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- Usability vs solid IT
- I'm just writing a quick post this morning since I'm in a motel room with 4 kids off the Jersey Turnpike getting ready to finish my drive home to Massachusetts. However, I'm writing on a lovely unsecured wireless connection that the motel provides. Last week I read George...
- Tags: Education Technology
- Blog posts 2007-07-23
- What if I get hit by a bus?
- After reading Marc Wagner's post "Don’t be fooled, Linux is not free," I was struck by a few items. First and foremost, Marc is right. Linux is not a panacea. It doesn't take away the cost of doing business and it certainly requires a degree of expertise,...
- Tags: Open Source, K-12, Education Technology
- Blog posts 2007-07-09
- Don't be fooled, Linux is not free
- I just finished reading Chris Dawson's most recent piece Linux definitely has a place in education and I couldn't agree more, until he said ..."If the choice is arbitrary, then would you rather pay hundreds of dollars or many thousands or millions at the enterprise level or would you rather...
- Tags: Open Source, K-12, Higher Ed, Education Technology
- Blog posts 2007-07-08
- Is Linux right for your school?
- My colleague, Chris Dawson, has written several excellent pieces recently about Linux mostly about the latest from the Ubuntu family of products but more recently about SuSE and he has made some excellent points. The question one has to ask though in deciding whether Linux is right for your school is...
- Tags: Education Technology, K-12
- Blog posts 2007-06-28
- Is your university IT department leading or following?
- While K-12 decision makers are often not the ones who have to implement those decisions, many in K-12 settings still have the advantage of one or two experienced IT people who somehow figure out how to do more with less. The importance of thinking like a CIO not a consumer should be clear...
- Tags: Education Technology, Higher Ed
- Blog posts 2007-05-24
- Schools fights IT outsourcing fears
- How much does outsourcing jobs overseas affect enrollment in IT courses in colleges? Computer degrees have seen a sharp decline since the dot-com bust and thats putting pressure on colleges to recruit students, reports the Tampa Tribune. Some teachers such as Kaushal Chari, the head of an information technology...
- Tags: Higher Ed, Education Technology
- Blog posts 2007-04-12
- Giving educators the tools that they want (and need)
- Education IT, whether in K-12 or in a college or university setting, all too often finds itself trying to provide cost-effective solutions without having any idea what our educators need to do their jobs most effectively. Among our readers, the debate rages on between Windows and Macintosh and some...
- Tags: Education Technology
- Blog posts 2007-04-11
- Three IT programs chosen for $1.3m NSF grant
- The Concord Consortium in Massachusetts has chosen middle and high schools across the country to participate in a model national science and technology project which will give schools an opportunity to advance beyond the standard science curriculum, reports info Zine. One district receiving the funds is Olathe...
- Tags: Education Technology, Olathe District Schools
- Blog posts 2007-01-09
- A new year (and semester) is upon us
- Well, if you work in University IT, your students are back in town and classes are about to start. More likely than not, faculty are starting to panic because the application they requested on 22 December is still not deployed to hundreds of workstations which their students will be...
- Tags: semester, University IT, information technology
- Blog posts 2007-01-06
- Maine high school IT students refurb PCs
- A high school in Maine has come up with a solution to those pesky outdated school computers—fix em up and give them away to other students. The idea has far-reaching benefits for everyone involved, reports the Portland Press Herald. Students in the Information Technology program at the Sanford Regional...
- Tags: Vo-Tech, Education Technology
- Blog posts 2007-01-03
- Vacation time in education IT
- In an educational IT setting, where tens of thousands of students may be dependent upon access to thousands of identically configured workstations anytime, day or night, the challenge to keep those workstations current and up to date can be daunting. Unlike Summer break, when student populations are down dramatically...
- Tags: Education Technology, Policy, Higher Ed
- Blog posts 2006-12-06
- Gates: As US IT grads slow, Russia fills the gap
- The fact that the U.S. isnt producing Internet graduates from its universities to fuel the growing need for skilled workers in the high-tech market was on the mind of Bill Gates as he met with Russian leaders in Moscow yesterday, reports Reuters. After the breakup of the Soviet Union,...
