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- Tech Awards honor techy solutions for developing world
- From one-time-use syringes to fire logs made from an invasive African plant, the 2008 Tech Awards honored five innovators with $50,000 for creating technology solutions for problems in developing countries. CNET's Kara Tsuboi learns more about these seemingly simple solutions that have potential to make a big impact.
- Tags: Solution, Free Trade, Finance, News, kara tsuboi, the tech, tech awards, san jose convention center, developing countries, 3rd world, india, china, asia, building, syringe, schools
- Videos 2008-11-13
- The real power of the PC
- After selling his company, Brazilian entrepreneur Rodrigo Baggio turned his attention to using technology as a means of economic empowerment for the underprivileged.
- Tags: Empowerment, Entrepreneurship, Management, News, ina fried, south america, microsoft, google, pc, schools
- Videos 2008-08-27
- The Borders of Computing
- Exploring the Borders of Computing CNET News' Ina Fried sits down with Kara Tsuboi to discuss her special report on computing in Latin America.
- Tags: Borders Books & Music, Computing, News, kara tsuboi, ina fried, microsoft, brazil, columbia, south america, schools, art, civil war
- Videos 2008-08-26
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- Ed Tech in a recession
- At the beginning of this week, I wrote about why the OLPC makes less sense than ever during a recession. Little green netbooks, though, aren't the only things that will get hit as the global economy tanks even further. Next year, our district is looking at a best...
- Tags: Recession, Hardware, Technology, Teacher, Productivity, Vertical Industries, Benefits, Enterprise Software, Software, Human Resources, Christopher Dawson
- Blog posts 2008-11-21
- I really don't want to use Windows anymore
- Every week, more and more bits of malware seem to be making their way past commercial anti-virus, firewall anti-virus, and ISP anti-virus software. New patches and downloads abound, and I've still re-imaged 3 computers in the last 2 weeks due to massive infestations. This is to say nothing...
- Tags: Apple Macintosh, Antivirus, Malware, Computer, Microsoft Windows, Spyware, Adware & Malware, Cyberthreats, Productivity, Linux, Viruses And Worms, Operating Systems, Desktops, Security, Software, Hardware, Christopher Dawson
- Blog posts 2008-11-19
- OLPC is dead...What Kindlenomics taught us
- Fellow ZDNet blogger, Jason Perlow, wrote a neat piece suggesting that, if electronic versions of most college textbooks existed, it wouldn't take many semesters for the average undergraduate to pay for the Kindle on which to read them. In fact, with a fair amount of arm-waving, it wasn't too...
- Tags: Student, Hardware, Textbook, One Laptop Per Child Project, Kindle, Kindroid, XO 2.0, Christopher Dawson
- Blog posts 2008-11-16
- Kindle Economics
- A few weeks ago I evaluated Amazon's Kindle. While I really liked the device, the big problem I had with it was that at its current price of $359.00 it was too expensive at this point for mass consumer adoption. I also had a number of...
- Tags: Cost, Semester, Amazon.com Inc., Textbook, Amazon Kindle, E-books, Microsoft Excel, Personal Technology, Microsoft Office, Office Suites, Software, Jason Perlow
- Blog posts 2008-11-16
- News to know: Yahoo, Blackberry Storm, Black Friday leaks, Smartphones
- Here are today's notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily: Sam Diaz: Yahoo dips below $10; Icahn, board called out Larry Dignan: Verizon Wireless: Storm lands Nov. 21 Sean Portnoy: Best Buy...
- Tags: Google Inc., Larry Dignan, Richard Koman, Yahoo! Inc., Dana Blankenhorn, RIM BlackBerry, Microsoft Corp., Matthew Miller, Smartphone, Microsoft Windows, Advertising & Promotion, Handhelds, Operating Systems, Software, Marketing, Hardware, Sam Diaz
- Blog posts 2008-11-14
- Lighting the way: Three more higher-ed schools embrace LED technology
- Three more U.S. colleges have signed up for the LED University program that is backed and publicized by LED technology company Cree. The schools include Indiana's University of Notre Dame, North Carolina's North Carolina State University and Wisconsin's Madison Area Technical College. The installations range from modest...
- Tags: Light-emitting Diode, Engineering, Heather Clancy
- Blog posts 2008-11-13
- Wikispaces Webinar - quick note
- A quick note from Wikispaces, via Classroom 2.0: The folks from Wikispaces are running a Classroom 2.0 LIVE Elluminate session tonight on how to get started with educational wikis. This a chance to learn from other educators who are using wikis in education. ...
