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- As technologies merge, school bans on iPods enter the gray zone
- The ubiquitous iPod might be making a comeback after being banned last year on public school campuses in Broward County, FL, reports the Miami Herald. On the agenda of the Broward School Board this week is whether middle-school students should be allowed to bring iPods, cellphones and laptops...
- Tags: Education Technology, K-12, Hardware, Digital Media, school board, Apple iPod, board, IPODS
- Blog posts 2007-02-12
- Internet pushes schools to confront First Amendment issues
- The rise of Internet usage in schools has raised some new freedom-of-speech issues that school boards across the country are just beginning to address, reports USA Today. As kids spend more of their free time blogging on the Internet, opinions that once might have stayed on the playground,...
- Tags: school board, First Amendment
- Blog posts 2006-10-27
- Schools slow to adopt online courses, even as state agencies approve them
- The lack of online options for tech ed classes required by the Maryland Department of Education for graduation is "just crazy," one student told the department recently and others provided further evidence of how slow-moving boards of education are hurting their educational options. In a hearing at a...
- Tags: board, school board
- Blog posts 2006-10-04
- Who's the bigger "Bully?" School board or game maker?
- A school district in Miami is considering speaking out against a new, secretive computer game called Bully, the Miami Herald reports. It's produced by Rockstar, the makers of the infamous Grand Theft Auto game. ''This game is built entirely around...
- Tags: game, Rockstar, Bully, School Board
- Blog posts 2006-03-14
- Sun makes case for open-source schooling
- Sun makes case for open-source schoolingThe only problem is that local school boards want to censor.They don't like it when we teach Johnny the truth. It will be interesting to see if they can generate censored versions. The good thing is that parents will still be able to locate the...
- Tags: open source, school board, Sun Microsystems Inc.
- Discussion threads 2005-06-28
- IP Telephony solutions provider Cisco CEO speaks his mind
- IP Telephony solutions provider Cisco CEO speaks his mindThis is becomming a self-fullfilling prophecy...Todays students are seeing what is going on, and many think it would be nuts to go into the Computer/IT field.To be honest, I can't blame them...Abuse of the H1B system, laying of US workers to off-shore,...
- Tags: Recruitment & Selection, Strategy, job, IP Telephony solutions provider, school board, IP telephony, Cisco Systems Inc., Bit-Twiddler, todays student, IP
- Discussion threads 2005-05-17
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- Chrome OS - The good, the bad and the ugly, and how it fits in with Windows, Mac and Linux
- Chrome OS - The good, the bad and the ugly, and how it fits in with WindowsI gave it some thought too and realized that Chrome OS only has the bad and the ugly. There is nothing good about it. All data stored in the cloud, and on Google's...
- Tags: Operating systems, Microsoft Windows, Linux, Chrome, Google Inc., Chrome OS, operating system
- Discussion threads 2009-11-20
- Did Microsoft Windows 7 download tool violate the GPL?
- ProbablyA microsoft programmer probably used code he found in the net(IE code-plex...) instead of developping his own code...At school the programmer would have failed his course, here MS will face, once aggain, the wrath of Stallman's little cultists.if true they should get penalize ntnt It was a CodePlex project?Well...
- Tags: OPEN SOURCE, Microsoft Windows 7, tool, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Corp., GPL
- Discussion threads 2009-11-10
- An unusual day, part 2 (or "My lease is up! Now what?")
- Smart Boards...Are Smart Boards such a great idea? Those projectors are all good and nice but there are other ways to achieve the same thing...The Interactive whiteboard is a compelling technology for teachers, it closely mimics what they're already used to. But there are weaknesses. Firstly using a whiteboard is...
- Tags: Projectors, Tablets, Notebooks, projector, unusual day
- Discussion threads 2009-11-06
- Ontario School Board Streamlines Web Content With Help From Microsoft
- The Halton District School Board serves approximately 52,300 public school students in the municipalities of Burlington, Halton Hills, Milton and Oakville in southern Ontario. The technology that underpinned the board's public web site and intranet was based on proprietary systems and lacked automation. This made it impossible for staff to...
- Tags: Web, Board, Microsoft Corp., Ontario, Halton District School Board, Corporate Governance, Content Management, Channel Management, Business Operations, Corporate Law, Enterprise Software, Software, Marketing
- Case studies 2009-10-14
- Who is a Candidate for Desktop Linux?
