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SMART vs. Promethean
In the land of interactive whiteboards, is there a clear winner or just clear preferences?
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Lower Merion laptop flap: District deactivates tracking feature
The Lower Merion School District said it has deactivated a tracking feature on student laptops that allowed officials to potentially violate family privacy. In an FAQ, the district also denied it...
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Pennsylvania school gets high marks for energy-saving plan
Remember how steamy hot it got in your school classroom as the days of summer vacation approached? Now, imagine if the heat in that classroom was still on every day of the year, for no other...
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ARRA grants will have a focus on collaboration, meaningful PD
I went to a seminar today on the technology-related No Child Left Behind and American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) grants that were being administered by Massachusetts over the next two...
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Branding in the age of school choice
I hate that word. Branding is a buzzword that PR and marketing folks love to toss around and one that I try to avoid because, well, it's a buzzword. It's worse than "21st Century Skills."...
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Learning to say "No!"
I'm not good at saying no. I like to give people what they need and support them in whatever way I can. This particular philosophy works fine when you're volunteering at a bake sale, but not as...
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Talking is a good thing
I had a great meeting with one of the elementary schools in my district today. The principal turned over most of a staff meeting to me today in part for some training and professional...
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Mobiles for your users
We all have users for whom a mobile phone of some sort makes a lot of sense. Our district has always either provided a phone or a moderate subsidy for key staff who need to stay in touch....
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Do you have a call notification system?
Quite a few districts have rolled out automated call notification systems in the last few years. As we become increasingly mobile, it can be harder to reach parents and students, especially...
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So what do I do first?
I almost titled this post "Tales of a newb technology director." Today is my first day in my new job as Technology Director for my school district. No more teaching (except professional...
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Confirmed: Apple files suit against Psystar
I don't have a lot of information on this yet but it seems that Apple has grown tired of Apple-clone Psystar and has filed suit against the Florida company at the federal district court for the...
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Open letter to a school committee member
A bit of background before I pass on this letter that I wrote to a member of our school committee this morning...Our district has been without a technology-director type for many years now. While...
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To host or not to host
Last night I wrote a piece about the use of 802.11n, asking for opinions on whether it was worth it (or even a good idea) to roll out Draft-N routers (the response was mixed, but the general...
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Textbook costs have to go
I read a headline in our local paper today noting that a neighboring district was about to spend $40,000 on textbooks, largely to support an updated history curriculum. $40,000!!! This for a...
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Take a look at Tokyo, tech capital
Tokyo is arguably the high-tech capital of the world. With cutting-edge technology, efficiency in travel and creative options for living in constrained spaces, the city of 12 million people is...
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Tokyo's neighborhood for food lovers
If you\222re a chef, in the restaurant business or just love food, you'll want to see this. In western Tokyo, the Kappabashi-dori district hosts lines of stores that sell everything from the...
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CO wants to create agency to monitor online schools
With school board members angered by online schools' lax standard, legislation would create a new bureaucracy to manage the new sector.
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You didn't pay for that cable did you?
It turns out that there is good free stuff to be had out there (and not just donated junk, either).
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Standardize, standardize, standardize
Standardization to a single platform (and probably a single vendor) can do nothing but save time, energy, and most importantly, reduce TCO.
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What Ed Tech Can Learn From Disneyworld
Disneyworld is a systems analyst's dream. Ed Tech, especially in the K-12 sector, could learn a lot from the ways in which Disney uses technology to do business better.
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