Saturday, October 28, 2006

Getting Open Source Software into Schools: Strategies and Challenges - Gary Hepburn and Jan Buley, Innovate This article focuses on the sociopolitical aspects of implementing open source software (OSS) in schools. Supporters of such implementation make a compelling case for OSS based on the clear advantages it offers over commercial applications[~]advantages such... Source: http://people.uis.edu/rschr1/onlinelearning/2006/10/getting-open-source-software-into.html If you no longer wish to receive message like this, please contact the sender. Try Google Reader today: http://www.google.com/reader/ 10:19:06 AM      Google It!.

Announcing The Blogging Scholarship We are proud to announce the launch of The Blogging Scholarship. UPDATE: We are offering bloggers a $5,000 scholarship annually. Requirements: Your blog must contain unique and interesting information about you and/or things you are passionate about. No s... Source: http://people.uis.edu/rschr1/onlinelearning/2006/10/announcing-blogging-scholarship.html If you no longer wish to receive message like this, please contact the sender. Try Google Reader today: http://www.google.com/reader/ 10:17:58 AM      Google It!.

Dartmouth Biomedical Libraries October Conference - RSS Panel By Meredith Farkas Feed2JS allows you to display content from an RSS feed on any Web page or course management system. They used Feed2JS to put library news content into Blackboard and actually trained faculty on how to use it themselves to syndicate ... Information Wants To Be Free - http://meredith.wolfwater.com/wordpress/index.php 9:43:17 AM      Google It!.

Firefox 2 Downloads Top 2 million in 24 Hours. linuxci writes "Firefox 2.0 has had over two million downloads in 24 hours with a peak rate of over 30 downloads a second. This means Firefox is well on track to beat IE7's three million in four days. Of course stats don't equal users but it's interesting to see that the demand for Firefox is currently outstripping IE." [Slashdot] 9:25:05 AM      Google It!.