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Man, I picked a weird time to declare my allegiance to Linux and OLPC. I have been constantly impressed with the OpenSource movement. No matter what I need, someone out there has built it and they are giving it away. I have yet to be let down, other than by my own incompetence when it [...]

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I’ve never thought of technology as a replacement for teaching. Recent stories show that Skinnerian boxes still don’t work, and some how we’re surprised. Teaching is all about making that human connection with students. I lose focus on that sometimes. It Ain’t About the Technology. It’s About the Story. Laptops? (Yawn) Blogging? (Yawn) PowerPoint? (Snore) [...]

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I have a new hero. His name is Steve Wilmarth and he writes the Digital Natives and Digital Immigrants Blog. Boundaries of time and place have eroded in all aspects of 21st century life, except in formal education. This cannot hold for long. Why do we learn collaboratively, but test and assess in isolation? Learning [...]

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Mike Dell was my impetus for diving headlong into Linux, but it’s been in the back of mind since I heard about the One Laptop Per-Child initiative. It seems that in a short period of time a large number of the world’s student will be running Linux and I want to know what their experience [...]

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A List Apart, a resource that’s saved my butt many-a time, has a survey looking for data on web designers. If this is what you do for a living, do them a favor, take the A List Apart Web-Designer Survey.

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