No Aristotle or Zeno or Plato today; I'm planning a trip into Asheville. It's a sad town these days, but hopefully the spring will sweep all that away. North Carolina ought to be one of the Free States, like Florida and Texas and South Dakota, but we have a divided government and a bad governor. Outside the cities, though, Western North Carolina is a very pleasant anarchy with almost no visible signs of government at all.
Still, I have business in town, and so I must go.
Have you considered developing Coursera courses in philosophy? Might make a little gas money, and it'd probably be a little easier to keep everything organized and accessible.
ReplyDeleteAnyway, I am taking the week off from philosophy. I have several deadlines this week and just need to keep at it. I'll pick it back up this weekend.
I had never heard of them until you mentioned them. I guess I remain behind the times on this social media stuff.
ReplyDeleteThere are a lot of courses that are 2-tier. Tier 1 is free and let's you read the material and watch any videos. Tier 2 is paid and interactive, so you get a certain amount of class discussion each week on Zoom or the instructor grades your work and gives feedback or whatever.
ReplyDeleteOf course, some are just free, and some are just paid.
The paid ones can be a few bucks or a few thousand bucks.
You can also have completely asynchronous classes where the instructor just makes a number of videos and maybe gives readings or exercises to do, and the answers are available in the course so students can check themselves. Students can take these at any time and, once the course is built, the instructor doesn't do anything. That can be a source of passive income, if your classes attract students.
So watch this old video Instapundit found. That's her at 14, playing for one of Cas Walker's shows.
ReplyDeleteThe link, to a TV news short, had the video but had most of her singing erased in favor of announcer comments. Here is the the video with all of Dolly's singing. Much better than listening to a talking head's blather. WIVK-Radio Remote with Cas Walker and Dolly Parton 1961.
Like Aggie, I don't listen much to Dolly Parton-I prefer Western Swing- but have a lot of respect for her. (I worked with an accountant who had Dolly as a client.She had nothing but good to say about her interactions with Dolly.) That being said, Dolly's soulful singing at age 14 floored me. That is talent!