First, the question: What should I do to celebrate a year of this diary? It's coming up!
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
aggierc tells us about pie
agnostic uses an offensive title to tell about an offensive law in the twenty nigger laws, and other unpleasant truths
beckstei has Saturday morning SAD blogging (SAD is seasonal affective disorder)
boran2 has vol 122 of Saturday painting palooza
claude has volume 2.17 of Saturday morning home repair
davidseth tells us about Chanukah
elise talks about Femininity
Frankenoid has volume 3.42 of home and garden blogging
gmoke had a diary on recycled energy
. (A side note: Generally, I don't opine about the diaries selected. If they have the tag, or are appropriate, in they go. But gmoke writes a lot of good diaries, and they don't get attention. Some should be rescued.)
kredwyn has some advice on argument in arguments of association
lineatus takes us Birblogging with a diary about cranes
Mark H continues his Marine Life series with a diary on countershading.
Minc gives us some straight answers from a former Mormon.
pico continues his Literature for Kossacks series with Richard Bruce Nugent
sarahnity continues her seasonal theme on Frugal Fridays with Holiday shopping redux
ScottyUrb gives us a brief history of vetoes
Shane Hensinger tells us about the Mandaeans of Iraq in Always a stranger.
teacherken tells us about educational support professionals
The American Prophet talks about mortgages in 5 year rate lock
Translator taught us how to make our own soft drinks in What's for dinner?
In History for Kossacks this week, Unitary Moonbat tells us how to start a great war
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.