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MISCELLANEOUS

Always something does not fit on the other pages.


Continuing Education

Nearly every topic is available on the Internet with FREE quality educational material. Google YOUTUBEWIKI
KHAN, etc. Our weekly NERD NITE has studied many of these 90 lecture sessions 

The Great Courses provide 24/36 lecture series on nearly a 1000 topics. Always wait for a sale when course prices drop to around $35 for online viewing or downloading. The Great Courses PLUS allows unlimited sampling of all courses.

W3Schools is a training website for learning web technologies online. Content includes tutorials and references relating to HTML, CSS, JavaScript, JSON, PHP, Python, AngularJS, React.js, SQL, Bootstrap, Sass, Node.js, jQuery, XQuery, AJAX, XML, Raspberry Pi, C++, C# and Java.

Tutorial Republic helps beginner programmers FREELY learn web development technologies or start a career in website development. It includes HTML, CSS, JavaScript, jQuery, Bootstrap, PHP, and SQL.

Udemy allows instructors to build online courses. Courses include business and entrepreneurship, academics, the arts, health and fitness, language, music, and technology. Most classes are in practical subjects. Courses can be paid or free.

Khan Academy offers FREE practice exercises, instructional videos, and a personalized learning dashboard in math, science, computing, history, art history, economics, and more, including K-14 and test preparation (SAT, Praxis, LSAT) content. Focus is on skill mastery 

A massive open online course (MOOC) is an online course aimed at unlimited participation and open access via the Web with traditional course materials, such as filmed lectures, readings, and problem sets, plus interaction with user forums or social media discussions among students, professors, and teaching assistants, as well as quick quizzes and assignments. 
Early MOOCs often emphasized open licensing of content, structure and learning goals, to promote the reuse and remixing of resources.  

TED Conferences posts talks online for free distribution under the slogan "ideas worth spreading". Its early emphasis was on technology and design, but has since broadened its perspective to include scientific, cultural, political, humanitarian and academic topics. The speakers are given a maximum of 18 minutes to present their ideas 


Learn Spanish

Destinos, a video instructional series in Spanish for adult, college and high school classrooms teaches speaking, listening, and comprehension skills in Spanish using 52 half-hour programs coordinated with CD's, video, audio scripts, and books. It immerses students in everyday situations with native speakers. It introduces the cultures, accents, and dialects of Mexico, Spain, Argentina, and Puerto Rico. 

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Front Pages Around the World

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Through a special agreement with more than 2,000 newspapers worldwide, the Newseum displays these front pages each day on its website. The front pages are in their original, unedited form, and some may contain material that is deemed objectionable to some visitors. Discretion is advised.