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Imagine you had a pickup truck that you used for work. One day the person in charge of company vehicles says to you “we’re going to replace your pickup truck with a Prius. We’ll be saving money on gas. Isn’t that great?” You of course reply with something
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Doug Johnson has a great list of Seven stupid mistakes teachers make with technology that inspired me to think about administrators. Really administrators share the blame for some of the mistakes their teachers make and make some of their own. Not all
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Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT) has one of the best game development programs in the US if not the world. Recently the team there put together a document that explains some of there key learnings setting up a development lab for teaching with
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One of the things I frequently bring up in career talks these days is the connection between computing and the environment. One area is computers being used to research the environment. I love to read about the stuff they are doing at UMass Amherst to
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I ran into a thought provoking blog post the other day. Mike Sansone is a blog coach – a consultant who makes a living helping people blog better – wrote a post called “ Are Computer Labs a Crutch? ” In it he says that “ the computer lab shouldn't be
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There is a problem, a technical problem, that I hear about from teachers from time to time. I've passed along a couple of solutions to it by email but it occurred to me that posting the issue and the possible solutions here might make it easier for people
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I just came across a new web comic site/blog called Office Offline . Very simple and very funny. It's geek humor of course. And mostly around Microsoft Office products which is not so surprising since the cartoonist works in Microsoft's Office Online
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OK this is too cool not to share. On Monday I blogged about the Thomas Jefferson school that uses Tablet PCs in the classroom. Yesterday I found out that the school was on local TV with coverage on how the Tablets are being used. They have the video up
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Earlier I reported on a teacher who was seeing some interesting and positive results by letting students use tools (computer software tools) that are often blocked or banned in schools. Today we learn the other side of this coin. Ben Chun reports in his
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While I am not a fan of just dropping computers into a school and expecting miracles I do believe that with the right training, preparation and supportive teachers and administration things can work out well. Recently I heard from Robert Carlson at the
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Club Tech - I've written about the Club Tech program before. It's a technology program run by the Boys and Girls Clubs of America with sponsorship help from Microsoft and other partners. Recently the Clubs held the National Digital Arts Festival , an
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How does Blake Handler always see these announcements before I do? The man is amazing. Good thing I read his blog or the presentation I am giving next week at the CS & IT Symposium would have stale data. OK what am I rambling about now? Windows SteadyState
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Most new PCs these days are coming with Windows Vista on them. If you are a parent, especially if your children are younger, this can be quite a boon to you as there are many new security features in Vista that can be helpful to parents. Blake Handler
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