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- Florida Gives Teachers Secure Online Access to Terabytes of Student Data
- Since the mid 1980s, Florida Department of Education DOE has collected student, staff, and workforce data and used it to guide program development and funding. As data volumes grew, so did demand for data - from teachers, administrators, legislators, and parents. To provide constituents with secure access to confidential student...
- Case studies 2009-06-01
- Any chance our student data could be consistent?
- Any chance our student data could be consistent?Analyzing Data fromTestsChris,Download the openIntel data model from os4ed.com and out your data in there for analysis using any of the free reporting tools available. (BIRT, Pentaho, Jasper, etc.) The data model was designed by Maurice Frank, the creator of the...
- Discussion threads 2008-10-16
- State ed office, Senate clash over plan to outsource student data
- State ed office, Senate clash over plan to outsource student databad idea!outsourcing sensitive data is a bad idea to begin with,it makes much more sense to keep it in house so to speak,other wise you open the door to the possibility that it may be breached and explotied by sexoffenders...
- Discussion threads 2007-02-19
- State ed office, Senate clash over plan to outsource student data
- New budget negotiations in Utah are getting underway, and lawmakers are asking for a portion of the education budget go to private contractors to sort student data, reports the Deseret UT News. Under the proposal, $3 million of the education budget would go to implementation of a system...
- Blog posts 2007-02-15
- Scheduling (enough said)
- It's that time again. That's right, time to schedule next year's classes and revisit the dark and dismal world of student management systems. For those of you who have done it, the S-word can strike fear in the hearts of many in educational IT. Scheduling, in and...
- Blog posts 2006-03-17
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- Office Starter 2010 private beta, with 'Office to GO,' goes to testers
- Installing SP2010, Office 2010, and VS 2010 now...Should have a working environment by this weekend. The graphic at the bottom of the article should also include two of the more exciting services in 2010 - Access Services for hosting database driven forms and reports and Visio Services, for publishing data...
- Discussion threads 2009-11-20
- Google's Chrome OS: Will you give up desktop apps?
- I won't ntntI can'tI'm not online 24/7. I need local apps, as does everyone else. Say what you want. But network outages happen... Weather by forces of nature or human error, a network will eventually go down. It's only a matter of time. And knowing Google's past GMail outages, I...
- Discussion threads 2009-11-19
- NMath Stats 3.1 (Windows)
- NMath Stats contains a data table class with functions for computing descriptive statistics, such as mean, variance, standard deviation, percentile, median, quartiles, geometric mean, harmonic mean, RMS, kurtosis, skewness, and many more; PDF, CDF, inverse CDF, and random variable moments for a variety of probability distributions, including normal Gaussian, Poisson,...
- Software downloads 2009-11-17
- Guess who else is married to paper?
- Another paper perilThankfully, knock on wood, I don't get sick very often.Since I hadn't been there for years, my Clinic threw away my entire medical history.Paper is a fact of life.You have to a have a paper trail, the entire concept of goingpaperless is just silliness.I am sure with the...
- Discussion threads 2009-11-12
- It's a girl! (or Ed Tech, 6 years hence)
- Regular readers and followers of my Twitter feed will know that yesterday was pretty eventful. My wife and I (well, mostly my wife, but I did make some moderate contribution) had a baby girl who currently remains nameless (we're leaning toward Penelope, but she was delivered by c-section so...
- Blog posts 2009-11-10
- TeaCup Problem Solver 1.6 (Windows)
- TeaCup can be used as part of a training course with set examples created by you, or it can be used by your students to solve specific problems under your guidance. Method 1 : Solving a problem a particular group of people have. It can be used with a small...
- Software downloads 2009-10-30
- Can you teach programmers to be journalists?
- Megan Taylor over at PBS' MediaShift writes about the challenges of getting programmers and journalists to work together.MediaShift . Can Programmers, Journalists Get Along in One Newsroom? | PBS It's an interesting subject because newsrooms are increasingly digital and they need to add programming skills to help...
- Blog posts 2009-10-27
- Students find Win 7 upgrade a tough assignment
- Well DUH!Students, retired folks, IT pros, dabblers, 'nix heads, etc. would ALL find trying to UPGRADE from a 32 bit to a 64 bit OS hard. Three words - "can't be done."There, was that hard? Why is this even news?This is newsbecause some people like to keep spreading...
- Discussion threads 2009-10-26
- BlueSmart Premiere 3.50 (Windows)
- BlueSmart allows you to manage all types of schools and studios. The interface features different tools you can use to run your school efficiently. Major features: student records & attendance, scheduling, test/event organization, financial reports, form letters, inventory management, gradebook, custom data creation, tuition, and in-house EFTs.
- Software downloads 2009-10-25
- So about this SIF thing
- Difficulties in implementationLong before I retired from being a computer coordinator for our district, SIF was in the news.The reality for my district was changing Student Information Management software three times in 10 years (and a fourth since '06 when I retired). In each case, the transfer of data from...
- Discussion threads 2009-10-23
- Looking beyond Windows 7 and Office; Pondering the alternatives
- No reason to look beyond Microsoft Windows 7 and Microsoft Office, its a complete solution out of the box for every business need. Pondering the alternatives will take all of 5 seconds before realizing the alternatives won't live up to what Microsoft has to offer.Preceding message brought to you...
- Discussion threads 2009-10-20
- STEARsoft (School Teachers Electronic Attendance Register software) 4.3.0 (Windows)
- An electronic school attendance registration system to record and analyze student attendance. - Full school deployment is easy and quick, leveraging web-based technology. - Flexibility is built in to allow working with your existing school data system, with a dynamic ODBC standards-based data-link option. No need to replace your existing...
- Software downloads 2009-10-20
- Did Yahoo provide Iran with names of 200,000 users?
- disgracefulthis is certainly one of the more irresponsible actions on behalf of a corporation in modern times. Why is it that these media centric .com's .. grouping in Google noting some of their more recent activity seem to lack the controls, privacy and humanitarian fibre that their more traditional bricks...
- Discussion threads 2009-10-09
- Ubicomp 2009 and the fusion of our digital and physical worlds
- Recently, I used my newly downloaded Zipcar app on my iPhone to unlock and honk my booked vehicle from several yards away. It was more novel than useful, but a tall tale example of the countless invisible interactions we're having with sensing, inferring, and data transferring machines every day. It's...
- Blog posts 2009-10-09
- Microsoft adds an 'Office Starter' edition to its distribution plans
- Consumer PreinstallsAs a preinstall on new consumer computers, it makes a lot more sense than Microsoft Works.Family packs, payment plans, unlimited downloadsI think if MS offered family pack bundles; partial payments over periods of time until the software is fully paid for; and unlimited downloads of the software to registered...
- Discussion threads 2009-10-08
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