ETech 09: Mary Lou Jepsen, "Low-Cost, Low-Power Computing"

http://en.oreilly.com/et2009/public/schedule/detail/7688

Actions and Activities:

• Purchase and promote OLPC: http://laptop.org/en/

These TED talks ignited - drove me to purchase the OLPC XO's for my 2008 charitable donation.  I bought 6 for my classroom.  The students love them . . . and with the knowledge that for every one bought, another one went to a child in another country.  Their faces in the following slide show tell the story better than my words can

Discovery's OLPC Journey on PhotoPeach

. . .  and they have witnessed a concrete example of a teacher not only preaching, but practicing, global stewardship (Jackie).