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Christopher Dawson grew up in Seattle, back in the days of pre-antitrust Microsoft, coffeeshops owned by something other than Starbucks, and really loud, inarticulate music. He escaped to the right coast in the early 90's and received a degree in Information Systems from Johns Hopkins University. While there,...- more about Christopher Dawson »
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- Who's afraid of the big bad cloud?
- Tech news has been dominated this week by Google's announcements regarding their upcoming Chrome OS. Plenty of geeks are excited; so are plenty of industry insiders and business analysts. You know who aren't excited? Those who say we aren't ready for an OS dependent upon "The Cloud." by...
- Tags: Tech New, Operating Systems, Software, Christopher Dawson
- Blog posts 2009-11-20
- YouTube automatic captioning: one more reason GOOG's not evil
- Earlier this week I noted that YouTube's partnership with Univision was one more reason to make the web service available in schools. Now, Google has introduced some more useful YouTube technology: automatic captioning. by Christopher Dawson
- Tags: Google Inc., YouTube Inc., Business Structures, Cloud Computing, Web Services, Channel Management, Finance, Enterprise Software, Software, Marketing, Christopher Dawson
- Blog posts 2009-11-20
- How to add value, not just more tech, with Web 2.0+
- My presentation to the Florida Council of Independent Schools went well, both from a content and a technical perspective, since I was able to do it remotely, all with Google Apps. Here is the presentations, as well as a few takeaways from the question/answer session. by Christopher Dawson
- Tags: Web, Presentation, Cloud Computing, Channel Management, Marketing, Christopher Dawson
- Blog posts 2009-11-19
- NComputing announces new Microsoft partnership
- I've featured NComputing a few times in this blog, largely focusing on their solutions that turn a single workstation into as many as 10 workstations using thin client technologies. In particular, I wrote about NComputing's successful bid beating out Intel and OLPC to provide thin-client computers to as many...
- Tags: Virtualization, Partnership, Thin Client, Server, Microsoft Corp., Computing, NComputing, Microsoft Windows, Thin Clients, Terminal Services, Business Structures, Operating Systems, Software, Hardware, Finance, Christopher Dawson
- Blog posts 2009-11-18
- OpenSUSE Education announces Li-f-e 11.2
- Li-f-e is OpenSUSE's Linux for Education product. While this product has been quietly maturing, it has, to some extent fallen off my radar. However, the latest features announced today with this release of OpenSUSE's educational distribution have me downloading as fast as my BitTorrent client will allow. by...
- Tags: Education, Novell OpenSuse, OpenSUSE Education, Li-f-e, Linux, Aerospace & Defense, Operating Systems, Software, Manufacturing, Christopher Dawson
- Blog posts 2009-11-17
- YouTube/Univision deal a huge resource for teachers
- Here's one from the "One more reason not to block YouTube" files: Univision will be posting its content for free on YouTube. The details announced yesterday provide easy access to programming online for a quickly growing segment of the US population. Just as importantly from an educational perspective,...
- Tags: YouTube Inc., Material, Corporate Communications, Internet, Marketing, Christopher Dawson
- Blog posts 2009-11-17
- From the ashes of Geode, AMD brings Bobcat with 1:1 possibilities
- OLPC's first laptop, the XO has been both praised and criticized for many things. Perhaps most significant was its incredibly low power consumption, critical for use in areas with very limited electrical capacity. Key to this power consumption was the AMD Geode processor, an utterly anemic piece of...
- Tags: Power Consumption, Advanced Micro Devices Inc., One Laptop Per Child Project, Processors, Semiconductors, Hardware, Components, Christopher Dawson
- Blog posts 2009-11-13
- Guess who else is married to paper?
- The real problem that bothers me more than anything else, though, given the state of database and data mining technologies and the general interconnectedness of everything we do, is the inability of any of many information systems to talk to more far-flung systems. by Christopher Dawson
- Tags: Data Mining, Business Intelligence, Marketing Research, Databases, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management, Marketing, Christopher Dawson
- Blog posts 2009-11-12
- Is Google's Go language worth teaching or learning?
- Whether they are teaching the languages themselves or are using the languages to teach CS concepts, many secondary and post-secondary schools teach everything from Java to C to Python to Perl to Ruby. Does Go add anything to the mix that our students can use if they don't plan...
