Thursday, July 24, 2008
Monday, July 21, 2008
More about the moose
Thought you might want to know why I brought up a moose:
Announcements June 14
Last minute announcements, that is. In a few hours I'm heading out of this hot New York to take a cool cruise up the coast of Alaska. I haven't seen it since I was there on Statehood Day, 1959, and I'm curious to see how it's changed. This time around I won't be bouncing up the gravel washboard Alaska Highway in an old panel truck, camping out on my own private adventure in campgrounds that didn't get dark until 11 pm. (In case anyone wants to know how to find the time to finish Proust, that's how.) My big brother (who couldn't go back then) has been waiting a long time for his part of our childhood dream to come true, and now I've accepted his invitation to join him on a cruise ship 50 years after my first visit. I think it will be quite a trip.
I have no doubt that Alaska's still as beautiful as ever, but I'm certain it has changed. I remember standing on the street in Haines, Alaska - a little village we'd settled down in because we were tired of driving, which is located at the end of one branch of the Alaska Highway and was the only way to get the ferry to Juneau (the capitol at the time).
One afternoon we were standing with a handful of other locals on the very short main street, watching the only notable event in town that day: the arrival of the latest ferry. We gazed quietly at the row of cars that lined the road and curled up and around a short ramp on to the dock, waiting to board. The sun was shining (well, the sun was always shining, day and night, because it was August), the sky was blue, and the ship had brought 'boat eggs' (which meant they were about 6 weeks old which, for some reason, was considered a fine thing), so some people murmered a word or two about how nice the next day's breakfast would be when suddenly we heard a crash of brush and a large moose with a big rack of horns leaped out of the woods across the street right up onto the ramp of the dock and landed loudly and heavily next to the line of cars.
He was not happy to be there. He snorted, half turned, reared up, and, finding a space to exit, jumped off the ramp and landed on the roof of a hapless car stopped five feet below. All four of his hooves punched through the roof (amazingly no one was hurt) which made the moose *really* cranky. We watched, frozen, mouths open, as he wrenched each leg out, one by one, between the terrified faces of the car's occupants, wobbled on the roof of the car, bellowed very loudly, lept on to the hood (I didn't see if he did any damage there, but he was a big moose, so he couldn't have done much good) flew off sideways to gallop right past us and down the main road, throwing his head and snorting indignance as the strollers further down the road carefully backed out of his way.
It was quiet still, for a few moments. Someone noticed that our mouths were hanging open and said amiably, "You don't want to get in the way of a piss-offed moose," by way of explanation, and that was that.
That was in 1959. Now it's 2008. I'm kind of hoping some moose will cavort around when we pull into the docks of the towns on the cruise because I'd really like to see it all over again from a different angle this time. But I'm not counting on it.
Anyway, I did have some announcements, and that wasn't really one of them...
Announcements June 14
Last minute announcements, that is. In a few hours I'm heading out of this hot New York to take a cool cruise up the coast of Alaska. I haven't seen it since I was there on Statehood Day, 1959, and I'm curious to see how it's changed. This time around I won't be bouncing up the gravel washboard Alaska Highway in an old panel truck, camping out on my own private adventure in campgrounds that didn't get dark until 11 pm. (In case anyone wants to know how to find the time to finish Proust, that's how.) My big brother (who couldn't go back then) has been waiting a long time for his part of our childhood dream to come true, and now I've accepted his invitation to join him on a cruise ship 50 years after my first visit. I think it will be quite a trip.
I have no doubt that Alaska's still as beautiful as ever, but I'm certain it has changed. I remember standing on the street in Haines, Alaska - a little village we'd settled down in because we were tired of driving, which is located at the end of one branch of the Alaska Highway and was the only way to get the ferry to Juneau (the capitol at the time).
One afternoon we were standing with a handful of other locals on the very short main street, watching the only notable event in town that day: the arrival of the latest ferry. We gazed quietly at the row of cars that lined the road and curled up and around a short ramp on to the dock, waiting to board. The sun was shining (well, the sun was always shining, day and night, because it was August), the sky was blue, and the ship had brought 'boat eggs' (which meant they were about 6 weeks old which, for some reason, was considered a fine thing), so some people murmered a word or two about how nice the next day's breakfast would be when suddenly we heard a crash of brush and a large moose with a big rack of horns leaped out of the woods across the street right up onto the ramp of the dock and landed loudly and heavily next to the line of cars.
