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K-12 Superintendent, reformed IT guy, educator, 1:1 evangelist, life long learner, father, husband, geek, ex self-propelled field artillery turret mechanic, GCT, CCTO, INFP

Month: September 2011

  • A Little Perspective: Teaching Basic iPad Skills to Parents

    I just got home from teaching a group of our parents basic iPad skills. I communicated my lesson through an interpreter which was a first for me. The translation delay took my brain some getting used to. What struck me the most about our parents tonight was the genuine eagerness to learn, the honest questions…

  • The Trouble With Tribbles (And iPads Too)

    Tribbles!   I’m not quite old enough to have watched the Star Trek episode featuring the fuzzy little critters when it first aired back in 1967. However, I do remember as a kid staying over at my friend Egan’s house playing Star Trek the board game while waiting for the midnight reruns of Star Trek…

  • Feedback to Apple on Enterpise Deployment for iPads

    I sent this along to my Apple SE and Sales Rep today. After three weeks and 330 iPads, I’ve come to the conclusion that this is still bleeding edge stuff for Enterprise. iPad deployment is like PC deployment was back in the days before Ghost imaging. Painful. But I’ve got 384 happy kids with iPads…