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- Evaluating thin clients from a position of strength
- All too often our schools (and even our colleges and universities) turn to thin-clients as a 'last resort' to address severe budgetary constraints without regard for other alternatives which can also reduce costs without sacrificing needed computing resources. Many view thin-clients as a one-stop solution which fixes easy-to-identify problems within an existing infrastructure. Often...
- Tags: K-12, Higher Ed, Funding, Emerging Tech, Education Technology, Classroom Tech
- Blog posts 2007-07-27
- Want to help out your school? Do it now!
- This morning, I ran across a piece in eSchool News that should be of interest to anyone involved with K-12". It is called Samsung's Hope for Education and the description reads:Through a partnership with Microsoft Corporation, Hope for Education will provide more than $2 million in technology and software to K-12...
- Tags: Classroom Tech, Education Technology, Funding, K-12
- Blog posts 2007-07-12
- When faculty say 'NO' to UNIX/Linux
- Well, sooner or later, it was bound to happen. We are in the process of retiring our last two instructional UNIX/Linux labs. And guess what? Nobody seems to care! In fact, the faculty who have been using those labs for instruction have asked us to give...
- Tags: Open Source, K-12, Higher Ed, Education Technology, Classroom Tech
- Blog posts 2007-05-08
- Bringing tech to the most rural schools
- Whats this? An actual use for iPods in the classroom? I cant say that Ive ever bought into the idea that iPods can be of any use for educational purposes. However, ars technica is reporting on an initiative in Arkansas to outfit schoolbuses with wireless Internet access,...
- Tags: K-12, Classroom Tech, Education Technology
- Blog posts 2007-04-18
- Schools roll out remediation software for standardized tests
- Schools across the country are looking for the best ways to bring children up to speed on standardized testing materials. All too often, there simply isnt enough time in class to address remediation needs for students who perform poorly. Given that the stakes on these tests are so...
- Tags: K-12, Education Technology, Classroom Tech
- Blog posts 2007-04-17
- Penny-wise and pound foolish -- or just plain nuts?
- This morning, I read Fed cutbacks strips schools of tech funding and a shudder went through me. Recently, Ive been speaking at length of the importance of enabling our educators to better leverage IT in their classrooms. Not by going out and buying the cheapest solution available (as...
- Tags: NLCB, K-12, Funding, Classroom Tech, Education Technology
- Blog posts 2007-04-16
- But my printer is out of ink...
- Pink may be the new black if you believe my trendier students, but this is the new "My dog ate my homework." Since most of us require assignments to be typed, students often show up the morning a paper is due lamenting their lack of ink or their broken...
- Tags: K-12, Classroom Tech, Education Technology
- Blog posts 2007-04-15
- Don't expect Education IT to "fix" your school
- Is educational software worth anything? What a ridiculous title! If youve read my posts for any period of time, you remember my admonition: They’re tools, they’re just tools!, and heres the perfect example of a meaningless Department of Education Study which draws conclusions based upon unfounded assumptions. ...
- Tags: Standards, K-12, Funding, Classroom Tech, Education Technology
- Blog posts 2007-04-09
- What did we ever do before laptops?
- Laptops are quickly joining mobile phones in the ranks of technology we cant live without. David Berlind refers to this sort of thing as "Dead Finger Tech," the pieces of technology that you could only pry from our cold dead fingers. I probably spend a fair amount more...
- Tags: Mobile, K-12, Funding, Education Technology, Classroom Tech
- Blog posts 2007-04-07
- There's no room for bias in academia
- Whenever I sit down to review the comments posted about an article written by one of my fellow bloggers, I am struck by the level of bias that abounds among our readers. To be sure, there are zealots on almost every subject under the sun but sometimes our readers...
- Tags: Classroom Tech, Education Technology, Funding, Hardware, Higher Ed, K-12, Policy
- Blog posts 2007-03-07
- Should I have bought those Macs?
- Five little Mac minis came in yesterday. The packages were so small and nondescript with ACI on the return address and mixed in amongst some book orders that I didnt even know theyd been delivered. I ordered them at the request of our journalism/yearbook teacher, who was a...
- Tags: Education Technology, K-12, Apple, Classroom Tech
- Blog posts 2007-02-22
- Penny-wise or pound-foolish?
