2020 Vision

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Years ago I took steps towards giving my district’s technology program a vision. Actually, I blogged about it too – ““what I attempted to do this school year in regards to giving my district’s technology program a vision.” This morning I caught myself looking at the paper on my desk wall that started it all. [...]

Summertime Equals Technology Projects

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Summertime = Technology Projects I tend to smirk or laugh when I’m asked about if I’m off for the summer, or if my summer is going to be an easy one. What’s the tech guy even do during the summer months anyway? Summer is when I probably work the hardest and use my tech-wired brain [...]

Socrative – an alternative to response systems

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I tried Socrative out with my eMINTS teachers this morning (gave them some super quick training using the steps below) and it was a big hit. If you haven’t checked out Socrative, it’s a great alternative to response systems. 1. Go to socrative.com 2. If this is your first time, click on “sign up” 3. [...]

In-House Social Networking With Gaggle (PDF)

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Click here for a PDF of the “In-House Social Networking With Gaggle” presentation.

SonicWall ViewPoint & Twitter

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I spent a little time this morning trying to install SonicWall ViewPoint to Windows Server 2008 R2. Long story short, I had this running fine and dandy on a Windows Server 2003 server until the day I decided to upgrade ViewPoint to its newest version. Upon upgrading, and patching, it quit working. I couldn’t log [...]

In-House Social Networking With Gaggle

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Chris from What The… TECH will be presenting “In-House Social Networking With Gaggle” at the upcoming MOREnet conference on March 22nd from 11-12. To sum it up – When Chris was asked to come up with a “district-only social networking environment,” Gaggle proved to be a good fit. Gaggle is a “district-only” online resource that [...]

Khan Academy

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I checked out Khan Academy a long while back and thought it was cool. I watched a 60 Minutes piece on Khan Academy yesterday and thought it was now even cooler. This morning I read this “Tech giants back effort to revolutionize teaching” article and I think it serves well as a good intro in [...]

The Raspberry Pi?

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A $35 computer? A $25 computer? Check out the Raspberry Pi. Interesting for sure.  

In-House Social Networking With Gaggle (MOREnet Conference)

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Chris from What The… TECH will be presenting “In-House Social Networking With Gaggle” at the upcoming MOREnet conference. Click here for information on the presentation.

District Social Networking/Texting instructions and form

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This is a follow-up post to District Social Networking/Texting Policy. With this new policy, we basically had to implement two things: * Instructions for texting. The policy says that “Staff members will be required to send the communications simultaneously to the supervisor” and many of our staff didn’t know how to do that. Here’s a [...]