Starting November 12, if you donate $399 to the OLPC program, they will send a laptop to a child in a developing nation and send one to your child at home. 10 reasons I like OLPC and this form of buying computers: It’s Linux and Linux rocks (oh yeah, it’s free, too) Hand cranked power [...]
Archive for the ‘education’ Category
The Creative Commons folks just announced a new division, called ccLearn, devoted to dropping the barriers to sharing and reusing educational materials. ccLearn’s first project will make it easier to locate already-published open education resources. (Thanks to a Boing Boing article for the pointer.) Technorati Tags: creativecommons, copyright, education, teaching
I liked this article, the Web 2.0 Backpack: Web Apps for Students (thanks Lifehacker!). The big players like Google Docs and Spreadsheets or Wikipedia are there, as you might expect. I am interested in checking out the note taking category because I’m curious to know how an online option beats Notepad.
I have about 100 users and 3 network printers in my school. About two years ago, I installed PaperCut to manage print quotas for students and teachers. PaperCut is set to limit students to printing 50 pages per week and teachers to 100 pages per week. For everyone, I opted to limit any single print [...]
Thanks to a new book on the project, I’ve been reminded of the 1000 journals project. The idea is simple: an artist going by the moniker “Someguy” sent one thousand blank journal books into the world. They would travel from place to place, from person to person, collecting stories. It’s being called a collaborative art [...]
