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- Computer
- A general-purpose machine that processes data according to a set of instructions that are stored internally either temporarily or permanently. The computer and all equipment attached to it are...
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- What the heck is a thin client?
- My mom is neither an educator, nor a technologist, but she has taken to reading my blogs anyway (group, "Ahhhh", please). She actually runs a gourmet tea and spice company based just a few miles from Microsoft corporate headquarters (weird, huh?). She'll occasionally send me an email asking...
- Tags: Training for the masses, Education Technology, Classroom Tech
- Blog posts 2007-08-01
- More donation woes
- I walked into the school on Monday for a few meetings and found a letter in my box from an upset community member whose computer donations had been turned down. At the end of the last school year, we set a no-donation policy, since we had actually managed to...
- Tags: Donations, Education Technology
- Blog posts 2007-07-11
- The computer can do that?
- We're finally hitting the home stretch on scheduling our students for next year. I have a so-called "Master Schedule" that I'm pretty happy with and I'm loading students into it to see just how well it works. If any of my favorite students get bumped out of the...
- Tags: K-12, Education Technology
- Blog posts 2007-06-29
- OpenSUSE update (also, just what is a distribution?)
- So this weekend wasn't quite as productive as I'd hoped in terms of my foray into testing and documentation for OpenSUSE. Between a wedding in New Hampshire and a shed that needed building (don't believe the salespeople - an afternoon project this is not, especially when your best helper...
- Tags: Training for the masses, OpenSUSE and Ed Tech, Open Source, Education Technology
- Blog posts 2007-06-25
- Content filters are your friend
- This week, we found out that the Connecticut substitute teacher accused of exposing several middle school children to pornography and facing up to 40 years in prison was granted a new trial. Lawyers for Julie Amero contested that she was not seeking out pornography during class, but was,...
- Tags: Education Technology
- Blog posts 2007-06-07
- Two weeks to go...what are you doing with your students?
- If your students are anything like mine, they're going completely out of their minds right now and probably taking you right with them. In our case, our seniors have already graduated and everyone else is just counting down. So how do we occupy them with something other than YouTube (which...
- Tags: Education Technology
- Blog posts 2007-06-03
- Cheap mini-computers point to growing trend
- Forbes published a piece last week on "The $85 Computer." The computer to which they were specifically referring was "Norhtec's Microclient JrSX, a desktop PC the size of a large novel." This flash-based PC runs Windows CE, but could certainly run a variety of FOSS alternatives. While...
- Tags: Education Technology, Classroom Tech
- Blog posts 2007-05-21
- One Texas school district giving computerless kids Linux-based surplus
- The Wise County Messenger also picked up on Digg is reporting that one Texas school district is providing outdated computers that would otherwise be surplussed to students without PCs in their homes. These computers will be loaded with a basic Linux distro including the usual office automation software, the...
- Tags: Education Technology
- Blog posts 2007-05-15
- iGoogle...Another reason to love Google
- Google recently rebranded their personalized home page as iGoogle (I wonder when the lawsuits from Apple will be filed?). Nothing much changed. I had been using the personalized portal for a while and thought it was pretty spiffy. The interface allows you to easily drag and drop...
- Tags: Education Technology
- Blog posts 2007-05-03
- Japanese schools may convert aging computers to Linux
- A recent article in OhMyNews.com discusses the results of a conference in Tokyo at which educators recommended converting aging computers running Windows 98 and ME to Linux. About 400,000 such machines exist in Japans public schools and either cant run more up-to-date operating systems or the cost of upgrade...
- Tags: Education Technology
- Blog posts 2007-04-30
- From the too-good-to-be-altruistic department
- Sure, the digital divide still exists here in the states. It took nearly an act of congress to get my high school moved into the 21st century and were busily updating our curriculum to make use of the new technology. However, in reality, about 3 quarters of US...
- Tags: Education Technology, Classroom Tech, Microsoft, DigitalDivide
- Blog posts 2007-04-24
- OR goes back to bubble tests due to computer mishaps
- After a prolonged dispute with an academic testing company, Oregon education officials have decided to abandon computer testing in favor of the paper-and-pencil, fill-in-the-bubble tests, reports the Oregonian. The decision by state education department was made after some tests were administered and students either couldnt complete testing because the...
- Tags: computer, Vantage
- Blog posts 2007-03-14
- RIAA infringement letters: University says return to sender
- The Recording Industry Association of Americas RIAA campaign to stop college students from illegally downloading music hit a snag recently, as one university doesnt have the student computer records on hand, reports the Associated Press. The recording industry group has sent out hundreds of letters to colleges and universities...
- Tags: Education Technology, Higher Ed, Piracy
- Blog posts 2007-03-05
- Taking computers from (growing) babies
- As school equipment gets more expensive, its value attracts not just students but thieves as well. In Fort Worth, burglars have stolen or damaged thousands of dollars in computers and other equipment - and administrators are instituting new security measures to curtail the thefts, reports the Star Telegram. Although...
- Tags: Education Technology, Hardware
- Blog posts 2007-02-23
- Professor of porn or victim of adware?
- In a case that has generated world-wide buzz, a substitute teacher in Connecticut has been convicted of exposing students to pornography on a classroom computer, reports eSchool News. Julie Ameros attorneys argued that the computer was infected with graphic pop-up images generated by spyware and adware, and that she...
- Tags: Education Technology, Teaching
- Blog posts 2007-02-19
- Vanderbilt prof says P2P system may best YouTube
- An assistant professor of computer science and computer engineering at Vanderbuilt University has developed an innovative method to enable peer-to-peer multimedia streaming over the Internet, which one day may compete with YouTube, Vanderbuilt University proclaims. Professor Yi Cui has won a prestigious National Science Foundation CAREER Award for his...
- Tags: Computer science, Education Technology
- Blog posts 2007-02-16
- 'Augmented reality': the educational component
- In an effort to increase interest in math and sciences in schools, university researchers have developed an innovative pilot program that uses handheld computers and GPS units to make an augmented reality-based educational environment, reports eSchool News. The Handheld Augmented Reality Project HARP is a collaboration among Harvard University,...
- Tags: Education Technology, Gaming, Science Ed, handheld
- Blog posts 2007-02-02
- If calculators=Chuck E. Cheese employee, then computers=?
- A recent post of mine Revenge of the calculators seemed to ring true with quite a few readers. I think that most math teachers would agree wholeheartedly that an overreliance on calculators has done an awful lot of damage to students computational skills. Most would also agree that...
- Tags: calculator, Education Technology
- Blog posts 2007-02-02
- Georgia Tech, Microsoft bring tabletop robots to CS program
- One day, in the not too distant future, students may be conducting experiments with robots for lab partners. To that end, Georgia Tech and other universities have teamed up with Microsofts Institute for Personal Robots in Education IPRE to provide tabletop robots, hoping to encourge and promote computer science programs...
- Tags: Computer science, Education Technology, Georgia Tech, Higher Ed, robot, Robotics
- Blog posts 2007-01-31
- Stanford sophomore brings tech to Jamaican teens
- Its amazing what bit of youthful zeal and naivete can do. Stanford student Anders Jones has launched a multi-million dollar nonprofit which supplies public schools on the island nation of Jamaica with computers - and hes only a sophomore, reports the Stanford Daily. Anders Jones got the idea for...
- Tags: Education Technology, DigitalDivide, computer, Anders Jones
- Blog posts 2007-01-19
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