Healthy Options 8/05/09

Producer/Host: Andree Bella
Studio Engineer: Amy Browne
Topic: Creating Healthy Relationships with Carnivores in Maine
How do we develop healthy relationships with carnivores? What is the value of non-lethal protection of our livestock from predators? What ecological role do carnivores play in our land that effects our lives in a positive way?
Guest: Geri Vistein, Project Coyote
FMI: www.projectcoyote.org, [email protected]
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Notes from the Electronic Cottage 7/30/09

Producer/Host: Jim Campbell

Here are addresses for sites mentioned in this week’s program that offer free college level course materials to anyone who would like to use them.
Open Courseware site at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (ocw.mit.edu).
Rice University’s Connexions courseware site (cnx.org).
University of California at Berkeley has put up videos of about 250 course segments and events on Google Video
(video.google.com/ucberkeley.html) and now also on youTube as well www.youtube.com/user/ucberkeley).
Other universities have also established youTube channels. Search for channels (not videos) using the keyword ³education.² The Open University in Great Britain has an open learning site (www.open.ac.uk/openlearn/home.php).
Open-of-Course (open-of-course.org/courses/). Courses contributed by anyone with some expertise, not necessarily college professors.
W3 Schools (www.w3schools.com/). The focus here is on courses relating to web development.