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K12 woos Wyoming to provide virtual homeschool

As virtual schools gain popularity among unaffiliated homeschoolers, public schools are offering virtual school programs as well, reports the Casper Star Tribune. Taxpayers wittingly or unwittingly are increasingly supporting virtual schools, as states sign on to for-profit virtual programs, such as K12 Inc., a popular elementary virtual school...

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Blog posts 2006-09-13

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You've got Windows 7 questions, I've got answers

You've got Windows 7 questions, I've got answersNo images in the article.IMAGE is in place of the photos.DPI scaling of gadgetsI'm amazed Microsoft seems to be ignoring the fact that desktop gadgets do not scale with DPI. This is going to become a major problem as screens get larger....

Tags: Operating systems, Microsoft Windows 7, Microsoft Windows

Discussion threads 2008-10-29

Will Windows 7 have a place in Ed Tech?

Will Windows 7 have a place in Ed Tech?At Least He Has A JobUnlike you, sitting at the public library.Loser.you seem to be talking about things that you dont knowYou dont have a good technical handle on things. Just repeating the same over and over like a parrot. No reasoning,...

Tags: Linux, Operating systems, OPEN SOURCE, Microsoft Windows 7, Microsoft Windows, Ed Tech, hardware

Discussion threads 2008-10-27

News to know: Ballmer on Windows 7; T-Mobile G1; Google's 3Q

Here are today's notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily: Ballmer: It's ok to wait until Windows 7; Yahoo still 'makes sense'; Google Apps 'primitive' Microsoft wants you to move: To IE 8, Vista... Ballmer: 'Windows...

Tags: Google Inc., T-Mobile G1, Microsoft Windows 7, Steve Ballmer, T-Mobile, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Microsoft Windows, Notebooks, Outsourcing, Open Source, Web Services, Enterprise Software, Software, Operating Systems, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, It Operations, Business Operations, Outsourcing & Subcontracting, David Grober

Blog posts 2008-10-17

Sun brings open source and virtualization to K12

Sun brings open source and virtualization to K12Thin Clients do offer many advantagesSome other hard data might be interesting, such as*total* electrical load up? down? (servers + clients)*total cost of ownership* up? down? (last time I looked, the costs would be less, but that was for an HP systemMTBF? up?...

Tags: Thin clients, cloud computing, Utility computing, Storage management, K12, MTBF, GOOD Question, virtualization, server, open source, Sun Microsystems Inc.

Discussion threads 2008-10-16

Sun brings open source and virtualization to K12

I finally have a chance tonight to follow up on my interview with Joe Hartley of Sun Microsystems since the only news floating around relates in some way to that silly little election we have coming up in a few weeks. I wanted to focus tonight on...

Tags: Software, School, Open Source, Sun Microsystems Inc., Bradford, Virtualization, Cloud Computing, Storage Management, Utility Computing, Thin Clients, Hardware, Storage, Christopher Dawson

Blog posts 2008-10-15

Pumping up the comp sci pipeline

Pumping up the comp sci pipelineWell...I'd think that unless ComSci is entrenched in schools initiatives like this conference will go the way of any other program that is outside the "core."So, how to get it into the core? It would seem that CTE is on the way to being declared...

Tags: Recruitment & Selection, Outsourcing, Benefits, CSTA web site, grammar school

Discussion threads 2008-05-29

Pumping up the comp sci pipeline

I had the opportunity to speak with Chris Stephenson on Wednesday. Ms. Stephenson is the Executive Director of the Association for Computing Machinery's Computer Science Teachers Association CSTA. Along with Google and a grant from the National Science Foundation, the CSTA is coordinating an ambitious two-day conference to...

Tags: Computer Science, Computer, CS, Productivity, Christopher Dawson

Blog posts 2008-05-28

Liveblogging: Apple's Q2 2008 financial results

In a conference call today with analysts, Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) discussed financial results of the second fiscal quarter of 2008 which runs from 01 January – 31 March 2008. Apple's revenue was up 43 percent year-over-year. The company posted revenue of US$7.51 billion and...

Tags: jason D. O'Grady, Sales Strategy, Apple Inc., Apple iPhone, Revenue, Growth, Sales Force Management, Operational Accounting, Apple iPod, Finance, Financial, Sales

Blog posts 2008-04-23

WA Department of Education and Training Rolls Out Statewide Digital Learning to 800 Schools

The Western Australian Department of Education and Training WA DET delivers education and skills development to people in the state. WA DET administers education across a region roughly one-third of the Australian land mass. This vast geography presents the department with a range of challenges, including building the skills of...

