Online Education

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I've been reading The Passionate Programmer by Chad Fowler lately, and in it he says that every good programmer should spend some time teaching. He say's this helps you identify common misconceptions, problems, and to think in new ways

In my last job as an IT guy at a local Public Broadcasting Station, pretty much all I did was teach our volunteers (generally elderly women) how to use word, excel, and the Internet. It sounds terrible I know, but actually I really enjoyed it. One lady told me about the old days when she used to work on a teletype and it blew me away. Lately I've been examining other career options and I thought perhaps teaching wouldn't be too bad actually. I think I had a knack for breaking complicated things down into smaller easier to manage problems (a thing programmers have to do).

Now I definitely don't have time to go to an actual university, so I've been looking at online options. This led me to USC Rossier School of Education’s MAT@USC, which seems to be one of the better online schools that offer a masters in teaching online. They've been around for over a hundred years and have been ranked #22 in the USA and #9 among all private US universities by US News and World Report and were recently award the AACTE for innovative use of technology in education.

If you look at the video it totally blows my brothers online classes at a local university here in Northern California away, check it out below.

So if you're looking to earn your Teaching Degree Online, I highly recommend you check out The USC Rossier School of Education’s MAT@USC.

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MyTies for iPhone

This is a Sponsored post written by me on behalf of MyTies. All opinions are 100% mine.

I was talking to a friend recently about social networks and stuff, and how on facebook you don't have a lot of control for grouping or controlling who can see your posts. He told me about an iPhone app called MyTies.com which seems to address these issues, and with the recent facebook security issues not a moment too soon. It's ideal for people that want to have co workers and friends/family on their social network but want to control who see's what. Obviously you don't want your boss to see your post about how much you drank last night or things like that and with MyTies.com you have that kind of control. You can create multiple groups that you can share text messages, photos, and videos with. It's also optimized for small screens like the iPhone, and the app is simple to use and well laid out, so you could probably teach your mom to use it. Hopefully they'll port it to Android, but for now you can download it free on the iPhone app store and if you use the code myprivacy when you sign up you can get 20 more invites for friends and family for free.