Category: Hacks
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Read: Empire at the End of Decadence
From the NYtimes Op-Ed Columnist Charles M. Blow, published 18 Feb 2011, read Empire at the End of Decadence. The chart he provides allows for an interesting, thought provoking, discussion in class.
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Free College Courses Online
MIT OpenCourseware Massachusetts Institute of Technology was a pioneer in offering online college courses and they still have the most diverse and in-depth collection of classes available anywhere. Their online offering is an archived version of real courses that have been taught at MIT, and you may need to purchase the textbook to follow along…
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Free Classes Online
Online Education Database has this finder to locate free classes for credit. They have this to say: When else have you ever heard of free classes for credit? Online education has opened up countless numbers of doors for Americans everywhere, and offering free classes to students is only one of the many. Online education began…
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2010: How I Spent My Summer!
This summer I haven’t posted as I was out riding across the TransAmerica, TransAm, #acatransam! The trail took me from Yorktown, VA to Portland, OR. See the trip, with notes and pix on Google Maps or TrackMyTour. I am decompressing at present and haven’t even cleaned or performed maintenance on my Rivendell Atlantis: Home 4,143…
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Teaching with TED
Image via Wikipedia TED is owned by The Sapling Foundation, a private nonprofit foundation, a 501(c)3 organization under the U.S. tax code. It was established in 1996 by Chris Anderson, who was then a magazine publishing entrepreneur. The goal of the foundation is to foster the spread of great ideas. It aims to provide a…