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.
I will also include diaries about teaching and education
A big Thank You to the diary rescue team, who helped find a lot of stories I would have missed. Please keep it up!
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.
I divide the list into "Regular series" and "Occasional diaries"
*Regular series* - by title of series
Bookflurries is about stories that create the world, brought to you by cfk
Dawn chorus says 'it's our bird too'
FAQ forum hosted by dmsilev
Friday night at the movies was about the best anti-American movies ever hosted by Lithium Cola
Frugal Fridays was about saving money at the library hosted by sarahnity
Garden blogging (like the title! Maverick garden hoaxing!) hosted by Frankenoid
Hadrian's forum had two diaries this week:
Rome's Senate and Palin's theory on VP power and
the last Republican of the Roman Republic
History for Kossacks took a break this week
Home repair hosted by claude
Is our children learning? took a break this week
Marine Life Series took a break this week
Math Mania asked Why teach math? Why sing? by plf515
Painting palooza with boran2
Pique the geek was about Chirality hosted by Translator
Science Saturday had a sweetest day edition from Neon Vincent
The left wing took a break this week
Today in History took a break this week
Welcome New Users was about searching by ek hornbeck
WGLB Presents had several diaries this week:
but think of the children!
Truth and consequences
and
prop 8: untruth and consequences all by GLBT and friends
What are you reading? had the usual list by plf515
What are you working on? took a break this week
What's for dinner? had purple hulled peas by Translator
Word of the week took a break this week
Yat Cuisine took a break this week
*Occasional diaries* by name of diarist
Asinus Asinum Fricat warned us that melamine is now found in egg products
BFSkinner bemoaned our inability to commnunicate: The death of foreign language teaching in America
EugeneF told us about the glorious annals of the French navy
gimmeshelter told us how to use non-YouTube videos in our diaries
iampunha talked about teaching in sidewalk geography
jm214 discussed the teaching of civics in the sound of many voices
In Palin teaches the constitution Liberal Thinking talked about education more generally
NChrissieB told us about mythmaking, democracy, and the hegemonic media
Stranded Wind was following the harvest (this looks like the 9th in a series, I may move this to regular series, if it continues)
teacherken shared more joys of being a teacher
Translator had A primer on US coins Bullion coins
Trotsky the Horse noted that you call him a socialist like it's a bad thing