"What Fifty Said
When I was young my teachers were the old.
I gave up fire for form till I was cold.
I suffered like a metal being cast.
I went to school to age to learn the past.
Now I am old my teachers are the young.
What can't be molded…"
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Maury Blair
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Maury Blair replied to Joel Cheuoua's discussion Are teachers the biggest obstacle to technology in education ?Maury Blair commented on Jessica Gonzales's video
21st Century Learners
"Coming from an admin's perspective I'd imagine the idea of opening up the school and the classroom to social media, student owned technology, etc must be mortifying to school district computer/network administrators whose job it is to make…"
Maury Blair replied to Steve Hargadon's discussion Introductions"Hi, I'm Maury Blair from Northwest Illinois. I'm an Information Technology professional and a parent of two children. Recently I've been looking at how I can use technology to enrich my kids' lives and I've had the…"
Maury Blair posted a blog postStill Waiting
Well, I'm still waiting for a company to offer up some outdated tablet pc's that I can use to put together a classroom environment. One of the reasons that I'd like to use a tablet pc is that I know that the digitizer works for the HP TC4200 in Ubuntu 9.10. Installing Xournal would give the students the ability to take freehand notes. Unfortunately there appears to be little in the way of instructional handwriting software or games for Linux.In the meantime, to borrow from DeForrest Kelly, I'm…See More
Maury Blair posted a blog postMy Edubuntu Journey Begins
It was about a month ago that my boss (and friend) approached me and told me that he was being sent to Kenya by the Salvation Army to help rebuild a school's roof. He also told me the headmaster of the church school asked if they could bring any computers along, even broken ones because the people in this area have never seen a computer before. In a week we had two donated laptops. John asked me if I would prepare them for the trip. Both computers had OEM Windows XP Licenses, but I just felt…See More
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- About Me
- Windows Admin/Tech with 10 years of experience. Until recently only a dabbler in Linux.
Current Linux distro: Edubuntu 9.10
Dream: to work full time taking computers to the disadvantaged and giving them tools they can use to pull themselves up.
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Still Waiting
Posted on April 26, 2010 at 6:25am 0 Comments 0 Likes
Well, I'm still waiting for a company to offer up some outdated tablet pc's that I can use to put together a classroom environment. One of the reasons that I'd like to use a tablet pc is that I know that the digitizer works for the HP TC4200 in Ubuntu 9.10. Installing Xournal would give the students the ability to take freehand notes. Unfortunately there appears to be little in the way of instructional handwriting software or games for Linux.
In the meantime, to borrow from…
Continue My Edubuntu Journey Begins
Posted on April 23, 2010 at 11:12am 0 Comments 0 Likes
It was about a month ago that my boss (and friend) approached me and told me that he was being sent to Kenya by the Salvation Army to help rebuild a school's roof. He also told me the headmaster of the church school asked if they could bring any computers along, even broken ones because the people in this area have never seen a computer before. In a week we had two donated laptops. John asked me if I would prepare them for the trip. Both computers had OEM Windows XP Licenses, but I just felt…
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