Blog Juice for Educational Technology

Google has brought back their Summer of Code program for 2006. This is a program which pays college students to work on open source software projects. Most people found out about it this year after the news was posted last Thursday on Slashdot. I sent in an email yesterday (Wednesday) indicating SchoolTool’s interest, after discussing the matter with various stakeholders…

From the Cairns weblog: A team of students from New York Law School have teamed up with the Stupski Foundation to launch a new project initiative called Contract Commons… The Contract Commons Initiative seeks to improve public school education by providing contract agreement tools to public educational clients to enable them to engage with vendors and service providers at a…

Apple did the world a service in the mid ’90’s by funding the develoment of Squeak, which is conservatively described as a “media authoring tool” on its website. It is also an “idea processor,” a unique cross-platform learning and graphical programming environment, which is the basis of many equally interesting subprojects, like eToys and OpenCroquet. Apple also took the admirable…

While all the really cool geeks have assembled in Helsinki for DebConf (the Debian GNU/Linux conference), I’m in Genoa, Italy to present a paper on SchoolTool at the 1st International Conference on Open Source Systems. This is a cross-disciplinary academic conference bringing together folks from 26 countries to discuss modeling and quantitative studies of open source development processes, open source…