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- School District Virtualizes Aging Servers, Saves $200,000
- Based in Louisville, Jefferson County Public Schools is the largest school district in the state of Kentucky. Operating in an economic downturn, the district felt pressure to reduce costs without affecting classroom learning. The IT department responded by looking for a solution to contain server sprawl, standardize a disparate server...
- Case studies 2009-10-16
- School District Makes Technology Available to Enhance Student Achievement
- The Pittsford School District in New York State is one of the highest achieving school districts in the United States, and its commitment to student achievement begins at the elementary-school level. But in its elementary schools, disparate IT environments had become too inefficient to effectively enhance instruction or support the...
- Case studies 2009-10-12
- School District of Manatee County Empowers Users With Upgraded IT System and Purchasing Capabilities
- School District of Manatee County wanted to upgrade Oracle's JD Edwards World application suite to take advantage of new application functionality, streamline business processes, and optimize the district's technology investment and enable the district to save money by better leveraging its spend across suppliers. School District of Manatee County upgraded...
- Case studies 2009-10-01
- Delsea Regional School District Refreshes Client Systems Four Times Faster With Solutions From Dell and Symantec
- With 1,300 endpoints distributed across nine buildings, Delsea Regional School District's IT staff spent a lot of time driving between sites and visiting machines. Summer client hardware refreshes took three months to complete. Delsea implemented Altiris Management Suite for Dell Clients to allow its staff of three people to manage...
- Case studies 2009-10-01
- 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...
- Blog posts 2009-09-30
- Google Edu Apps vs. Microsoft Web Apps: Should I have waited?
- Yet another article where you have nothing to say but simply praise Google because in your eyes they can do no wrong. Yes you should have waited. Microsoft is the world leader in office suites with years upon years of experience. Not only will they offer a better...
- Discussion threads 2009-09-21
- Could Google Fast Flip get kids reading news again?
- "I'm a big fan of Google"Really, Chris? You're a big fan of Google? I had no idea!Seriously, though, does your school district know that you are now working full time for Google?Hard to believehe actually works for a school district given his blogs. I didn't think any...
- Discussion threads 2009-09-15
- CA digital textbooks initiative falls flat
- Here is California's review of digital high school textbooks. As AP reports, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger has been promoting the idea that schools would use these free texts as a way to save money and bring education into the 21st century. First, it's interesting to...
- Blog posts 2009-08-18
- Can netbook subsidies from wireless companies work for schools?
- So Sprint is basically giving away netbooks, Verizon is making them mighty cheap at least to acquire, AT&T offers a variety of deals on netbooks and free access to its network of WiFi hotspots and it seems pretty likely that other smaller wireless carriers will follow suit. The only...
- Blog posts 2009-07-08
- School District Portal Speeds Communications, Cuts Prep Time in Half for Paperless Meetings
- Keller Independent School District, a fast-growing district in Texas, relied on e-mail for almost all communication and collaboration - and its Linux-based GroupWise system couldn't keep up. So, the district built an intranet portal based on Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007. Uptime has increased from 80 percent to 100 percent,...
- Case studies 2009-07-01
- ARRA, affordability driving interest in Latitude 2100
- Not long ago, I wrote a post concerning what I saw as a high price and somewhat limited value for Dell's new educational netbook, the Latitude 2100. It seems, however, that a lot of school districts disagreed. According to a brief on Yahoo News, "more than 500 U.S....
- Blog posts 2009-06-29
- Live from the X2 Community Conference
- Live from the X2 Community ConferenceWe use eSISI'm thrilled that Hawaii moved from about a half-dozen different SIS database products [WinSchool, MacSchool, PowerSchool, etc.] to a common product in eSIS for student scheduling and transcript info. Unlike everywhere else in the country, we have one state-wide school district, and...
- Discussion threads 2009-05-06
- Bremond Independent School District Solves Wi-Fi Coverage Issues With Low-Cost D-Link PoE Switches and Access Points
- Bremond ISD's older wireless LAN was difficult to expand and manage. The system didn't support Power over Ethernet PoE because the technology was not standardized at the time they purchased it. They had to wait months before they could deploy the wireless Access Points [APs], because the power wasn't in...
- Case studies 2009-04-01
- Amarillo Independent School District Improves Efficiency Across Its 53 Campuses
- Amarillo Independent School District AISD wanted to improve operational efficiency to support a growing student body without increasing administrative staff and provide reliable access to easy-to-use applications for thousands of users spread across 70 square miles. The challenge was to comply with new and changing school reporting requirements. AISD upgraded...
- Case studies 2009-03-01
- School District Speeds Deployment, Boosts Application Access With Virtualization
- IT staff at Fairfax County Public Schools FCPS, a large district with 90,000 computers, had to manage and update many separate disk images. This complexity led to the deferral of most application deployment until hardware upgrades were done, which reduced application availability to teachers. At times, applications were deployed singly,...
- Case studies 2009-03-01
- Operating System Upgrade Helps School District Streamline IT, Strengthen Security
- The Lake Washington School District LWSD administers 50 public schools serving nearly 24,000 students in cities near Seattle, Washington. For years, LWSD has been a satisfied user of the Windows XP operating system, but with the release of Windows Vista Business, the district saw an opportunity to take advantage of...
- Case studies 2009-02-01
- School District Standardizes IT Environment, Saves More Than $100,000 in Costs
- Manteca Unified School District MUSD covers a large rural area in Central California. MUSD needed to update its aging, non-standardized IT environment to save costs and help staff and students work more efficiently. MUSD standardized its infrastructure on productivity and IT management technologies found within the Microsoft School Agreement that...
- Case studies 2009-01-01
- Special Services School District Empowers Disabled Students Using a 3Com Enterprise Network Solution
- One of the most progressive special education systems in the United States, Mercer County Special Services School District of Trenton, New Jersey, provides 750-plus seriously disabled students from 18 communities with an advanced special education curricula well beyond the means of local school districts. Mercer County Special Services School District...
- Case studies 2009-01-01
- Miami-Dade Technology Scores High
- As the fourth-largest school district in the United States, Miami-Dade County Public Schools runs an enterprise technology infrastructure that rivals those of major private sector corporations. The school district needed solid technology planning and implementation to meet both short-term technology services goals and long-term technology needs. The school district leveraged...
- Case studies 2009-01-01
- LA school district and Deloitte in $18m failure settlement
- LA school district and Deloitte in $18m failure settlementIt's those fundamentals that were missing or inadequateRequirements, documentation, project plan, signoffs, etc. There's plenty of blame to go around, but I place the primary share of it on Deloitte, who are supposed to be the "experts" at these types...
- Discussion threads 2008-12-16
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