A lot of good teaching goes on at dailyKos. But a lot of it doesn't get read by everyone who wants to read it, because diaries scroll by so fast.
This series is about diaries that teach and about things you want to learn. Could be any subject - an academic subject, a skill, a hobby, almost anything - but not diaries that simply inform, or it would include all of daily kos.
I will also include diaries about teaching and education
A big Thank You to the diary rescue team, who helped find a lot of stories I would have missed. Please keep it up!
What I do is, each week, search for the tags 'teaching' and 'learning' and go through jotter's lists for diaries that teach. Then I'll post the list, with perhaps some brief comment, and open the floor to people who want to learn something specific.
You can help me by tagging diaries with 'teaching' or 'learning' when you see diaries that merit those tags, by reminding me of what I've missed, by recommending this diary, and by commenting.
I divide the list into "Regular series" and "Occasional diaries"
*Regular series* - by title of series
Bookflurries is about autumn thoughts and books to savor, brought to you by cfk
Dawn chorus is taking a break this week
FAQ forum is the place for learning about daily Kos: here, hosted by dmsilev
Friday night at the movies was about the October country hosted by annetteboardman
Frugal Fridays was about frugal campaigning hosted by sarahnity
Garden blogging (like the title! Obama garden Biden) hosted by Frankenoid
Got a happy story had a long weekend edition hosted by sobermom
Hadrian's forum took a break this week
Health care was about Ben Lujan (running for congress in NM-02), health, and the environment
History for Kossacks took a break this week
Home repair with claude
Marine Life Series returned with moon snails and sand collars, hosted by MarkH
Math Mania was about outliers (and statistics questions answered)
Painting palooza with boran2
Pique the geek was about forensic science by Translator (he also answered science questions)
Science Saturday had a ignobel awards edition from Neon Vincent
The left wing returned with raptors
Today in History by iampunha had
crickets
and
erase hate
Welcome New Users took a break this week
WGLB Presents got personal with come out, come out, wherever you are! by GLBT and friends
What are you working on? was about baking liberal bread guest hosted by jlms qkw
What's for dinner? had food drive by ek hornbeck
Word of the week took a break this week
Yat Cuisine was about creole stuffed portobellos by YatPundit
*Occasional diaries* by name of diarist
Asinus Asinum Fricat covers the melamine scandal in from China with love: Melamine and a diary on the FDA's actions (or lack thereof); he also says "thanks George" for the world in free fall
BruceMcF tells you that you too can be an insurance company and covers some technical details of default swaps
chingchongchinaman tells us about Newman's own Lincoln portrait edition
dkmich tells us more about the great lakes in trends and impact
EddieC shows us the second half of September in sunrises and sunsets
EugeneF wishes us happy Leif Ericson day and tours de farce
gmoke shows us some of the 2008 People's design award winners
hekebolos has spider Friday with a diary on rare backyard widows
InCircles asks for feedback on education
JRandomPoster covers some of the technical aspects of privacy, terrorist surveillance and data mining
mole333 reviews the book biodiesel
teacherken asks what to teach the students
Translator tells us about another kossack and how their lives intersected in a kossack needs defending
webranding notes that growing up, my parents taught me a lot of things and has some lessons for McCain, from those teachings