Internet Moments

The Open Course Ware (OCW) project is an online resource which allows anyone with an internet connection to experience course work at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.  That’s right, you can essentially “take courses at MIT” for free.  And they have over 1,800 courses to choose from.  Of course you can’t actually receive credit for taking any of these free online courses, but you can get an amazing understanding of what educators and students do at MIT.  OCW at MIT is also part of a much larger Open Courseware Consortium which has over 50 participating universities world-wide.  You can view a current list of consortium members here and learn more about the consortium on their FAQ Page. 

RealClearPolitics.com is based in Chicago and was founded in 2000 by John McIntyre and Tom Bevan.  If you follow politics in the U.S. at all you might want to take a moment to check out this website.  Every day RealClearPolitics aggregates top news stories from all across the internet, as well as poll data and videos into one easy to read homepage.  It offers one-stop-shopping for all the top political stories of the day.