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Leaving Education IT to clueless politicians

Well, theyre at it again! The proposed new law is called "The Curb Illegal Downloading on College Campuses Act of 2007 (H.R. 1689)" and it would provide Department of Education funding for anti-piracy software. (See Bill would free colleges to buy anti-piracy software.) Sound good? Well,...

Tags: Texts &, Materials, Research, Networks, Libraries, IT Management, Higher Ed, Funding, Education Technology, Digital Media

Blog posts 2007-04-06

Swarthmore testing Google Apps for email and more

Although many college students already have a Gmail account, along with their school email and other accounts, Swarthmore College is checking out the education edition of Google Apps service to replace their current service,reports the Swarthmore Phoenix. Before Swarthmore dumps their Swatmail service, IT is taking a hard...

Tags: Google, Education Technology, IT Management

Blog posts 2007-04-04

Single signon portal makes sense for university

When it comes to university web portals, the magic number is one. Give students and facultry only one options and you wont have to worry so much about lost passwords, unworkable navigation and needless replication of data, reports Campus Technology. The GoWMU web portal at Western Michigan University lets...

Tags: Education Technology, IT Management, Web

Blog posts 2007-03-06

Berklee School of Music moves towards electronic office

Years ago there was a lot of talk of living in a paperless society. Well, we all know better now. But one college has taken the idea to heart and has implemented steps towards an all-electronic administration, Berklee College of Music recently announced its decision to implement ImageNow, an electronic...

Tags: Education Technology, IT Management

Blog posts 2007-03-02

Copyright infringement by your students is your problem

I was not the least bit surprised last week when I read RIAA cracks down on downloading at 25 colleges. After all, institutions are routinely notified whenever resources residing in their domain are associated with disruptive activity outside of that domain. For that reason, we take substantive measures...

Tags: Standards, Legal Issues, Social networking, Higher Ed, Policy, IT Management, Education Technology

Blog posts 2007-02-26

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

ND tries to fix troubled campus information system

The North Dakota State Board of Higher Education has voted the increase spending to upgrade troubled software that connects North Dakotas college campuses, reports the Associated Press. After drawing complaints from users, the ConnectND software system is going to get a $9.5 million facelift, consisting of 11.5 new...

Tags: Education Technology, IT Management, Information Systems

Blog posts 2007-01-22

First step to improve test scores? Technology.

Schools districts in Massachusetts are banking on high tech to boost test scores, reports the Boston Globe. The first step that the Billerica school district took was to hire Salah E. Khelfaoui as technology director. "Here we are dealing with the most precious of resources -- children -- and...

Tags: Education Technology, IT Management, K-12, Salah E. Khelfaoui

Blog posts 2007-01-15

Vista closed for UK schools

Microsofts Windows Vista and Office 2007 dont offer enough new features to warrant the investment, a British educational survey advisory group found, advising schools against upgrading. Although Microsoft touts huge improvements in its new software, The British Education Communications and Technology Association BECTA report cautions against it,...

Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Microsoft Office, Digital media, Digital music, Web browsers, UK School, BECTA, Microsoft Windows Vista, Microsofts

Blog posts 2007-01-12

Will your students be using Linux in 2007?

Im writing this post using Fedora Core 6 on my new laptop. Ive been running some flavor of Linux for a while now and I think Ive finally settled on Fedora Core since its doing such a nice job with both multimedia and office productivity tasks. Overall, it...

Tags: Instant messaging, UNIX, OPEN SOURCE, Operating systems, IM, Linux, 64-bit, Fedora Project

Blog posts 2006-12-13

Sloppy school district auctions PCs with student data

In another example of how schools fail to take extra precautions to avoid security breaches, a Greenville, NC, school has auctioned off old school computers which contained the Social Security numbers of more than 59,000 Greenville County students, reports The Greenville News. The school is in negotiation with...

