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Month: April 2007

Wireless =Health risks?

Wireless =Health risks?

Despite warning bells being sounded since 2000 about the health risks that wireless technologies pose, we see more and more wireless coverage everywhere. When I started using a mobile phone about 7 years ago, I was getting throbbing headaches. The headaches no longer occur so frequently – but then, I do mostly SMSing on the phone these days. So it worries me that there’s an increasing number of wireless hotspots in schools – where children are also exposed to the…

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DrupalEd – Drupal for Education

DrupalEd – Drupal for Education

Nice to see an education-specific distribution of Drupal released. DrupalEd EdtechTalk has a thorough Screencast Tour of it here, and one can also create an account at the demonstration site here. From what I’ve seen, this system looks very clean and easy enough for end-users (i.e. busy teachers and students). Not sure about ease of installation or backend management though. I’m also curious to see whether  there’d be any way for students to select custom themes for their own pages…

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