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Category Archives: Technical
Cloud Computing in Education
[Originally posted elsewhere on 7/28/2009, but the topic came up again in a conversation and thought to move the post here.] Cloud computing is described by Wikipedia as: Cloud computing is a style of computing in which dynamically scalable and often virtualized resources are provided as … Continue reading
Posted in EdTech, Evernote, Technical
Tagged cloud, cloud computing, google apps, prezi, virtualized
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Understanding Open Source
I am a big advocate of open source software. We’ve used it at our school for a number of years. Our firewall is an appliance called Untangle. We use open source software in the classroom including tools like Open Office … Continue reading
Posted in Administration & Management, Community, Moodle, Technical
Tagged AMP, andrea rennick, apache, Apple, Community, GPL, Moodle, MySQL, open office, open space, Percona, PHP, phpmyadmin, remote-learner, Sequel Pro, WebDevStudios, WordPress
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Geeking out at the PSU MacAdmins Conference.
If you’re not pushing yourself you not growing. Finding good opportunities and ways to push yourself professionally are often hard to come by, so when my colleague came back from the PSU MacAdmins conference last year and said “WOW” I … Continue reading
Posted in 1to1, Administration & Management, AppleTV, Conferences, EdTech, Technical
Tagged absolute software, aelp, Apple, apple vo, AppleID, AppleTV, avlp, casper, command line, configurator, COPPA, deployment, ios, JAMF, psumacadmin, psumacconf, scripting, terminal
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Pressing Pause on Lion
[UPDATED – 1/26/2012] There is doing something and doing something right. When you take on any project, particularly one effecting 1000+ people you better make sure you’re doing it as right as possible. My school is a year and a … Continue reading
Posted in 1to1, Administration & Management, Schools, Technical
Tagged anti-virus, Apple, Lion, Onyx, snow leopard, Sophos, TImeMachine, upgrade
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I say 1:1, you say…
NOTE: Originally posted on the Educational Collaborators blog on 1/18/2012 – Update for Ultrabooks below – 1/21/2012. When you hear people talking about a 1:1 program they could be talking about a lot of different things. A few years ago … Continue reading
Where’s iDVD? Apple’s move away from optical media.
It’s the day before Christmas and all the through the house not a creature is stirring… except for my cousin who is trying to put together a DVD project on a brand new Lion iMac and couldn’t find iDVD. With … Continue reading
The AppleID in your 1:1 Program – COPPA
We have a great 1:1 program at my school. In grades 4-12 every student (and all faculty) have a 13″ Macbook Pro with a 500GB backup drive along with a suite of software we’ve installed for productivity, content creation and … Continue reading
Rogue IT in Education and the BYOD, DIY model.
Chris Lehmann (@chrislehmann) of The Science Leadership Academy and founder of EduCon, said of technology: “Technology must be like Oxygen: ubiquitous, necessary, and invisible.” I couldn’t agree more with this statement, but, as a Director of Technology, I also need to … Continue reading
Posted in 1to1, EdTech, Schools, Teaching & Learning, Technical
Tagged Andrew Shelffo, Android, backward design, Bring your own device, BYOD, Chris Lehmann, DIY, Do it yourself, ipad, iPhone, iPod, rogue, rogue IT
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A conversation about Evernote and our 1:1 initiative.
In the Spring of 2011 I had the pleasure of joining two of my colleagues (Jenny Zagariello – @jennyz49 & Christian Ely – @christian67 ) in a conversation with Andrew Sinkov (@sinkov), VP of Marketing for Evernote in NYC to … Continue reading
Posted in 1to1, EdTech, Evernote, Teaching & Learning, Technical
Tagged 1to1, andrew sinkov, christian ely, Evernote, jenny zagariello
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Moodle Services Split:Part 2
Our goal was to split out the Apache & PHP services from the MySQL service running on our Moodle server. The decision to do this was to address performance issue experience on the opening day of school after upgrading … Continue reading