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Monthly Archives: June 2008

Sweltering in San Antonio!

The conference (NECC) began in full force today.  I already attended one open source presentation by David Thornburg, which I plan to write up shortly.  Lots of interest in open source though–both software and hardware.  Look for more coming soon!

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Open Source at NECC

This weekend we will venture down to Texas for the National Educational Computing Conference, ISTE’s largest international educational technology conference in the world.  I will actually take the family and fly into Dallas to stay with in-laws, before I catch a flight into San Antonio on Sunday.  What has me excited are all the sessions [...]

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Great Article on ROI and Open Source

Just continuing the conversation–this is all we want to see for the Open movement.  Great article here: http://techlearning.com/story/showArticle.php?articleID=196604542 discussing the various benefits to open source and some basic steps on moving forward with it.

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It’s Firefox Day for the Record!

Hopefully by now, you know Firefox 3 will release to the general public today. To coincide with this monumental day (so I am one for a little drama!), the website Spread Firefox will sponsor a Guinness Book World Record attempt for the most downloads in one day. Since there is no existing record, we will [...]

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The Lessig Effect

In the move to a totally-open environment, before long you will begin looking at Creative Commons as a solution to content (hopefully!).  In education, especially, we need to be cognizant of the resources available to us.  As a former classroom teacher who used technology regularly, one of the most difficult things to deal with was [...]

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