school committee member

ZDNet Resources

• sort by:
• Relevance
• Date
• Popularity

Open letter to a school committee member

Open letter to a school committee memberResigned?Chris, maybe you mentioned this in a previous posting and I missed it -- you've resigned? Will you still be writing this column? It's a daily favorite of mine...RE: Open letter to a school committee memberCris, As usual, you "hit the nail...

Tags: school committee member, Open Letter

Discussion threads 2008-06-12

Additional Resources

denial:global warming=creation:evolution?

The U.S. Chamber of Commerce wants to re-enact the famous Scopes Monkey Trial when the forces of faith and creationism tried to bar the teaching of Darwinian evolution to impressionable school children. Only this time it would global warming theory on trial. Is this just another round in...

Tags: Climate Change, Fossil Fuel, Harry Fuller

Blog posts 2009-08-31

Branding in the age of school choice

I hate that word. Branding is a buzzword that PR and marketing folks love to toss around and one that I try to avoid because, well, it's a buzzword. It's worse than "21st Century Skills." However, I was at a school committee meeting last night and we...

Tags: District, Student, School Choice, Public Relations, Branding, Marketing, Corporate Communications, Christopher Dawson

Blog posts 2009-03-19

Is CAD still relevant? Yes and no

Talking with a school committee member tonight, I was reminded quite rightfully, how important it is to consider the community in which we live as we design courses. She was very concerned that I had eliminated CAD from our course offerings in favor of programming and advanced web design...

Tags: AutoCAD, Student, CAD, Productivity, Manufacturing, Software, Christopher Dawson

Blog posts 2009-02-05

Yahoo headlines: What's fact and what's rumor?

If you're tired of rampant speculation about Yahoo's future, including headlines from legitimate news sources that are fueling the blogosphere with rumor and unconfirmed theories, raise your hand. Just as I suspected. I know it's been a while since I...

Tags: Yahoo! Inc., Source, CEO, Blogging, Corporate Governance, Internet, Business Operations, Corporate Law, Sam Diaz

Blog posts 2008-12-03

Open letter to a school committee member

A bit of background before I pass on this letter that I wrote to a member of our school committee this morning...Our district has been without a technology-director type for many years now. While we have good staff handling individual schools, coordinating and managing the use of technology district-wide...

Tags: District, Technology, Tools & Techniques, Productivity, Management, Christopher Dawson

Blog posts 2008-06-12

Brief: 4

This is the fourth excerpt from the first book in the Defen series: The Board Member's IT Brief. From chapter 2 "Evaluating IT Proposals 2.1 Processes and ground rules Three kinds of IT proposals come to the board for...

Tags: Project, Information Technology, Board, Benefit, Bottom Line, Decision, Proposal, Corporate Governance, Strategy, Business Operations, Corporate Law, Management, Paul Murphy

Blog posts 2008-02-01

Textbook costs have to go

Textbook costs have to goI've alwasy wondered why a group . . .of Universities haven't gotten together to produce some sort of on-line database, ala Wikipedia, to do this very thing. They could restrict input to accredited organizations, with the documents subject to review by the member groups before...

Tags: E-books, textbook publisher, Books, textbook

Discussion threads 2008-01-19

European regulators targeting .Net, OOXML, server products in new Microsoft probe

European regulators targeting .Net, OOXML, server products in new Microsoft probeIt ain't the EU, stupid.It ain't the EU, stupid. It is a separate organisation. Plus, on the Opera, Norway isn't in the EU.Be carefulthey'll call you names here.There's apparently more money and fame in nitpicking instead of handling all issues...

Tags: .NET, Application servers, Middleware, RSS, server, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft .NET, European Regulators, OOXML

Discussion threads 2008-01-14

Open source statistics? Anyone? Anyone?

Open source statistics? Anyone? Anyone?Several programsLuke Tierney from the Department of Statistics and Actuarial Science at The University of Iowa has a program called lisp-stat lisp based with an xlispstat package available for Xorg so you get a gui. A many many built in functions with the ability...

Tags: PRODUCTIVITY, open source, Microsoft Excel

Discussion threads 2007-07-02

Now Congress is getting in on the act

Ars technica highlighted recent actions by Congress, members of which are now sending letters to the RIAAs "most wanted" universities, to compel schools to deal aggressively with piracy. As the article noted:House Judiciary Committee member Lamar Smith (R-TX) made a veiled threat to universities that do not provide satisfactory...

Tags: Education Technology

Blog posts 2007-05-04

Major new BlackBerry Patent app: Auto-capitalization, Auto-punctuation, many more usability features

Major new BlackBerry Patent app: Auto-capitalization, Auto-punctuation, many more usability featuresInsignificant Incremental InventionResearch in Motion has once again produced an invention of minimal significance. It is really obvious to use timing to alter keyboard behavior.It is RIM's inability to produce significant inventions and their unwillingness to fairly compensate those...

Tags: Strategy, RIM BlackBerry, alliance, patent, inventor, independent inventor, Research In Motion Ltd.

Discussion threads 2007-04-05

One laptop per child - even in US suburbs

As the One Laptop Per Child program OLPC moves into the developed world, software companies are jockeying for position in what could be the largest distribution of laptops to students ever, reports Linux Insider. The OLPC program has long-term plans to sell a slightly higher-priced version of the cool...

Tags: Education Technology, K-12, Hardware, OLPC

Blog posts 2007-02-07

AGLOCO: You can't pronounce success?

AGLOCO is already making the rounds in the blogosphere. I agree with Mike Arrington that it looks like a bad idea repackaged. If they came up with this name, its a bad sign. Liz Gannes points out weve seen this very idea before, as an infomediary called AllAdvantage.com. At VentureBeat,...

Tags: Business &, Technology

Blog posts 2006-11-20

Cry the beloved country!

I’m writing this as I leave South Africa – sitting in an airport lounge on WiFi (iPass via South Africa’s Internet Solutions) at the end of my fifth trip here over a span of six years. I’m a member of the President’s International Advisory Council PIAC on the Information...

Tags: I&rsquo, m, President&rsquo, s International Advisory Council

Blog posts 2006-09-07

Cellphone confiscation a step too far

School officials at Framingham High School in Massachusetts are back-peddling on a policy that would allow administrators to confiscate student cellphones during drug searches in order to look for information, The Boston Globe reports. Although the American Civil Liberties Union has objected to the policy, Framingham High School...

Tags: cell phone

Blog posts 2006-08-01

About those laptops

It wasn't all that long ago that a laptop in the classroom was a bit of a novelty. But things have have almost come full circle as universities begin to pine for the good old days—pre-WiFi. According to an article in the Chronicle of Higher Education, professors are noticing that...

Tags: laptop computer

Blog posts 2006-05-30

Tiny school district signing up thousands for online courses

A tiny rural district in Colorado has seen a huge jump in enrollments in their online courses, from 3483 to 5730, and state aid has risen accordingly from $19.6 million to $32.6 million. The skyrocketing payments have brought the ire of state legislators down on little Vilas School District in...

Tags: online program

Blog posts 2006-04-05

Edtech advocates take to the Hill

Even as he called for the country to beef up math and science education, President Bush slashed education technology in his 2007 budget. Now as Congress take up the budget, edtech organizations spent March 9 on the Hill, trying to educate lawmakers about the importance of the funding, eSchool News...

Tags: John Ensign

Blog posts 2006-03-16

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