free software and education

https://proyectojuanchacon.blogspot.com/2016/01/creating-shared-partition-between.html Juan Chacon Free Software and Education Project: Creating a Shared Partition Between Ubuntu and... Now that I've removed Windows from my desktop computer at work, and installed Scientific Linux in its place (note: it was, Centos 7.2 with L... free software and education https://proyectojuanchacon.blogspot.com/2010/10/introducing-ubuntu-family-home-computer.html Juan Chacon Free Software and Education Project: Introducing the Ubuntu Family Home Computer I'm not sure if the good folks at Canonical even know what they've got, but thanks to the hard work of of the Ubuntu Sugar Remix (USR) tea... free software and education https://proyectojuanchacon.blogspot.com/2015/07/updating-firmware-on-my-pyboard.html Juan Chacon Free Software and Education Project: Updating the Firmware on my Pyboard Before I begin the post proper, an aside... Larry Cuban just made a wonderful blog post titled Fixing Schools Again, and Again in which ... free software and education https://proyectojuanchacon.blogspot.com/2013/02/sister-school-with-college-adja-penda-ba.html Juan Chacon Free Software and Education Project: Sister School with College Adja Penda Ba Children at Adja Penda Ba using their XO-1 The collaboration between the Arlington Career Center and College Adja Penda Ba continues ... free software and education https://proyectojuanchacon.blogspot.com/2009/05/no-rest-for-wicked.html Juan Chacon Free Software and Education Project: No reST for the wicked... As I dive headlong into the task of converting the Open Book Project materials from lore to reST , I'm getting a feel for what works and w... free software and education https://proyectojuanchacon.blogspot.com/2015/09/importing-osm-data-into-postgis-part-1.html Juan Chacon Free Software and Education Project: Importing OSM Data into PostGIS - Part 1 The PV Viability Map project seems to really be picking up some steam! Thanks to our good fortune in having David Winslow join us, we n... free software and education https://proyectojuanchacon.blogspot.com/2015/07/getting-started-with-josm.html Juan Chacon Free Software and Education Project: Getting Started with JOSM Today I completed the next lesson in the LearnOSM tutorial, which describes the installation process for JOSM, the Java 7 OpenStreetMap ed... free software and education getting started with juan chacon https://proyectojuanchacon.blogspot.com/2015/06/problems-with-media-files-in-librifox.html Juan Chacon Free Software and Education Project: Problems with Media Files in LibriFox and the Need... As I mentioned in my last post , Alex Hirschberg is working on a Firefox OS app to play audio books from LibriVox . While his "Summer of C... free software and education https://proyectojuanchacon.blogspot.com/2009/05/xos-in-el-salvador-update.html Juan Chacon Free Software and Education Project: XOs in El Salvador Update Good things are coming out of all the difficulties we have had getting the XOs out of customs in El Salvador: The community at Buena Vista h... free software and education https://proyectojuanchacon.blogspot.com/2016/01/starting-new-year-with-rhcsa-study.html Juan Chacon Free Software and Education Project: Starting the New Year with RHCSA Study During the Spring semester, I will be working with four students in a dual-enrolled (high school and college credit) course titled: ITN 17... free software and education https://proyectojuanchacon.blogspot.com/2016/01/installing-python-34-on-scientific-linux.html Juan Chacon Free Software and Education Project: Installing Python 3.4 on Scientific Linux I do a lot with Python in my cs program, and as an active member of the python community, I heeded the BDFL 's request years ago to make t... free software and education https://proyectojuanchacon.blogspot.com/2009/05/combating-restlessness.html Juan Chacon Free Software and Education Project: Combating reSTlessness My goal is to come up with as many bad puns as possible to use as post titles during my study of reStructuredText and Sphinx . Advanced Top... free software and education juan chacon project restlessness https://proyectojuanchacon.blogspot.com/2015/04/firefox-os-and-lowering-barrier-to.html Juan Chacon Free Software and Education Project: Firefox OS and Lowering the Barrier to Entry into... I'm recently returned from Pycon 2015 , and still feeling the energizing, rejuvenating effects of this annual pilgrimage to connect with a c... free software and education https://proyectojuanchacon.blogspot.com/2009/04/xubuntu-intrepid-on-sd-card.html Juan Chacon Free Software and Education Project: Xubuntu Intrepid on SD Card I've had an SD card since last December with Xubuntu Intrepid on it customized for the XO. I created it with these instructions. I've bee... free