Socrative – an alternative to response systems

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March 28, 2012 By

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. [...]

Microsoft and US Marshals bring down Zeus botnet servers [VIDEO]

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March 27, 2012 By

I read this “Microsoft and US Marshals bring down Zeus botnet servers [VIDEO]” article today. The video was a good watch.  

In-House Social Networking With Gaggle (PDF)

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March 22, 2012 By

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

SonicWall ViewPoint & Twitter

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March 16, 2012 By

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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March 14, 2012 By

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 [...]

Missouri Forums on PowerSource

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March 14, 2012 By

Hey Missouri PowerSchool Districts – In case you didn’t know, there are now forums on PowerSource that Pearson has created just for us. Anyone with a PowerSource account can log in and “Watch” it. This is going be to an area that Pearson monitors and would possibly be able to have input. To get there: [...]

Khan Academy

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March 12, 2012 By

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 [...]

Windows 8 Consumer Preview on an old laptop

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March 9, 2012 By
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I wanted to try out Windows 8. I have a Dell Latitude 131L that was decently spec’ed for its time. I think it’s probably 5 years old. Let’s see if it’ll run Windows 8! Here are my quick notes as I attempted the install: 1. I downloaded the ISO image from http://windows.microsoft.com/en-US/windows-8/iso …I also copied [...]

MoPSUG 2012 Conference Trailer!

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March 8, 2012 By

“Check out the official MoPSUG 2012 Conference trailer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BqfKOuoA_hE Visit mopsug.com for the latest information regarding the MoPSUG Conference on April 30th and May 1st in Columbia. We hope to see you all there! MoPSUG Conference Staff”

Google Glasses

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March 6, 2012 By

All that iPad-hype-reading yesterday led me to an article on Google Glasses today. Not only did this article excite me, but the “Productivity Future Vision” video got me dreaming of the in-my-lifetime-future.