background preloader

MISCELLANEOUS

Facebook Twitter

SALT & PEPPER SHAKER INFO

McMurry University - Majors Offered | American School Search. Remember This Link. 8 Awesome Websites to Take Free College Courses Online. The sites below offer free online college level classes to anyone willing to spend the time on them. Each differ – some have all of the materials online and some may want you to purchase (borrow?) A textbook to follow along with. Each of them offers complete courses with only one thing missing: the credit for the coursework to put towards a matriculated degree. 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. Carnegie Mellon OpenLearning Carnegie Mellon, based in Pittsburgh, PA, has a variety of courses available for anyone online. Khan Acadamy Salman Khan began putting videos on YouTube to help with tutoring a cousin.

Today, there are over 1000 videos on KhanAcademy, which is now a 501(c)(3) non-profit. University of California at Berkeley Stanford University iTunesU Tufts OpenCourseware Open University LearningSpace Johns Hopkins OpenCourseware. Early adopter alert: miio is here, and it’s looking really slick. Over the past couple of years, we’ve seen quite a few social networks come and go. The ones that have stayed strong (Twitter and Facebook, primarily) have done so because they focus primarily on a couple of things and doing them extremely well. miio is hoping to capitalize on the simplicity of Twitter, while expanding into features of Facebook and even FriendFeed. So far, I really like what I see because it appears to be built from the ground up to be a centralized place that you can use feed to Twitter or any site that will accept incoming RSS.

The site is broken down in to 3 primary sections, so here’s a detail on each Status Updates Unlike Twitter, where your updates are generally a few words and maybe a picture, miio goes further to provide you the ability to do much more: ReviewsQuestionsLinksPhotosVideosLocations Each of these has the appropriate entry fields to make them viable, but they also each have a Metadata box that really makes it interesting. Categories Groups Overall.

Political Crap

How to Organize.