Roy Schestowitz wrote:
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> Microsoft motivates innovative teachers
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> | More than 40 U.S. teachers showcased ed-tech projects in national forum;
> | winners move on to world competition in Brazil
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> | The project's creators, teachers Harriet Armstrong and Autumne Streeval
> | of Columbus East High School in Columbus, Ind., took top honors at
> | Microsoft's U.S. Innovative Teachers Forum, held Aug. 17. Armstrong and
> | Streeval will travel to Brazil in November to compete in the software
> | giant's Worldwide Innovative Teachers Forum.
It would be even more innovative for Micosahft Corporation marketing
plops if they switched to using Linux and told all the teachers
and students its free and better for them than Micoshaft Corporation
products because Micoshaft and BSA are only interesting in labelling
kids and teachers as pirates after hooking them with their products.
Good things will happen if teachers and students innovated and used
GNU/Linux and GPL'd software everywhere.
> | "It is really an honor to have won the U.S. Forum," said Streeval, who
> | teaches social studies. "We are excited to go to Brazil to learn more
> | about what is going on in education on a global scale. Teachers often
> | struggle with similar challenges, even in very unique settings, but the
> | Worldwide Forum will allow us to collaborate and tackle obstacles
> | together."
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> | Armstrong, who teaches family and consumer science, added that she hopes
> | to return from Brazil with more ideas and connections to other teachers.
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> http://www.eschoolnews.com/news/top-news/index.cfm?i=60404
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> Those mobsters can't leave Brazil alone. Brazil committed the 'crime' of
> moving all schools to GNU/Linux.
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> Recent:
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> Computadores para 26 mil escolas
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http://portal.mec.gov.br/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=12185&Itemid=86
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> Related:
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> Deploying KDE [and Debian] to 52 million young people
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> | By the end of this year 29,000 labs serving some 32,000,000 students
> | will be fully deployed and in active use.
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> | By the end of next year (2009) those numbers will have swelled to 53,000
> | labs serving some 52,000,000 students.
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> http://aseigo.blogspot.com/2008/04/deploying-kde-to-52-million-young.html
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