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I have 3 presentations at this year's Tennessee Educational Technology Conference. Click the "read more" link to find out more about them.

The Washington Post has a story about Asustek Jumping on to the $100 Laptop bandwagon with their own Low-Price laptop. This one is $200 or up to $300 for more stuff. Like MIT's offering this one will run Linux. It's great that so many people are working to equip kids in 3rd world countries with laptops since all the kids in the U.S. already have ubiquitous access to computers.

Microsoft goes low-cost in India, or so the headline reads. They're going to start selling PC's in India for $500! That's really impressive. Or is it?

So C|Net says that One in three teens bullied online. I guess this is supposed to sound pretty horrible. Better not let kids online. Oh, wait, the kids say that they're more likely to be bullied face-to-face. It seems like when people are online they act a lot like, well, people.

In a shocking article in the Boston Globe we learn that handwriting is becoming more of an "art form" and that because NCLB and computers we are short-changing students from this important skill.

Well, I don't normally post personal stuff here, but this is pretty funny. I sent these pictures of my dog Thor and his cat, Modi, to a friend of mine who works at a TV station. Yes. My dog has his own web site. Now he's a TV star.

Couros linked to Forty Foundations for the future of Open Source.

The International Herald Tribune has a story about MIT's so-called $100 Laptop initiative. It's looking pretty cool, and I believe that there's not much that kids (or most adults, really) need to do that such a machine won't be able to do.

eSchool News has an article called A paradigm shift for school software?I told you so.

This article from the Washington Post (may require registration) says something about multitasking being harmful. I guess. I don't really know. I was listening to Steve Earle at the time, so I really couldn't concentrate on it.