He was not happy to be there. He snorted, half turned, reared up, and, finding a space to exit, jumped off the ramp and landed on the roof of a hapless car stopped five feet below. All four of his hooves punched through the roof (amazingly no one was hurt) which made the moose *really* cranky. We watched, frozen, mouths open, as he wrenched each leg out, one by one, between the terrified faces of the car's occupants, wobbled on the roof of the car, bellowed very loudly, lept on to the hood (I didn't see if he did any damage there, but he was a big moose, so he couldn't have done much good) flew off sideways to gallop right past us and down the main road, throwing his head and snorting indignance as the strollers further down the road carefully backed out of his way.
It was quiet still, for a few moments. Someone noticed that our mouths were hanging open and said amiably, "You don't want to get in the way of a piss-offed moose," by way of explanation, and that was that.
That was in 1959. Now it's 2008. I'm kind of hoping some moose will cavort around when we pull into the docks of the towns on the cruise because I'd really like to see it all over again from a different angle this time. But I'm not counting on it.
Anyway, I did have some announcements, and that wasn't really one of them...
Alaska and the Scanner's Retreat
It occurs to me that everyone on earth is not on my mailing list and I've been asked to make the latest newsletter available online, so here it is (without any of the pretty colors or the html):
Barbara Sher - Back From Alaska & Scanners Retreat
Hi Friends,
I'm back from Alaska and I didn't see one moose, but the ship did get within 500 yards of a glacier which obligingly 'calved' a few times, the front wall cracking audibly, a rush of water falling behind the face of ice, then the whole thing sliding down into the water creating lots of splashing and sending swells of water toward the boat. More exciting, even, at least to me, were the brilliant blue streaks in the glacier and some of the small icebergs floating in the water, where the light was behind them. I fell in love with glaciers.
We watched as some of the crew in their fat, yellow zodiac chased after the smaller icebergs, hoping to gaff some ice to bring on board. It was trickier than it looked and provided us with much entertainment and shouting of instructions. Eventually, a small, easy-chair-sized chunk of iceberg was lifted on to the top deck. There were only a few of us around it at first and I took the opportunity to knock off a small chunk of transparent glacier ice and carry it away, licking it as though it were an ice cream cone. It was better. I never tasted ice water so fresh and clean. And it might have been thousands of years old.
Now, back in reality. I'm sweltering in NY city (actually, hiding in my air-conditioned bedroom with shades drawn like Count Dracula). After a few days of pulling out notes and binders, I did my latest internet radio show yesterday, all about Scanners and the Scanner retreat in Italy, coming up Sept 26 through October 1.
Producer Matthew Pearl had been to the last Scanner retreat in Puglia -- in fact, he and his family scouted out this perfect place earlier last year, and he and I talked on the show about the beautiful area, and the 16th century masseria where we ran the retreat last spring -- a remarkable, stone fortified country estate surrounded by acres of ancient olive trees.
We started remembering the food, of course. It was so good, both at the masseria and at the other restaurants we discovered in nearby towns and hidden country homes. We went on and on about the beauty of the nearby towns with their medieval centers, still alive with markets, still full of people who live there all the time, still not packed with tourists. (Head over to Flickr.com and check out Ostuni and Cisternino and Alberobello if you want to fall in love)
But mostly we talked about how great it is for any Scanner to get away from their own world and join other Scanners at a retreat.
What's a Scanner? Here's how to know if you are one:
If you find you have loads of interests, that you're curious and love learning new things, that the subjects that fascinate you are all over the map; if you hate the idea of being limited to any one thing because you'd miss all the others, you're a Scanner.
If you wish you could find the One Right Thing but you fear you'll never find a career (or a hobby!) that will remain interesting for very long...If you're a sweetheart of a person, kind and friendly and childlike in some ways, and you like to help people or make the world a better place, you're a Scanner.
If you wish you were born rich so you wouldn't have to work at all, just so you could play forever with fascinating ideas and concepts and skills and never again have to do anything boring, If you find yourself wildly enthusiastic about something and you believe you'll stay that way -- but after awhile the enthusiasm dies down and you become excited about something else, If people call you a dilettante or flakey or a 'hectic eclectic,' (as one person wrote me), well then, you're a Scanner.
And if you thought you were the only person like you and often wonder how you got so strange, you're a Scanner.
