(or titled “part 2 of the “hole in the wall” India literacy experiment post!”) Google announced yesterday that it’s launching the Google Literacy project to help spread literacy and provide resources and lots of other stuff for teachers, parents, mentors, students, and just regular people (with internet access) to help do so. While promoting literacy [...]
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Literacy, technology, Google, and India
05-Oct-06Google gives public domain books!
31-Aug-06I feel a tiny TINY bit bad for those awesome sites who’ve long maintained archives of public domain literature (Gutenberg, C.U.T., and this UK library to name a few), because now they’ve got some serious competition. But at the same time, now they don’t HAVE to maintain those libraries. They probably weren’t making a lot [...]
Google opened Writely!
24-Aug-06I don’t know why I didn’t see this before now (it’s been two whole days!) but, according to lots of news sources (news.google) google opened up Writely for general registration! I’ve been a really big fan of writely for probably six months now… BEFORE Google acquired them! A friend of mine and I wrote a [...]