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Final chapter looms for textbooks in Texas
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| Textbooks could be going the way of slide
| rules and Big Chief tablets within a few years
| in Texas classrooms.
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| State legislation passed in the spring could
| put up-to-the-minute instructional content at
| students fingertips â either online or in
| customized printed form â eliminating the
| mass-market hardback textbook.
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| The sea change could happen sooner rather than
| later, beginning as early as the 2010-11
| school year.
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http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/ap/tx/6734021.html
Recent:
Texas Group Brings Linux Computers Home
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| In 2008, The HeliOS Project built, placed and supported 329 computers where
| they were needed. Sometimes it was necessary to travel over 100 miles to do
| it. Admittedly, 329 computers doesnât sound like much. Not many at all in
| the scope of things. That is until you take into consideration one relevant
| fact.
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| It was done almost exclusively by one man. One guy in a a beat up old Isuzu
| Rodeo with questionable braking ability and over a quarter million miles on
| itâthatâs averages out to 1 computer installed in a childâs home every 26.6
| hours in a yearâs time.
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http://www.heliosinitiative.org/blog/?p=3
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