- Tags: Google Inc., Language, Scripting Languages, Programming Languages, Development Tools, C/C++, Software/Web Development, Web Development, Software Development, Christopher Dawson
- Blog posts 2009-11-11
- Intel e-reader combines Atom processor and accessibility
- Intel announced an innovative e-reader today that wants nothing to do with being a Kindle-killer. This e-reader, in fact, arguably has more educational implications than the current generation of e-readers. Intel's product, demonstrated below, is designed to turn written text into spoken words and can convert either text...
- Tags: E-reader, Processor, Intel Corp., Christopher Dawson
- Blog posts 2009-11-10
- It's a girl! (or Ed Tech, 6 years hence)
- Regular readers and followers of my Twitter feed will know that yesterday was pretty eventful. My wife and I (well, mostly my wife, but I did make some moderate contribution) had a baby girl who currently remains nameless (we're leaning toward Penelope, but she was delivered by c-section so...
- Tags: Web Application, Social Media, E-books, Semantic Web, Cloud Computing, Personal Technology, Internet, Christopher Dawson
- Blog posts 2009-11-10
- Why aren't students pushing paperless?
- Why aren't our students driving us towards the paperless ideal? A pat answer would be that we simply haven't enabled them to work without paper. However, I think the real answer is quite a bit more complicated than that. by Christopher Dawson
- Tags: Student, Christopher Dawson
- Blog posts 2009-11-08
- An unusual day, part 2 (or "My lease is up! Now what?")
- Part 2 of my unusual day, ending with a very different direction and a lot of ideas to stretch my shrinking budget. by Christopher Dawson
- Tags: Lease, Christopher Dawson
- Blog posts 2009-11-05
- An unusual day, part 1
- Thursday did not go as planned for me. However, it managed to help me rethink the way our teachers want to, can, and should use technology on a daily basis in their classrooms. by Christopher Dawson
- Tags: Classroom, Teacher, Christopher Dawson
- Blog posts 2009-11-05
- Edufire raises the bar with new video offerings
- Ever dropped a class in college because the professor was just horrific and better relegated to a lab somewhere? New video preview capabilities announced by EduFire today should help shake out the wheat from the chaff in terms of their instructional offerings. by Christopher Dawson
- Tags: Video, Edufire, Corporate Communications, Marketing, Christopher Dawson
- Blog posts 2009-11-05
- Moodlerooms announces joule platform at EDUCAUSE
- Moodlerooms announced today that many of the features that users either built themselves or found via third parties for Moodle are integrated into the company's new joule platform. by Christopher Dawson
- Tags: Platform, Moodlerooms, Christopher Dawson
- Blog posts 2009-11-03
- New Live@Edu offerings keep pressure on Google Apps for Education
- Microsoft made a number of major announcements today, all designed to up the ante in its battle for business and educational customers with Google's Apps products. The most important for us? Microsoft announced serious expansions of its Live@Edu services, most of which are based on the now-cheaper Exchange and Sharepoint...
- Tags: Education, Google Inc., Google Apps, Cloud Computing, Christopher Dawson
- Blog posts 2009-11-03
- Smart.fm - almost enough to make me want an iPhone
- I really don't want an iPhone. I'm holding out for a Droid, just as soon as I figure out some way to justify getting rid of my perfectly adequate BlackBerry. However, the iPhone has lots of apps and one in particular is being unveiled today: Smart.fm's iPhone interface...
- Tags: Software, Apple iPhone, Smart.fm, iPhone App, RTI, Smart Phones, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Christopher Dawson
- Blog posts 2009-11-02
- Google defines its focus in Apps in 2010
- No, it's not Wave. We'll see Wave evolve and find its way into more schools and businesses who are already using Google Apps, but the real focus for the Apps team in 2010 will be improving their Docs/Spreadsheets/Presentation offerings. by Christopher Dawson
- Tags: Google Inc., Cloud Computing, Team Management, Management, Christopher Dawson
- Blog posts 2009-11-02
- Is Microsoft a dinosaur to Google's mammal?
- Google's and Microsoft's very different approaches to computing, and the history behind them, beg the question, is it time for Microsoft to reinvent itself if it wants to avoid becoming the computing equivalent of fossil fuels? by Christopher Dawson
- Tags: Google Inc., Microsoft Corp., Computing, Christopher Dawson
- Blog posts 2009-11-02
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