Sunday, March 30, 2008
BLOG: TODAY'S CIRCULAR LETTER
Lately I have been dabbling with a free course from MIT. MIT offers about 1800 of these free courses. You get no credit, and how much you do depends on your interest. Lectures are for the downloading on the site. I download some of them. When I work on these courses, I become more and more aware of the absence of, and the importance of the professor to straigten out questions. I find, also, that assumptions of how much the student already knows are sometimes made. Anyway, it is free and something I read for a course is the suject of this posting.
I have been reading about Harriet Beecher (Stowe) in connection with slavery. She was still living in Cincinnati, and would come to Hartford later. Her family, while scattered, kept their communmication open by means of letters which went from one to the other and were commented upon. At least that's what I am getting out of it.
Our blog is intended to do the same thing. The members are free to comment on what other members have entered, or to enter their own thoughts. That's what should be going on. Otherwise, it becomes Bob's journal. I hope people will accept the concept, and begin communicating better.
http://www.MIT.edu/OCW for the MIT course offerings
I have been reading about Harriet Beecher (Stowe) in connection with slavery. She was still living in Cincinnati, and would come to Hartford later. Her family, while scattered, kept their communmication open by means of letters which went from one to the other and were commented upon. At least that's what I am getting out of it.
Our blog is intended to do the same thing. The members are free to comment on what other members have entered, or to enter their own thoughts. That's what should be going on. Otherwise, it becomes Bob's journal. I hope people will accept the concept, and begin communicating better.
http://www.MIT.edu/OCW for the MIT course offerings
# posted by Noonski @ 3:25 PM 
