West GA RESA Educational Technology Center

Last year’s winning students earned $21,000 in college scholarships.  Attention Georgia math, science and technology teachers:

A $40,000 online challenge proposed by the US government has been won by a team of researchers from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology - just hours after it was launched.
The Darpa Network Challenge, which took place on Saturday, offered a cash prize for the first group to successfully locate 10 large red weather balloons hidden at a string of secret locations across the US.

Find out more information about how you can enter your school inThe West GA Technology Fair to be held on January 29, 2010 at the The Centre for Performing & Visual Arts in Newnan. 
Deadline extended to Jan. 21st.  Get registered today! 
 

Open Source Victoria & The National Center for Open Source and Education has put together a book entitled Free Software for Schools.  The original can be found at http://www.lulu.com/content/286873.  I am also making it available here.

I recently asked a teacher whom our center loaned 20+ Dell Inspiron 4100 (aka, older) laptops loaded with Ubuntu Linux to reflect on her experience with them.  At the time I delivered the laptops to her, she was familar with Firefox, but had never heard of Ubuntu.  Below is her response (you may need to click Read more to see the rest):
 
 

There is now a link on the left-side menu entitled Other Useful Sites to the state's site for all things relating to the K-12 Network.  The address is http://gadoe.org/it.aspx?PageReq=ITStatewideNetworks

I have now figured out how to automate the creation of additional Moodle sites in a multi-site setup.  To do this, I will have a "site" that is used as a template for all future sites.  Once this template site is setup and configured to my liking I will then use the methods outlined on the official Moodle documentation site for Migrating a Complete Moodle site - Method 2... with one exception: I will perform these steps via a script.  Click on the Read more link to see the rest...

For about a year now I have been trying to figure out how to simplify the management of the Moodle sites that we host. As of now, to run nine sites takes nine separate installs of the Moodle software. This seems ridiculous since there is not any site-specific info stored inside Moodle’s installation directory. And now for the good news… I have figured out how to run multiple Moodle sites out of a single Moodle installation by utilizing symlinks and a modified config.php. Click the Read more link to see how I have done this.

This contest is strictly for math teachers. Submit a video of yourself teaching a math concept using Smart products and be entered into the contest to win a Smart Board. Visit this website for more details about what the contest is looking for. The deadline to submit your video is May 15, 2009.