Learn something
One of the most fantastic things about the internet is the way it hooks us up with information and people. Want to know how to build your rain barrel? Instructables has several different articles. Trying to figure out something in Burnout: Paradise City? Watch one of the almost 3,000 videos on YouTube.
Or you can use it to connect a lot of people who want to teach others in person. That’s what the people behing Learnapalooza are doing. There’s currently over thirty sessions scheduled to happen on May 10th which will cover everything from geeky stuff like writing a Facebook application to more granola things like how and why to eat local food. If you wish you weren’t writing facebook apps you can learn some hip-hop dance or more general skills for dancing at a party. The schedule lists 31 events at the moment, all in donated locations.
I agree with their central idea – everyone has something to teach others – and think this is just a great idea. Get out and learn something!
this is so extremely cool!!! i’d never heard of it. who’s organizing it?
you should go to some of the classes on the 10th and then write about them here, let us know what they’re like–you know, for those of us who get our dainties in a wad about learning and cool community events.