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Tags: Arizona Educational Technology Plan
Online you may share your comments on the 2008 revision of the Arizona Long-range Strategic Educational Technology Plan through IDEAL. http://moourl.com/AZplan or https://sites.google.com/a/ideal.azed.gov/az-edtech-plan .
12-30-08 Minutes
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12-30-08
Note action items appear at the end of this page!
The meeting took place at Manuel’s restaurant at 1123 W. Broadway, Tempe. Alex called the meeting to order at 12:50 PM. Those present were Tim Dosenmagen, Michele Smith, Cindy Saint, Brad Boute’, Paul and Alisa Phillips, Alex Devereux, Bob Rosenberg, Bill Perry,Ted Christensen, Kameron Hawkins and Bobbie Kraver.
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GAZeL-A-Ganza Gala & Golf At The We-Ko-Pa Resort
Thu, 03/27/2008 - 7:49pm | 
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Bringing Laptops to Children in Arizona
May 1st, Gala, Radisson Fort McDowell Resort
May 2nd, Golf, We-Ko-Pa Golf Club
Sponsor Opportunities Available
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The Greater Arizona eLearning Association - with it's affiliation with the Global Literacy Foundation, a 501(c)(3), non-profit, charitable organization - is very proud to kick-off this year’s initiative to bring OLPC XO laptops to the schools in the greater Arizona marketplace. Our minimum purchase of these OLPC XO laptop computers has to be 100 laptops at $299 each, and we are going to do this with the proceeds from this event.
PURCHASE 100 LAPTOPS!
Please see gazel.us/golf for details.
Open Source is a Strategic Imperative
Techworld.com - London,UK
By Myles Burke, CIO UK The acquisition and deployment of open source
software is now a strategic imperative for UK business, according to
research released ...
http://www.techworld.com/opsys/news/index.cfm?newsID=9549&pagtype=all
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Open Source
Open source is a set of principles and practices that promote access to the design and production of goods and knowledge. The term is most commonly applied to the source code of software that is available to the general public with relaxed or non-existent intellectual property restrictions. This allows users to create software content through incremental individual effort or through collaboration.
Asus Eee PC - $200 Laptop For Everyone
"Back when he first introduced his grand dream to the world - improving education through Constructionism, personified in a laptop for every child to learn and play with - Nicholas Negroponte picked an amazing marketing meme to express his dream's affordability: "$100 laptop".
In doing so, Negroponte subverted his original idea in the minds of many. Gone was an educational tool for children. In its place was the idea of an adult computer for $100. So while the One Laptop Per Child team was focused on a primary school student-centric design, everyone else was thinking about teenagers and adults using low cost computers.
- Arizona SciTech Festival Jan. - Mar. 2012(Event)(Now)
- GAZeL Events Committee Feb. 9, 2012(Event)(5 days)
- GazeL Board Meeting Feb, 16, 2012(Event)(12 days)
