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NECC 2006 Open Source in Education Podcasts
We’ll be podcasting interviews and presentations from the Open Source Pavilion at NECC 2006. You can subscribe to these podcasts and download them to your music player by using this link:...
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Open Source Interest High at NECC
The first news from NECC 2006 in San Diego is that educators are packing the Open Source Pavilion. It’s standing room only and that’s with a huge display area complete with lots of computers running...
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Day 1 NECC 2006 – Open source popular with schools…
Steve Hargadon, from TechnologyRescue.com did a great job lining up speakers and volunteers for this year’s NECC. The day started off with David Thornburg [When the Best is Free] running a game show...
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Learning With Blogs – NECC 2006 by Will Richardson
Click to play 51:52 minutes (23.75 MB) Will Richardson gave us a good introduction on using blogs in the classroom. Subscribe to K12OS NECC 2006 Podcasts
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NECC 2006 – Wikispaces.com by Adam Frey
3:00 minutes (2.06 MB) Adam Frey talks about wikispaces.com, a free wiki hosting site for K12 schools. Subscribe to K12OS NECC 2006 Podcasts necc 2006
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NECC 2006 SchoolTool by Tom Hoffman
8:41 minutes (5.96 MB) SchoolTool author Tom Hoffman tells us about the SchoolTool Project. Subscribe to K12OS NECC 2006 Podcasts necc 2006
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NewsForge Article: Brandon Elementary transformed by K12LTSP
I thought this was a great article. It shows how easy it is to rescue a school with older computers and how after one school sees K12LTSP in action, others follow. From the article, “Bottom line is the...
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NECC 2006 – Moodle Course Management System by Michelle Moore
7:58 minutes (5.47 MB) Michelle Moore from Remote-Learner.net is a Moodle master. She shares some Moodle info with us and gives a few hints of exciting features coming soon to a Moodle near you....
View ArticleLinux 15 years later…
Just 15 years ago Linus Torvalds, a Finnish computer student, posted this message to an Internet discussion group, “I’m doing a (free) operating system (just a hobby, won’t be big and professional like...
View ArticleWhy should public agencies support open source projects?
For some it’s obvious that public agencies should be using open source software solutions. We owe it to the tax payers to be good stewards of their money. When we can, we should use free software. But...
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