Added a new link to weblogs list at the left: Fed Baradello's (who just finished the tough junior year at Redwood HS in Marin; congrats, Fed!). He told me today that, after ATDP (he's taking Bette Spagel and Tom Fletcher's A.P. Economics course) he'll be going to Peru for three weeks to help his dad set up this amazing business/educational venture, in his own words integrating technology into orphanages... It's an initiative called "Project Plata," which my dad at Motorola and the Discovery Channel have started.

Fed's dad is an executive at Motorola, Inc., and was responsible for getting Moto to fund a program in collaboration with Discovery Channel and the Peruvian government, to bridge the global digital divide, at least as it has to do with Peruvians and the rest of the world. Peru was chosen as a site for a pilot project, and this fall Fed is accompanying his dad to Peru to help out with tech and Internet stuff, as far as setting up a school site there for Internet access, and for local sustainable business efforts.

So anyway, in our online IM chat, I told Fed about Manila, and that how I thought it was an almost perfect technology to use for setting up the kind of Internet connectivity in a Peruvian school that Project Plata is setting out to do. So he immediately checked out freerad, and saw instantly how that could be. A half hour later, I had walked him through the basics and he's all set up. Fed will be using the log to let us all know how things are going with the Project Plata. stay tuned!

Fed was one of my students in the original Internet Classroom of 1996, as well as the following year's Advanced Internet Classrooms. Here are links to websites he created while at ATDP:

7th grade: Fed's Page of Links
8th grade: Bongo Burger
9th grade: A travelogue, trip to Argentina

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