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Looking for ways to enhance your students' learning and gain valuable professional development opportunities? Here are four ways you can with freely available online content from HarvardX.  1. Learn cutting-edge content from Harvard faculty Are you looking to deepen your content knowledge and learn new teaching strategies? High school mathematics teacher Kris Kelsh found both when she audited CS50x: Introduction to Computer Science to prepare for teaching her honors-level CS course. “I took CS50x to get content ideas for my new course, but I also appreciated how Professor David Malan teaches by using examples.  So I learned some instructional strategies, too.” Kelsh plans to integrate into her class several course videos that explain different Internet protocols and use Malan’s strategy of purposely typing an error into a program to help students better understand debugging.  2. Connect students to new viewpoints When students interact virtually with o...

All of your Harvard journey has culminated in this completely optional task which you could have –not done- -, but instead of taking the easy way out and enjoying senior spring, you decided to commit yourself to about 6 months of utter suffering. Your MacBook is staring you down; Microsoft Word is shouting at you, “Look at all these blank pages you haven’t filled!” You begin to think to yourself. C’mon, you can do it. You can tackle that paper; it’s just roughly the length of 30 response papers in that one class you took Freshman Year. You cry. Where has Freshman Year gone? You get nostalgic. I miss the Harvard Yard. I miss Annenberg. I miss Freshman Dean Dingman’s corny jokes. You peruse old Facebook pictures and remember that your time at Harvard does have purpose. You steel yourself and make a commitment to begin working. But then your brain realizes: your room is a mess . You certainly can’t get any work done in these conditions, so the only way to make...

Senior spring. The allusive, yet so deeply cherished set of months that every Harvard student dreams of. At this point, you know every campus shortcut, the best dining hall creations and study spots, and the coffee shops with reliable WiFi and even better drinks. So what’s more to do? This is me. I am a Senior, concentrating in Government and set to graduate in May of 2018–just three months away. I can’t count how many times I’ve started a conversation topic with “remember when” or looked longingly at places across campus where I laughed with friends. I’m studious by day and nostalgic by night. With the end of school near, I wanted to reflect on the “must do’s” of Boston and Harvard, interweaved with some fond memories. 1) Explore local music Cambridge, Somerville, Allston, Brighton. These smaller, neighboring towns are home to an array of concert halls and festivals. Here, you’ll find musicians ranging from local “up-and-comer’s” to arena stars. Museums and...