (Created page with "__NOTOC__ {{Setup|tick=Where}} <h1><i>Where?</i> situates lived experience</h1> {{AR}} <p>Actually, <i>Where?</i> includes <i>When?</i> and <i>When?</i> includes <i>Where?</i> Combined, they situate lived experience, what was, is, or will be taking place. Verbs of actualizing — to <i>happen</i>, to <i>take place</i>, to <i>become</i>, and all their synonyms — have greater significance for thinking and acting than the verbs of being — to <i>be</i> — however overus...")
21:0221:02, 27 April 2026 How/We speak (hist | edit) [3,388 bytes] Robbie (talk | contribs) (Created page with "__NOTOC__ {{Setup|tick=How}} <h1>We speak and write</h1>")
21:0121:01, 27 April 2026 How/We speculate (hist | edit) [61 bytes] Robbie (talk | contribs) (Created page with "__NOTOC__ {{Setup|tick=How}} <h1>We speculate and wonder</h1>")
21:0021:00, 27 April 2026 How/We concentrate (hist | edit) [492 bytes] Robbie (talk | contribs) (Created page with "__NOTOC__ {{Setup|tick=How}} <h1>We concentrate</h1> <p>When I contemplate the digital commons, I see a pullulating growth of initiatives, many commercial, many institutional, many governmental, and some autonomous, growing for their own sake. The situation creates a great clamor for attention. We take a first step in developing our ability to concentrate by ignoring all that.</p> <p>As an an unenclosed initiative in the digital commons, {{apts}} has no need to grow a...")
20:5920:59, 27 April 2026 How/We associate (hist | edit) [1,821 bytes] Robbie (talk | contribs) (Created page with "__NOTOC__ {{Setup|tick=How}} <h1>We associate</h1> <p>In much of life, we habitually project boundaries onto the world and our lives in it and stuff objects and our experience with them into these containers. Similarities and identities then become what matters. These take on various auras of valence and significance. It all serves as an economical way to respond to the complexities of experience. Economical, but not necessarily conducive to clear thinking and judging.</...")
20:5620:56, 27 April 2026 How/We select (hist | edit) [2,298 bytes] Robbie (talk | contribs) (Created page with "__NOTOC__ {{Setup|tick=How}} <h1>We browse & we reap</h1> <p>OK, ask it—why say we browse in discussing how we study? Isn't browsing sort of casual; studying really serious. According to Google, to browse means to "survey goods for sale in a leisurely and casual way" and to study means to "devote time and attention to acquiring knowledge on (an academic subject), especially by means of books," and somewhat more generally to "look at closely in order to observe or read...")
20:5520:55, 27 April 2026 How/We browse (hist | edit) [3,791 bytes] Robbie (talk | contribs) (Created page with "__NOTOC__ {{Setup|tick=How}} <h1>We browse & we reap</h1> <p>OK, ask it—why say we browse in discussing how we study? Isn't browsing sort of casual; studying really serious. According to Google, to browse means to "survey goods for sale in a leisurely and casual way" and to study means to "devote time and attention to acquiring knowledge on (an academic subject), especially by means of books," and somewhat more generally to "look at closely in order to observe or read...")
20:5320:53, 27 April 2026 How (hist | edit) [1,291 bytes] Robbie (talk | contribs) (Created page with "__NOTOC__ {{Setup|tick=How}} <h1><i>How?</i> joins thinking and acting</h1> {{AR}} * <i>What?</i> leads to the universe of concepts, nouns; * <i>How?</i> describes the working of action, verbs.</p> <p>In this district, we start with the question, <i>How do we study?</i> That leads us to consider a range of activities important in the work of study to which we locate with links to the right. What's unusual about them? In most instructional situations, the question <i>How?...")
18:1418:14, 27 April 2026 What (hist | edit) [10,987 bytes] Robbie (talk | contribs) (Created page with "__NOTOC__ {{Setup|tick=What}} <h1>What do we seek by asking <i>What?</i></h1> <div class="outbox"><div class="inbox compact">06/25: Before revising this further, it is important to substantially draft the section on Lifeworlds. Without having drafted it, judging what to deal with in this section (and others as well) will be difficult.</div></div> <p>In asking <i>What?</i>, we seek, not a thing, we seek a concept to enhance our power to think about experience.</p> <...")
18:1118:11, 27 April 2026 Who/Visitors (hist | edit) [3,149 bytes] Robbie (talk | contribs) (Created page with "__NOTOC__ {{Setup|tick=Clues}} <h1>Visitors</h1> <p>Everyone begins on {{apts}} as a visitor. The place is an open city inviting you to study through it. As a visitor, you can go where you like — {{apts}} has no private spaces. There's a lot to take in to really know your way around. The place is a place to study in the virtual world, and the actual world doesn't offer too many places to study these days to clue us in about finding our way on our own.</p> <p>A first-...")
18:1018:10, 27 April 2026 Who/Residents (hist | edit) [818 bytes] Robbie (talk | contribs) (Created page with "__NOTOC__ __NOTITLE__ {{Setup|tick=Who}} {{Numsoff}} <h1>Residents</h1> <p>Anyone can ask for a free account [once the site opens] and become a resident on {{apts}}. Although free and unencumbered, it comes with rights and responsibilities. Volunteers, that is its residents, construct and maintain {{apts}} and they do so by working collaboratively, among themselves and with visitors, in the spirit of the place, to form themselves and learn liberally within the digital c...")
18:0918:09, 27 April 2026 Who/Masterworkers (hist | edit) [51 bytes] Robbie (talk | contribs) (Created page with "__NOTOC__ {{Setup|tick=Who}} <h1>Masterworkers</h1>")
18:0818:08, 27 April 2026 Who/Exemplars (hist | edit) [2,709 bytes] Robbie (talk | contribs) (Created page with "__NOTOC__ __NOTITLE__ {{Setup|tick=Who}} <h1>Exemplars</h1> [** A draft to be developed. **] <p>An ''exemplar''—a person who has completed life—receives attention from other persons who are now engaged in their own self-formation. We extract from the life of the exemplar insight, understanding, and inspiration in shaping our own. An exemplar stands before us, not as an object lesson instructing us about some unattainable principle or ideal, but as a complex person o...")

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