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Month: March 2015
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I’ve been looking for an easy to use, free (or low cost) digital signage solution since forever. Back in the Le Grand days, Danny Silva hacked together AppleTVs and iTunes to create digital signage for our school. For the past several months, I’ve been playing with RiseVision and chromeboxes. I had it to the point…
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Warning, do not try this at home. I deleted my school’s Google Apps Domain for Education today but probably not for the reasons you might think. Ok, technically I cancelled the subscription which deletes all accounts and data, but same thing. You see, somewhere along the line, our GAFE domain got flipped to a Nonprofit for…
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Mobile carts are a necessary evil in classroom 1:1 programs. I’d much prefer to send devices home with students to keeping them locked away when school is not officially in session. Be that as it may, we have a lot of carts. For our last round of chromebook carts, we went with the Aver TabChargeCT2.…
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Mike Magboo’s (@allurbaser) latest post hit me like a ton of bricks. I’d honestly forgotten that at Le Grand High School, we were doing 1:1 netbooks running ubermix way back in 2009. I know if feels like I’ve been doing 1:1 forever, now I remember why. In hindsight, for being on the bleeding edge, we got the basics…
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I’m in the middle of a nightmare scenario with our current wireless access point provider at the moment. Our 8-month old Aerohive AP230 access points randomly freeze up after 30 days and stop passing traffic until we reboot them. It’s a particularly insidious bug that has disrupted classrooms and consumed a significant amount of my…
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And I’m off. Heading to the Airport. Soon to be at CUE15. I can’t believe it’s CUE time again. As a CUE Board Member, we receive status updates throughout the year about conference preparations, but it’s actually here! While I’m not presenting this year, I do have some Board duties to perform. If you see…
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I’ve been meaning to write a post about our path down the flexible learning spaces journey and today coincidentally found myself having to write something on the topic for my LEC PLL course. We are 7 months into piloting “flexible” furniture in seven classrooms from VS, Smith, Paragon and Balt. Below is a reflection on…
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Wow, using google translate with the kids to explore how to say “Excuse Me” in other languages. Only five years ago they would have had to listen to me butcher the pronunciations and we would have been limited to Spanish, French and German. How the world has changed.
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My District is looking for amazing educators to fill two brand new Instructional Tech ToSA positions for next year. These positions will report to me (the CTO) in the Technology Services Department and have the opportunity to work with Mary Fran Lynch, our current #eduawesome Instructional Technology ToSA. We’re a Google Apps District, MacBooks and iPads for all teachers, 70″…
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Hotel Lobby Session Idea: For any IT centric folks, I’m thinking about facilitating a session in the Renaissance Lobby sometime during the CUE conference. Preliminary title, “Chromebooks: The How and the Why” or alternatively, “iPads: Not Yet, Because”. What do you think?
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