Interest based learning FTW! :-) <div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Jun 20, 2013 at 10:53 AM, Sameer Verma <<a href="mailto:sverma@sfsu.edu" target="_blank">sverma@sfsu.edu</a>> wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">An interesting anecdote from Bhagmalpur, India (<a href="http://bhagmalpur.wordpress.com" target="_blank">http://bhagmalpur.wordpress.com</a>) We just turned on the Internet two weeks ago (thx to Anish Mangal and Kartik Perisetla), but power has been largely missing. The server and Wi-Fi paraphernalia lives at my uncle's house. The kids miss the access a lot. So, eventually they pooled money, bought a liter of Diesel and showed up at my Uncle's house, asking him to run the generator, so that they could get on the Internet! What have we done! :-) cheers, Sameer -- Sameer Verma, Ph.D. Professor, Information Systems San Francisco State University <a href="http://verma.sfsu.edu/" target="_blank">http://verma.sfsu.edu/</a> <a href="http://commons.sfsu.edu/" target="_blank">http://commons.sfsu.edu/</a> <a href="http://olpcsf.org/" target="_blank">http://olpcsf.org/</a> <a href="http://olpcjamaica.org.jm/" target="_blank">http://olpcjamaica.org.jm/</a> _______________________________________________ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) <a href="mailto:IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org">IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org</a> <a href="http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep" target="_blank">http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep</a> </blockquote></div>