UMass Night at the Pops
Thursday, May 8, 2008 | 7:45 - 10:20 p.m. | Symphony Hall, Boston
For those in driving distance of this blog, we wanted to share with you that there are only a few tickets left for UMass Night at the Pops 2008. Featuring Keith Lockhart and the Boston Pops with special guest Natalie Cole, UMass Amherst […]
A New Option for Online College Admissions Test Prep
I don’t know about you, but when I think of Britannica I think of an A-Z library of maroon encyclopedias with shiny gold down the spine my parents bought for me. I used them constantly to help with homework, class assignments, fact-finding, etc. My parents still have them and scan them on occasion but so […]
No SPAM Here
In any given day I receive anywhere from 10 to 25 email newsletters, google alerts, RSS feeds or flat-out SPAM. In most cases, I’ll scan through the news in whichever format they arrived and quickly ‘file it away.’ However, when I receive my news feed from George Siemens, I tend to read through, click through and save […]
Learning Mandarin Chinese, Online, In the 6th Grade?
This Special Report appearing in Ohio’s Chillicothe Gazette jumped out at me because of its reference to the teaching of Mandarin Chinese via distance learning technology. As you may already know, that’s of interest here at UMassOnline and a topic that’s been featured in a previous post about UMass Boston’s programs for the study of […]
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