Greetings!
In addition to our news about CodeKindness, we’re also pleased to release Boolify 1.x, at http://www.boolify.org. Boolify’s interface has developed over the past few months, and we’re pleased really, really pleased at your enthusiastic response. A diverse range of educators (from around the world!) are using this tool.
Cheers, and stay tuned for future updates!
–Dave
The Boolify Project has received wide press recently and is all over the blogsphere. While we can’t keep up with all of the commentary, some postings bring up great questions. Today’s post on Western School Board Technology is no exception.
Just be aware, the site is in beta release. It is currently free to try. I couldn’t find anywhere on the site where it indicated that it would be a fee based service in the future…but these things can happen. At the very least check it out.
The answer? Yes! Boolify is and always will be free, as will the other technologies we develop and deploy. Of course, if the tool is useful, we appreciate that you support the project, and the development costs of future projects, through a reasonable donation. But at no point will we charge for technologies. Why?
You see, the term digital divide doesn’t necessarily imply only those people who can’t afford the hardware and internet access. Cheap hardware and almost-free access is commonplace, although not ubiquitous. Another digital divide is between those individuals, teachers, schools and districts that can afford the cutting edge educational technologies, and those that can’t. It’s this divide that we’re aiming to help alleviate.
Note: others talk of a knowledge divide. Evidence for a knowledge divide is based not on IF individuals can access various technologies, but how individuals use them for various ends.