- Tags: Notebooks, Bill Gates, information technology
- Blog posts 2006-11-13
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- HNHSoft Larousse English Italian Dictionary (BlackBerry) 1.1.12 (Mobile)
- HNHSoft Larousse Concise Dictionary: English-Italian / Italian-English is the latest addition to the Larousse bilingual Italian dictionary line. It provides intermediate to advanced users with the extensive vocabulary coverage and in-depth features they need. With up-to-date vocabulary in all subject areas including information technology, business, and economics along with ample...
- Tags: Mobile, RIM BlackBerry, Dictionary, HNHSoft, Advertising & Promotion, Vertical Industries, Benefits, Healthcare, Handhelds, Marketing, Human Resources, Hardware
- Software downloads 2009-11-25
- 10 technological changes in 10 technological years
- retitle it15 Technological Changes in 15 Years... and even with that you'd be off. Pluto was reclassified... this is not a technological innovation, even its classification name already existed.15 years ago Forest Gump came out, and even it was talking about Apple being big then, when it was set......
- Tags: DVD, floppy disk, hard drive
- Discussion threads 2009-11-09
- Cloud Computing and Its Security in Higher Education
- Interest in cloud computing has witnessed a significant surge in the past few years. The basic tenet of this concept entails the reduction of in-house data centers and the delegation of a portion or all of the Information Technology infrastructure capability to a third party. This holds the promise of...
- Tags: Education, Security, Cloud Computing, Data Centers, Virtualization, Storage, Hardware, Data Management
- White papers 2009-11-03
- The Use of Digital Manipulatives in K-12: Robotics, GPS/GIS and Programming
- Faculty from 4-H Youth Development, Biosystems Engineering, and Education have collaborated to develop and implement an innovative robotics and geospatial technologies program, delivered in an informal learning setting of 4-H clubs and afterschool programs. Aimed at middle school youth, the program uses robotics and Global Positioning System GPS receivers and...
- Tags: K-12, Youth, Robotics, Programming, Robots, GIS, GPS, Emerging Technologies, Software, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology
- White papers 2009-10-21
- Uptime Institute Seminar
- I'm on my way to the Uptime Institute's How to Plan, Justify, and Manage a Major Data Center Project seminar in Atlanta, GA. I hope to meet some of the attendees as well as members of the Institute's staff. Who is the Uptime Institue? Here's how the Institute...
- Tags: Data Center, Uptime, Uptime Institute, Institute, Data Centers, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Dan Kusnetzky
- Blog posts 2009-10-19
- Can Apple make a Tablet PC "cool"?
- Re:Can Apple make a Tablet PC "cool"?My company is deeply involved in the production of visual materials for the scientific, technical and medical post-secondary education marketplace and they are just dying for a tool such as this for use in the classroom. With a solid customer base here, Apple can...
- Tags: Tablets, Notebooks, Keyboards, PC, tablet, Apple Inc., keyboard, tablet PC
- Discussion threads 2009-10-05
- SafenSec Personal 3.5 (Windows)
- Tens of thousands of new viruses arrive in security companies' research labs every day. Anti-virus products that protect you the traditional way - with a 'signature' to detect each virus - simply can't keep up. A new approach is needed. That approach is SafenSec. SafenSec Personal uses unique proactive technology,...
- Tags: PC, Microsoft Windows, Virus, S.N.Safe&Software, Self-education Mode, Desktops, Cyberthreats, Viruses And Worms, Security, Hardware
- Software downloads 2009-10-01
- Do you really need Office? Really? If the Feds don't, do we?
- Sounds like these users could get by just fine with Wordpad.[i]That being said, how many of your teachers are doing this sort of thing? Teachers need to create content, no doubt about it, but that content should be online, accessible, collaborative, and reusable. You don?t need Office for that.[/i]The problem,...
- Tags: Next Up, Google Inc., Microsoft Office, Google Apps
- Discussion threads 2009-09-17
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