And that last part -- feeling like you're the one oddball in a world full of specialists -- is exactly what makes a retreat the most unforgettable experience of a lifetime. You see, Scanners are among the best people in the world. And they get the worst rap. But at a 5-day retreat with other Scanners, they discover a perspective that's impossible to get any other way. Surrounded by people who are so familiar, so unjudging, Scanners tell me they feel as though they've come home. It's really something to see.
I get to spend hours each day working with a group of 15 - 17 Scanners, helping them find their goals, organize their interests, create plans, set up support teams, and ferret out and outsmart resistance.
On their own they have fun, go walking and swimming, travel around, shop, talk all night, draw on tablecloths, laugh a lot, and often build what might be lifelong friendships. (Three of the past retreats hold yearly reunions.)
And they write me wonderful letters...
"The most lifechanging thing about this trip for me is that I felt fully accepted for who I was as a scanner - and beyond that PROUD! After reading Refuse To Choose I felt UNDERSTOOD, but adding acceptance and pride in that was an entire new feeling. Being around people who supported my ideas instead of competed with them was entirely new to me. "
"...your work with me was nothing short of miraculous. I have [spent years learning about myself] and NEVER once did the issues come up that you identified so quickly. I really couldn't believe it and it is still sinking in. What I love is that you didn't tell me why I needed to be on the path I am on, you somehow pulled it out of me."
If you want to read more letters and see photos of the masseria or find out the details, the times, what's covered and not covered in the fees, head over to Genius Press and click on the Scanner Retreat page. And if you want to attend the next retreat from Sept. 26 to Oct. 1, this fall, sign up pretty quick because there are only about 7 spaces available as I write this mailer.
If you want to know more about Scanners and about the retreats, listen on your computer to the internet show about Scanners that we did on July 20, Right Here!
Take a look or give a listen and write me a letter. I'd love to hear from you.
Dreaming Scanner dreams,
Barbara
Barbara Sher - Back From Alaska & Scanners Retreat
Hi Friends,
I'm back from Alaska and I didn't see one moose, but the ship did get within 500 yards of a glacier which obligingly 'calved' a few times, the front wall cracking audibly, a rush of water falling behind the face of ice, then the whole thing sliding down into the water creating lots of splashing and sending swells of water toward the boat. More exciting, even, at least to me, were the brilliant blue streaks in the glacier and some of the small icebergs floating in the water, where the light was behind them. I fell in love with glaciers.
We watched as some of the crew in their fat, yellow zodiac chased after the smaller icebergs, hoping to gaff some ice to bring on board. It was trickier than it looked and provided us with much entertainment and shouting of instructions. Eventually, a small, easy-chair-sized chunk of iceberg was lifted on to the top deck. There were only a few of us around it at first and I took the opportunity to knock off a small chunk of transparent glacier ice and carry it away, licking it as though it were an ice cream cone. It was better. I never tasted ice water so fresh and clean. And it might have been thousands of years old.
Now, back in reality. I'm sweltering in NY city (actually, hiding in my air-conditioned bedroom with shades drawn like Count Dracula). After a few days of pulling out notes and binders, I did my latest internet radio show yesterday, all about Scanners and the Scanner retreat in Italy, coming up Sept 26 through October 1.
Producer Matthew Pearl had been to the last Scanner retreat in Puglia -- in fact, he and his family scouted out this perfect place earlier last year, and he and I talked on the show about the beautiful area, and the 16th century masseria where we ran the retreat last spring -- a remarkable, stone fortified country estate surrounded by acres of ancient olive trees.
We started remembering the food, of course. It was so good, both at the masseria and at the other restaurants we discovered in nearby towns and hidden country homes. We went on and on about the beauty of the nearby towns with their medieval centers, still alive with markets, still full of people who live there all the time, still not packed with tourists. (Head over to Flickr.com and check out Ostuni and Cisternino and Alberobello if you want to fall in love)
But mostly we talked about how great it is for any Scanner to get away from their own world and join other Scanners at a retreat.
What's a Scanner? Here's how to know if you are one:
If you find you have loads of interests, that you're curious and love learning new things, that the subjects that fascinate you are all over the map; if you hate the idea of being limited to any one thing because you'd miss all the others, you're a Scanner.
