It’s finally Friday. Every Friday I try to wrap up my week… finish out lingering work order tickets… do a couple of requisitions… maybe sign a couple of invoices… check out those server event logs that I’ve been wondering about all week but haven’t had a chance to sit down and investigate… you know, wrap [...]
10 Tech Skills Every Student Should Have
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Today I read this “10 Tech Skills Every Student Should Have” article. It’s a good read and probably worthy of passing along to some lab teachers.
District Social Networking/Texting Policy
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It’s actually called the “Communication with Students by Electronic Media” policy, but I’ve been referring to it as the “Social Networking/Texting Policy” …it is what it is. With the Amy Hestir Student Protection Act and all the controversy that surrounded it, the end result of the law was that each Missouri school district would be [...]
Google in Education
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Today I came across this article talking about the “Google in Education” website. We’ve been using “Google Apps for Education” for our teacher webpages for the last couple of years. Apps was very easy to setup, easy to create or import new users, easy for the Tech Dept to manage AND easy for the teachers [...]
GLPI – Free Management Software
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I use Kaseya for the district’s technology inventory, hardware, and software management. Although I do love it, I’m also fully aware that Kaseya isn’t free (actually, it’s quite expensive), so it isn’t always a real possibility for some of us. GLPI is a Technic-approved solution and it is… [insert drum roll] …free. Check out http://www.glpi-project.org/ [...]
iPads for Principals
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My principals have district-provided iPads that they use for teacher evaluations among other things. District-provided iPads are definitely a new thing for the district, and they are the first real non-Windows end user computer/device that I need to fully support. I had to come up with a sort of policy-or-somethin’-somethin’ so that I could feel [...]
12 Free Computers – Trading Post
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We have 12 excess computers we are giving away. Terms of engagement: 1. Missouri school, library or government agency 2. Take 1, take ‘em all 3. You pickup These are all Gateway E-series computers, 4 E-2100 and 8 E-2300. Typically the E-2100s have a Celeron in the upper 2.x speed range, 40 GB hard drives, [...]
YouTube in School
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How to access educational and school-appropriate content on YouTube: http://support.google.com/youtube/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=1686318
PowerSchool Apps
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Several days ago Pearson announced two apps for PowerSchool: PowerSchool for Parents and PowerSchool for Students. I tested these out on my iPhone and I’m impressed! I tweaked with the official Pearson announcement email and came up with a quick write-up for my district’s website announcing these apps (in case you want to tweak the [...]
What whatthe-tech knows about SOPA
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The majority of whatthe-tech’s tech friends are calling it evil. Here’s why: * http://blog.reddit.com/2012/01/technical-examination-of-sopa-and.html <– interesting to read * http://dl.dropbox.com/u/7007647/sopa.txt <–also interesting to read * And lastly, here are some other websites to check out for more information. http://americancensorship.org/ and http://fightforthefuture.org/pipa and https://www.eff.org/action
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