Steven's post on January 21st 2013 was about "Telling your story." He and some of his colleagues with their students saw the need of a closer well to a village in Gambia so the children would not have to walk as far for water and so they would be able to go to school instead of working. So together they raised some money for that to happen. He also shows how you can put images on blogger instead of just text. He showed a couple really good pictures that he took in Gambia of some of the people. I love taking and looking at pictures because you can capture so much more in one photo than you can in a paragraph of text. I think that was what he was trying to do as well.
I commented on his photography skills and that I thought raising the money for a new well was great and how there needs to be more people like him out there to help other people and countries.
On February 9th 2013 Mr. Wheeler blogs "Being Negroponte" Negroponte is an author of a book Mr. Wheeler wrote that he says "changed his view of the world" Negroponte in the early 90's talking about what the world will be "...when newspapers, movies, music, television, photography, and a host of other media would reside exclusively within the digital domain."
Mr. Wheeler then got to meet Nic Negroponte for dinner at a learning technologies conference. He got to hear about his life and all his plans such as, 1 Laptop Per Child (1LPC). They have gave out over 2.5 million laptops to 40 different countries
Negroponte's ideas and 1LCP are great ideas and I think that it is cool that Mr. Wheeler got very inspired by this guy when he read his book in the early 90's. Mr. Wheeler seems like he would be a pretty cool dude and is a good mentor/ teacher to many.
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