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- The cloud finally comes to education
- Cloud computing is one of those great buzzwords in IT that, so far, has meant very little to the average Ed Tech customer. We all have a pretty good idea what it means: lots of computers somewhere (we don't actually care where) doing lots of processing to deliver services...
- Tags: Education, PC, Thin Client, Computer, Cloud, SIMtone Corp., Desktops, Productivity, Thin Clients, Cloud Computing, Hardware, Christopher Dawson
- Blog posts 2008-10-06
- News to know: Green PCs, IT; IBM; Nokia; Apple
- Here are today's notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily: Larry Dignan: IBM launches beta of 'Bluehouse,' eyes Cisco's WebEx Matthew Miller: First impressions of the Nokia N96. Gallery right. Mary Jo...
- Tags: Steve Jobs, Larry Dignan, Nokia Corp., PC, Information Technology, Yahoo! Inc., Apple Inc., Microsoft Corp., Matthew Miller, IBM Corp., Podcasts, Linux, Internet, Operating Systems, Software
- Blog posts 2008-10-06
- And the calculator saga continues
- I spent the afternoon at a local orchard with my wife and my youngest son. The other kids were buried in homework and/or video games, but it's apple season here in New England, so off the three of us went on a beautiful fall day. The orchard was...
- Tags: Ice Cream, Games, Taxes, Corporate Communications, Free Trade, Construction, Personal Technology, Financial Planning, Finance, Marketing, Christopher Dawson
- Blog posts 2008-10-05
- To ESped or not to ESped
- Our SIS now includes a fairly mature special education module. It's not perfect, but it's well-integrated with the rest of the SIS and gives teachers immediate and easy access to the accommodations they need to provide for students. From a teacher's perspective, it really rocks. ...
- Tags: Teacher, SiS, ESped, Americans With Disabilities Act (ADA), Research & Development, Development Tools, Human Resources, Gender And Diversity, Business Operations, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Christopher Dawson
- Blog posts 2008-10-03
- My growing hatred for calculators
- Is it just me, or are graphing calculators overly complicated? I've never been a big fan of calculators; I think they're a crutch on which most kids in the States rely far too heavily. However, when used correctly, they can certainly be a fine tool for automating tedious...
- Tags: Student, Interface, Spreadsheet, Productivity, Christopher Dawson
- Blog posts 2008-10-03
- Creative Commons for students
- I was in a meeting today about an after-school program where students are creating a lot of digital content. As much of this content is being tagged, students need to identify the copyright holder for individual media. While the copyright holder is rightfully the student who created the...
- Tags: Creative Commons, Student, Digital Rights Management (DRM), Advertising & Promotion, Digital Media, Security, Marketing, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Christopher Dawson
- Blog posts 2008-10-02
- News to know: Cloud wars; Apple; Google; China is watching you
- Here are today's notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily: Mary Jo Foley: Amazon launches pre-emptive strike against Microsoft's planned cloud platform. Techmeme A new mystery: What's Microsoft got up its Office Live sleeve? Zack Whittaker:...
- Tags: Google Inc., Facebook, Larry Dignan, Apple Inc., Microsoft Corp., IPO, Robots, Linux, E-mail, Digital Media, Financial Services, Emerging Technologies, Operating Systems, Software, Online Communications, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology
- Blog posts 2008-10-02
- Another setback for university P2P
- Last week, a federal judge dismissed the University of Oregon's arguments that the RIAA's attempts to obtain information on student file sharers was unduly burdensome. According to Ars Technica, the judge also ruled that the school did not receive protection under the Digital Millenium Copyright Act, since none of...
- Tags: P2P, University, RIAA, Litigation, Peer To Peer (P2P), Digital Rights Management (DRM), Business Operations, Internet, Security, Christopher Dawson
- Blog posts 2008-10-01
- Are you a whitelist or a blacklist guy?
- A new teacher asked me that the other day, looking for a read on how I filter content and my general attitude on installing applications. Suffice to say I'm a blacklist guy. Certainly in a middle and high school setting, as kids become more sophisticated and instructional needs...
- Tags: Application, Teacher, Internet, Tools & Techniques, Spyware, Adware & Malware, Cyberthreats, Consumer Electronics, Management, Security, Personal Technology, Christopher Dawson
- Blog posts 2008-10-01
- News to know: Bailout bust and tech fallout; Cloud computing; Netgear; Apple
- Here are today's notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily: AP: Stunning Defeat for Bailout Plan Torpedoes Stocks; Dow Sinks Over 750. White House, lawmakers plan new bailout deal Larry Dignan: Is Apple really recession proof? Wall...
