Some Stuff about Life Hacks

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Life-hacks are great little tips that help you shortcut some things that you want to do/learn. For example, mnemonic techniques are hacks for memorizing things; math-hacks are shortcuts for doing mathematical operations.

Basically, MathMojo is about math-hacks, some life-hacks, making math meaningful, critical thinking, and Eduction (also know as Edux - which I won’t be dealing on the site until I’ve finished with the math-hacks).

Among the life-hacks that I can recommend most, is Macintosh computers. If you are one of the unfortunate ones who still lives on the “dark side,” you have something to look forward to if you can switch to a Mac.

I realize that is a finance-intensive hack. But consider it when you can.

Beyond that, there are tons of online-based life-hacks. Many of them involve “Web 2.0” sites. I’ve created a Squidoo lens (a mini-website, on the Web 2.0 site called “Squidoo”) about what “Web 2.0″ is, and how to get involved with it.

Basically, Web 2.0 sites are social networking sites, where you, the reader, can have a lot of input. If you look at the left-hand column of this blog, you will see links for del.icio.us, digg, furl, reddit, technorati, subscribe, etc. Those are links to social networking sites where you can bookmark pages you like (like this one!), leave comments about blogs, posts and other things you like on the web, and develop and interact with communities who share interests that you have.

On the right side of this page, you may notice a bunch of little pictures (usually of my dogs, Galileo and Maia) that are on Flickr. Flickr is a Web 2.0 site, which is a social photo sharing site. It’s not just a place to store photos, but a great way to share them and build a community of people who like the same kind of photography you do.

The reason I’ll be writing about some of these social networking sites, is that I know that a lot of my readers are curious students, parents and teachers, who’d like some seriously good and easy tools to create their own curriculums, schedules, community of like-minded learners, etc.

I’d like to help provide some info and tutorials on how to find and use sites that can help you do that.

The Squidoo lens that I’ve created is “Web 2.0 for Non-Geeks,” and you can find it at:
http://squidoo.com/web20nongeek

My plan is to get as many readers as possible up to speed on this stuff, and maybe we can form our own little community, where we can share Ideas that help other readers motivate, inform, educate and streamline the learning experiences of each other.

To this end I’ll also be starting a forum soon at Mathmojo.com. That should be a good way for us to be able to communicate with each other.

If you have any thoughts on these Ideas, I’d love to read your comments. In the meantime, head out to
http://squidoo.com/web20nongeek and poke around.

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