The internet has all the information they need to know. Just teach them how to search effectively for the information they want.
I almost agree with this.
With such a wide range of topics that a textbook would need to cover, it would almost make more sense to break your semester or whatever into the topics you need to cover, then find a reputable website that will teach the topic as detailed as you would like.
If it's not as detailed as you would like, find another website to support it.
It's a lot cheaper than finding multiple textbooks that explain everything you want in what detail you want.
Also, it's a lot easier to find websites that are up to date with changing hardware/software/security practices than textbooks.
Someone mentioned making a wiki textbook, and someone else mentioned making that a class project. I had a math class in which we had to all find our own individual web page about functions and then read all the others. I thought it was completely useless in math, but in the everchanging world of technology it makes a lot of sense to just collect a lot of information and sort through what is useful.
Your first year teaching the class might not learn as much as they might from brand new textbooks, but your fourth year will learn more than they would from four year old textbooks. And maybe by that point more than they would from new textbooks. Especially if the class is designed to prepare them for some sort of job market, the instruction in the class would have to be as changing as the demand of the market.
Combining a couple questions makes me ask this:
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Some things obviously can't be used for some reason or another, and your budget can't be limitless. What myth has had the most money spent on it, but never found it's way into the show? And did you support the decision?
I know that if I had my own web based show I'd release it for PSP...
that way all the ladies can be like "didn't I see you in my little brother's pocket?"
I've been meaning to submit the article since the beginning of the month... I'm just a bit of a procrastinator
I'll be writing 50,000 words in like 2 weeks at the end of november
Just what I needed... someone drawing attention to the fact that they can access all my porn, I mean sensitive files, on my computer with just a knoppix disk
but in all seriousness, how safe is it to be able to access anything just by putting a disk in the drive?
my desktop is running a dual boot windows xp home and fedora core 2 (currently... though considering changing that) I have never had a problem, although I started out with RH9 doing the original partioning and bootloader installation.
So, I might suggest to those having problems to install RH9 first.
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Should they conserve IP Addresses and just inflate their tires or should they start drilling for more ip addresses now?
The internet has all the information they need to know. Just teach them how to search effectively for the information they want.
I almost agree with this. With such a wide range of topics that a textbook would need to cover, it would almost make more sense to break your semester or whatever into the topics you need to cover, then find a reputable website that will teach the topic as detailed as you would like. If it's not as detailed as you would like, find another website to support it. It's a lot cheaper than finding multiple textbooks that explain everything you want in what detail you want. Also, it's a lot easier to find websites that are up to date with changing hardware/software/security practices than textbooks.
Someone mentioned making a wiki textbook, and someone else mentioned making that a class project. I had a math class in which we had to all find our own individual web page about functions and then read all the others. I thought it was completely useless in math, but in the everchanging world of technology it makes a lot of sense to just collect a lot of information and sort through what is useful.
Your first year teaching the class might not learn as much as they might from brand new textbooks, but your fourth year will learn more than they would from four year old textbooks. And maybe by that point more than they would from new textbooks. Especially if the class is designed to prepare them for some sort of job market, the instruction in the class would have to be as changing as the demand of the market.
Some things obviously can't be used for some reason or another, and your budget can't be limitless. What myth has had the most money spent on it, but never found it's way into the show? And did you support the decision?
This story was on Digg long before it got put on slashdot. Is slashdot an inferior system for speedy news?
landfills getting full? Let's start launching our trash in plasma form into space!
It's enough that I get spam from life people..
but now spam from the undead?
you could just spend the change on a blank cd and back up your data before spending 200 dollars to get it back.
I know that if I had my own web based show I'd release it for PSP...
that way all the ladies can be like "didn't I see you in my little brother's pocket?"
I've been meaning to submit the article since the beginning of the month... I'm just a bit of a procrastinator
I'll be writing 50,000 words in like 2 weeks at the end of november
Just what I needed... someone drawing attention to the fact that they can access all my porn, I mean sensitive files, on my computer with just a knoppix disk but in all seriousness, how safe is it to be able to access anything just by putting a disk in the drive?
*looks at $500 cell phone bill* and I thought my 1200 a month was bad.... although I also was pissed when they cut my unlimited to 500 a month
my desktop is running a dual boot windows xp home and fedora core 2 (currently... though considering changing that) I have never had a problem, although I started out with RH9 doing the original partioning and bootloader installation. So, I might suggest to those having problems to install RH9 first.