Author: Rickford Grant File Type: pdf The Ubuntu Linux distribution makes Linux easy, and Ubuntu for Non-Geeks makes it even easier. Full of tips, tricks, and helpful pointers, this pain-free guide is perfect for those interested inbut nervous aboutswitching to the Linux operating system. This revised and expanded fourth edition is packed with new material that covers all the latest features of Ubuntu 10.04, Lucid Lynx. It includes five new chapters that take you step-by-step through common tasks like installing and playing games, accessing your favorite social networks, troubleshooting common hardware and software problems, connecting with the Ubuntu community, interacting with your Windows installation, and more. By following along with the books straightforward explanations and step-by-step projects, youll learn how to* Install Ubuntu and keep it updated * Set up printers, scanners, USB flash drives, and other hardware * Install and play free games like Frets on Fire, Frozen Bubble, and Warzone 2100 * Watch DVDs, listen to music, and sync your iPod, iPhone, or other mobile devices * Edit and share digital photos and videos * Create documents, spreadsheets, and presentations * Customize the look and feel of your system * Work with the command line (or avoid it altogether!) If youre looking for a pain-free way to learn Linux, Ubuntu for Non-Geeks is just what you need to get started.

Author: Candace R. Kuby File Type: pdf Covering key terms and concepts in the emerging field of posthumanism and literacy education, this volume investigates posthumanism, not as a lofty theory, but as a materialized way of knowingbecomingdoing the world. The contributors explore the ways that posthumanism helps educators better understand how students, families, and communities come to knowbecomedo literacies with other humans and nonhumans. Illustrative examples show how posthumanist theories are put to work in and out of school spaces as pedagogies and methodologies in literacy education. With contributions from a range of scholars, from emerging to established, and from both U.S. and international settings, the volume covers literacy practices from pre-K to adult literacy across various contexts. Chapter authors not only wrestle with methodological tensions in doing posthumanist research, but also situate it within pedagogies of teaching literacies. Inviting readers to pause, slow down, and consider posthumanist ways of thinking about agency, intra-activity, subjectivity, and affect, this book explores and experiments with new ways of seeing, understanding, and defining literacies, and allows readers to experience and intra-act with the book in ways more traditional (re)presentations do not. **Review This full throated appeal to intra-act with posthumanist ideas moves bodies, shifts ideas, and unsettles assumptions. Thinking literacy education, together with critical, decolonial, Indigenous and feminist new materialist scholarship, highlights the violence of making cuts too small when it comes to how we consider literacy practices, and cuts that exclude and marginalise. This collection invites us to imagine and speculate on what knowingbeingdoing literacies are or could be. * --Abigail Hackett, Manchester Metropolitan University, UK * This book is fascinatingeach chapter is compelling and challenges the reader to consider what it means to live, learn and bebecome literate. Constructed with great care, critical concepts from post humanist thinking are given deep consideration and then playfully remixed through diffractive composings and monstrous mutations. * --Pam Whitty, University of New Brunswick, Canada * About the Author Candace R. Kuby is Associate Professor of Early Childhood Education at the University of Missouri, USA. hr Karen Spector is Associate Professor of Secondary Education Language Arts at the University of Alabama, USA. hr Jaye Johnson Thiel is a Visiting Research Scholar at the University of Georgia, USA.