software and education https://proyectojuanchacon.blogspot.com/2014/04/end-of-course-reflection.html Juan Chacon Free Software and Education Project: End of Course Reflection Throughout my Higher Education in the Digital Age course I have maintained that a useful evaluation of the role technology plays in higher ... free software and education project end juan chacon https://proyectojuanchacon.blogspot.com/2015/08/mobile-happiness-with-firefox-os.html Juan Chacon Free Software and Education Project: Mobile Happiness with Firefox OS! As I described in a previous post back in mid June at the start of the LibriFox "Summer of Code", I am not as a rule an early adopter of ... free software and education https://proyectojuanchacon.blogspot.com/2014/02/higher-education-in-digital-age.html Juan Chacon Free Software and Education Project: Higher Education in the Digital Age I haven't written anything here since last June, not because I haven't been busy with free software and free education projects, but because... free software and education https://proyectojuanchacon.blogspot.com/2015/05/getting-started-with-lidar-data.html Juan Chacon Free Software and Education Project: Getting Started with LIDAR Data LIDAR , as I learned in my Geospatial Science Fundamentals course last Fall, is an active remote sensing technology that produces three d... free software and education getting started with https://proyectojuanchacon.blogspot.com/2015/09/ggs-692-web-based-gis.html Juan Chacon Free Software and Education Project: GGS 692: Web-based GIS I've just started my Fall semester graduate GIS course at George Mason University, GGS 692: Web-based GIS. This program continues to be ex... free software and education https://proyectojuanchacon.blogspot.com/2011/02/setting-up-new-ltsp-server.html Juan Chacon Free Software and Education Project: Setting Up a New LTSP Server Spring is coming, which is my favorite time of the school year. Between now and late May is when most of the work gets done. Students have... free software and education https://proyectojuanchacon.blogspot.com/2014/02/reflections-on-online-learning.html Juan Chacon Free Software and Education Project: Reflections on Online Learning Experiences This week in Higher Education in the Digital Age we were assigned the task of spending at least an hour in each of two online learning cour... free software and education https://proyectojuanchacon.blogspot.com/2009/04/xos-have-arrived.html Juan Chacon Free Software and Education Project: The XOs Have Arrived The UPS shipment arrived at ACC (Arlington Career Center -- http://www.careercenter.arlington.k12.va.us) yesterday, bringing it's payload of... free software and education juan chacon https://proyectojuanchacon.blogspot.com/2009/08/la-cooperativa-juan-chacon.html Juan Chacon Free Software and Education Project: La Cooperativa Juan Chacon "La Cooperativa Juan Chacon" was formed by demobilized combatants of the Salvadoran revolutionary army in 1994. As part of the peace proces... free software and education juan chacon project la https://proyectojuanchacon.blogspot.com/2010/03/turtleart-for-ubuntu.html Juan Chacon Free Software and Education Project: TurtleArt for Ubuntu A debian package for TurtleArt is now available for Ubuntu. The launchpad site has information on how to install it on the upcoming 10.04... free software and education juan chacon project ubuntu https://proyectojuanchacon.blogspot.com/2009/08/free-software-to-rescue.html Juan Chacon Free Software and Education Project: Free Software to the Rescue Due to a series of delays and mishaps, our planned two week program has turned into a one week program. Douglas warned that the existing ba... free software and education to the juan chacon project https://proyectojuanchacon.blogspot.com/2016/01/adding-virtualbox-guest-additions-and.html Juan Chacon Free Software and Education Project: Adding Virtualbox Guest Additions and Google... One effective strategy in preparing for the RHCSA certification is to spend as much time in a Centos environment as one can doing the kind... free software and education virtualbox guest additions https://proyectojuanchacon.blogspot.com/2009/05/resting-in-style.html Juan Chacon Free Software and Education Project: reSTing in Style Who says you can't teach an old dog a new trick. I'm starting to use reST for all my web markup needs. I want to style it, of course, so I... free software and education juan chacon project resting https://proyectojuanchacon.blogspot.com/2015/09/first-assignment-in-web-based-gis-class.html Juan Chacon Free Software and Education Project: First Assignment in Web-based GIS Class My first assignment for the Web-based GIS class has two parts: 1. Reading the first chapter of Spatial Databases: A Tour , by Shashi Shekh... free software and education