So it seems that Stanford (a private university near San Francisco, California) is providing access to some lectures and such via the Apple iTunes music store. They've got a web site with more info.

Check out this map of education bloggers. I intend to go through the list to find others to add to the feeds here.

So Kentucky's giving old computers to their students. This seems like a pretty good idea to me, my 400Mhz/640MB laptop performs about as well as my dual 2.4Ghz/2GB workstation. I'm just mildly annoyed that Microsoft is given credit for being a "partner" in this project because they're providing $1.5 million dollars worth of software for these 2000 machines. That's means that a copy of XP and Office 2003 is worth $750. How generous. All of these machines had Windows installed on them to start with. Allowing people to install software doesn't actually cost Microsoft a penny. It's more generous that the state of Kentucky is training 2000 poor families to use XP and MS Office.

Lexmark is giving the project 800 color printers. You know, actual hardware. Stuff that costs money. I'd rant about how much I hate ink-jet printers because they're so expensive to run, but they're even giving away two replacement ink cartridges. This is valued at $88,000. Sure, that's probably an inflated retail price, but it's real stuff. And $88,000 to Lexmark is probably lot more than $1.5 million to Microsoft. Especially when you realize that Microsoft's gift cost them nothing.