Update: Esta entrada está en Español en el blog de Caro Botero. Gracias! I find the MIT’s $100 Laptop project disturbing. For me there are too many open questions. I also found out that I am not only with my thoughts. Several other people are also rather critical with Mr Negroponte’s latest brainchild. Already last […]
This week we – our research group – were hosting a workshop with our partners from Estonia, Hungary and Norway(*. The developer workshop was organized to start a new software project. The software is called ToolBox. We have been working on it for some months already, but now it was time to get our hands […]
Last week at the Open Source for Education in Europe an ad-hoc group called "No e-Learning Patents!" was formed to start campaigning against any possible new European-wide software patent directive that would cover the patentability of software including also the area of e-learning and computer & network supported learning applications. The group "No e-Learning Patents!" […]
Back with a very good feeling from the NL, where the first Open source for Education in Europe conference took place. I got my hands full of little goodies to bring home. I picked up a few TheOpenCDs to bring home for Christmas, a Kubuntu installation Cd, and brochures produced by OSS Watch, which is […]
In Europe we have our own richness of different cultures, different monopolies and many forms of corruption. We also have the rather powerful pan European government – the European Commission – that is both regulating and supporting citizens and their businesses. To make your business successful around the continent you better do some lobbying in […]
A call for action on a common preemptive statement against possible European-wide software patents Europe is going to witness its first ever European wide conference on Open Source for Education. Very exiting, a lot of delegates have signed up, and prepared papers and presentations on local actions and programmes. (http://www.openconference.net/index.php?cf=3) The conference has allocated some […]
Some months ago I wrote about Made – tool – a software under development in my team. Today we released the tool (v 0.5), but with a new name: ImaNote. It is not primary a “learning tool” but it is a “social software” and there are many ways to use it in learning, too. I […]
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