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Posted on July 19, 2006August 1, 2006 by Aaron

A while back I decided that I didn’t have enough websites, so I made a blog that’s more or less pointless. Chris Craft had the same problem, but unlike me he decided to make a useful site.

Open Source Classroom is a blog and podcast about … well … open source software in the classroom. Chris chose the name for his project well.

Me, I just picked long words that were hard to spell. ;)

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