Learn By Doing

A Lifelong Learner Shares Thoughts About Education

  • We Want to See What’s In Your Pockets

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    You showed us your go bags,
    and frankly, they were fantastic. But many of you pointed out that the
    whole go bag business seemed overwhelming—that you’re minimalists
    who’ve stripped down your needs to whatever you can fit in your
    pockets. So for next week’s show and tell, we want to see what you’re packing in your pockets. Photo by janerc.

    If
    you’re interested in submitting your pocket goodies for next Thursday’s
    Show Us What’s In Your Pockets gallery, here’s what to do:

    1. Take a picture of the contents of your pockets:
      Empty out your pockets and lay everything out for everyone to see, and
      then take a photograph. We only want one picture per entry, so please
      get everything you want to show off in one shot.
    2. Write up a description of the contents of your pockets: The more detail you provide, the better. Let us know what your tools are, where you got your great wallet, etc.
    3. Send your picture and description to us: Compose an email to lh.showandtell at gmail.com with the subject title Show us Your What’s In Your Pockets, attach your photograph, and enter your description in the body of the email.

    Be sure to give us plenty of details regarding how you whittled down
    your pocket contents and what makes each item so important. We’re
    looking forward to pocket lint this upcoming Thursday, so try to get
    your submission in before Wednesday.

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  • Women in Technology
    This series is comprised of articles written by women on the topic of “Women in Technology,” which will run through September. My hope is that the myriad of experiences you read about here will showcase how valuable it is to hear from different women at all stages of their careers and lives. Whether you believe that there is gender inequality within the tech community that we should all work to improve or if you think that there are no issues at all, one underlying truth is that we should support each other as individuals.

  • SiliconValley.com – How can we best attract youngsters to IT careers? Let’s try asking them
    Fall is here – students are back in class and the information technology industry is back to wondering how it can persuade young Americans to enter IT and other science, technology, engineering and math fields.

    The annual round of hand-wringing and head-scratching by policy wonks, business leaders and educators isn’t working. We have been at it for years, and the track record is discouraging.

    America will add more than 1 million IT jobs between 2004 and 2014, according to the Department of Labor. At the same time, undergraduate enrollment in computer sciences declined 59 percent from 2001 to 2005. When you consider that a newly minted systems analyst with a college degree will likely earn around $50,000 a year, you wonder if kids are getting the whole story.

  • How to Create RSS feeds with Dreamweaver
    There are several tools for publishing RSS feeds widely available on the Internet, with a range of prices from free on up. The problem with most of the tools is that they require a fair bit of work to get your content into the feed you are creating. With some, you have to copy and paste your content into their tool, which is simple for small amounts of content but not for larger websites. With others, you have to have PHP, ASP, or Perl on your webserver and use those tools to rework your content into a feed. In all cases, none of them are designed to integrate directly with Dreamweaver, a primary tool used to create your website content.

  • Education Goes Online: 25 Free Online Education Resources
    We learned on Friday that you can now select a YouTube-related course through Pitzer College. But while a course about YouTube is surprising to some, the web is actually a treasure trove of education-related resources, including lots of video lectures, educational wikis and podcasts. The key sites for modern, web-based learning are outlined below – feel free to add more in the comments.