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.
Request: Next Saturday, I won't be around. If anyone wants to post this on Saturday morning, that would be great.
Also, I forgot to mention yesterday, I also won't be around next Friday. So, if anyone wants to substitute for me on What are you Reading? that would be great, too
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
OK.....here we go, alphabetically by diarist
alefnot wrote the week in weather in a fascinating diary that got almost no attention. I am gonna go read it in detail, when I am done writing this.
Asinus Asinum Fricat told us What's for Dinner? this week, it was Provencal food.
bernardpliers told us where the water in our reservoirs is going. We are flushing our water out to sea
boran2 has volume 116 of Saturday painting palooza
claude has volume 2.11 of home repair blogging
Detroit Mark told us about bank fee scams
elfling has good tips on living fire safe
frankenoid has volume 3.36 of home and garden blogging
lineatus takes us birdblogging with firebirds
Mark H had two diaries in his Marine Life Series: J. Livingston cracks a clam and Santa Ana winds, wildfires, and upwelling
In Frugal Friday, sarahnity told us how to be prepared
Unitary Moonbat told us what happens when kings go crazy
But that's just part 1!
I'd like this diary to be a place where Kossacks come to ask questions about broader subjects than in the wonderful Ask a Kossack series. We have experts on nearly everything here. Someone will know the answer, or, at least, where to go find the answer.
I've been doing this nearly a year. It always gets a little action, but not much. Most of the diaries listed are parts of series, and most people know the series they are interested in. I don't mind continuing to do it, but I'd like to make it more useful So, the poll is whether it should continue, but the question is how to make it more useful....answer in the comments.