Website Monday -- Kahn Academy

My friend, George Glazer, at the Education Institute of AHLA shared a great resource with me at the end of last week.  It is the Kahn Academy and all materials are online and open to anyone to review.  As their website says, "The Kahn Academy is a not-for-profit with the mission of providing a world-class education to anyone, anywhere.  To see the plethora of classes that are online visit

http://www.khanacademy.org/

The cool thing about the website is that all the lessons are posted on YouTube.  All you need to do is click on a lesson and it will pop up for you to review.  It uses a technology that appears as a blackboard that has information posted to it -- depending on the lesson  -- and you can hear Kahn's voice as he talks and writes on the blackboard.  Pretty cool stuff so check it out.  You can also check them out on Facebook:

http://www.facebook.com/khanacademy?v=photos

I can only imagine how cool a resource such as this would be to teach culinary arts to students.  Imagine if your lectures could be put online for students to review BEFORE they got to class and the work that could be done applying the information using such pedagogies as cooperative or case based learning and working with the materials to make the kids better chefs and/or foodservice ops managers.