Posts Tagged ‘ education ’

Google Versus Microsoft: The Battle for the K-12 Cloud Contract

Google Versus Microsoft:  The Battle for the K-12 Cloud Contract

North versus South. Rural versus urban. Add to those delineations now, as schools and government agencies across the U.S. move to the cloud, Google versus Microsoft

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2011 Predictions: Audrey Watters

2011 Predictions: Audrey Watters

Editor's note : Every December the ReadWriteWeb team looks into the murky depths of the coming year and tries to predict the future. How did we do last year ? Well, Facebook didn't go public, Google Wave didn't make a comeback, and Spotify didn't make it to the U.S. But our forecasts for...

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In Depth: Linux in education: a genuine alternative

In Depth: Linux in education: a genuine alternative

Using free software in education is not just about saving money. It's also about preserving choice, not locking a student's experience into a certain way of doing something. With Linux, there's no vendor lock-in. Free software is more likely to be open-standards compliant, and it's going to be more open to different languages,...

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3 Predictions for Social Good in 2011

3 Predictions for Social Good in 2011

Geoff Livingston co-founded Zoetica to focus on cause-related work, and released an award-winning book on new media, Now is Gone , in 2007. The end of the year brings the wrapping up of crucial fundraising drives for many organizations. Looking back at events, several exciting developments occurred in the non-profit social media space....

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Learn HTML5, JavaScript and CSS With Mozilla’s Free “School of Webcraft”

Learn HTML5, JavaScript and CSS With Mozilla’s Free “School of Webcraft”

Mozilla is getting ready for the January semester of School of Webcraft, a 100% free developer training resource run in partnership with Peer 2 Peer University. Last semester, the School of Webcraft offered 15 classes; now, Mozilla is trying to get around 30 classes going for the January semester. Classes will be between...

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