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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...

Tags: U.S. Department Of Education, Microsoft Access, Microsoft Corp., Teacher, Student Data, Recruitment & Selection, Workforce Management, Portals, Payroll Solutions, Content Management, Human Resources, Internet, Enterprise Software, Software

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...

Tags: Business intelligence, Databases, Storage, data model, student data, data warehouse

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...

Tags: Outsourcing, student data, U.S. Senate, outsource

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...

Tags: Education Technology, Information Systems, Student information services

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...

Tags: student data

Blog posts 2006-03-17

Additional Resources

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...

Tags: Web Application, Social Media, E-books, Semantic Web, Cloud Computing, Personal Technology, Internet, Christopher Dawson

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...

Tags: Microsoft Windows, TeaCup, Workforce Management, Productivity, Training And Certification, Human Resources

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...

Tags: Software, Software Engineering, Journalist, Programmer, Ms Taylor, Development Tools, Tools & Techniques, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Management, Tom Foremski

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...

Tags: Operating systems, clean install, Microsoft Windows XP, Microsoft Windows 7, Microsoft Windows, operating system, Migration Wizard

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.

Tags: School, Financial, Microsoft Windows, BlueSparx, BlueSmart, Financial Accounting, Finance

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...

Tags: Text messaging/SMS/MMS, Cellular phones, SIF

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...

Tags: OpenOffice, Microsoft Office, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows 7, Microsoft Windows, Loverock Davidson

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...

Tags: Software, Mobility, Microsoft Windows, Teacher, STEARsoft, Pricing, Tools & Techniques, Marketing Research, Wireless And Mobility, Marketing, Management

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...

Tags: Government, Blogging, Yahoo! brand, Yahoo! Inc.

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...

Tags: Ubiquitous Computing, Chris Jablonski

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...

Tags: Groupware, starter edition, ribbon menu, Microsoft Office, Microsoft Corp., Office Starter, distribution plan, Microsoft Outlook

Discussion threads 2009-10-08

Advanced Modem Data Logger 2.4.1 build 1007 (Windows)

You may be a professional hardware or network engineer, or an university student making his first steps towards a professional career, or a talented technology lover illuminated by a new bright technical idea and looking for a handy tool for fine-tuning your hardware-software system. Whichever the case may be, look...

Tags: AGG Software, Advanced Modem Data Logger, Modems, Microsoft Windows, Hardware, Components, Operating Systems, Software

Software downloads 2009-10-07

Logic Circuit Designer 1.5 (Windows)

From the practical point of view, this paper refers to an educational software developed as a technological tool for understanding the logic circuits operation. Using such an interactive designer software, we have the main advantage and the opportunity of removing all the possible design errors even before proceeding to the...

Tags: Microsoft Windows, Ivan Andrei, Logic Circuit, Productivity, Tools & Techniques, Management

Software downloads 2009-10-07

Weak passwords dominate statistics for Hotmail's phishing scheme leak

Weak Passwords suckUntil about 4 years ago my organization had no restrictions on passwords. Our students got their birthdays or their phone numbers as passwords and our staff could choose whatever they wanted. Most common staff password was 1234. Well after years of security breaches and administration...

Tags: MSN Hotmail, phishing, password, weak password

Discussion threads 2009-10-06

Those darned kids and their multitasking

Apparently, multitasking is a bad idea. Or so a media frenzy told us a month ago. Young people especially flip between tasks in what appears to be a completely natural way and seem able to take in multiple streams of information with aplomb. "Of course!" you say....

Tags: Job, Coffee, Media, Advertising & Promotion, Corporate Communications, Recruitment & Selection, Marketing, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Christopher Dawson

Blog posts 2009-10-01