Ed Tech Coast to Coast at NECC

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I had the opportunity to join Steve Burt, Will Richardson, Tim Wilson, and Tom Hoffman at NECC for a live recording or our occasional podcast Ed Tech Coast to Coast. Topics of discussion included the one laptop per child initiative, Open Source projects and potential, and really big schwag-bags.

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Aspen Ideas Festival

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Aspen Ideas Festival: This week a few members of the WC team are attending the Aspen Ideas Festival, a week-long convergence in Aspen, Colorado, packed with seminars and discussions geared toward generating productive conversation around some of the world's greatest challenges, and emerging solutions.... They point to the Aspen Ideas Festival, taking place in Colorado this week.

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July4us

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Over at We Are The Media, they are asking folks to document their July 4th experiences and tag them on Technorati with the tat: July4us. The video clips below are from July 4, 2004.

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Defenseless Trees and Shrubs...

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TED Blog: Majora Carter on TEDTalks

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Carter is the founder of Sustainable South Bronx, "an organization dedicated to community development and sustainable projects that create jobs, protect the environment and bring green spaces to the inner city..." It is a very inspiring and informative talk and fits in nicely with some of the work that our staff has been doing on sustainability issues with our partners from Portland State University.

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