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Innovative Uses for Educational Technology Funds?

Posted by Cliff on from the spending-someone-else's-money dept.

RumGunner asks: "I work for a university, and we have a special 'technology' fee that is charged to students, intended to be used for focus on new technology of direct benefit to students either in the classroom or related educational/learning activities. Every semester there is a request for proposals on how to spend this money, and for the most part these proposals are fairly lackluster. Since I know there are a lot of .GOV and .EDU readers on Slashdot, I'm curious to see if anyone has any good ideas for large (or small) scale applications of new technology for the benefit of students?"

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  1. Multipule T3 by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    T3's = More Gnutella = More Porn = Happy Comp Science Students

  2. Re:Well, students will always abuse that... by Mike+Mentalist · · Score: 0, Funny

    Please use your First Posts in an altogether more proactive and constructive way.

    Suggestions;

    1) Say 'frist psot'
    2) Say 'w00t!'
    3) Link to the Goatse Geezer
    4) Spout a paragraph of crap, with these words included in it - 'niggaz', 'motherfukka', and 'rulez'.

    --
    I put my books on Amazon, Smashwords, Demonoid, ISOHunt and Pirate Bay. Search for 'Michael Cargill'
  3. i know... by fringd · · Score: 2, Funny

    spend the money upgrading all the machines to the latest version of windows! i think xp only costs $500 per license, but you could probably still exaust all your funds by paying microsoft.

    my friends are really right. microsoft just "get's the job done." i mean really, if we were installing linux, we'd still have truckloads of money unspent. waste is the silent killer...