December 2009
La Carpio Slum
Submitted by msanchez on Tue, 12/01/2009 - 15:20La Carpio has no known internet connectivity, partly because of major lack of resources but also because of geographical isolation. It is actually within the capital city of Costa Rica, but because it's a slum built around a garbage dump, it is nicely isolated from surrounding areas by a river on each side, a garbage dump on the third, and the only way in and out is a thin road on a sort of peninsula.
Our partnering with the missionary Steve Edwards who has been serving that isolated community for the last five years, has shaped the Christian impact in that poor area.
A computer lab is already in place and running, installed in August 2008. Steve, the missionary there, has been using the lab almost exclusively to allow kids to use. However, with little supervision, the lab has been largely just an arcade. This has also served to open up the lab to become a nice dish of viruses.
DEScribe 1.2.5 Release
Submitted by thetrick on Mon, 12/07/2009 - 13:05MAF-LT is excited to announce a new release of DEScribe! DEScribe is a course authoring application that supports exporting to DEViewer. This release of DEScribe includes several smaller enhancements:
- Added a selected icon to the cascading style sheet display in the metadata tree. This is useful if a package contains multiple css files.
- The styles in the cascading style sheet are now automatically displayed in the WYSIWYG drop-down styles menu.
- Added the list of panes under the Windows menu item. Each pane can be shown or hidden from this menu.
- Added additional file types to the file-type selector in the insert images and resources dialog box
A set of completed tickets for this release is located on the DEScribe Trac site for release 1.2.5.1.
For more information and to download DEScribe 1.2.5, please visit the DEScribe product page.
