I apolize for yelling, but I have found something really cool, epub textbooks! Here is the link openstack There aren't many right now, but they are in popular subjects and can be put on a kindle or read online (or ordered cheaply in print). There should be more coming, and I will update on more textbook sites tomorrow.
Tuesday, February 14, 2012
Monday, February 13, 2012
Sunday, February 12, 2012
Hello
The third, The Ancient Encyclopedia, has news and recent research from ancient times as well as a useful timeline.
Sorry about missing yesterday, you'll be getting a double post to make up for it today. First ancient history links are below.
My favorite site for ancient history is BBC ancient history, it contains both classical and other ancient western cultures, as well as a few mesoamerican ones. Also, it has a some nifty videos designed for children but still interesting for adults. It seems the videos are only available in England, but you can find quite a few on youtube. You can find the site here
The second site is hosted by the British museum and can be found here
The final site, is The Perseus Digital Library , hosted by Tufts University. It has a nice selection of digitized authentic materials.
Okay, so that takes care of ancient history, now for something new.
Okay, so you're studying your ancient history or math or something else for school or on your own, and your faced with something you have to memorize. If you're like me you will have tried everyday to learn the information without memorizing it first with no success. So you turn to flashcards.
I have five favorite sites for this, all of them offer different tools and study games, so experiment with which you like best. On all you can use what others have created before.
-Allows you to make flashcards or quizzes
-Will stop showing a flashcard after you have gotten it right several times in a row
-One game
-Can form study groups which can be made private StudyStack
-Wide variety of games and study modules with flashcards
-Many users
-Several useful printing options
-About half a dozen games
-Handles foreign language and math symbols well Purpose Games
Friday, February 10, 2012
Hello
http://www.purplemath.com/ So today I promised some sights to help with math and science. I have two sights Purplemath and Khan Academy.
Purple math contains very straightforward useful lessons on Algebra and pre-algebra topics as well as trigonometry. It also contians links to worksheets and tutoring sights. My one complaint is that the help stops after you pass trigonometry, you are your own for calculus.
Khanacademy has math through the university calculus sequence as well as math puzzles and science videos. Sal Khan explains the material in videos that show the math and diagrams. There are also exercises that go from basic addition through basic differential calculus.
Thursday, February 9, 2012
Hello
Today I'd like to share some mythology sites. The first has links to a variety of different sights, and covers a wide variety of mythology, ranging from Classical to Robin Hood. You can find it here
The second sight, is Mythweb, this is a good introductory site that is fairly easy to navigate.
Site number three deals with Arthurian legend, which I know is less popular than Classical mythology, but is still really interesting. This site contains links and materials dealing with King Arthur, his relatives, and his knights. It is hosted by the University of Rochester and you can find it here
Tomorrow-math help sites
Saturday-Ancient History
Sunday-Latin Explanations.
Wednesday, February 8, 2012
Spanish
Hello all
So today I promised you some sights to practice Spanish. I have three sites that I like.
The first is Studyspanish.com I use this sight primarily for grammar help. It offers a premium course but has quite a bit available to free, including the best grammar explanations I have been able to find.
The second sight is Livemocha it has some vocabulary and grammar lessons, but what I found most attractive about the site is that it allows you to communicate, both in written form and through videochat, to speakers of the language you are trying to learn.
Finally I would like to share Spanish Dict it provides practice exercises, speaking exercises, and flashcards as well as serving as an online dictionary. It also has an enthusiastic community should you need to ask questions.
Tuesday, February 7, 2012
OpenCourseWare (again)
Hello
Today I want to talk about MIT's MITx initiative, outlined in this article. In short, MITx is an improvement on MITs open courseware movement ( here ). It will be more interactive and allow communications between students. It should be launching early this spring.
The second site I would like to introduce is The Internet Archive. This site has videos and texts as well as software. It also features a stored web page feature that allows, for example, one to view what google's home page looked like ten years ago.
Tomorrow: Some helpful sights for Spanish practice and reference.
Today I want to talk about MIT's MITx initiative, outlined in this article. In short, MITx is an improvement on MITs open courseware movement ( here ). It will be more interactive and allow communications between students. It should be launching early this spring.
The second site I would like to introduce is The Internet Archive. This site has videos and texts as well as software. It also features a stored web page feature that allows, for example, one to view what google's home page looked like ten years ago.
