A GREAT way to start the New Year!

January 3, 2006

Happy New Year, everyone!

First I'd like to thank PJ for inviting me to join her co-moderators

staff. It may take me a short time to figure out everything I should be

doing so I ask for your patience.

Second I'd like to share an excellent website with you. and

Noble booksellers has an online international " university " where you can

take courses AND receive credit. The courses (as far as I've seen so

far) are FREE (free is good!), but most require you to buy a book that

you'll be using during the course. The courses vary in length but

average about 4-5 weeks. When a book is required there's a link within

the info for each course that shows what book you'll need and, if you

choose, how to order it from & Noble directly.

One question you may have is " What if I start it and then something

comes up and I get behind or I can't finish it? " Hey, no problem! Life

happens! These are all self-paced courses and there's LOTS of help from

the instructors and their assistants. PLUS you can write back and forth

with other members of the class, asking for help and ideas! And if you

can't finish the course NO PROBLEM! You're not being graded and you can

sign up for it again the next time it's offered! I took one course and

sure enough life happened and it took me FOUR times to finally finish

everything and then I signed up for it again to mentor others.

The fun thing is there's such a wonderful variety of courses to choose

from there's bound to be SOMETHING you might be interested in, and since

they're self-paced you can fit it in to just about ANY schedule. And

these courses draw " students " from ALL over the world! What a great way

to share with people from other cultures ... really opening up the

borders of our minds! From one course I took I made 5 new friends from

different places in the USA and 3 internationally!

Here's the link:

Enjoy!

Jace

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