In-House Social Networking With Gaggle (MOREnet Conference)

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.

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 [...]

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.

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 [...]

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/ [...]