https://proyectojuanchacon.blogspot.com/2015/10/a-geospatial-werewolf.html Juan Chacon Free Software and Education Project: A Geospatial Werewolf I've been contemplating a post with the tile "Seduced by the Dark Side - Or Why I Love My MacBook Air" . I decided not to devote a whole... free software and education juan chacon project geospatial https://proyectojuanchacon.blogspot.com/2014/04/khan-academy-promotes-women-in-computer.html Juan Chacon Free Software and Education Project: Khan Academy Promotes Women in Computer Programming I have been using Khan Academy with my math students with limited success for the past three years. The videos on Khan Academy are not usef... free software and education https://proyectojuanchacon.blogspot.com/2009/07/experts-weigh-in.html Juan Chacon Free Software and Education Project: The Experts Weigh-In We started the day yesterday by showing everyone in the Scratch (now really more Sugar) class how to install new Activities from the website... free software and education the experts juan chacon https://proyectojuanchacon.blogspot.com/2010/07/setting-up-schooltool-with-schooltool.html Juan Chacon Free Software and Education Project: Setting Up SchoolTool with The SchoolTool Book I just finished setting up SchoolTool for the GCTAA Summer program. I added a school year, then a term. I set up the timetable, then add... free software and education https://proyectojuanchacon.blogspot.com/2015/04/drawing-my-first-map-with-python.html Juan Chacon Free Software and Education Project: Drawing My First Map with Python I was able to use python to read data from a shapefile and generate a map of voter precincts in Arlington County, Virginia. Arlington Coun... free software and education https://proyectojuanchacon.blogspot.com/2011/03/getting-ready-for-edujam.html Juan Chacon Free Software and Education Project: Getting Ready for eduJAM! I'm still processing everything I learned in my annual pilgrimage to Pycon . If time allows I'll make a separate post listing some of the ... free software and education getting ready juan chacon https://proyectojuanchacon.blogspot.com/2012/02/lets-move-school-into-real-world.html Juan Chacon Free Software and Education Project: Let's Move School Into the Real World! In the twenty years I've been teaching high school, I can't tell you how many times I've heard from supervisors, curriculum specialists and... free software and education https://proyectojuanchacon.blogspot.com/2015/09/creating-lubuntu-custom-install-disk.html Juan Chacon Free Software and Education Project: Creating a Lubuntu Custom Install Disk for the... I'm a high school teacher in a lab full of Windows 7 machines, and it's just not working for me. I'm teaching Web Page Design I, which i... free software and education https://proyectojuanchacon.blogspot.com/2015/07/notes-from-section-21-of-manual-of.html Juan Chacon Free Software and Education Project: Notes from Section 2.1 of Manual of Airborne... Chapter 2 of the Manual of Airborne Topographic Lidar , titled "An Overview of ALS Technology", provides a broad introduction to the oper... free software and education https://proyectojuanchacon.blogspot.com/2009/09/making-custom-ubuntu-usb-live-stick.html Juan Chacon Free Software and Education Project: Making a Custom Ubuntu USB Live Stick with... Newer NOTE: It works again on lucid and maverick -- JE, Oct, 25, 2010. NOTE: While the process described below works on Jaunty, remastersys... free software and education https://proyectojuanchacon.blogspot.com/2016/01/setting-up-home-centos-7-server.html Juan Chacon Free Software and Education Project: Setting Up a Home Centos 7 Server I have a little Zotac Zbox server at home that I've been running for several years with Ubuntu server. It has a 500 GiB hard drive, 2 Gig... free software and education https://proyectojuanchacon.blogspot.com/2015/01/cambells-law.html Juan Chacon Free Software and Education Project: Cambell's Law I've had a gut feeling that the data driven decision making that has become the mantra guiding our educational practice in US schools these... free software and education juan chacon project cambell https://proyectojuanchacon.blogspot.com/2014/10/server-side-includes.html Juan Chacon Free Software and Education Project: Server Side Includes I have a fantastic group of students in my afternoon Advanced Topics in Information Technology class this year. Its been a long time since ... free software and education project server juan chacon side https://proyectojuanchacon.blogspot.com/2012/02/there-is-no-stopping-learning-when.html Juan Chacon Free Software and Education Project: There is no stopping learning when the motivation... This past week was a reminder both of why I still love being a teacher after twenty years working in schools, and of the sad truth that it i... free software and education