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Are you in need of some brain stimulation?  Why not learn something.

Whether you want to spend 20 minutes or months or years, these resources will keep your neurons creating new connections.

200 Free Online Classes to Learn Anything | OEDb, http://oedb.org/library/beginning-online-learning/200-free-online-classes-to-learn-anything
“it’s possible to take classes from big names like Yale, MIT, and Tufts without ever submitting an application or paying a cent in tuition. We’ve compiled 200 online classes from these and other respected institutions, and you can take all of them with no strings attached.”

2010 Horizon Report, http://www.nmc.org/pdf/2010-Horizon-Report.pdf project established in 2002 that identifies and describes emerging technologies

250 Free Online Courses from Top Universities | Open Culture, http://www.openculture.com/freeonlinecourses
Free online courses from top universities

About – About U. – Free Online Courses, http://u.about.com/
“A collection of free online courses from About.com. Each online course is sent to you via email on a daily or weekly basis and is designed to help you learn a specific skill or solve a particular problem. There are no grades or degrees, only a whole lot of free online learning.”

Academic Earth | Online Courses | Academic Video Lectures, http://academicearth.org/
“Academic Earth now helps connect you to degrees and certificates that can be earned online from highly-respected universities.”

Academy of Achievement, http://www.achievement.org/
“The Academy of Achievement brings students face-to-face with the extraordinary leaders, the visionaries and the pioneers who have helped shape our world.”

AcaWiki, http://acawiki.org/Home

Annenberg Media, http://www.learner.org/resources/browse.html
Incredible resource for free videos for classroom and professional development

Apple – iTunes U – Learn anything, anywhere, anytime. http://www.apple.com/education/itunes-u/

BBC – Languages – Homepage, http://www.bbc.co.uk/languages/

CCOTC Textbooks by Subject, http://collegeopentextbooks.org/thetextbooks/textbooksbysubject.html

Community College Consortium for Open Educational Resources, http://oerconsortium.org/

Educator.com – e-Learning Service Site, http://educator.com/Einztein – Find free online courses http://www.einztein.com/

FEMA Independent Study Program, http://training.fema.gov/IS/crslist.asp
The Emergency Management Institute (EMI) offers self-paced courses designed for people who have emergency management responsibilities and the general public. All are offered free-of-charge.

FORA.tv – Videos on the People, Issues, and Ideas Changing the Planet, http://fora.tv/

HP Learning Center, http://h30187.www3.hp.com/
Free online classes for home, home office, business and IT

JEA Digital Media | Journalism Education Association Digital Media http://jeadigitalmedia.org/

Justice with Michael Sandel (Harvard), http://www.justiceharvard.org/
Justice is one of the most popular courses in Harvard’s history. Now it’s your turn to take the same journey in moral reflection that has captivated more than 14,000 students, as Harvard opens its classroom to the world.

Keppler Speakers Video Channel, Keppler Speakers Bureeau, Motivational Speakers, Celebrity Speakers, Professional Speakers, Campus Speakers http://www.kepplerspeakers.com/video_index.aspx

Khan Academy, http://www.khanacademy.org/
The Khan Academy is a not-for-profit organization with the mission of providing a high quality education to anyone, anywhere. See report on PBS Newshour, 02/22/10 “Math Wiz Adds Web Tools to Take Education to New Limits”: http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/north_america/jan-june10/khan_02-22.html

Kutztown Small Business Development Center, http://www.kutztownsbdc.org/course_listing.asp
Free, on-demand entrepreneurial training resources

Learning on Demand Online – Education in the United States, 2009, http://www.sloan-c.org/publications/survey/pdf/learningondemand.pdf

Learning with ‘e’s, http://steve-wheeler.blogspot.com/

Links Browse: Free Software/Web Tools http://www.clrn.org/weblinks/browse.cfm?id=763

Marketplace Whiteboard | Marketplace from American Public Media, http://marketplace.publicradio.org/collections/coll_display.php?coll_id=20216
Marketplace Senior Editor Paddy Hirsch explains complex economic terms and topics so the rest of us can understand them.

Marketplace Whiteboard | Marketplace from American Public Media http://marketplace.publicradio.org/collections/coll_display.php?coll_id=20216

MIT World | Distributed Intelligence, http://mitworld.mit.edu/
MIT World is a free and open site that provides on demand video of significant public events at MIT. MIT World’s video index contains more than 700 videos.

Online Tutorials – Baycon Group provides tutorials on a growing list of computer-related topics, http://www.baycongroup.com/

Online University | Online Degree | Accredited Bachelor’s and Master’s Degrees, http://www.wgu.edu/

Open Education Resources – Blogs, http://oerblogs.org/

Open Learning Initiative, http://oli.web.cmu.edu/openlearning/
Open & Free Courses are for independent learners and include self-guiding materials and activities that are freely available for you to use. They are available all the time so you can learn at your own pace.

