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One of the things that I often tell teachers is that I think that they should never hesitate to bring their own personal experiences into the classroom. Teachers are often shy about that. They think that it’s sort of unprofessional. You know – teach the syllabus, teach the textbook, teach the stuff that you want [...]

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I don’t have a lot of routines, but one that I fall into every baseball season is watching Sports Center in the morning. You see, during the rest of the year I have the news to keep my hopes down and my desire to crawl back in bed up. During the baseball season I’ve got [...]

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Around Christmas time I got into the G1G1 project that OLPC did and picked up an XO “for my daughter”. We did the whole Christmas thing with it and it took her all of about twenty minutes to rip the “k” key off. I packed the XO up for a little bit and thought to [...]

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This post is coming to you live from an OLPC laptop. First thoughts, it’s small, durable, easy to use, and for any one who’s worried about adults running off with these things; let’s just say the keyboard (which is perfect for little hands) will be enough to keep that from happening. Now I’ve got to [...]

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Grading on Linux laptop. While my Mac is dead I’m back to using my Linux laptop. I’m trying to figure out why I’m about to drop $1800 on a machine that’s about like the one I’m using at an effective cost of $0. Short answer, Macs truly are the Cadillacs of computers. After just over [...]

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