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- Advocacy in education it
- Advocacy in Education ITI agree, provided......that the emphasis is on doing what's right for the school, not just the IT people. There will never be enough money to do everything that's useful, but it's easier to set priorities if the focus is on how to better educate students.Inovation and...
- Tags: Advocacy, Education IT
- Discussion threads 2007-12-18
- Strike another blow to education it
- Strike another blow to Education ITAnd...What's the likelihood of a veto override? That can happen can't it?RE: Strike another blow to Education ITMr. Wagner, You are absolutely right. We need to shift our focus and soon. American's are falling behind other nations fast in the education sector, and our students...
- Tags: Government, Benefits, Education IT, Ed IT, salary
- Discussion threads 2007-11-20
- Giving students (and faculty) the tools they will use
- Giving students and faculty the tools they will useBudget RedirectionYou're dead on with your comment relating to IT budgets being redirected. While there has always been the chance that later on board approved budgets will be "raided" to fund other projects, it seems to occur earlier each year. This year...
- Tags: PRODUCTIVITY, Education IT, tool
- Discussion threads 2007-11-13
- Don't be fooled, Linux is not free
- Don't be fooled, Linux is not freeWell that settles itDon't even think about Linux. Too risky.Thanks for the negativity.(You go Chris!)choices[b]"Educational and corporate discounts bring the price of commercial Windows and Macintosh licenses in line with desktop Linux licenses."[/b]You choose SuSE.[b]"Education IT is no different than any other production...
- Tags: UNIX, Microsoft Windows, OPEN SOURCE, Operating systems, Novell Inc., Linux, server, Education IT
- Discussion threads 2007-07-08
- Shifting the costs of education it
- As the cost of laptop and notebook computers has continued to drop (to within a $200 to $300 of the cost of a similarly capable desktop system), a growing number of colleges and universities have begun to require entering freshmen to bring a laptop/notebook computer to school with them. ...
- Tags: Education Technology, Policy, Funding, Higher Ed, computer, Education IT
- Blog posts 2006-11-10
- What they want, what they need
- Education IT has come a long way since the first personal computers appeared on the scene. People forget that the IBM PC wasn't the first personal computer available to the general public -- not even close! The Apple II pre-dated the IBM PC by four years and was just one of several available...
- Tags: Ed Tech, faculty
- Blog posts 2006-11-01
- They're back! Are your labs ready?
- Well, whether your Education IT environment is higher-ed or secondary-ed, or even primary education, you have undoubtedly been inundated by now and wishing you had just a couple more weeks of summer to prepare yourself.If you are in higher-education, you have probably been working throughout the summer to be ready...
- Tags: Education, Education IT
- Blog posts 2006-09-01
- Paper + toner = workstations
- In many institutions, funding for Education IT is an afterthought. Often funded out of one-time money, IT is the first to get cut and the last to have those funds restored. There is no good excuse for this but it is understandable. Many administrators simply do not...
- Tags: toner, information technology
- Blog posts 2006-08-05
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- Putting the XP into the OLPC
- So, Microsoft has managed to get in on the OLPC bandwagon and put XP in front of millions of eyeballs in the developing world. But is this move about the children's education, or it is about recruiting more Windows users. What's important to note is that Microsoft...
- Tags: Team, One Laptop Per Child Project, Team Management, Microsoft Windows XP, Management, Operating Systems, Microsoft Windows, Software, Adrian Kingsley-Hughes
- Blog posts 2008-05-16
- WinXP on XO laptops OK as long as Linux runs, too
- Microsoft's agreement to offer Windows XP on OLPC's XO laptop is appropriate and long overdue. It was pure hypocrasy for Microsoft billionaire Bill Gates to publicly decry the so-called "Digital Divide" while privately refusing to support the XO simply because Linux was a supported operating system. ...
- Tags: Operating System, Bill Gates, Microsoft Corp., Laptop Computer, One Laptop Per Child Project, XO, Gates Foundation, Linux, Microsoft Windows XP, Operating Systems, Software, Microsoft Windows, Paula Rooney
- Blog posts 2008-05-16
- Open Source in 2013
- <satire> <source> Thank you. (Picture from Fox, America's only network. My picture at the top of this blog is expected to look much like this one in 2013, if I shave and get the combover right.) The hectic but repetitive routine of business and journalism often seems...