https://proyectojuanchacon.blogspot.com/2015/07/photo-voltiac-viability-map-ii.html Juan Chacon Free Software and Education Project: Photo Voltiac Viability Map II In a previous post I described installing the Photovoltaic Viability Map server software. I got the point where the 'make run' script was ... free software and education https://proyectojuanchacon.blogspot.com/2015/07/a-fun-first-experience-with-learning.html Juan Chacon Free Software and Education Project: A Fun First Experience with Learning OpenStreetMaps OpenStreetMap is the Wikipedia of geospatial information. It is a vast map of the world editable by anyone with an account, and like othe... free software and education https://proyectojuanchacon.blogspot.com/2016/01/installing-virtualbox-on-centos-7.html Juan Chacon Free Software and Education Project: Installing VirtualBox on Centos 7 Last post I described how to install VirtualBox Guest Additions on Centos 7. Since we are now running Centos 7 as the host operating syst... free software and education https://proyectojuanchacon.blogspot.com/2009/06/manos-la-obra-con-xhtml.html Juan Chacon Free Software and Education Project: Manos a la obra con XHTML Manos a la obra con XHTML is now available on the web. Paco and Angela finished it yesterday evening, and I posted it last night. My son,... free software and education https://proyectojuanchacon.blogspot.com/2015/08/tools-for-visualizing-lidar-data-i.html Juan Chacon Free Software and Education Project: Tools for Visualizing Lidar Data I LidarViewer A friend of mine recently sent me a link to an article on opensource.com titled Manipulating data in 3D with LidarView... free software and education https://proyectojuanchacon.blogspot.com/2015/07/photo-voltiac-viability-map-i.html Juan Chacon Free Software and Education Project: Photo Voltiac Viability Map I This is a follow up to my previous post titled Getting Started with LIDAR Data written on the 6th of May. I'll be building on the project... free software and education https://proyectojuanchacon.blogspot.com/2013/06/what-does-civic-hacking-curriculum-look.html Juan Chacon Free Software and Education Project: What Does a "Civic Hacking" Curriculum Look Like? I'm sitting here at the National Science Foundation in Arlington, Virginia, participating in the National Day of Civic Hacking . What is c... free software and education https://proyectojuanchacon.blogspot.com/2016/02/text-processing-and-unix-history.html Juan Chacon Free Software and Education Project: Text Processing and Unix History Preparing for the RHCSA certification is turning out to be a heap of fun! Despite more than 20 years as a free software activist and pers... free software and education text processing juan chacon https://proyectojuanchacon.blogspot.com/2014/04/elearning-1.html Juan Chacon Free Software and Education Project: eLearning 1 For the last several weeks of my Higher Education in the Digital Age course, I have been tasked with investigating and writing about a curr... free software and education juan chacon project elearning https://proyectojuanchacon.blogspot.com/2011/02/sugar-labs-dc-plan-for-2011.html Juan Chacon Free Software and Education Project: Sugar Labs DC Plan for 2011 At the monthly meeting of the OLPC Learning Club DC on Saturday, January 22nd , we had the chance to discuss goals for Sugar Labs DC for... free software and education https://proyectojuanchacon.blogspot.com/2015/01/apache-cordova-development-environment.html Juan Chacon Free Software and Education Project: Apache Cordova Development Environment Setup on... This is my "Happy New Year" post. I had a goal over Winter break to find a process my students could use to setup an Apache Cordova develop... free software and education https://proyectojuanchacon.blogspot.com/2009/11/feelin-launchpad-luv.html Juan Chacon Free Software and Education Project: Feelin' the Launchpad Luv! The screenshot above shows Scratch running natively on Ubuntu Karmic . There is a Scratch in Launchpad web page that greatly simplifies... free software and education the launchpad juan chacon https://proyectojuanchacon.blogspot.com/2010/10/ejabberd-it-sure-is-nice-when-it-just.html Juan Chacon Free Software and Education Project: ejabberd: It sure is nice when it "just works"! (Note: Evening after the original post -- Oops! I was dead wrong about our ejabberd server "just working". It turns out that Sugar machin... free software and education https://proyectojuanchacon.blogspot.com/2015/07/notes-from-chapter-1-of-manual-of.html Juan Chacon Free Software and Education Project: Notes from Chapter 1 of Manual of Airborne... My Summer GIS independent study through George Mason University , GGS 698 : Urban Mapping with LIDAR involves two parts: A theoretical pa... free software and education

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