First, the question: What should I do to celebrate a year of this diary? It's coming up! I want to celebrate....but how???
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.
OK.....here we go, alphabetically by diarist
1864 House guesthosted Frugal Fridays and discussed New Year's resolutions
A Siegel wrote about James Inhofe (R-Exxon) in truthiness gift for Christmas
boran2 has volume 125 of Saturday painting palooza
claude has volume 2.20 of Saturday morning home repair
EmperorHadrian continued the story of the Roman republic (I missed the earlier ones in this series.....)
Frankenoid has volume 3.45 of home and garden blogging
gmoke wrote about bees and trees for a happy new year
Jay Elias discussed the theory of comparative advantage
juliewolf had two puzzle diaries, one on Sunday and one on Christmas (if you like puzzles, join the puzzlers on Sunday)
Lunkhead went into Swiftian mode with this weeks iron chef Kos Wednesday
maracatu had a Caribbean celebration in What's for Dinner?
Mark H put up a re-post in his Marine Life Series, this one was on bivalve dendrochronology
plf515 wrote about some ways to end hate in hope-y holidays
poblano wrote an informed comment on ARG and Zogby
teacherken took a look at religious freedom in Nieuw Amsterdam
turkana wrote about Oscar Peterson
Unitary Moonbat told us about winger vets of the war on Christmas
Winter Rabbit talked about one of the worst incidents in US History in 117th anniversary of Wounded Knee
xofferson wrote about how cheeseheads for peace and how they are showing us all how to organize protests
But that's just part 1! Please, tell us things you'd like to learn, things you'd like to teach. I'd like this diary to be a place where people can ask for help learning things....somewhat like buhdy's "Ask a Kossack" series, but for questions that require a little more time.