If you wish you could find the One Right Thing but you fear you'll never find a career (or a hobby!) that will remain interesting for very long...If you're a sweetheart of a person, kind and friendly and childlike in some ways, and you like to help people or make the world a better place, you're a Scanner.
If you wish you were born rich so you wouldn't have to work at all, just so you could play forever with fascinating ideas and concepts and skills and never again have to do anything boring, If you find yourself wildly enthusiastic about something and you believe you'll stay that way -- but after awhile the enthusiasm dies down and you become excited about something else, If people call you a dilettante or flakey or a 'hectic eclectic,' (as one person wrote me), well then, you're a Scanner.
And if you thought you were the only person like you and often wonder how you got so strange, you're a Scanner.
And that last part -- feeling like you're the one oddball in a world full of specialists -- is exactly what makes a retreat the most unforgettable experience of a lifetime. You see, Scanners are among the best people in the world. And they get the worst rap. But at a 5-day retreat with other Scanners, they discover a perspective that's impossible to get any other way. Surrounded by people who are so familiar, so unjudging, Scanners tell me they feel as though they've come home. It's really something to see.
I get to spend hours each day working with a group of 15 - 17 Scanners, helping them find their goals, organize their interests, create plans, set up support teams, and ferret out and outsmart resistance.
On their own they have fun, go walking and swimming, travel around, shop, talk all night, draw on tablecloths, laugh a lot, and often build what might be lifelong friendships. (Three of the past retreats hold yearly reunions.)
And they write me wonderful letters...
"The most lifechanging thing about this trip for me is that I felt fully accepted for who I was as a scanner - and beyond that PROUD! After reading Refuse To Choose I felt UNDERSTOOD, but adding acceptance and pride in that was an entire new feeling. Being around people who supported my ideas instead of competed with them was entirely new to me. "
"...your work with me was nothing short of miraculous. I have [spent years learning about myself] and NEVER once did the issues come up that you identified so quickly. I really couldn't believe it and it is still sinking in. What I love is that you didn't tell me why I needed to be on the path I am on, you somehow pulled it out of me."
If you want to read more letters and see photos of the masseria or find out the details, the times, what's covered and not covered in the fees, head over to Genius Press and click on the Scanner Retreat page. And if you want to attend the next retreat from Sept. 26 to Oct. 1, this fall, sign up pretty quick because there are only about 7 spaces available as I write this mailer.
If you want to know more about Scanners and about the retreats, listen on your computer to the internet show about Scanners that we did on July 20, Right Here!
Take a look or give a listen and write me a letter. I'd love to hear from you.
Dreaming Scanner dreams,
Barbara
Sunday, July 20, 2008
Scanner Retreat in Puglia, Italy
Did a radio show today with good producer Matt -- he in Corfu, I in New York City -- all about the wonderful place where the spring and fall retreats take place. Tomorrow I'll add some links to photos of the beautiful masseria on Flickr.com, but right now you can see the shots we took last time at www.geniuspress.com
And here's the long and ugly link, well, not exactly a link, I hear. You should be able to play the thing from here (and I promise to learn how to do tiny urls next -- spent the weekend bouncing around Twitter, one thing at a time...)
Oh my. That looks like a sentence from The Magic Mountain.
(OH MY, NO IT DOESN'T! Will you look at that? :-) Life is good.)
The show went on longer than expected and we didn't have time for callers because I'm obsessive about this issue, and I couldn't stop talking about this remarkable population, this group of people that have so many interests, are so curious, love learning new things, and are torn between the dread that they'll be stuck in some suffocating, dull job and the dread that they'll never amount to anythng because they can't focus.
But Scanners have to know there's not a damn thing wrong with them, first and foremost, if they know nothing else. What a costly and cruel mistake it's been for these smart, multi-talented people to get caught up in the age of specialization that respects only single-minded achievers and doesn't know who they are.
Their families and teachers and communities are bewildered and disappointed in them. But then, these same people would have called Ben Frankiln a dilettante, and told Aristotle he had attention deficit disorder. They'd have been dismayed at the wasted life of Leonardo da Vinci (if they didn't know his name!) because he was so talented and just didn't stick to anythng. and told they're dilettantes, lazy, neurotic -- that they fear success, they're trying to sabotage themselves, or they're just foolish, no ability to concentrate, no character or self-discipline.
It's funny to call them renaissance people, as if it were odd that someone has more than one interest, and most of them shy away from the grandiosity of the term. But I guess that's what they are.
