I am a professor of engineering, and the way I solved this problem for my students was to write software that allows me to process photos of the whiteboard very quickly (a minute or two per day). It automatically puts them on the web for the students. They can browse them at: http://people.wallawalla.edu/~Rob.Frohne/ClassNotes/ and they can print a pdf document of them as well from the web site. Lately I've included an MP3 recording of the lecture as well, so that they can hear it again as necessary. The processing software is called Save My Whiteboard and is available under GPL3 here: http://people.wallawalla.edu/~rob.frohne/SaveMyWhiteboard/index.html The php code for the web pages is available under GPL too if anyone really wants it. Rob

Kirk Weedman, KD7IRS, has posted some good Verilog classes on http://verilog.openhpsdr.org/ that are tailored to amateur radio enthusiasts that have been working on the High Performance Software Defined Radio (HPSDR) an interesting open source hardware project.

Find a friend who is going overseas, and send them to someone in Africa or Asia whose income is so low that they will be a real blessing. This works especially well with students overseas, as they are willing to learn something new like a computer. Laptops are light relatively and so make prime candidates for this. If you don't have contacts who do this kind of thing, a good place to start is your local church, especially ones that are mission oriented. Kudos for seeking to find a way to recycle those old computers.