Archive for 'Project Inkwell' Category

Project Inkwell Africa Sister School

7 April 2009

From Sharon Anderson Morris
Program Director, SNS Project Inkwell and Project Inkwell Africa
On behalf of SNS Project Inkwell and EcoVerdance Inc., I send my heartfelt  thanks to  Principal Bob O’Connor and  the teachers and  700 students of Treasure Mountain International School in Park City, Utah, who attended the the SNS Project Inkwell Africa sister school connection  [...]

SNS Project Inkwell Africa

11 October 2008

SNS Project Inkwell is excited and proud to announce the launch of SNS Project Inkwell Africa! Great thanks to Inkwell’s newest Member — EcoVerdance Inc. http://ecoverdance.com — for identifying the Yesu Afaayo Jubilee Christian School in Uganda as the first African Sister School in this program. The Jubilee K-7 school has 370 students, 35 of [...]

Project Inkwell Comes to Mexico

5 October 2008

One of the very positive results of our last Future in Review Conference www.futureinreview.com was an invitation from well-known Mexican business leader Ricardo Salinas-Pliego to come and visit the school, Plantel Azteca, he has funded through his Fundacion Azteca for the last decade.
My son and I had a chance to visit this amazing school, and [...]

SNS Project Inkwell, Phase II

1 March 2008

If things have been just a wee bit quiet at this site, it is because we at the Beach Palace Hotel had been preparing for the next meeting of Project Inkwell, which has just concluded at Salt Lake’s Grand America Hotel.
This meeting really represented the next phase of Inkwell, essentially going from research and planning [...]

EdNET 2007

10 September 2007

Writing from Chicago, where Nelson Heller has again put on a great educational technology conference. In addition to seeing plenty of friends and colleagues in this corner of the larger IT industry, I can’t help but be moved by the uniform passion and sincerity of everyone I’ve met here. This makes two years [...]

The Inkwell Computer Is Almost Here

14 April 2007

After working to find an optimized device for K12 computing for a decade or so, I am very pleased to announce that SNS Project Inkwell has just released its first Requirements List for such a device. This list, while not a spec, describes exactly what is needed to make the next-generation educational learning device.
This [...]

One to One Learning

4 February 2007

Although states and countries have embarked upon this path, there are still many people who do not know what this term means. It’s simple: learning in a classroom setting in which each student has his or her own computer.
My friend and venture capitalist Sim Simeonov made some statements and suggestions about this subject in [...]

Another Great Inkwell Gathering

18 November 2006

SNS Project Inkwell continues to pick up new members, and everyone seems even more excited than usual, perhaps because we’ve just achieved our first goal, the design of the Inkwell PC, Ver. 1.0.�� (I said it took two years in the last post, but went back and checked; we’re only at our fourth meeting, so [...]

Improving Education: The Inkwell Revolution

15 November 2006

I’ve just spent the day with the Steering Committee for SNS Project Inkwell. For those of you who do not know about Inkwell, it is a global consortium made up of vendors, teachers, administrators, and an ex-governor or two, all dedicated to re-designing appropriate technology for k12 (pre university) classrooms, and then accelerating the [...]