Tags: David Thomas, computer, security breach, Cybersecurity, IT Management, Education Technology

Blog posts 2006-12-11

New legal discovery rules impact schools

Federal rules that went into effect Dec. 1 will have a broad impact on how schools - and any organization that is involved in litigation - handles its email, IM and other electronic communications. While the addition to the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure - upheld in a...

Tags: e-mail, IT Management, Education Technology

Blog posts 2006-12-11

Additional Resources

It's a girl! (or Ed Tech, 6 years hence)

Regular readers and followers of my Twitter feed will know that yesterday was pretty eventful. My wife and I (well, mostly my wife, but I did make some moderate contribution) had a baby girl who currently remains nameless (we're leaning toward Penelope, but she was delivered by c-section so...

Tags: Web Application, Social Media, E-books, Semantic Web, Cloud Computing, Personal Technology, Internet, Christopher Dawson

Blog posts 2009-11-10

Nine out of 10 corporate PCs can run Windows 7 ... but that's not the whole story

RE: Nine out of 10 corporate PCs can run Windows 7 ... but that's not the whole storyMost corporate PCs were not updated to Vista, because Vista didn't add any additional values; required more powerful hardware and had a very bad name from the start.Most companies will also not upgrade...

Tags: Operating systems, Software Developement, Microsoft Windows 7, Microsoft Windows XP, corporate PC, PC, Win7, whole story, operating system, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Windows Vista

Discussion threads 2009-10-19

The Windows 7 judge and jury: Your mom

Win 7 and the below average userI have quite a change up ahead with my co workers. We are a small financial institution and run XP currently. I am sure some of my co workers have vista at home however they have no idea what they are doing if a...

Tags: Gender and diversity, Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Operating systems, Microsoft Windows 7, women, Microsoft Windows Vista, Win7, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Windows XP

Discussion threads 2009-10-08

Making the tablet computer "classroom-ready"

Deja VuSince it's already been tried so many times before, what makes you think it'll work this time?Tablets are dirty, if not now, they will be soon as people can't keep their fingers off them ;-)WiznotesWhat do you think about students from high school to college using Wiznotes for taking...

Tags: Tablets, Notebooks, tablet, tablet computer, Wiznotes, computer, software

Discussion threads 2009-08-16

Cisco IT pro publishes techniques on "growing" a green data center new book on

There's a new book out this month from Cisco IT architect Douglas Alger called "Grow a Green Data Center." (The book is published by Cisco Press, which is a technology imprint of Pearson Education.) The author says the book is a compilation of best practices and techniques for optimizing...

Tags: Technique, Data Center, Information Technology, Cisco Systems Inc., Cisco IT Pro, Data Centers, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Heather Clancy

Blog posts 2009-08-14

OpenSource World/NGDC/CloudWorld Experiences

I've been running from meeting to meeting at IDG World Expo's OpenSource World/Next Generation Datacenter/CloudWorld Conference at the Moscone Center in the heart of beautiful San Francisco (see OpenSource World/NGDC/CloudWorld.) Here are my initial impressions of the event: The event is significantly smaller than any I...

Tags: IDG World Expo, Event, Vendor Area, Data Centers, Channel Management, Cloud Computing, Virtualization, Strategy, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Marketing, Management, Dan Kusnetzky

Blog posts 2009-08-12

Shock Horror 'Social Media': Who Will Save/Train the Children?

An interesting US national poll from Common Sense Media asking 'is social networking changing childhood?' opens up some wider issues. Common sense media suggest their poll... ...illustrates a continuing disconnect between parents and kids when it comes to kids’ digital lives....

Tags: Facebook, Network, Social Media, Social Networking, Online Communications, Marketing, Advertising & Promotion, Oliver Marks

Blog posts 2009-08-11

Edubuntu followup

Sharing knowledgeWell done and thank you! Knowledge sharing at it's best.In the first Edubuntu blog post you asked us readers a technical question, and now, in the second Edubuntu post, you provide us with a summary of the most useful solutions.This is how knowledge sharing within the ZDnet community should...

Tags: Thin clients, OPEN SOURCE, thin client, Edubuntu, Linux

Discussion threads 2009-08-07