Yes, I'm a Geek

I have been thoroughly enjoying a website introduced to me by Rachel Conner, the director of Next Education for which I had the opportunity of working with this past school year. We have pretty much decided it would be a tremendous asset for the high school students at Next Education. It is an organization that enables people to study various subjects with the ultimate goal to test out of them and obtain college credit without paying tuition.  https://modernstates.org/

During the school year while I was teaching, I read through the biology and American government text books. Now I am working through world history (364 of 487 pages), psychology (212 of 644 pages), and macroeconomics (186 of 541 pages). Just a little light reading before bed!

Recently I have been especially interested in the middle ages. I've resorted to Wikipedia on numerous occasions because there just doesn't seem to be a lot of material on the topic or people of note from the period unless I purchase -- whether moderately priced or expensive -- them, which I generally avoid. I could never afford to supply my habit!

But I finally stumbled upon a resource that I am enjoying immensely!

It's a series of lectures on DVD:


















And there's a study guide, can I say "Cliff Notes!"?

They're by a professor at William & Mary College and apparently quite an authority on the middle ages, a graduate of Harvard, has received notable honors, and has been on the History Channel. It's a little dry since it's lectures, but I woke up this morning with my first thought being what I absolutely had to do before I could start the next lecture! lol at myself 😃

And I found out there are at least 3 more lecture series, oh my!