- Tags: Larry Dignan, Sprint Xohm, Apple Inc., NetGear, WiMAX, Cloud Computing, Productivity, Open Source, Wireless
- Blog posts 2008-09-30
- Thanks, but no thanks, SAS
- Yesterday I wrote about some data analysis I need to do. It turns out, there is quite a lot of analysis that needs to take place, along with fairly serious data management, especially as we start to relate MCAS scores with other data (SATs, special education testing, socioeconomic data,...
- Tags: SAS Institute, Christopher Dawson
- Blog posts 2008-09-30
- 1 million Classmates headed to Venezuela
- Portugal recently announced it's intention to purchase and deploy half a million Classmate PCs to students in the country. Intel developed the Classmate as a reference design in the hopes that local OEMs would customize it and then handle production and distribution. In the latest success for this...
- Tags: Venezuela, OEM, Intel Corp., Government, Linux, Vertical Industries, Open Source, Operating Systems, Software, Enterprise Software, Christopher Dawson
- Blog posts 2008-09-30
- Why yes, I can do longitudinal data analysis
- Because I'm not really all that busy sarcasm drips here, it's fallen to me to figure out what is happening to our MCAS scores. For those of you outside the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, the MCAS is our battery of standardized tests in English, Math, science, history (the list goes...
- Tags: Data Analysis, School, Clinical Trial, Healthcare, Databases, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management, Christopher Dawson
- Blog posts 2008-09-29
- News to know: Tech sales and the art of spin; Firefox; Apple; HD streaming
- Here are today's notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily: Brian Sommer: Quit Spinning - You're Making Me Dizzy Ryan Naraine: Firefox rushes out fix for password manager bug Matthew Miller: Microsoft deep sixes...
- Tags: Apple iPhone, Richard Koman, Mozilla Firefox, Steve Ballmer, Radio, Apple Inc., Sales, Web Browsers, Advertising & Promotion, Open Source, Internet, Marketing, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-09-29
- Best platforms for book on "tape"
- I've had two special education teachers ask me recently how they should deliver "books on tape" to some of their students. Many multimodal learners can benefit from hearing the books, so audio books or having a tutor read to them can be really useful. Of course, mp3 players...
- Tags: Apple Macintosh, Apple iPod, MP3 Player, MP3, Digital Music, Digital Media, Media Players, Personal Technology, Consumer Electronics, Christopher Dawson
- Blog posts 2008-09-28
- Back to Windows?
- So I've lived with a Linux lab in a largely Windows enterprise for a while...Here's why I'm thinking about going back. by Christopher Dawson
- Tags: Linux, UNIX, Operating Systems, Microsoft Windows, Open Source, Software, Christopher Dawson
- Blog posts 2008-09-26
- Free lunches for schools?
- Finally, I succumbed to the siren song of Linux and OpenOffice and built myself a computer lab from old donated machines using only some blank CDs from WalMart, the latest Breezy Badger release of Kubuntu (www.kubuntu.org), and a bunch of very wary students. by Christopher Dawson
- Tags: Kubuntu, CD, Computer, Linux, Productivity, Open Source, UNIX, Operating Systems, Software, Christopher Dawson
- Blog posts 2008-09-26
- VirtualBox
- I'm once again soliciting thoughts on virtualization from ed tech readers or anyone else who wants to weigh in for that matter. I found a nice walkthrough yesterday on running VBoxHeadless on an Ubuntu server to deliver virtual machines via RDP. VBoxHeadless is a version of VirtualBox designed,...
- Tags: Innotek VirtualBox, Ubuntu, VBoxHeadless, Desktop Virtualization, Servers, Hardware, Christopher Dawson
- Blog posts 2008-09-25
- News to know: Oracle goes hardware; MSFT confirms pre-beta Windows 7; Netbooks or notebooks?
- Here are today's notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily: Larry Dignan: Oracle enters hardware market; Launches storage server to ride shotgun with database Dana Gardner: HP and Oracle team up on ‘data warehouse appliances' that re-architect...
- Tags: Google Inc., Oracle Corp., Microsoft Windows 7, MSFT, Microsoft Windows, Business Intelligence, Storage, Notebooks, Databases, Operating Systems, Software, Enterprise Software, Data Management, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, Sam Diaz
- Blog posts 2008-09-25
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