Tomorrow I'll talk about the other thngs Scanners need -- and why I wish I could run more retreats because they make such a huge difference in the lives of these talented people.
Bad enough they're told these things, they believe them! They repeat them when they describe themselves.
And their reactions when they find out it's all been a huge mistake is a level of relief that often brings tears. I'm going to start quoteing some of the letters I've been getting for years now.
Nothing's more important than a Scanner knowing there's nothing wrong with her or him.
But there are a few more essentials Scanners must have. I'll tell you all about them tomorrow. (Of course, if you can make that monster link above work, you can rest your eyes and listen to it.)
Watch this space.
And here's the long and ugly link, well, not exactly a link, I hear. You should be able to play the thing from here (and I promise to learn how to do tiny urls next -- spent the weekend bouncing around Twitter, one thing at a time...)
Oh my. That looks like a sentence from The Magic Mountain.
(OH MY, NO IT DOESN'T! Will you look at that? :-) Life is good.)
The show went on longer than expected and we didn't have time for callers because I'm obsessive about this issue, and I couldn't stop talking about this remarkable population, this group of people that have so many interests, are so curious, love learning new things, and are torn between the dread that they'll be stuck in some suffocating, dull job and the dread that they'll never amount to anythng because they can't focus.
But Scanners have to know there's not a damn thing wrong with them, first and foremost, if they know nothing else. What a costly and cruel mistake it's been for these smart, multi-talented people to get caught up in the age of specialization that respects only single-minded achievers and doesn't know who they are.
Their families and teachers and communities are bewildered and disappointed in them. But then, these same people would have called Ben Frankiln a dilettante, and told Aristotle he had attention deficit disorder. They'd have been dismayed at the wasted life of Leonardo da Vinci (if they didn't know his name!) because he was so talented and just didn't stick to anythng. and told they're dilettantes, lazy, neurotic -- that they fear success, they're trying to sabotage themselves, or they're just foolish, no ability to concentrate, no character or self-discipline.
It's funny to call them renaissance people, as if it were odd that someone has more than one interest, and most of them shy away from the grandiosity of the term. But I guess that's what they are.
Tomorrow I'll talk about the other thngs Scanners need -- and why I wish I could run more retreats because they make such a huge difference in the lives of these talented people.
Bad enough they're told these things, they believe them! They repeat them when they describe themselves.
And their reactions when they find out it's all been a huge mistake is a level of relief that often brings tears. I'm going to start quoteing some of the letters I've been getting for years now.
Nothing's more important than a Scanner knowing there's nothing wrong with her or him.
But there are a few more essentials Scanners must have. I'll tell you all about them tomorrow. (Of course, if you can make that monster link above work, you can rest your eyes and listen to it.)
Watch this space.
Saturday, February 10, 2007
Breakfast Reading
I picked up one of my favorite books, The Lion River;The Indus by Jean Fairley, (1975, NY) and read a few pages at breakfast. A couple of lines were particularly enjoyable, like the last one in the following excerpt for its language:
p 15: "Now the Chinese are deliberately and cleverly undermining Tibetan Buddhism. For a people that has always been oriented to the gods a break with them, if practical materialism wins, can be traumatic.
"It may very well not win. The Tibetans are among the most independent and self-reliant people in the world and progress enforced by bullying is unlikely to be well rooted. Moreover they have a special gaiety against which the portentous earnestness of communism may shatter itself."
And this paragraph because it feels like I'm actually there, and for its unexpected (probably unintended) humor:
p 16: "Merchants ride the trails on small sturdy ponies, their goods packed on the backs of asses or yaks. There were practically no bridges on the high Indus (the Chinese have probably built some now) and animals and men crossed it by swimming or walking; in the strong current, with slippery rocks underfoot, this was a dangerous business and traders might have to wait weeks for the right moment. Yaks and ponies were were usually strong swimmers, although sometimes it was necessary to drive the yaks into the water and pelt them with stones to keep them going, and the men often crossed under tow, hanging on to the animal's tails. Goats were nervous and unreliable but sheep were unexpectedly cunning, using the current to traverse the river diagonally."
Maybe it's just me, but hearing of sheep being cunning and coming up with such a good idea was both interesting and brought on a smile.
p 15: "Now the Chinese are deliberately and cleverly undermining Tibetan Buddhism. For a people that has always been oriented to the gods a break with them, if practical materialism wins, can be traumatic.