Tags: Education, U.S. Department Of Education, Oracle Corp., Training, WA DET, Portals, Internet

Case studies 2008-04-01

Give me Ubuntu or, well, give me something else

Give me Ubuntu or, well, give me something elseThe post DOJ judgement agreement gave MS more power.http://talkback.zdnet.com/5208-3513-0.html?forumID=1&threadID=27634&messageID=518780&start=-9922You do raise a valid point I have been bringing up multiple time. [B]If the PC is already proven and verified with both XP and Vista or Ubuntu for that matter [/B]Why doesn't Dell...

Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Linux, Microsoft Windows, Desktops, rabbit hole, Dell Computer Corp., Ubuntu, OEM, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows Vista

Discussion threads 2008-01-30

Will Windows 'XO' bear fruit for OLPC?

Will Windows 'XO' bear fruit for OLPC?You are again trashing Christopher Dawson's blog. Get you own bloginstead of trashing somebody else's.No.All this talk about training, etc, the Sugar OS on XO requires no training. Security is also baked in, and it has mesh capabilities, ultra low power, etc...Now, all...

Tags: Blogging, blog, One Laptop Per Child project, laptop computer, Microsoft Windows XP, Microsoft Windows

Discussion threads 2007-12-06

New tool from MIT makes online lectures genuinely useful

New tool from MIT makes online lectures genuinely usefulThat's fantasticHow I wish I could have filtered my university lectures for content! Imagine the tool this could be for specific research. Not to mention the ease of tuning out any waffle for which you're paying a premium to listen!Anyone recording lectures...

Tags: PRODUCTIVITY, lecture, K12, tool, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Discussion threads 2007-11-27

Just what do techies really need to know?

Just what do techies really need to know?HmmmCommunication Skills is a primary one. To have the patience to listen to a user and to understand/listen to what they say is key skill for any tech and one that many lack. This is true for more than just the K12 market.BTW...

Tags: CAD, Leadership, Strategy, communication skill, small setting, innovation

Discussion threads 2007-11-26

Not teaching safer surfing? You should be

Not teaching safer surfing? You should beVirginia is one state taking charge of this!With Virginia's Dept of Ed's new Internet Safety Legislation, all school divisions have to put in place this year a program for implementing Internet Safety into their K-12 curriculum. Many divisions have teamed up to...

Tags: Corporate communications, INTERNET, video

Discussion threads 2007-10-17

OpenSUSE beats Ubuntu to the punch

OpenSUSE beats Ubuntu to the punchAdditional benefitsOpenSuSE is the only 'Microsoft certified Linux', even better;)False comparison but good reviewThe title "OpenSUSE beats Ubuntu to the punch" implies that the two distro vendors were racing to release the same capability, and OpenSUSE got their first. That's silly, of course -...

Tags: UNIX, OPEN SOURCE, Operating systems, Novell OpenSuse, Novell Inc., Linux, Ubuntu, WARNING LABEL

Discussion threads 2007-10-05

Smartbf33oards vs interactive whiteboards

Smartbf33oards vs interactive whiteboardsSMART puts the Teacher firstThough I think that you have a valid point with the price structure of the Mimio. Being a former educator, I think that when a school is looking to purchase an interactive technology they really need to look at the whole picture. SMART...

Tags: Corporate governance, SMART Technology, board, Smart Board, Smartbf33oards, interactive whiteboard, Mimio

Discussion threads 2007-09-12

What the heck is a thin client?

What the heck is a thin client?same?Is this what we use to refer to as a "dumb terminal"?Can't Work in k12 without problemsI can't see it working in k12 at all because of the diversity of students in a school district. A schools population is mainly based on the population...

Tags: Thin clients, thin client

Discussion threads 2007-08-01

Any universities adopting Linux as their platform of choice?

Any universities adopting Linux as their platform of choice?nmtNew Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology ([url=http://www.nmt.edu]New Mexico Tech[/url]) is pretty pervasively Linux, but of course there are quite a few tools think LabView that you're stuck using MS for.All of the Technical Computing Center open campus computer lab machines are...

Tags: Operating systems, Dartmouth College, K12 environment, Linux, information technology, Microsoft Corp.

Discussion threads 2007-07-16

MathMagic Personal Edtion (zip)

MathMagic is a stand-alone equation editor for mathematical equations and symbols. MathMagic provides you with an easy-to-use WYSIWYG interface and various powerful features. With MathMagic, you can easily create any mathematical expressions from K12 to higher education, and use them within various other software by drag&drop, copy&paste, or export/import. Version...

Tags: MathMagic, Tools & Techniques, Management

Software downloads 2007-07-03