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Open source tools in Secondlife – Meta Presenter

Chris — Tue, 13 May 2008 13:59:10 +0000

I’ve been thinking about useful tools for educators in secondlife. Meta Presenter is a simple, really easy to use tool for giving presentations. Its free and open source. Watch my Meta Presenter demo video on Youtube.

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Richard Stallman Cranking Dat Soulja Boy

Chris — Wed, 26 Mar 2008 20:01:04 +0000

lol.
Richard Stallman

The Worlds Best Desktop Environment Bery the 3D Desktop...
Virtual Worlds, Croquet, Secondlife, Opensim I’ve been exploring virtual worlds again, if you havent...

The Worlds Best Desktop Environment Bery the 3D Desktop...
Virtual Worlds, Croquet, Secondlife, Opensim I’ve been exploring virtual worlds again, if you havent...

The Worlds Best Desktop Environment

Chris — Tue, 06 Feb 2007 23:21:12 +0000

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When it comes to designing digital learning environments we need a powerful interactive multimedia system that allows the user to control the experience and pace through self-selected hypermedia. Software Libre operating systems serve the personal needs of the user rather than focusing the user’s attention on the machine. The strengths of the Software Libre desktop for education, research, productivity, or entertainment are that it’s imaginative, making possible various tasks that can not be accomplished in other desktops.

We also need an environment that fosters a culture of cooperation, collaboration and social interaction. The Software Libre learning environment is optimized to provide access to information and communication technologies, express our imagination and creativity, process information which can be freely studied, applied, copied and/or modified, by anyone, for any purpose and distributed through self organising connective knowledge amplification networks for a more productive society and the benefit of humanity.

The video above is a good example of these principles in action, you can:

Order a copy of Ubuntu through the mail
Download the Kororaa XGL LiveCD
Download the music used in the video
Download the animated movie(Elephants Dream) featured in the video
Participate in the above projects as a user and/or developer

A big thanks to Noiesmo for his help.

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Save the Planet, reuse old hardware with the best operating system

Chris — Tue, 06 Feb 2007 00:54:21 +0000

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Save the Planet by recycling and reusing old computer hardware with the best operating system GNU/Linux.In this video I show a range of hardware that’s a least 9 years old and how useful it is with the best operating system. The commercial computer market is largely driven by vendors seeking to sell new hardware and software. There is no commercial marketing benefit in promoting reuse. GNU/Linux doesn’t require big hardware, it’s very useful if you like or need to use old and small hardware.

I also briefly mention Treacherous Computing. so make sure you are aware of it.

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