For the past 25 years, I've been taking older computers to people who don't have them.A student with one of these netbooks could watch Khan Academy videos and develop their writing skills using Google Docs.Hook up one of these netbooks to a larger LCD screen, and the student could develop skills with LibreOffice Draw or Inkscape, two of my favorite open source graphics programs.Netbooks are also ideal for mailing overseas to a school in Liberia, a hospital in Haiti, a food distribution site in Somalia, or anywhere else where donated technology could make a huge difference.If you know the person well, you might want to share links to some of the YouTube videos listed in this article."