How can the laptop be used to play DVDs? I am sending the document below around the world and I would like to tell people how to use it to play them.<div> </div><div>Ken Hargesheimer</div><div> </div><div><div class="WordSection1"> <div style="text-align:-webkit-left"> </div> <div style="text-align:-webkit-left"> </div> GARDENS/MINI-FARMS NETWORK Workshops: USA - TX, MS, FL, CA, AR, NM, WA; México, Rep. Dominicana, Cote d’Ivoire, Nigeria, Honduras, Kenya, Malawi, Mozambique, Haití, England, Nicaragua, India, Uzbekistan, South Africa <a href="mailto:minifarms@gmail.com">minifarms@gmail.com</a> </div> <div class="WordSection2"> <div> <table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" hspace="0" vspace="0" width="644" height="40" align="left"> <tbody><tr> <td valign="top" align="left" height="40" style="padding-top:0in;padding-right:9.0pt;padding-bottom:0in;padding-left:9.0pt"> <div style="border:solid windowtext 1.0pt;padding:1.0pt 1.0pt 1.0pt 1.0pt"> Workshops in organic, no-till, permanent-bed gardening, mini-farming, mini-ranching, using drip or bucket drip irrigation, worldwide, in English & Español </div> </td> </tr> </tbody></table> </div> DVDS for Education and Training A CD holds 650 MB. The Bible is 1.4 MB. Therefore, a CD holds 464 copies of the Bible. A DVD holds 3,000 copies of the Bible. A dual layer DVD holds 6,000 copies of the Bibles. Just imagine what would happen if every school, church, village, library, etc in the bush of Africa, the jungles of Latin America and the mountains of Asia had a computer and DVD library. The internet is not necessary and is expensive in some areas. People can study for hours on a computer using DVDs with little or no cost. Thousands of DVDs are available on hundreds of subjects and many are free. I have farming DVDs. Whatever a person wants to learn is available on a DVD. HHTwebsite copier [free] can be used to download websites into a computer from the internet. Use CDburner XP [free] to burn to a DVD. 7B people are on the earth and 2B cannot read [400M in India. 2M in the USA] but they can be educated using video/audio DVDs. Blind and deaf people can be educated. Movies could be shown to the public for a fee to help with the cost. Rent it to people studying vocational DVDs. All computers operate internally on 12 v. Those without electricity use a computer, internally altered, to operate directly on 12 v. from a battery with a solar charger [email for instructions]. A pedal/powered generator can be used to charge the battery. This opens up a whole new way to teach. School in a Suitcase: <a href="http://winministries.org/website/index.php/nation2nation">http://winministries.org/website/index.php/nation2nation</a>, a religious group, has hundreds of schools in many countries; over 100 in Cuba. A person with a computer [operating on 12 v.], printer and DVD library can travel from place to place, on a schedule, to teach and train people. This is a very simple, inexpensive, effective way to educate children, youth and adults Use a bicycle or a bicycle and trailer for transportation. Mobile schools: Vietnam: Computer literacy is a luxury. The Dariu Foundation provides computer training to kids in remote villages using a mobile school equipped with computers, internet access and access to e-library containing DVDs in agriculture, animal feeding, etc. Not only kids but clients benefit from this school. Dariu.org India: <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/global-development/video/2011/sep/30/india-mobile-school-video">guardian.co.uk/global-development/video/2011/sep/30/india-mobile-school-video</a>. Kenya: Education for pastoralist communities. <a href="http://www.changemakers.com/educationafrica/entries/mobile-schools-basic-education-pastoralist-communities">changemakers.com/educationafrica/entries/mobile-schools-basic-education-pastoralist-communities</a> Ken Hargesheimer </div> <ul style="margin-top:0in" type="square"> <li class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="margin-bottom:10.0pt;text-align:justify;line-height:115%"><a href="http://curriki.org">curriki.org</a> [K-12]</li> <li class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="margin-bottom:10.0pt;text-align:justify;line-height:115%"><a href="http://www.world-virtual-school.com/">world-virtual-school.com</a></li> <li class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="margin-bottom:10.0pt;text-align:justify;line-height:115%"><a href="http://www.e-learningforkids.org/">e-learningforkids.org</a></li> <li class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="margin-bottom:10.0pt;text-align:justify;line-height:115%"><a href="http://www.inacol.org/">inacol.org</a></li> <li class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="margin-bottom:10.0pt;text-align:justify;line-height:115%"><a href="http://edublogs.org/">edublogs.org</a></li> <li class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="margin-bottom:10.0pt;text-align:justify;line-height:115%"><a href="http://www.hippocampus.org/">hippocampus.org/</a></li> <li class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="margin-bottom:10.0pt;text-align:justify;line-height:115%"><a href="http://nrocmath.org">nrocmath.org</a></li> <li class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="margin-bottom:10.0pt;text-align:justify;line-height:115%"><a href="http://www.oercommons.org/">oercommons.org/</a></li> <li class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="margin-bottom:10.0pt;text-align:justify;line-height:115%">Khanacademy.org [free courses. Can be downloaded on to DVDs and used anywhere]</li> <li class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="margin-bottom:10.0pt;text-align:justify;line-height:115%"><a href="http://www.icr.org/essentials/">icr.org/essentials</a> Creation science studies.</li> <li class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="margin-bottom:10.0pt;line-height:115%"><a href="http://www.olpcnews.com/">olpcnews.com</a> [laptop computers for children] </li> <li class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="margin-bottom:10.0pt;line-height:115%"><a href="http://one.laptop.org/about/mission">http://one.laptop.org/about/mission</a></li> </ul></div>