"It may very well not win. The Tibetans are among the most independent and self-reliant people in the world and progress enforced by bullying is unlikely to be well rooted. Moreover they have a special gaiety against which the portentous earnestness of communism may shatter itself."
And this paragraph because it feels like I'm actually there, and for its unexpected (probably unintended) humor:
p 16: "Merchants ride the trails on small sturdy ponies, their goods packed on the backs of asses or yaks. There were practically no bridges on the high Indus (the Chinese have probably built some now) and animals and men crossed it by swimming or walking; in the strong current, with slippery rocks underfoot, this was a dangerous business and traders might have to wait weeks for the right moment. Yaks and ponies were were usually strong swimmers, although sometimes it was necessary to drive the yaks into the water and pelt them with stones to keep them going, and the men often crossed under tow, hanging on to the animal's tails. Goats were nervous and unreliable but sheep were unexpectedly cunning, using the current to traverse the river diagonally."
Maybe it's just me, but hearing of sheep being cunning and coming up with such a good idea was both interesting and brought on a smile.
Tuesday, January 9, 2007
And more free courses
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Free Online Courses & Articles
Tituba
Location: Boston
SusanH posted this. Great find
http://university.barnesandnoble.com/
HP also offers classes
http://h30187.www3.hp.com/all_courses.jsp?hplcpsession=694e8c00606c7c76c543cfd5489f
More free classes
http://www.docnmail.com/
http://www.learnthat.com/
http://web.austin.utexas.edu/wlh/index.cfm
http://classes.cnet.com/all-courses/
webmaestro
Location: Mississauga, Ontario
PostPosted: Tue Jul 25, 2006 11:47 Post subject: Reply with quote Edit/Delete this post Delete this post View IP address of poster
The second course by HP was screwy. I made me identify the type of computer and ed me to take some Lynx course I could not register for the course I wanted...what a crock! Confused
Tituba
Free articles
http://learnshareprosper.com/articles.html
http://www.legacyinaction.com/articles.html
http://www.workingsolo.com/biztools/articles/articleslist.html
http://www.barbarawinter.com/tipsheets-main.htm
http://www.changingcourse.com/archives/
Tituba
http://www.wannalearn.com/
Free Online Courses & Articles
Tituba
Location: Boston
SusanH posted this. Great find
http://university.barnesandnoble.com/
HP also offers classes
http://h30187.www3.hp.com/all_courses.jsp?hplcpsession=694e8c00606c7c76c543cfd5489f
More free classes
http://www.docnmail.com/
http://www.learnthat.com/
http://web.austin.utexas.edu/wlh/index.cfm
http://classes.cnet.com/all-courses/
webmaestro
Location: Mississauga, Ontario
PostPosted: Tue Jul 25, 2006 11:47 Post subject: Reply with quote Edit/Delete this post Delete this post View IP address of poster
The second course by HP was screwy. I made me identify the type of computer and ed me to take some Lynx course I could not register for the course I wanted...what a crock! Confused
Tituba
Free articles
http://learnshareprosper.com/articles.html
http://www.legacyinaction.com/articles.html
http://www.workingsolo.com/biztools/articles/articleslist.html
http://www.barbarawinter.com/tipsheets-main.htm
http://www.changingcourse.com/archives/
Tituba
http://www.wannalearn.com/
Oh my.
Barbara Sher Forums
Yale Offering Free Classes on Web
Tituba
Location: Boston
Thu Sep 21, 2006 subject: Yale Offering Free Classes on Web
BOSTON, Massachusetts (Reuters) -- Yale University said on Wednesday it will offer digital videos of some courses on the Internet for free, along with transcripts in several languages, in an effort to make the elite private school more accessible.
While Princeton University, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and others already offer course material online without charge, Yale is the first to focus on free video lectures, the New Haven, Connecticut-based school said.
The 18-month pilot project will provide videos, syllabi and transcripts for seven courses beginning in the 2007 academic year. They include "Introduction to the Old Testament," "Fundamentals of Physics" and "Introduction to Political Philosophy."
The courses cannot be counted toward a Yale degree, and educators say they are no substitute for actual teaching.
Students at Yale -- one of the nation's most exclusive schools and the alma mater of U.S. President George W. Bush -- can be expected to spend nearly $46,000 for this year's tuition, room and board.
