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Education IT - 19 hours ago
As fellow ZDNet blogger, Adrian Kingsley-Hughes, notes, Apple now recommends the use of antivirus software on your Mac. UGH. Really? The relative immunity of Macs to the plethora of malware floating about the Net has …
Education IT - 19 hours ago
Soshiku, a website created by 17-year old Andrew Shaper, is a simple and elegant web-based tool for tracking school assignments. Launched this September, I stumbled across it via a note on Twitter and I have to say I’m …
Education IT - Dec 3, 2008
I had a great meeting with one of the elementary schools in my district today. The principal turned over most of a staff meeting to me today in part for some training and professional development, but largely for a …
Education IT - Dec 2, 2008
At well over 300 talkbacks and counting, plenty of folks took my challenge (and my reader’s challenge) to sort out just what it would take to switch from Windows to desktop Linux. Obviously, there was plenty of the …
Education IT - Dec 2, 2008
Last week, when I asked “Are you sure you don’t just want to use Ubuntu?” I received a record number of talkbacks, good, bad, and in between. One of the more interesting, though, came from reader ksheppard, who …
Education IT - Dec 1, 2008
For most of us in the States, we’re getting back to work after four days of family and tryptophan. For the rest of the world, it’s just plain Monday. Any way it goes, a lot of us could use something to get back in gear …
Education IT - Nov 29, 2008
Not only is it budget time for me right now as we put together our FY10 plans, but it’s also time to figure out how we’re going to make it through the rest of FY09. Since so many people have lost jobs and/or homes …
Education IT - Nov 26, 2008
Here in the States, tomorrow is Thanksgiving and in between budgeting for FY10, trying to find areas of the FY09 budget to cut in preparation for trickle down effects from our state deficit, and redeveloping our …
Education IT - Nov 26, 2008
We all have users for whom a mobile phone of some sort makes a lot of sense. Our district has always either provided a phone or a moderate subsidy for key staff who need to stay in touch. Principals need to be …
Education IT - Nov 26, 2008
Our resident student blogger, Zack Whittaker, asked a question this morning that caught my eye: “Twitter: is there any point?” My answer, as a growing devotee of Twitter and other bits of social media is, “Of course …