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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: June 2012

  • The Road to #ISTE12

    Six years ago I attended NECC in San Diego. The two things that I remember from my very first edtech conference are the 4th of July fireworks show and Steve Hargadon‘s Open Source Pavilion. NECC 2006 was one of those pivotal moments in my professional education career where I realized there were a bunch of other educators out there that believed technology was…

  • AppleTV + iPad

    A Pre-ISTE12 Find Using AppleTV +iPad in the classroom slide deck from Jon Corippo‘s ISTE CUE Rockstar presentation – http://www.slideshare.net/jcorippo/apple-tv-i-pad-the-digital-swiss-army-knife If you’re not buying projectors with HDMI inputs on them, make the change. iPads are coming.  

  • iPad Resistance Is Futile

    An Ask Andrew Reply: Fellow #ubermix aficionado and CETPA Certified CTO @_NOD55 asks, “I’m buying 50 iPads. Now what?” Well, first off welcome to the party. I think at this point iPads in the classroom are inevitable and I’m guessing what comes out of WWDC next week will only cement that sentiment further. Or as the Borg…

  • No Chromebook For Me!

    With the release of the Samsung Series 5 550 chromebook  I have been seriously considering going google for my next mobile computer. But As I started evaluating what it is I need from a mobile workstation, I realized I won’t be able to do everything I need with the chromebook. While I do spend the majority…