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
ASiegel gets into geoengineering: basic principles, some thoughts, some questions. He also tells us how we could eliminate coal from the electricity equation
Update [2008-3-1 10:46:40 by plf515]:]
beckstei takes us on another [Saturday morning SAD blog
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belly tells us about March, which is [women's history month
boran2 has Volume 134 of Saturday painting palooza
claude has volume 2.39 of Saturday morning home repair
dadadata gives hints on putting tables in diaries
dantrotheplanetman gives hints on what to do when you quit smoking tobacco
UPDATE
educonfidential tells us about food culture at school
UPDATE
EmperorHadrian tells us about calendars
EugeneF looked at some history in the rite to vote
Update [2008-3-1 10:46:40 by plf515]:]
fortschreitend helps the hopeless with [recipes for hopeless male cooks
Frankenoid has Volume 4.2 of Saturday morning home and garden blogging
gmoke discusses aikido in daily life; he also discusses how we can heal damaged ecological systems in plan B: Lester Brown at Harvard and he tells us about the life cycle costs of photovoltaics
Hobbitfoot continued Sunday food blogging with a diary on farsumauro - which is an Italian way of stuffing meat with - more meat! (looks yummy, though)
juliewolf gave us more braintwisters in Sunday puzzle blogging
lineatus tells us how to go birding at our desk with nest cams
Mark H continues his Marine Life Series with hermit crab basics
NBBooks talks about Carbon Dioxide as a fuel which may be only 18 months away
sarahnity uses Frugal Fridays to discuss taxes
Shaviv talks about being, and ceasing to be, racist in I have a confession to make
Stranded Wind gives us two diaries about energy issues: an interview with Dave Bradley from Buffalo's wind action group and renewable energy from tides
Unitary Moonbat discusses medieval Persia