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Three great community-building sites
In: Community
4 Aug 2010Here at CommuniTeach, we are all about finding new ways for people to connect with their neighbors. Our favorite way to do so is by creating opportunities for people to teach and learn from each other for free, but we wanted to take a moment to recognize a few other great websites with similar goals.
1) [...]
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- Tags: Community, neighbor, sharing
Want to help plan a Chicago Learnapalooza? First planning session this Sunday at 12:30pm!
In: Event| Group LearnIt
18 Aug 2009Last week, I had a great conversation with Rosalyn Lemieux, social entrepreneur extraordinaire, about her work founding and running LearnapaloozaDC. A Learnapalooza is, as you can perhaps guess, is an all day learning event where community members attend to a variety of community taught classes, learn cool stuff, and have a great time while doing so. Rosalyn and her [...]
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- Tags: Chicago, Event, Learnapalooza, planning
Five tips for traveling on a budget
In: Uncategorized
9 Jul 2009Several people on CommuniTeach have expressed an interest in learning how to travel cheaply. Traveling on the cheap happens to be one of my specialties, and I’m happy to share a few of my tricks.
1. Before you go anywhere, join that city’s Couchsurfing network. Couchsurfing is an incredible network of travelers all around the world [...]
Cooking Breakfast Foods Group LearnIt this Sunday at 1:30pm in Chicago!
In: Group LearnIt
9 Jul 2009Know how to cook french toast? Interested in mastering the glory that is quiche? Just want to have a great time and perhaps a mimosa on a Sunday afternoon?
Well, you’re in luck. This weekend, CommuniTeach will be having our first Group LearnIt for Cooking Breakfast Foods! The Cooking Breakfast Foods LearnIt will be this Sunday, July 12th, [...]
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- Tags: Breakfast, Chicago, Cooking, Group LearnIt
I just come across this great website that shares all major presentations and speeches at MIT with the masses. According to the site, “These free, on-demand videos, available 24/7 to viewers worldwide, reflect and extend MIT’s educational mission—to provide the best education in science, technology, and related fields—to engaged learners anytime, anywhere”. Topics range from creativity to [...]
How good is AllForGood?
In: Uncategorized
30 Jun 2009One of the hot topics in nonprofit land this month is the launch of AllForGood, a new site that pulls volunteer opportunities from various nonprofit websites and aggregates them to make it easier for everyone to volunteer. Techcrunch does a nice job summarizing them. They’re a big deal, with lots of press, people calling them a “craigslist of [...]
