On December 26, 2007, I got an ASUS Eee PC Christmas present! Well … okay, I bought it for myself.
The one I have is the 4G/401 model. It has 4GB of onboard storage and 512MB of RAM. The next model up — with 1GB of RAM (same 4GB onboard [...]
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“Japanese Schools May Switch to Linux: Conference held in Tokyo considers the open-source option for education.” This article title from “OhmyNews” quickly grabbed my attention. (Full article available — click here.)
As an advocate of LINUX and other open source operating systems and programs, I fully support this possible move in the Japanese [...]
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An interesting Poster Session got my attention: “Develop Custom Teacher Web Pages Using Open Source Code” by Susan Richards Smith, Katy Independent School District with Brenda White. Their site is available at:
http://www.katyisd.org/KatyWebs/
Their focus was to develop an easy alternative for a district to create a content management system using Dot Net Nuke [...]
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The NECC 2006 Conference July 5-7 in San Diego is just around the corner! I’ve yet to make my rental car reservations. I’m very honored to be part of the contributors to the official blogging and podcasting section of the NECC web site. The honor is further magnified by [...]
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I’ve been working on a project that involves using Moodle as an e-portfolio portal. Currently, Moodle is not available “out of the box” to do this. I’ve seen a number of interesting links that lead to sites where other Moodle-using teachers have modified Moodle or cleverly used modules, etc. to come up with an e-portolfio-type [...]
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I just wrapped up my presentation on “Blogging for Education and Teacher Professional Development” at the MASCOT conference held at the university of Guam on January 28, 2006.
There were over 20 attendees made up of public and private school educators in Guam, including a group of educators from Saipan.
I only had an hour in this [...]
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