Posts Tagged ‘education’
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How to learn Spanish online, fast, easy, free
Sunday, June 22nd, 2008
Time for another post on my How To series of learning foreign languages. This time, we set off to learn Spanish! Spoken as a native language by hundreds of millions of people around the world, second in numbers only to Mandarin Chinese. Today, Spanish is an official language in 21 countries.
After a little research, I [...] -
Give and Take, the $100 laptop
Sunday, September 30th, 2007
I’ve spoken about the One Laptop Per Child project before. It is a wonderful initiative founded by MIT’s Nicholas Negroponte. The goal is to promote world education by constructing affordable laptop PCs, best known as the $100 dollar laptops, and branded as the “XO laptops”, and delivering them to children in developing countries.
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Buy two $100 laptops, get one!
Wednesday, January 10th, 2007
The One Laptop per Child (OLPC) project featuring the Children’s Machine, $100 laptop has announced possibly making their product available to the public. The $100 laptop was announced in 2005 at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland. An initiative to build cheap yet fully functional laptop computers to be distributed to and used by [...]
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Podcast Wednesday
Thursday, September 21st, 2006
This week Podcast Wednesday is on a Thursday (been busy) and is about Education. Which is very important. And apparently does not have to be boring any more. The two Podcasts I picked for your this week are going to introduce you to information you may otherwise have never come across. All in a quite [...]
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How To Learn French Online, fast, easy, free
Thursday, August 10th, 2006
French is an official language in 30 countries world wide. It is a beautiful language to speak or listen to, and just because I speak it I thought others should speak it as well. How do you go about it though?
If you think self-study is something you can do, the following online resources will guide [...]