Tomorrow: Some helpful sights for Spanish practice and reference.
Monday, February 6, 2012
More Literature and Some Computers
Hello all again
It has been an exciting 24 hours. I have signed up to volunteer at both the Gutenburg Project and librivox. On a more personal note, I've welcomed a new niece to the family. Welcome baby M.
So, for today's links I would like to share Librivox , essentially this project works much like Gutenburg and Bartleby, except produces audiobooks.
Secondly, for those of you who may be more math and science inclined, I have some computer science links.
The first is hosted by Stanford Universities Engineering department and includes complete well-done video recordings of lectures from basic to more advanced topics. As well as handouts, tests, and necessary software.
A program called Alice is the second link. This nifty little program was designed by Carnegie Mellon in order to lower the boundary to computer science. The program features 3D characters that you use computer-code like commands to move around. The program itself is free and comes with some basic tutorials. If you want to do more than play around you can buy the textbook, which is a bit pricey. I managed to learn to put together a fairly basic nativity scene animation in a couple hours without the textbook. I've embedded a video showing a simple demonstration and explanation of the program(you may need to switch to full screen in order to see the whole thing.
The third resource, Starlogo TNG , is produced by the good folks at MIT to lower the entry boundary into programming. You can create species, order them to move, and create games. Youtube has some decent demonstrations for this program.
It has been an exciting 24 hours. I have signed up to volunteer at both the Gutenburg Project and librivox. On a more personal note, I've welcomed a new niece to the family. Welcome baby M.
So, for today's links I would like to share Librivox , essentially this project works much like Gutenburg and Bartleby, except produces audiobooks.
Secondly, for those of you who may be more math and science inclined, I have some computer science links.
The first is hosted by Stanford Universities Engineering department and includes complete well-done video recordings of lectures from basic to more advanced topics. As well as handouts, tests, and necessary software.
A program called Alice is the second link. This nifty little program was designed by Carnegie Mellon in order to lower the boundary to computer science. The program features 3D characters that you use computer-code like commands to move around. The program itself is free and comes with some basic tutorials. If you want to do more than play around you can buy the textbook, which is a bit pricey. I managed to learn to put together a fairly basic nativity scene animation in a couple hours without the textbook. I've embedded a video showing a simple demonstration and explanation of the program(you may need to switch to full screen in order to see the whole thing.
The third resource, Starlogo TNG , is produced by the good folks at MIT to lower the entry boundary into programming. You can create species, order them to move, and create games. Youtube has some decent demonstrations for this program.
Sunday, February 5, 2012
Books and Literature
Hello again
Today I'm going to provide some links that provide free public domain literature. The first is The Gutenburg Project . The Gutenburg project provides books in a variety of languages and formats, including many capable of being put on a kindle(I don't know about nooks, but assume they work on their to). The disadvantage is that most original typography is preserved, making some works more difficult read.
The second site is Bartleby . This site is better organized than Gutenburg and the formatting is more reader friendly. On the other hand it seems to only offer works in English and online.
Today I'm going to provide some links that provide free public domain literature. The first is The Gutenburg Project . The Gutenburg project provides books in a variety of languages and formats, including many capable of being put on a kindle(I don't know about nooks, but assume they work on their to). The disadvantage is that most original typography is preserved, making some works more difficult read.
The second site is Bartleby . This site is better organized than Gutenburg and the formatting is more reader friendly. On the other hand it seems to only offer works in English and online.
Friday, February 3, 2012
Itunes U and the OpenCourseware movement
Hello
Today's update is one most of you probably know about, but is exciting enough to warrant mention nonetheless. Many universities, including notably MIT, UC Berkley, and others, have recorded some of their lectures and are giving them away, free, through itunes or other sources such as youtube. Often universities have sites were they have complied all the information by class and subject matter. The amount of supplementary material available varies, but very interesting nonetheless.
Today's update is one most of you probably know about, but is exciting enough to warrant mention nonetheless. Many universities, including notably MIT, UC Berkley, and others, have recorded some of their lectures and are giving them away, free, through itunes or other sources such as youtube. Often universities have sites were they have complied all the information by class and subject matter. The amount of supplementary material available varies, but very interesting nonetheless.
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