Re: [DDN] Erate Update

2006-07-17 Thread Miguel Guhlin
Ok, Bonnie, you've convinced me (not that I was that hard to convince anyways). I'm a K-12 public school district administrator in Ed-Tech. What am I supposed to do? Roll over and play dead? The current administration was voted in by Americans, people different in their beliefs than you and I. F

[DDN] UNCTAD report

2006-07-17 Thread Larry Press
Bonnie Bracy wrote Even within the high income nations, the digital divides exist: This is outlined in a new report, Published Thursday, 6 July, 2006 - 10:08 The Digital Divide Report: ICT Diffusion Index, 2005 (UNCTAD/ITE/IPC/2006/5) http://www.egovmonitor.com/node/6638 I wrote t

[DDN] TechSoup Stock: Nonprofit Grant Station Special Offer

2006-07-17 Thread Malin Coleridge
Here is another great promotion over at TechSoup. Check it out Due to the overwhelming popularity of the GrantStation event we held this past February, TechSoup Stock and GrantStation are pleased to make a special GrantStation offer available to the nonprofit community. For 8 hours on

[DDN] Nicholas Negroponte- ISTE NECC Speech- Teachers and Technology

2006-07-17 Thread BBracey
In a message dated 7/17/06 7:15:28 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > This is all awesome and you are truly heading in fantastic directions - but > the context of discussion is $100 laptops distributed to school students in > less developed countries. I doubt that most of these kids (or their > tea

RE: [DDN] Nicholas Negroponte- ISTE NECC Speech

2006-07-17 Thread Don Cameron
Bonnie Bracey Sutton writes: > I worry about extraordinary resources like those at the Exploratorium, > and at www.eotepic, and the use of and understanding of more than the > internet. Like the Forum on Nanotechnology, or > http://www.exploratorium.edu/nanoscape/forums.html. Hi Bonnie, This is

[DDN] UNDP-APDIP Releases Publication on Open Standards

2006-07-17 Thread Christine
== e-Primer on Free/Open Source Software: Open Standards Author: Nah Soo Hoe With a foreword by Peter J. Quinn (c) UNDP-APDIP, Elsevier, 2006, 62 pages ISBN-13: 978-81-312-0538-9 ISBN-10: 81-312-0538-X Find out more at

Re: [DDN] Nicholas Negroponte- ISTE NECC Speech

2006-07-17 Thread BBracey
In a message dated 7/16/06 5:07:41 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > > I read your comment as suggesting that teachers are incapable of technical > self-development due to extraneous factors (or have I misunderstood?). A lot > of the work we did with Telecentre's in the '90's involved working wit