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OLPC and Sugar: Mobility through the Community
This article was first published in October 2009 by interdisciplines.org (now defunct). Philosophers like to question language When I think about "mobility", my mind turns into a TV screen with this advertisement: a beautiful girl on a boat, updating her twitter status from her android-based smartphone. No wire. No keyboard. No sitting. The ad goes on and says: "Connected from everywhere, with everyone." Now, when I think of what "mobility" could have meant for Alan Turing, I guess it would have referred to the mobility of the various parts of the computing machine, as described in his 1937 paper2.
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The ICT revolution in education hasn't happened yet
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Web and Education: What Really Matters?
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OLPC: Feedback from Haiti in 2008
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OLPC: Communities and Collaboration
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Emacs Org's plain lists
Playing with lists in Org Mode Org is great at handling plain lists - see the section about plain lists in the manual. This small screencast demonstrates a few things you can do with them. This is with GNU Emacs 23.0.94.2 and Org 6.27trans. Here is the list of features I demonstrate: convert a plain list from itemize to numbered re-order the items in this list show how numbers are automagically updated add a checkbox to some items of the list add a [ ] cookie to the headline above and update it replace the [ ] cookie with a [%] and update it export the list contained in the region into HTML The good news is that all these features are also available in other mode like message-mode, thanks to the orgstruct-mode minor mode (see the manual about orgstruct-mode.
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Emacs Org's Column View (tutorial)
A short introduction to Org's column view. Introduction: the default column view First press C-c C-x C-c to show the default column view. It turns each outline item into a table row displaying some of its properties. You can switch the column view off and return to the normal view by pressing `q' while the cursor is on the highlighted entry – but you can turn the column view on from any location in the buffer.
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