Open Learning Initiative, http://oli.web.cmu.edu/openlearning/
Open & free classes from Carnegie Mellon

OpenLearn – The Open University, http://openlearn.open.ac.uk/

OpenUW Free Courses http://www.extension.washington.edu/openuw/

p2pu | Learning for everyone, by everyone, about almost anything, http://p2pu.org/

Peter Haberman’s Home Page, http://spot.pcc.edu/~phaberma/

PopTech : popcasts http://www.poptech.org/popcasts/

Technophilia: Get a free college education online – Back To School – Lifehacker, http://lifehacker.com/software/education/technophilia-get-a-free-college-education-online-201979.php

TED: Ideas worth spreading, http://www.ted.com/

Test Prep Online for GMAT, LSAT, and SAT Exams with Knewton, http://www.knewton.com/

Toastmasters International – Home, http://www.toastmasters.org/

Tufts OpenCourseWare, http://ocw.tufts.edu/

UC Berkeley Webcasts | Video and Podcasts: Spring 2010 Courses, http://webcast.berkeley.edu/courses.php

UC Irvine, OpenCourseWare, http://ocw.uci.edu/

University of the People – The world’s first tuition free online university, http://www.uopeople.org/

VideoLectures – exchange ideas & share knowledge, http://videolectures.net/

Welcome | Flat World Knowledge, http://www.flatworldknowledge.com/

Whatcom Online Math Center, http://math.whatcom.ctc.edu/content/Links.phtml?cat=3
Free online classes from Whatcom Community College

Wikiversity:Main Page – Wikiversity, http://en.wikiversity.org/wiki/Wikiversity:Main_Page

Yale Open Courses – Online Video Lectures and Course Materials, http://oyc.yale.edu/

YouTube – Education – YouTube EDU, http://www.youtube.com/education?b=400

Is your email inbox so full of things that it’s hard to find the gems of information?  Would you like to save time  checking your favorite news information and blogs all at once?  Make use of RSS feeds.

RSS stands for Really Simple Syndication.  If you like Google, you can set up an account which will allow you to create a personalized page of information.

Mine looks like this:

Becky's iGoogle page

Want to get set up?  Here’s a video tutorial.

What are your favorite RSS feeds for women in community colleges?  Post a comment and share.

Happy learning.

I have a friend who wants to apply for a job.  The resume needs to be updated.  The application questions have to be responded to.  It’s a lot of work.  Will my friend apply?

Is there something you know you want to do that will help your career?

Want some help tackling your own procrastination?

11 tips to fight back: managing/curing/conquering procrastination.

Is it time to make sure that you are spending time on the activities that represent your core beliefs?

A good practice is to set aside time to review your goals annually. Decide where to put your energy and time.

Want some help?   The Five-Step Plan for Creating Personal Mission Statements.

Visit our Facebook group page!

Want to go in a new direction?  Want to re-energize your current job?  Want to stay current in your field?

Try this tutorial to walk you through the goal setting process.

Goal Setting: Free Tutorial and Top Resources.

This folks at Study Guides and Strategies give a concise set of strategies for dealing with stress.  This is guide is for students but the information is universal.

How to Deal with Stress.

On April 7th I heard an interview with an author on NPR.  The interviewer asked the author: “There is some aspect of this that every once in awhile you think ‘Im faking it and the’re gonna catch me’ ?” The author responded: “Virtually every single day.”

The devaluation “women’s work” has been a central theme of the women’s rights movement.

Women themselves may devalue their own work and fail to negotiate for higher wages as a result.

Wikipedia has this to say about the Impostor Syndrome:

“The impostor syndrome, sometimes called impostor phenomenon or fraud syndrome, is a psychological phenomenon in which people are unable to internalize their accomplishments. It is not an officially recognized psychological disorder but has been the subject of numerous books and articles by psychologists and educators.

Regardless of what level of success they may have achieved in their chosen field of work or study or what external proof they may have of their competence, those with the syndrome remain convinced internally they do not deserve the success they have achieved and are actually frauds. Proof of success is dismissed as luck, timing, or as a result of deceiving others into thinking they were more intelligent and competent than they believe themselves to be.”

Do you have a tendency toward devaluing your work or your skills?

Try these tips to overcome the tendency.

Imposter Syndrome: Is This Why You’re Still Unemployed? | JobMob.

Learning Strengths inventory from the Learning Disability Resource Community.

MI inventory.

An online assessment from EducationPlanner.org

Learning Styles Quiz.