Monday, November 21, 2011
30 web sites
PC World, in its December 2011 issue, published an article entitled, "30 Sites You Should Be Using Right Now." The web sites are related to dining, education, finance, health, music, productivity, and travel. The two that I actually plan to use are google.com/flights and airfarewatchdog.com, both of which let users find low air travel prices. I am also interested in runkeeper.com, which allows users to keep track of mileage and pace on-line, and localeats.com, which help find local restaurants in foreign cities (no national chains allowed!). I might recommend khanacademy.org or oyc.yale.edu to patrons looking to further their knowledge. According to the article, the Khan Academy offers short videos covering many different subjects, especially mathematics and sciences, and Open Yale Courses is a collection of "videos of lectures originally intended for undergrad Yale students." What are your favorites?
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THank you Kathleen, THIS WILL BE VERY HELPFUL for the patron's. And I like the two wed sites, on Air Fare.
ReplyDeleteI saw a patron using khanacademy.org two days ago! She was a teenager learning about MITOSIS. I investigated khanacademy.org my own self and found it easy to use and full of variety. The Yale University web site seemed much more scholarly and therefore less recommendable to the average patron.
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