Recently I found myself wanting someplace I could point users to test software without me installing it. Not that I mind a great deal, but sometimes it is just useful to practice or kick the tires. I ran across click2try a “Community site where it’s easy to try Open Source software–for free.” This solved my immediate [...]
TeachStreet, a Yelp-like service for real world classes (cooking, dog obedience, music lessons, ballroom dance, foreign language, golf, yoga, etc.), is launching a marketplace feature for teachers to be able to coordinate payments from students. TeachStreet, which serves seven metropolitan areas in the U.S. including New York City, Silicon Valley/San Francisco and Seattle, allows instructors to upload information about classes. Users can look for available classes, and read and write reviews on the course and the instructor. Currently, the site includes a selection of more than 135,000 classes and teachers, across more than 700 subjects and categories. Continue reading TeachStreet for Teachers
OER Commons
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Try educating yourself online. Go and check out LifeHacker’s article on the
Top 10 Tools for a Free Online Education.
You will find a host of things to get started with from them. I have reprinted the article below only in the event it disappears.