Tag: Kinderlappy
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Netbooks – Future or folly…
Over the past few days, I’ve been putting an Asus 1005 HA through it’s paces and I must say that I’m impressed with it – with a few caveats. When I got it, the first thing I did was ditch XP Home for Win7 Enterprise. Yes, a 1Ghz Atom with 1GB RAM ran the big…
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Intel’s Classmate PC/Laptop/Netbook is almost here
It’s been almost a year since there was any big news in the kinderlappy/UMPC front. But now Intel has released a pre-production model – and while small, it seems like it is going to be a real geek pleaser. Schools might be willing to pay the slight premium for it’s ruggedized body: The 2go tablet…
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OLPC Hospitals
I finally got to see one of the XO machines last week in a community of practice meeting and it sparked quite a bit of conversation. Some of the points that came up included… well what happens when they break down? Well it seems that not only are the kids learning about and with what…
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When the media is the message – warning brain dump
Clark, Mcluhan and many others have being promoting ideas about media and message for a while now, but one thing that often gets overlooked (not by these two necessarily) the fact that there is a large cultural loading aspect involved in the delivery of messages. We see it everyday as we, in the developed world,…