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Weekly Mexican Education Round Up
LucÃa GodÃnez/EL UNIVERSAL 1. Vazques & Gordillo meet On this weeks happenings, always scary Elba Esther Gordillo, Leader of the Mexicans teachers Union, and self proclaimed Queen of Omicron Persei VIII (not really) joined Josefina Vazques Mota, Secretary of Education in a traditional assembly of the scholar cycle startup.
Continue reading...Colin Brayton on Enciclomedia:
Sunday, May 13, 2007
Today I Stumbled Acrross NMM Business Continuity. It is maintain by Colin Brayton an excellent social journalist.Colin has a great deal of hand picked resources regarding lots of topics, i personally got there following some Enciclomedia links: Section 22 of the SNTE in Oaxaca is demanding to know what happened to 4,142 Enciclomedia “digital chalkboards†in [...]
Continue reading...From Information to Innovative Knowledge
Thursday, May 10, 2007
From Information to Innovative Knowledge Cristobal Cobol, sent me this new course (click here for brochure) offered by FLACSO in collaboration with University of Minnesota. The main objective of the course is to form savvy managers in Knowledge Management, through problem solving and innovation analysis to promote lifelong learning. The course will be offered in both Distant and [...]
Continue reading...Ay no mame usted !
Friday, May 4, 2007
(con la pena verdad) translation: (aw c’mon don’t fuck around) I’m sorry guys, really, but this news is simply either hilarious or really sad… So it goes that now Mexican Telecommunication Monopoly “Telmex” has complained against the Telecommunications Regulation Office, saying that the cable companies forbid them to enter the “Triple Play” game and its unfair business. They [...]
Continue reading...Mexico: One computer per gun
Friday, April 27, 2007
I just read at This Wacky World (Este Mundo Loco) that Mexico City will be giving away computers for each gun they bring in to the Ministry of Public Security. Such program is enabled by the cooperation of Secretary of Public Security of the City, Ministry of Defense and the one and only….(drums rolling) Microsoft [...]
Continue reading...black gold movie in monterrey
Sunday, March 4, 2007
Just for the record, i love starbucks espresso & macchiato… when ur done with this post take a look at ambulante Black Gold Multinational coffee companies now rule our shopping malls and supermarkets and dominate the industry worth over $80 billion, making coffee the most valuable trading commodity in the world after oil. But while [...]
Continue reading...California Saving at least USD$400M with Open Knowledge
Wednesday, February 28, 2007
Using the wikemedia software, California Department of Education is saving tons of money by using open knowledge. They provide with opensource textbooks to solve multiple problems they had in the past. This is a GREAT lesson to Mexican Education Department, which still lack of sustainable way to keep an updated curriculum. And provide with copy right [...]
Continue reading...The french say we might not be so crazy after all.
Wednesday, February 7, 2007
So it turns that the french goverment will give 175,000 USB sticks to high schools students in Paris. Such Sticks will be stuffed with Opensource Software. They will invest aprox US$ 3.4 million dollars. “Its a way to reduce the digital divide” said spokesman Jean-Baptiste Roger. Now we know that México is not a only one of [...]
Continue reading...Footnote discussion service
Friday, January 26, 2007
so after using A LOT of my ITESM Library Account, i started to get bored of the same interface, so i went to search for new investigatin tools. but please, i still think their library is a great source of reference, with so many databases and over five million dollars spent on content there is [...]
Continue reading...result of hardware donation
Wednesday, August 30, 2006
Last week we recieved some hardware donation 1.- really old compaq presario 1200 64 ram 6 GB drive 1 usb port USD$65 ($95 if you get lucky) 1.- 10/100 pcmia ethernet card 1.- temp borrow of a microsoft sidewinder (so old it doesnt have a model) We loaded some opensource toys on it, ubuntu zsnes, and some other goodies. The final product was a portable SNES replacement with several hundrends of game.
Continue reading...- Urban Agriculture
- hjbarraza: I demand hackability
- Supercool School Introducation
- Guerrilla Gardening
- Moonjar v2.01
- hjbarraza: @ronier puedes decir a gabby que lo estamos esperando en libeko ?
- hjbarraza: mhhh I like an empty mail inbox, and a full rss reader inbox
- hjbarraza: While my white friends live in L.A., California; if i moved there i would live in L.A, Mexifornia JA !
- hjbarraza: Has anyone noticed how beautiful the sunlight between 8:00 and 9:00 and 5:30 to 6:30 is ? (or is it just me? ja !)
- hjbarraza: @gabrielsaldana after this week ill start charging to sign any NDA. This is an insane NDA Signing Galore
- Carta Abierta a Felipe Bracho (11)
- Comming Up Next (5)
- Mexico: One computer per gun (4)
- Hacking Coda: Coda CodeIgniter Edition (4)
- OLPC XO vs Classmate (4)
- News from Baghdad (3)
- eduCommons 2.2.0 (3)
- Re: Creativity needed in finding access solutions for rural Mexico (3)
- RE: Porque los bloggers alguna vez fuimos niños… (3)
- Smoother Public Transport Network (republished) (3)
- my favourite robot companions
- Diplomado: Historia y Crítica de la Arquitectura Mexicana Contemporánea
Asides 
hjbarraza: @tom4cam probably someone in the social media classroom community already is http://tinyurl.com/4jp7hd
hjbarraza: im going back to preschool !!!
hjbarraza: So, how is everyone feeling today ?
hjbarraza: y que me levantan los truenos a las 6 am
hjbarraza: @chicaregia jajaja no entendi lo reporte indigo !
hjbarraza: Just recieved a new book from amazon ! : )
hjbarraza: @eliastorre in the south, you can go to electrolabo.com in the north its better to go to the border. in which city are you ?
hjbarraza: Google won’t search for Chuck Norris because it knows you don’t find Chuck Norris, he finds you.
hjbarraza: finally reading “Physical Computing: Sensing and Controlling the Physical World with Computers” arduino fun for me http://tinyurl.com/2osup7
hjbarraza: Zombie Fest @ Mty, Mx, YEEEEEEEEEEEIIIII
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Tuesday, August 21, 2007
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