- While perusing "Between the Lines", I just came across "Do consumables notably ink matter to IT departments?" I was shocked that this question would even come up in an IT setting. The answer is... Of course IT departments need to pay attention to printing consumables! To ignore...
- Tags: Education Technology, IT Management, Funding, Higher Ed, K-12, Classroom Tech, printer, printing
- Blog posts 2007-02-07
- What are students really losing without technology?
- Negroponte wants a laptop on every kids lap, especially if theyre in a developing country. But do kids really lose anything without technology in their schools? Our accreditors think they do - they think our kids wont be competitive nationally or internationally without technological immersion. Yet comparisons...
- Tags: Education Technology, K-12, Classroom Tech
- Blog posts 2007-01-17
- UK teachers struggle to find right place for classroom tech
- From line drawings in textbooks to interactive white boards, educators have been trying innovative ways to get students attention for years. But some teachers say all this technology introduced into classrooms just distracts from the real job of teaching, reports the BBC. If their districts can afford it, teachers...
- Tags: Education Technology, K-12, Classroom Tech, white board, board
- Blog posts 2007-01-15
Additional Resources
- Hot rumor: Apple developing LCD HDTV with built-in networking, Apple TV?
- Just in case you wanted a new Apple rumor that didn't involve updated MacBooks and building laptops out of aluminum bricks, here's an inevitable-seeming one from tech guru Jason Calacanis, who tells our sister site CNET UK that Apple is planning an LCD-based HDTV that would sport built-in networking and...
- Tags: Network, built-In, HDTV, Apple Inc., Apple TV, LCD, TVs, Tv & Home Theater, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Sean Portnoy
- Blog posts 2008-10-11
- Seesmic fires a third of staff as recession bites
- Loic LeMeur, CEO of Seesmic has announced the company is reducing its headcount by seven people. That may not sound like a huge number but as LeMeur says in the video announcement: ...the longevity of the company is obviously of significant importance - and thus we must reduce costs...
- Tags: Recession, Video, Seesmic, Corporate Communications, Marketing, Dennis Howlett
- Blog posts 2008-10-10
- Print this: Actually, please don't, but DO think about why printers should get more airtime in green tech discussions
- I was talking to someone within the past couple of months (I honestly can't remember who right now, sorry) who made a pretty profound statement that seems pertinent in the context of this post. I had just admitted, somewhat shamefacedly, to my ongoing addiction to printing out my notes, presentations...
- Tags: Green Technology, Printing, Printers, Document Management, Hardware, Peripherals, Enterprise Software, Software, Finance, Managerial Accounting, Heather Clancy
- Blog posts 2008-10-10
- Remember IBM at $10.50 per Share? Oracle as a penny stock? Tales of Hope from the Great High Tech Depression of ‘89
- Ah, distinctly I remember it was in the bleak …..October. Paraphrasing Edgar Allen Poe's The Raven seems somehow appropriate to this moment, when it seems that everything we've all worked and dreamed about is going up in smoke. And yet, having seen a version of this movie...
- Tags: Oracle Corp., Recession, Stock, IBM Corp., Tech Stock, Investment, Finance, Joshua Greenbaum
- Blog posts 2008-10-10
- My three cents: Verizon's text fee could cripple SMS services
- Verizon Wireless dropped a bomb today on companies that send content over SMS text messaging systems. Techmeme Effective Nov. 1, companies that send messages and other notifications to Verizon Wireless customers via SMS text message - that's everyone from Google to Twitter to startups like alerts.com - could be forced...
- Tags: Fee, Verizon Communications Inc., Text Messaging, Messaging, SMS, Verizon Wireless, Twitter, Text Messaging/SMS/MMS, Telephony, Cellular Phones, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Online Communications, Networking, Sam Diaz
- Blog posts 2008-10-10
- The elephant in the room: SOA and the economy
- We've all been distracted by events in the economy over the past few weeks, and let's face it, it makes for a very large elephant in the room when we talk about SOA. All debates about REST, SOAP, Java, .NET, JSON, ESBs, WOA won't mean a thing...
- Tags: SOA, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Web Services, Middleware, Enterprise Software, Software, Joe McKendrick
- Blog posts 2008-10-10
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