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Late night musings on student information systems

We're moving rapidly into the last month before we go live on our new student information system. This migration has been a long time coming and is a welcome move from an antiquated and overly-complicated product. We searched pretty extensively and evaluated several options, both client-server and web-based,...

Tags: Education Technology, Information Systems, Student information services

Blog posts 2007-06-17

Not sleeping much lately? You must be scheduling, too.

Its that time of year again. Student course requests are pouring in, administrators are counting beans and wondering just how many teachers they really need to satisfy those requests, and those of us on the database side are probably not sleeping much. Here in lil old Athol, weve...

Tags: Student information services, Open Source, Education Technology

Blog posts 2007-04-24

Student information systems meet Web 2.0

Although I have had few kind words for web-based student information systems in the past, recent previews of latest generation Web 2.0-style SIS apps have certainly given me reason to reconsider. I currently administer an implementation of Chancery SMS that was dumped in my lap a few years ago....

Tags: Education Technology, Information Systems, K-12, Student information services

Blog posts 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

Additional Resources

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...

Tags: Netbooks, nettops & MIDs, Desktops, operating system, desktop, Google Inc., desktop app, netbook, Google Chrome

Discussion threads 2009-11-19

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

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

Can Apple make a Tablet PC "cool"?

Re:Can Apple make a Tablet PC "cool"?My company is deeply involved in the production of visual materials for the scientific, technical and medical post-secondary education marketplace and they are just dying for a tool such as this for use in the classroom. With a solid customer base here, Apple can...

Tags: Tablets, Notebooks, Keyboards, PC, tablet, Apple Inc., keyboard, tablet PC

Discussion threads 2009-10-05

Do you really need Office? Really? If the Feds don't, do we?

Sounds like these users could get by just fine with Wordpad.[i]That being said, how many of your teachers are doing this sort of thing? Teachers need to create content, no doubt about it, but that content should be online, accessible, collaborative, and reusable. You don?t need Office for that.[/i]The problem,...

Tags: Next Up, Google Inc., Microsoft Office, Google Apps

Discussion threads 2009-09-17

Could One Laptop Per Child be a bad thing?

Or roadsOr how about roads so farmers can get there goods to the markets cheaper? The one laptop per kid is such a scam. Why should kids get cheap laptops overs small business owners. Who would be more productive. Um track sales, write, write e-mail, do books. I am so...

Tags: One Laptop Per Child project

Discussion threads 2009-09-10

Oh sure...4 days in and Gmail goes down

RE: Oh sure...4 days in and Gmail goes downMy office lost it primary and secondary links to our data farm. We spent the morning without access to our email exchange.The servers are off site for security and redundancy reasons. We are in a location that has all sort...

Tags: Internet service providers (ISPs), E-mail providers, cloud computing, Google Inc., Internet Service Provider, Google Gmail, outage, e-mail

Discussion threads 2009-09-01

College Consortium Saves $36,000 Annually With Hosted Communication Services

The Technical College System of Georgia wanted to provide a standard student e-mail service to member colleges. It encouraged colleges to use Microsoft Live@edu - a suite of hosted collaboration services - and hosted Microsoft Identity Lifecycle Manager 2007 to facilitate the integration between Live@edu and the SunGard Higher Education...

Tags: College, Microsoft Corp., E-mail, Collaboration, Groupware, Online Communications, Enterprise Software, Software

Case studies 2009-09-01

You won't want an iPod (Tech which back-to-school students should avoid)

Back to school....This is good but don't quite see that these are all "back-to-school".For my student:Netbook - great for work and portability. It fits in his backpackFlash Drive - great for storing / transferring work on - now if the school had a working printer attached to their common...

Tags: Digital music, Digital media, Apple iPod, Apple Inc., back-to-school student

Discussion threads 2009-08-10

Teams in the (Troubled) Cloud

Not all team members are created equal I’ve had some really interesting briefings/meetings lately. If you want to understand where software executives, industry leaders, etc. are going/thinking, then read on. Let’s begin with a conversation I had with Maynard Webb....

Tags: Team, Team Member, Worker, Maynard, Loyalty, Team Management, Management, Brian Sommer

Blog posts 2009-07-22

Dell aims to diversify away from PCs, but how?

Dell aims to diversify away from PCs, but how?Dell should simply...make an Android handset that gives users root and easily allows people to do things like voip or more accurately allows developers to create apps that can do things like that.If the real power of the handset were available ......

Tags: Data centers, SMB/SME, Desktops, PC, Dell Computer Corp.

Discussion threads 2009-07-15

IBM gives Mobile County Public Schools power to be proactive

When IBM PR folks sent me their press release on their recent efforts with the Mobile County Public Schools in Alabama, I was moderately impressed. They were harnessing a lot of data for educators but it hardly seemed revolutionary in this era of data-driven instruction. Then...

Tags: Performance, Mobile, Student, Teacher, IBM Corp., Performance Management, Pricing, Business Intelligence, Tools & Techniques, Advertising & Promotion, Databases, Enterprise Software, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Marketing, Software, Data Management, Management, Christopher Dawson

Blog posts 2009-07-12

Are economic conditions changing how you manage server turnover?

Guest post: TechRepublic's Scott Lowe, Chief Information Officer for Westminster College in Fulton, Missouri, examines some of the reasons server sales have dropped and handicaps the recession's impact. For more posts like this see TechRepublic's data center blog. Between cloud computing, virtualization and economic...

Tags: Software-as-a-service, Data Center, Virtualization, Sales, Server Sale, Data Centers, Servers, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2009-06-29

Hands on with Outlook Live: universities choose Microsoft over Google

Universities are increasingly moving away from in-house email and communications systems, and moving towards externally hosted systems. While that may have sounded like utter garbage and geek speak, it means universities can't afford or cope with their own email systems, so they're letting Microsoft and Google do it for them...

Tags: Google Inc., Microsoft Outlook, Microsoft Corp., E-mail, Online Communications, Zack Whittaker

Blog posts 2009-06-26

iPhone 3G S: most extortionate iPhone yet?

Zack Whittaker is currently knee-deep in paperwork, so covering for today is his good friend, Elliot Harrison, so don't send death threats regarding this post to the usual address. News has been tearing around all over the place about the new iPhone 3GS and after commenting on...

Tags: Apple iPhone, Handset, Apple iPhone 3G, Zack Whittaker, 3G, Cellular Phones, Manufacturing, Wireless And Mobility, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology

Blog posts 2009-06-22

Report: Craigslist dumps "erotic" ads; adds adult section with new rules

updated below: Craigslist apparently has caved to the pressures of state attorneys general who cracked the whip on the "erotic services" section of the site. The Illinois Attorney General has said that craigslist will get rid of the "erotic" services category on the classified site and will...

Tags: Craigslist, Advertisement, Sam Diaz

Blog posts 2009-05-13