"This is a wonderful opportunity for us to share a vital and central part of the Yale experience with those who, for whatever reason, are not in a position to pursue a Yale education at first hand," Yale President Richard Levin said in a written statement.
The project is funded by a $755,000 grant from the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation.
xostali
New Poster
Location: WI
Thu Dec 14, 2006 9:29 subject: has anyone checked out these free yale courses??
i'm very interested in checking them out. i have dialup, so watching videos can get pretty hairy, but i'm willing to try. does anyone have the link? i know i can do a search, but i'm lazy...
tapit
Joined: 07 Dec 1999
Fri Dec 22, 2006 subject: WGBH Forum
WGBH in Boston has something similar that's really mind blowing. It's called WGBH Forum network. They tape lectures and presentations all over the Boston area- from the Boston Athenaeum to the JFK Library to Harvard's School of Education and have poetry readings, plays, lectures on film, health, religion, science, parenting- you name it. It's all free 24/7!
Go to www.wgbh.org/forum/ for more info.
Tituba
Location: Boston
Fri Dec 22, 2006 5:22
Thanks for the link. The Yale classes will be available in the Fall of 2007
entelechy
Location: Charlotte NC
Sat Jan 06, 2007
I, too, would be interested in knowing more about this on-line class!! Studying the Old Testament would be of great interest to me.
BarbaraSher
Wed Jan 10, 2007 6:53
You can now download classes from Berkeley and Stanford for free. I did it. The lecture went into my iTunes program and I listened from my computer. I don't know if I can make a cd, but I do know they're designed to download into an mp3 player.
I love technology. I kiss nerd techies on their lovely, generous brains.
Barbara Sher Forums
Yale Offering Free Classes on Web
Tituba
Location: Boston
Thu Sep 21, 2006 subject: Yale Offering Free Classes on Web
BOSTON, Massachusetts (Reuters) -- Yale University said on Wednesday it will offer digital videos of some courses on the Internet for free, along with transcripts in several languages, in an effort to make the elite private school more accessible.
While Princeton University, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and others already offer course material online without charge, Yale is the first to focus on free video lectures, the New Haven, Connecticut-based school said.
The 18-month pilot project will provide videos, syllabi and transcripts for seven courses beginning in the 2007 academic year. They include "Introduction to the Old Testament," "Fundamentals of Physics" and "Introduction to Political Philosophy."
The courses cannot be counted toward a Yale degree, and educators say they are no substitute for actual teaching.
Students at Yale -- one of the nation's most exclusive schools and the alma mater of U.S. President George W. Bush -- can be expected to spend nearly $46,000 for this year's tuition, room and board.
"This is a wonderful opportunity for us to share a vital and central part of the Yale experience with those who, for whatever reason, are not in a position to pursue a Yale education at first hand," Yale President Richard Levin said in a written statement.
The project is funded by a $755,000 grant from the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation.
xostali
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Location: WI
Thu Dec 14, 2006 9:29 subject: has anyone checked out these free yale courses??
i'm very interested in checking them out. i have dialup, so watching videos can get pretty hairy, but i'm willing to try. does anyone have the link? i know i can do a search, but i'm lazy...
tapit
Joined: 07 Dec 1999
Fri Dec 22, 2006 subject: WGBH Forum
WGBH in Boston has something similar that's really mind blowing. It's called WGBH Forum network. They tape lectures and presentations all over the Boston area- from the Boston Athenaeum to the JFK Library to Harvard's School of Education and have poetry readings, plays, lectures on film, health, religion, science, parenting- you name it. It's all free 24/7!
Go to www.wgbh.org/forum/ for more info.
Tituba
Location: Boston
Fri Dec 22, 2006 5:22
Thanks for the link. The Yale classes will be available in the Fall of 2007
entelechy
Location: Charlotte NC
Sat Jan 06, 2007
I, too, would be interested in knowing more about this on-line class!! Studying the Old Testament would be of great interest to me.
BarbaraSher
Wed Jan 10, 2007 6:53
You can now download classes from Berkeley and Stanford for free. I did it. The lecture went into my iTunes program and I listened from my computer. I don't know if I can make a cd, but I do know they're designed to download into an mp3 player.
I love technology. I kiss nerd techies on their lovely, generous brains.
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