To look back at Steve Jobs’ life is to look at the life of an adopted kid, who did not finish college, who started a company from his garage, and later, was kicked out of the company he built. Entrepreneurs will remember Steve Jobs as the man with a great comeback. When Steve Jobs left Apple Computer after a power struggle, he built NeXT, a software company, that was later acquired for $430 million by Apple Computer. Jobs then returned to Apple.

In 2003, Steve Jobs was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer, but during this difficult time, he turned Apple into the valuable company it is today, with revolutionary products such as the iPod, iPhone and iPad.

Steve Jobs will also be remembered by children for buying Pixar, the animation studio that brought us “Toy Story,” “Monsters Inc.” and “Finding Nemo.”

His passing is not only a loss to those who buy his products, but also “to the misfits, the rebels and the trouble makers,” for whom he had a message: “People who are crazy enough to think they can change the world, are the ones who do.”

Steve Jobs has shown us that a hero does not always come out of war. A hero can be someone who changes how we communicate. Rest in peace, Steve. And thank you.

When we implemented one-to-one [computing], we implemented it in a brand-new school, and the thing we did significantly differently is we did not supply students or teachers with any textbooks,” said Vail Superintendent Calvin Baker, a 2006 Tech-Savvy Superintendent Award winner from eSchool News. “We did it for financial reasons as much as anything else, but it turned out to be one of the best things in terms of instruction, because it forced everybody to do things differently.” The district used its textbook money to buy the laptops, forcing the teachers to instruct differently. “What we observed when we visited other one-to-one [computing] schools is it was still very easy and tempting for teachers to just refer back to the way they had been teaching. Our teachers didn’t have that opportunity, because they didn’t have textbooks,” Baker said.

8. Don’t think “social network.” Think “communications backbone.” This tool allows for private collaboration (privacy is much easier to understand here, but it does require some learning), and permits a “one stop” kind of area for talking internally and externally without causing problems. And it works with email, not in lieu of email.