Carnival of Online Education #8

Greetings! If you are looking forward to read some great posts related to online education, your search ends here. We have come with the 8th edition of the Carnival of Online Education. Here are the 8 posts in the order they were received.

Viju presents Why does Software have bugs? posted at softwaretestinghelp.com. Have you ever worder why the softwares have Bug? Find the root causes if you want to plan your career in Information Technology! There are some lazy programmers or testers out there, but other than this what could be the reason? Find out here.

Andy presents 5 Basic Concepts To Teach Kids About Money posted at moneywalks. Five general ideas to teach your kids about money and finance.

David Buksbaum presents 10 Reasons Why You Need To Start Online Classes Now posted at OnTheWebEd. Everyone should be able to take online classes. The convenience and cost structure have made it possible for anyone to be able to use the growing distance education infrastructure.

Karen Halls presents The Chat Room Addict, Teen Chat Rooms and the Possible Dangers posted at Addiction Recovery Blog. As with other forms of computer addiction, teen chat rooms offer a degree of anonymity and the chat room addict can be who he or she wants to be. More often than not, chat room addicts start off with just a break from the routine of daily life. Studying, research, projects, assignments, etc.

Ted Reimers presents College Admission Application Tips posted at CampusGrotto College Blog. Apply to more than one school. You should apply to about 4 or 5 colleges just in case you don’t get accepted to your first couple of choices.

Henry Cate presents Reading the classics via email - a little more structure posted at Why Homeschool. One of the cools things about using the online to improve our education is it can change the very structure of when we learn. Most of us want to read the classics, but have trouble making the time.

Tracy Coenen presents Online degrees: Watch out for diploma mills posted at FRAUDfiles. So many schools are offering online college courses these days, it’s hard to know which ones are legit. Sloan Consortium reports that in 2005, 3.2 million college students too online courses. Naturally, students like online courses for the convenience and flexibility in the time commitment.

Alvaro Fernandez presents On Bill Gates Harvard commencement speech (and his Frontal Lobes) posted at Brain Fitness. A great example of the Frontal Lobes in action.

That concludes the 8th edition of the Carnival of Online Education. Next edition of this carnival will be hosted here on 30 June 2007. Submit your posts by visiting the blog carnival page.