- I personally do not fall into the group of people that can easily migrate away from Windows, but that doesn't mean you or someone you know can't make the switch. As I said in earlier post last month, the work that I...
- Tags: Desktop, Microsoft Office, Microsoft Windows, Hardware, Desktop Linux, Computer, Super-Casual Web Surfer, Linux, UNIX, Operating Systems, Open Source, Software, Jason Perlow
- Blog posts 2009-10-11
- FOWA 2009: Microsoft Surface 'proof of concept' actually pointless
- Grats on being closed mindedWell done for putting someone down, your price point argument is fair but doesn't negate the number of possible uses of the surface device, which frankly are only limited by imagination, something that seems to be questionable for you.How do you define genuine uses? That sentence...
- Tags: Tablets, FOWA 2009, Microsoft Surface, proof of concept, Microsoft Corp.
- Discussion threads 2009-10-01
- More schools using SocMed: are we asking for trouble?
- Ownership? Right, until the cr*p hits the fan...I've been there. Everyone is completely on board until a risk becomes a law suit then suddenly all I see of the "Owners" are buttholes and elbows as they scramble for cover. Immediately afterwards the finger pointing begins with most...
- Tags: SocMed, instructor
- Discussion threads 2009-09-30
- More schools using SocMed: are we asking for trouble?
- I noticed an article this morning out of The Oregonion, not for any particular nostalgia for my days growing up in the Pacific Northwest, but because the headline in my RSS feed caught my eye: "Schools use Facebook, Twitter to get out their message." Well sure they...
- Tags: School, Twitter Inc., School District, Social Media, Christopher Dawson
- Blog posts 2009-09-30
- NetSupport School 10.50.3 (Windows)
- NetSupport School is an interactive software solution that enables teachers and trainers to demonstrate, monitor, and interact both visually and audibly with their students, simply and effectively. This can be done on a whole class basis or to selected groups of students or even to individual students. NetSupport School provides...
- Tags: NetSupport Ltd., Microsoft Windows, NetSupport School, Tablets, Corporate Governance, Notebooks, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, Business Operations, Corporate Law
- Software downloads 2009-09-30
- Microsoft vs. Google: An e-mail showdown at L.A. City Hall
- The city of Los Angeles has a decision to make. You see, the city's old school e-mail system is pretty outdated and in need of a major overhaul. But like most other municipal governments, the budget for new tech systems is pretty tight these days. And so, city officials have...
- Tags: Google Inc., Los Angeles, City, Microsoft Corp., E-mail, Online Communications, Sam Diaz
- Blog posts 2009-09-28
- Altec Lansing Mix iMT800
- Back in the 1980s, when portable audio was synonymous with "cassette tapes," boom boxes were a mainstay of music culture. While luggable, battery-powered speaker systems still exist today, they tend to be somewhat dainty iPod speakers. Altec Lansing's $300 Mix iMT800, meanwhile, aims to mix and match the best of...
- Tags: Engineering, Digital music, Digital media, Altec Lansing, battery, Apple iPod, Apple iPhone
- Product reviews 2009-09-18
- Anonymity exposed, part deux: Google, ISPs ordered to expose academic dissidents
- Freedom of anonimityWell done to the judge, everyone has the freedom of speech, where freedom of anonimity doesn't exist in any constitution.If people are going to make damaging remarks, make personal attacks on people and harm others and calim it as freedom of speech, then they should do so publicly....
- Tags: Internet service providers (ISPs), E-mail, SECURITY, Google Inc.
- Discussion threads 2009-09-14
- Give Google a break!
- soooo over googlegoogle has joined microsoft and apple on the dark side.i stopped using google after they ceased being a search engine and became a money factory. security, privacy and ownership issues shouldn't be played out in court after the fact, they should be delt with in the board room...
- Tags: COMPANIES, Google Inc., copyright law
- Discussion threads 2009-09-10
- What century is this?
- The chess clubMy vote would be, to strongly encourage them to go digital. And on line.I'm secretary of my chess club, and it's very annoying that some elderly members don't even have a computer let alone internet access. This makes communication a lot more difficult and slow.I even offered them...
- Tags: PRODUCTIVITY, E-mail, chess club, computer
- Discussion threads 2009-09-10
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