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Basecamp, now free for teachers
by Nitin Badjatia Nov 18th 2005 at 5:50PM
Over at the 37Signals weblog the creators of the wildly popular Basecamp (and Backpack) have decided to offer up a basic subscription to teachers at no cost. Basecamp is an easy to use, online, project management tool that has a ton of AJAX goodness to make project management easy and fun! (Did I just say fun?)As we know, many teachers are 'resource constrained' due to tight budgets, so providing free basic access to a quality project management tool for teachers from K-12 and college, is a welcome sign from a progressive company.
Basecamp, for those who haven't used it, is the big brother of Backpack. Besides for incorporating the to-do lists capabilities of Backpack, Basecamp also allows for time tracking by task and by person, as well as a decent scheduling system.
So, just how good at time waster games are you? Think you've got the stuff? Well, The World's Hardest Game 2.0 doesn't think you do.
Yes, amazingly, it's possible to have a sequel to a game called "The World's Hardest Game". It doesn't seem logically possible, since if the first one was actually the world's hardest, how could another one come along and share the moniker? It made me doubt the name in the first place. That is, until I tried the game.
The mechanics of the game are very simple. You are a small red square, ...
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Ryan Merket said 12:53PM on 11-22-2005
This is really cool and will come in handy.
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