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.
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.
For a list of some series and diarists that might appeal, see my diary What are you teaching/learning? and the comments to it
Request: Next week, I will be away. If anyone wants to fill in for me, that would be great
OK.....here we go, alphabetically by diarist
Alex Terrieur did some analysis of the idea of a general strike on 9/11 which emphasized organizational issues pertinent to netroots.
Amitai Etzioni discusses some of the problems with Bush's Security First and a book called Sovereignty as Responsibility.
annetteboardman tells people how to ask for letters of recomendation from their former professors.
claude has volume 2.1 of Home Repair Blogging
ClimateLurker discusses the effects of nitrogen on the environment in Drive by extinction, health, and global warming
DeweyCounts explores three very important words in Do you know your ABCs?
fatbyjhnsn has a new series Culture Kos, including Phil Spector: Genius breeds instability
Frankenoid has volume 3.26 of home and garden blogging
gmoke tells a bit about the history of Jazz, and notes that You Can't Steal a Gift
JDWolverton discusses Judaism, Christianity, and some implications for arguing with wingnuts in Do you eat pork?
In IronChef Kos Wednesday, LunkHead gets recipes using Zucchini
lightnessofbeing shared some tip in In my experience
lineatus takes us birdblogging in Cuba
MarkH has two diaries in the MarineLife series: The Blue Whale and Deep Sea Anglerfish
mkfox has started a tournament among the Forgotten Founding Fathers with diaries every day. The latest is here
Navy Vet Terp discusses why we should federalze presidential primaries and includes some history of the system.
Literature for Kossacks is a relatively new series by pico, this week, he discussed Euripides
RoseTatoo gives a Grammar Lesson about your and you're. (We had fun in the comments!)
Runs With Scissors had V. 2.1 of What's for Dinner?, with A modest screed: Jacques Pepin edition
sarahlane discusses her favorite folk/art/country musicians
In Frugal Fridays, sarahnity continues her discussion of buying a home
tbetz discusses some exciting news about electric vehicles
teacherken discusses why teaching is an essential political action, at least for him.
In History for Kossacks, Unitary Moonbat discusses Atlantis
Requests:
- Again, if someone wants to fill in for me next week, let me know.
- Please use the 'teaching' tag, and, if you are a TU, and see a diary where it fits, put it in. That will make this series better
- Tell us what you want to learn!
- If you'd like....feel free to post about this in Open Threads. I'd like this series to be a place where people who want to learn something can meet people who want to teach something?