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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
- The realities of municipal Wi-Fi
- While, in principle, I agree with my colleague, Chris Dawson (Why municipal Wi-Fi is an educational expense), the problems with this approach are huge -- and have nothing whatsoever to do with education. In the 1930's the rationale for providing ubiquitous radio, electrical, telephone, and water resources to everyone was motivated by the...
- Tags: Education Technology
- Blog posts 2007-07-17
- Is Vista to blame for Mac, Linux popularity?
- A silly question, I know, but I just read Will Vista cause a switch to Macs, Linux? and I was dumbfounded. Here's the premise:The cost of upgrading to Windows Vista is forcing more organizations to evaluate alternatives including Apple Macs and Linux for the desktop.According to the article, Capital & Regional CIO...
- Tags: Education Technology
- Blog posts 2007-07-17
- 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
- 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
- You brought them along, kicking and screaming ... now what?
- If you've been supporting faculty in a university IT setting for any time at all, you've found it necessary to drag some of them, kicking and screaming, into the information age while others have been on the leading edge (some would say 'bleeding edge') from the start, always challenging you and...
- Tags: Education Technology, Emerging Tech, Funding, Hardware, Higher Ed, Information Systems
- Blog posts 2007-06-18
- Welcome Nicholas, to the world of unintended consequences
- When the IBM PC was introduced to the public, in 1981, it sold for around $2500. By 2000, the cost was down to around $1500, and today, you can get a decent PC for under $500.Several years ago, Steve Balmer hinted at the possibility of a $100 PC geared...
- Tags: K-12, Education Technology, DigitalDivide
- Blog posts 2007-06-07
- Is EMI the chink in the RIAA armor?
- Does anyone really believe the RIAA when they tell us that 'the sky is falling' from rampant piracy? Just last year, the recording industry, was trying to strong-arm Apple into raising its base price for it's entire DRM-protected music library. Apple held firm on its 99 cent pricing model and drew...
- Tags: Education Technology
- Blog posts 2007-06-04
- 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
- Why do so many seem to hate Microsoft?
- Chris Dawson's Why do I only get flamed when I support Microsoft? asks a really good question. There are no simple answers to this question, which is truly multi-faceted but one thing is certain: a lot of the animosity directed toward Microsoft has nothing to do with Microsoft or their business practices. I think the lack...
- Tags: Education Technology, Higher Ed
- Blog posts 2007-05-18
- 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
- Disclosure
- Marc Wagner is an employee of Indiana University, in Bloomington, Indiana. His work with ZDNet is independent of his professional work with Indiana University. His opinions are his own and not those of any other. He has no outside relationship with any entity whose business might be...
- Tags: Education Technology
- Blog posts 2007-05-07
- OLPC founder finally faces a 'grim reality'
- OLPC to run Windows? Say it ain’t so! was the headline and so far reader reaction is mixed. Adrian Kingsley-Hughes reports $175 OLPC deals blow to open source, guarantees Microsoft’s continued dominance. From the beginning, the One Laptop per Child foundation, the brainchild of MITs Nicholas Negroponte, has...
- Tags: Education Technology, Emerging Tech, Funding, Hardware, K-12, Microsoft, Open Source
- Blog posts 2007-04-30
- School's out (or almost out) ... time to go to work!
- In K-12, Education IT will soon have a couple of months off before planning for fall begins. Not so for colleges and universities. Overall better funding means that university IT departments often have some year-end money left over. If not, July 1 marks the beginning of a...
- Tags: Education Technology
- Blog posts 2007-04-29
- It's not our job ...
- Today, Chris Dawson reminds us of the proposed legislation by Congressman Ric Keller (R-Fla.) that would allow schools to tap into existing federal education funds for the adoption of technological solutions to the epidemic of illegal downloading on college campuses. (Never mind that 70% of all universities already take...
- Tags: Education Technology
- Blog posts 2007-04-24
- Do we really need those new printers?
- This morning my colleague, Chris Dawson, wrote a rather amusing piece entitled "But my printer is out of ink…". Its kind of a twenty-first century version of the kinds of excuses kids use for not getting their assignments done. It brought to mind a piece I wrote last...
- Tags: Education Technology
- Blog posts 2007-04-16
- 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
- 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
- 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
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