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Seven Days of Your Own

December 22, 2009

Imagine, if you will. . .
Tonight, as the last reverberations of the last stroke of midnight fade to silence, a moment falls out of time.  It is yours, if you wish.  While the rest of the world nods this moment away, you can venture into The Week without Responsibilities.  You now have one week all [...]

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Welcome, New Students!

October 9, 2009

The last How To Think Sideways class of 2009 is now in session.
New students—Log in to class.  Then:

Go through the course tutorial.
Introduce yourself on the discussion board.
And start in on your lessons.  Moderators and grads are available at all times on the boards, and are great about helping new folks.  It’s a good community.
If [...]

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Motivation Revision

August 17, 2009

Some students had problems watching the third section of the Motivation course because it was embedded as a .mov file.
I’ve now changed it to match the embedding of the other files—you should have no difficulty watching now.
Login here to watch…if you’re a course grad, or on week five as a current student, you’ll find the [...]

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Board Bug Fixed (I hope)

August 10, 2009

If you’re among the number of students who have not been able to get to some or all of the forum boards you’re supposed to be able to reach, I’ve done major work on the boards today, hoping to fix this.
Please login to your account.
Then head over to the forum:
http://howtothinksideways.com/forum
If you can reach and use [...]

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Upgrading “Think Sideways”

June 11, 2009

The course software is getting a massive overhaul right now.  So is the writing community.  Which is the reason why the boards and classroom were closed yesterday and will be closed today.  It’s also the reason why new students cannot, at the moment, sign up.  We’re enthused enough about our progress that we’re hoping (hoping) [...]

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