A Historian and His World : A Life of Christopher Dawson (Library of Conservative Thought)
ZD Net (Free subscription) | 09/28/2009
I started wondering, not long ago, if my fictional education aggregator, Dawson's School of Online Learning (DSOL, pronounced Dee-Sole, for short, since every school has to have a good acronym) was such a great idea. How would I feed if one of my own kids decided to go there instead...
The British Nationalist (Free subscription) | yesterday
... reconstituted in a new organisation which is as artificial and mechanical as a modern factory. Christopher Dawson. Enquiries into Religion and Culture, p. 259. What is the Frankfurt School? Well, in the days following the Bolshevik Revolution in Russia, it was believed that workers’ revolution would sweep into Europe and, eventually, into the United States. But it did not happen....
Open Source (Free subscription) | 11/02/2009
Anyone seeking a case study of how a proprietary software company can “embrace and extend” itself into the open source world should stop thinking Microsoft and start thinking Blackboard . (Picture from the University of Alaska. Bonus points if you find a link to Russia from the site.) Blackboard has a long-running feud with open source , ably chronicled by our own Christopher Dawson ....
ZD Net (Free subscription) | 10/30/2009
October 29th, 2009 Remember when FrontPage seemed pretty slick?Posted by Christopher Dawson @ 10:16 pmCategories: Tags: , , , , , , , , Well, maybe you don’t. But the idea of a WYSIWYG HTML editor was more than a little exciting before the Web completely exploded. Now, of course, the Web has completely exploded. Over and over. Through booms and busts, until it’s at least peripherally...
ZD Net (Free subscription) | 10/29/2009
October 29th, 2009 Ubuntu 9.10 = easiest, cheapest upgrade everPosted by Christopher Dawson @ 10:42 amCategories: Tags: , , , , , , , , , My budget manager has already told me to be really conservative as I begin the FY11 budgeting process. I have a few sacred cows and some key line items that I know will be funded, but those Windows 7 upgrades I was looking at? Ummm, yeah…I’m not looking...
ZD Net (Free subscription) | 10/27/2009
And I don't just mean for geeks. I mean a real, viable alternative to Windows for many users despite the apparent quality of both Windows 7 and Server 2008. by Christopher Dawson
ZD Net (Free subscription) | 10/22/2009
Sure, it's a nicely polished operating system. But hand it to anyone under the age of 25 and the only question they'll ask is "where's the web browser?" by Christopher Dawson
ZD Net (Free subscription) | 10/20/2009
What I'm really wondering is if Moore's Law can hook me up with a lot more bang for my buck than I got almost three years ago at the beginning of one of our lease cycles. Not once did I mention Apple during last night's musings. by Christopher Dawson
ZD Net (Free subscription) | 10/21/2009
October 20th, 2009 Hannah Montana's good, but Ubuntu Kidsafe would be betterPosted by Christopher Dawson @ 9:25 pmCategories: Tags: , , , , , , , , , Leave it to fellow blogger, , to highlight for us. One day he’s and the next he’s, well, Hannah’s biggest fan.However, removing my tongue from my cheek, Jason brings up a great point: While I initially suggested that Senior Citizens or netbook...
ZD Net (Free subscription) | 10/20/2009
... educators know a lot more about deploying Linux to children than I do, like our own blogger, Christopher Dawson, who’s written about the topic extensively.However, I do know a little bit about what’s at stake. Deploying Linux in an educational environment has a lot of considerations and pitfalls, particularly as it pertains to controls and how the software would be integrated into...
ZD Net (Free subscription) | 10/14/2009
Where the users Michael Dell discussed see a screen that is 4 or 5 inches too small, kids see a footprint that fits on their desks or in their laps. Where Michael Dell sees a cramped keyboard, kids see a keyboard that fits their hands. by Christopher Dawson
ZD Net (Free subscription) | 10/13/2009
Is the downward push of prices on "real laptops" going to make netbooks irrelevant where they once appeared to be the answer to sustainable and realistic 1:1 efforts? by Christopher Dawson
ZD Net (Free subscription) | 10/09/2009
October 8th, 2009 Goodbye, Works!Posted by Christopher Dawson @ 9:26 pmHow many of you have received files from students (or even teachers’ home computers) and been unable to open them because they’re in Works format? Sure, there’s a , but it’s one more thing to install on the computers you manage and doesn’t help if you’re using a Mac, Linux, or Google Apps. Of course, since it’s pre-installed...
ZD Net (Free subscription) | 10/05/2009
I'll be honest: I actually like Windows 7. However, Ubuntu has something going for it that Windows 7 doesn't: Netbook Remix NBR, especially in its Karmic Koala incarnation. by Christopher Dawson
ZD Net (Free subscription) | 09/30/2009
"But I already know how to make a website," you say. And that's probably true. It's also quite likely that the teachers you support don't. Which is why Weebly's launch of education-centric tools is significant. by Christopher Dawson