- Tags: Wiki, Online Communications, Christopher Dawson
- Blog posts 2008-11-13
- The domestic digital divide
- We've heard a lot recently about how poor our broadband penetration is in this country. It's true, in fact, that too great a percentage of our students simply don't have access to high-speed internet at home like their European and Asian counterparts. What we all too often overlook...
- Tags: Broadband, Satellite, Hughes, Network Technology, Cable, Broadband Internet, Networking, Telecommunications, Personal Technology, Christopher Dawson
- Blog posts 2008-11-13
- A Kindroid in every pot?
- Fellow blogger, Jason Perlow, has written a couple of interesting pieces lately on ways to get cheap ebook readers/tablets into both students' and consumers' hands. In, "Kindroid: Two great tastes that would taste great together" he described how an Android-based Kindle ebook reader could allow this platform to really...
- Tags: Kindroid, E-books, Tablets, Personal Technology, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, Christopher Dawson
- Blog posts 2008-11-10
- Can we really go paperless?
- Can we really go paperless?paper is madefrom sapling and cotton for the most part. Complaining about "killing" trees for paper is about like complaining about killing wheat for bread.Paper has the advantage of requiring no power, being foldable, writeable, high-resolution and you can spread it out across your desk giving...
- Tags: PRODUCTIVITY, Document management, Homeworks, computer, printing
- Discussion threads 2008-11-07
- Maple Leaf Multi-media Public Broadcasting System (rar)
- Including the merits of all similar software, very beautiful interface and easy to use for customer. The software expands the play functions for video of broadcasting system and other kinds of files, it has the function of events reminding, open and close reminding and automatic play, extensively used in the...
- Tags: Software, Broadcasting, Video, Corporate Communications, Tools & Techniques, Marketing, Management
- Software downloads 2008-11-07
- Yes, we can go paperless...so what's the cost/benefit?
- Regular readers know that not only am I something of a tree-hugger, but I've recently become convinced that social media (not MySpace and Facebook, but the wide variety of Web 2.0, collaboration, and communication tools available to us on the Web) can have a very important place in education. ...
- Tags: School, Student, Teacher, Computer, Productivity, Web 2.0, Internet, Christopher Dawson
- Blog posts 2008-11-06
- Can we really go paperless?
- We spend a huge amount of money on printing and kill a lot of trees for paper materials in Ed Tech. At the same time, we struggle to have kids keep all of these volumes of paper organized, much less be able to refer to learning materials from prior...
- Tags: School, Teacher, Collaboration, Groupware, Enterprise Software, Software, Christopher Dawson
- Blog posts 2008-11-06
- FCC opens up wireless 'white spaces;' Assessing winners, losers and wild-cards
- FCC opens up wireless 'white spaces;' Assessing winners, losers and wild-cardsCo-optingIf the new frequencies are open to any company and if some companies are threatened by competition using the new frequencies, then why shouldn't the threatened companies jam the new frequencies?That seems one of the points of this quoted quote:The...
- Tags: Federal government, Wi-Fi, TELECOMMUNICATIONS, Amateur Radio, white space, spectrum, FCC, wireless
- Discussion threads 2008-11-05
- So about that election
- So about that electionwhat are you talking about?While the elitists and the teenagers are 'voting online' and blogging about marxist ideeas, we the real Americans are voting and taking this country in right direction.Tonight, I'll be watching TV and enjoy how Mac comes back and grabs the election from that...
- Tags: John McCain, Sarah Palin, Obama
- Discussion threads 2008-11-04
- Is George Ou right?
- Is George Ou right?Individualized drillIf every student must learn extensive details by rote, each student can work with a computer to learn at his own pace.Why the periodic table is considered important for all I'm uncertain. But so long as it must be learned, let the computer do the...
- Tags: PRODUCTIVITY, Workforce management, Jargon, Technolgy, computer, Facebook, tool, programming
- Discussion threads 2008-11-04
- Is George Ou right?
- Former ZDNet blogger, George Ou, is always good for a discussion of educational technology. As he wrote on my post yesterday ("Enough already with the Luddite schools"), I'm no luddite and I remember carrying an electric typewriter to a High School English class for a...
- Tags: Education, Software, Social Media, Teacher, Computer, George Ou, Classmate PC, Productivity, Christopher Dawson
- Blog posts 2008-11-04
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