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A cultural side effect of "what happens on Facebook and Twitter when you die"

British Magazine Pc Pro has an interesting article about something which, they report, happens one and a half million times a year:

Textbooks are too expensive, so Italian high school tries to produce them in house

Every year italian families must spend hundreds of Euros in textbooks for every child, while the cost limits set by the government are regularly violated in spite of denounces and warnings from consumer associations.

If you died now, who would look after your digital YOU?

You’ve surely seen, at least once in your life, one of those very romantic, hearth-breaking movies in which some John or Mary die but, just one moment before passing away says to whoever is tenderly holding his or her hands something like:

A little known but very powerful tool for homeschooling: Free Software

Free Software is widely used in education due to its lower cost and huge flexibility. Homeschooling is relatively popular in the USA and other countries. One would expect Free Software to be very popular among homeschoolers, due to their own philosophy: how could an homeschooling advocate not love software that is all about being “free as in freedom” and doing things by yourself? Reality, however is quite different: compared to Windows and Mac, Free Software is still almost unknown in the homeschooling community.