- Tags: Job, America, World Entertainment Shortage, Recruitment & Selection, Open Source, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Dana Blankenhorn
- Blog posts 2008-05-16
- Inkjet and laser multifunction peripherals enjoyed a healthy growth of 11% and 13% respectively in Q4 2007 in China
- Both the inkjet and laser multifunction peripherals enjoyed a healthy growth of 11% and 13% respectively in Q4 2007 in China, according to IDC. The demand from the public, education and financial sectors increased the sales of the SDM Serial Dot Matrix printer, resulting in a 16% increase in Q4...
- Tags: Inkjet Printer, Laser, Printers, Hardware, Peripherals, NB
- Blog posts 2008-05-15
- Ideology and self interest won't win health care debate
- The knives have already come out in the fight against health care reform in 2009. On the one hand we have ideology, represented by former Rep. Dick Armey, who complains that some Republicans are getting weak-kneed in their rejection of any but the most "market-oriented" (i.e., tilted...
- Tags: Physician, Ideology, Health Care, Vertical Industries, Benefits, Healthcare, Enterprise Software, Software, Human Resources, Dana Blankenhorn
- Blog posts 2008-05-15
- News to know: Comcast-Plaxo; Icahn-Yahoo; Linux; Microsoft
- Notable headlines: Larry Dignan: Comcast buys Plaxo: Will social networking and TV fly? Dennis Howlett: Comcast scoops up Plaxo: good move Dan Farber: Comcast goes social with Plaxo acquisition Techmeme EIC podcast: HP-EDS; Google; SaaS Adrian...
- Tags: Plaxo Inc., Google Inc., Larry Dignan, Comcast Corp., Workday, Microsoft Corp., Zoho, Linux, Microsoft Windows, Desktops, Rootkits, Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Operating Systems, UNIX, Software, Hardware, Security, Spyware, Adware & Malware
- Blog posts 2008-05-15
- The death gap
- The death gap, the likelihood of dieing young based solely on your economic and social class, is big and growing in the U.S. An analysis of statistics from the Clinton Administration, published today at PluS ONE, shows an uneducated white woman was more likely to die young...
- Tags: Death Rate, Median Age, Benefits, Human Resources, Dana Blankenhorn
- Blog posts 2008-05-14
- News to know: Zoho; HP; Windows 7; Patch day
- Notable headlines: Dennis Howlett: Zoho's Googley login raises interesting questions Ed Bott: The key to Windows success? It's all about the drivers News.com: Facebook pulls ‘stalker list' tool after Gawker exposes it Mary Jo Foley: Gates emphasizes PC-phone...
- Tags: Google Inc., Hewlett-Packard Co., Microsoft Windows 7, Microsoft Corp., Electronic Data Systems Corp., Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Software, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-05-14
- Intense (and really thoughtful) ranting from the OLPC front
- Intense and really thoughtful ranting from the OLPC frontSugar on the $299 EEE.I would be willing to bet that Asus would be more than willing to integrate mesh, provide a 33% discount to $199 if a new organization, one that carried out the vision of an education tool to the...
- Tags: One Laptop Per Child project, Sugar, Microsoft Windows XP
- Discussion threads 2008-05-13
- Intense (and really thoughtful) ranting from the OLPC front
- Ivan Krstić has made his way into this blog before. As OLPC's former director of security architecture and one closely involved with their Peru rollout, his posts offered great insights into just how the XO worked or was supposed to work on the backend. Now he,...
- Tags: One Laptop Per Child Project, Ivan KrstiÄ, Nicholas, Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Software, Christopher Dawson
- Blog posts 2008-05-13
- No Office 2007 for UK classrooms?
- InformationWeek is reporting on new complaints from the British Educational Communications and Technology Agency BECTA against Microsoft's lack of support for open standards. Now that OOXML has been adopted as an ISO standard, it's hard to say where this will go; however, the agency makes the case for steering...
- Tags: Microsoft Office 2007, Office Open XML, Microsoft Office, Office Suites, Software, Christopher Dawson
- Blog posts 2008-05-13
- First, a game of green. Then, fade to black
- It is truly astonishing that I mention the word Apple in a post and I get more talkbacks than pretty much anything I write about. Puh-leeze, get a grip. Anyway, just back from reluctantly leaving my old PowerBook G4 with the kindly (actually, can someone half my age be kindly?)...
- Tags: Brain, Query, Apple Inc., Games, E-mail, Web Site Development, Notebooks, Personal Technology, Online Communications, Internet, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, Heather Clancy
- Blog posts 2008-05-13
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