mike | Shared With: Everyone - May 02 2008 | education, startups, seattle, teachstreet, tutorTeachStreet went "LIVE" on April 21. The site looks great - and I hope really useful. It's dedicated to helping you find local instructors for virtually any subject/topic/skill (think - find local music instructor).
Quoted: TeachStreet: Connecting Inquiring Minds with Inspiring Instructors in local face-to-face settings.
mike | Shared With: Everyone - Apr 08 2008 | wiki, educationShareViewed: 3 Times
mike | Shared With: Everyone - Jan 21 2008 | learning, cmu, mit, ocw, online, education
CMU's answer to MIT's open courseware? It looks like they are more focused on actually providing complete online course - and not just in placing the course materials online.
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mike | Shared With: Everyone - Dec 23 2007 | seattle, education, communityQuoted: Seattle Saturday House is a weekly gathering of several people who meet and do ... whatever they want!
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mike | Shared With: Everyone - Dec 23 2007 | seattle, education, community
Interesting article about a group creating a free-form learning environment each Saturday. They're only paying $850/mo for their 1,000 sq feet - quite a good deal for SoDo.
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mike | Shared With: Everyone - Dec 20 2007 | mit, video, education, ocw, walter lewin, science, physics
Great article full of fan mail for MIT physics professor, Walter Lewin.
Quoted: Walter H. G. Lewin, a physics professor at M.I.T., has found devotees across the country with his online lectures.
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mike | Shared With: Everyone - Nov 29 2007 | programming, education, 3d, java, cmu
Randy Pausch project.
Quoted: Educational Software that teaches computer programming in a 3D environment.
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mike | Shared With: Everyone - Nov 14 2007 | education, cs, computer science, google, video
mike | Shared With: Everyone - Nov 13 2007 | education, programming, puzzles
A site with a 167 mathematical problems that can all be solved by a) mathematical reasoning PLUS b) a small computer program which executes in under a minute.
You have to solve a problem, and then you unlock a forum page for that problem where you can see the solutions posted and discussed.
Quoted: A website dedicated to the fascinating world of mathematics and programming
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mike | Shared With: Everyone - Sep 27 2007 | video, language, education, japan, english
click to playSarah creates The Daily English Show on YouTube. She has created more than 500 episodes already! In this episode, she answers questions about herself and the show (she lives in Japan normally, though now going to school in Nova Scotia).
Her shows features a section where students can practice a question and answer dialog.
Also watch her "How to Make TDES" video here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=szxT9O7MGy4
Quoted: My first attempt at an faq video. Just me talking to the camera, so this may bore you to tears. Or you might find it interesting if I answer a question ...
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