TIL (today I learned [something at least…])

[first let me bore you with this urge to vent, I gotta write stuff. I am persuaded that this is an activity that is… well its as important to me as sleep. I love to write. I love to read what I wrote and in a tiny prideful way I hope that someone somewhere will read what I said and click like… well, this is not face book but you understand.]

[plus… again in a prideful way. I feel that when I take the time to fashion an essay, it marks my day my year my decade… as significant… have you ever sat down and asked yourself what was it I did last week? and you have no clue? do we get waves of dementia? or did you in fact exist without really making a difference? When I write, especially to Blogger which seems to be the place to make your mark and Google will never delete it… I figure in years to come when I do really get dementia {Hell no!} I can go back and read this stuff. I bet I would get a kick out of it.. so that’s my soap box… onto the topic]

Today I Discovered Khan academy.

Oh I been hearing about it for about a year now, always its given great reviews. I first heard of it on TED which I as well recommend. [Video embedded at end of this post, page down to see it]

Click here to visit [cool site]

But I was on CIG [link above] today and Thomas Frank mentions that Khan is the one link every successful college student ought to have bookmarked. so I clicked it and got an eyeful. really the first page is well laid out. If you don’t want to actually dive into the academy a 2 minute skim of the front page will leave you at least knowing the jest of the site. so give it a try.

In Depth it’s a long list of videos. Elementary School Videos to start. takes you from the very first ideas in say math or Science and walks you thru slowly to review perhaps or actually give you a head start if you were say in elementary school.

What I got into was one of the lines of teaching from Health and Medicine. I seen there was a line which mentioned Diabetes [yay I am type 2 and my sugars now are under 130, trust me this is huge for me] but yeah I only watched the first tape and its easy to understand. I do think this is a nice site

Did I mention its entirely FREE.

The largest part of the offerings is stuff about math, goes from 1st grade up to Linear Algebra and they are adding new courses all the time, I hope they give us stuff about better writing skills and English.