Tag: Lifelong Learning

LVCA – US Citizenship Class – March 22 – April 19

March 12, 2014
Twitter – It’s Happening at the Senior Center!

TWITTER 101 Monday, March 10, 1:00-2:30 pm Chris Dove of Staples’ Easy Tech will help you understand the basics of Twitter. If you already have an account, he’ll show you new ways to use it — whether you merely want to Tweet your grandkids, follow a celebrity or politician, or are thinking about starting a…

March 5, 2014
Learn more about Thomas Jefferson – #TJMOOC – Coursera/UVa FREE course

Age of Jefferson The Thomas Jefferson MOOC offered by the University of Virginia and Monticello is off to a great start, and

February 17, 2014
Searching for Lincoln Normal School in Marion, Alabama? Find it on the WayBack Machine!

I realized recently that the ruthk.net website had outlived it usefulness, so I took it down and mapped the domain to this WordPress blog. In addition to hosting websites for several non-profit organizations, the ruthk.net web space hosted some Judson WebCenter websites that had been located on the old home.judson.edu server before the makeover in…

January 21, 2014
Great Decisions 2014 – Senior Center – Free & Open To All – Starts January 22

Great Decisions 2014 Wednesday, January 22, 2014 from 10:30am-11:30am Prof. William Quandt – Islamic Awakening – Free and Open to all. Great Decisions is America’s largest discussion program on world affairs. The name is shared by a national civic-education program, briefing book and television series administered and produced by the Foreign Policy Association. The program highlights eight of…

December 18, 2013
Why haven’t more US kids been interested in learning CS?

I have been giving this question some thought as I have been having fun with Hour of Code drawing and animation on Khan Academy as well as starting with the very beginning of html coding at Codecademy. I had been teaching Web

December 11, 2013