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My name is Edward Tanguay.
I have a Bachelors degree in Philosophy, a Masters in Education, and am currently working as a web developer in Berlin, Germany.

I watch over 200 college-level MOOC lectures per year in subjects such as history , psychology, science, religion, art, philosophy, and IT development in English, German, French, Spanish and Italian, and record my notes here.
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The primary goal of this Learn Tracker project is to build a web site which serves as one place to record the notes of everything that I am learning from MOOC classes, to foreign languages, to useful code examples and technical how-to notes, so that I not only have an overview of what I have learned, but can search and recall these notes at any time.

The secondary goal of this Learn Tracker project is to work together with companies, universities, and MOOC providers to build software that allows employees, students, and learners to record what they are learning in an efficient way so that it serves not only as (1) a record of what they have learned, but also (2) a place for them to review and search what they have learned.

Since January 2013, I have watched and recorded notes on over 300 MOOC lectures from over 30 different courses in both English and French, and have watched and recorded notes and flashcards on over 50 foreign language videos in Italian, French and Spanish. (I am curently still adding notes I took from 2013 and plan to be caught up by the end of January 2014.

April 2019 Learn Certificate
Watched and took notes on 1 college lectures:
Learned about 1 person:
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Book Reading NEW!

Recorded 15 insights from books I'm reading:
Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business
  • The move away from the use of propositions in comm...
Berlin Hidden Secrets
  • Neni - Budapester Str. 40 - Das ausgezeichnete jüd...
Die Welt von Gestern
  • Der sogenannte Lehrplan war nach hundertjähriger E...
Die fröhliche Wissenschaft
  • Soldaten und Führer haben immer noch ein viel höhe...
Fantasyland: How America Went Haywire: A 500-Year History
  • Henry David Thoreau invented a certain kind of ent...
  • The second quarter of the nineteenth century was w...
L'invitée
  • C'est surtout dommage qu'on ne puisse pas ses sent...
Los 7 hábitos de la gente altamente efectiva
  • La capacidad para subordinar los impulsos a los va...
Saving Capitalism
  • There are two modes of invading private property: ...
Science and Spiritual Practices
  • We are not surprised when exercises such as weight...
Sun Tzu's Art of War & Machiavelli's Prince
  • Military tactics are like unto water, for water in...
The German Genius
  • In Italy, the period of the High Renaissance refer...
The Gift of Fear
  • Since he was dressed and supposedly leaving, he ha...
The Map of Knowledge
  • If you could look down on the Mediterranean world ...
Trump!: POPulismus als Politik
  • Nicht die Armen benutzen die Demokratie, um die Re...

Tech Learning

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Recorded 37 Flashcards from MOOC lectures:
  • /It takes 20 years to destroy
                        
  • Beyond this small town
                        
  • It is in the making
                        
  • a failure
                        
  • a kind of mushroom town
                        
  • a large industrial city
                        
  • agrees to let go of the piece
                        
  • around 2 million
                        
  • continued
                        
  • cuts
                        
  • enclosed
                        
  • enclosed in a barrier
                        
  • growing
                        
  • have not followed
                        
  • is not decided
                        
  • it does not bother them at all
                        
  • it's a huge building site
                        
  • since they do not prevent the bombing of the capital
                        
  • sit side by side
                        
  • something extremely important
                        
  • supported by
                        
  • supposedly
                        
  • that you know as well as me
                        
  • the circular enclosure
                        
  • the deaths
                        
  • the leveling of the fortifications
                        
  • the space left
                        
  • to bring services closer
                        
  • to get together to create
                        
  • we always thinkg of
                        
  • we have to go back to what is happening
                        
  • we reach a compromise
                        
  • we realize that
                        
  • what are we going to do with it
                        
  • what we call the suburbs
                        
  • who ruled this space
                        
  • who told each other
                        
Sunday, April 21, 2019
Watched and took notes on MOOC lecture:
A LA RECHERCHE DU GRAND PARIS, Sciences Po
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comment a évolué Paris depuis de 19ème siècle
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il faut revenir sur ce qui se passe au milieu du XIXe siècle
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Paris est une
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petite ville
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People:
Georges Haussmann (1809-1891)
Il a dirigé les transformations de Paris sous le Second Empire
  • il souhaitait instaurer une politique facilitant l'écoulement des flux, aussi bien de population, de marchandises que d’air et d’eau, convaincu par les théories hygiénistes héritées des Lumières et qui se sont diffusées à la suite de l’épidémie de choléra de 1832
  • cette campagne fut intitulée Paris embellie, Paris agrandie, Paris assainie
  • un autre objectif était de prévenir d'éventuels soulèvements populaires, fréquents à Paris : après la Révolution de 1789
  • a l'obsession de la ligne droite, ce que l'on a appelé le culte de l'axe au xixe siècle
  • pour cela, il est prêt à amputer des espaces comme le jardin du Luxembourg mais aussi à démolir certains bâtiments comme le marché des Innocents ou l'église Saint-Benoît-le-Bétourné
  • il aménage un certain nombre de parcs et jardins : ainsi sont créés un square pour chacun des quatre-vingt quartiers de Paris, ainsi que le parc Montsouris et le parc des Buttes-Chaumont
  • des règlements imposent des normes très strictes quant au gabarit et à l'ordonnancement des maisons, les immeubles se ressemblent tous, c'est l'esthétique du rationnel
  • il fait aussi construire ou reconstruire des ponts sur la Seine ainsi que de nouvelles églises, comme Saint-Augustin ou la Trinité
  • il décide d'étendre la ville de Paris jusqu'aux fortifications de l'enceinte de Thiers, onze communes limitrophes de Paris sont totalement supprimées et leurs territoires absorbés par la ville entièrement: Belleville, Grenelle, Vaugirard, La Villette, Auteuil, Passy, Batignolles-Monceau, Bercy, La Chapelle, Charonne et Montmartre
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