I've said it several times before: I want a netbook. An Asus Eee would be great, the HP MiniNote is a bit pricey but looks very slick, Dell's proposed netbook is still vaporware but worthy of excitement, and I'm still waiting for US OEMs to pick up...

Or else what? This isn't some bad gangster movie where the bad guys are going to break the kneecaps of e-readers that don't meet educational needs, right?

How many of you are a member of a Google or Yahoo group? They’re essentially listservs on steroids, but are easily managed by end users and you can invite as many people to participate as you’d like. This function has oddly been lacking from Google...

For a little while, I was excited about the prospect of an Apple tablet. No matter how big a fan I am of Ubuntu, from an educational perspective, it's not much of a stretch to see these as great 1:1 devices, assuming there was content to go with them.

It's almost 2010, after all. We should be able to handle some fairly straightforward database integration, shouldn't we?

Yesterday I wrote about a variety of problems cropping up in one of our Classmate PC deployments (a 30-computer rolling lab). I hadn’t had a chance to assess for myself, though, so I took a trip to the school today and looked over the computers with...