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thinking out loud about technology, education and life
recent posts
- Revisiting “Space Space and More Space”: What a Pandemic-Era Learning Spaces Discussion Still Teaches Us in the AI Age
- Is “rigor” just code for “more harder”?
- VUCA Never Left the Building: RebootED Episode 58 Reminds Us Leadership in 2026 Is Still About Navigating the Unnavigable
- 13 Years Later: Daniel Pink’s Insights on Motivation Are More Relevant Than Ever in the AI Era
- 2012 Vision Still Holds: Redefining Public Education in the Age of AI and Perpetual Change
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Author: Andrew T Schwab
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So today a staff member at one of the schools in my district told me that she didn’t understand what all these Financial emails were that she was receiving from Charles Schwab. Turns out she thought my IT status updates were marketing for brokerage services. Now that we’ve met face to face, she’s not deleting…
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Things used to be simple. I architected networks, administered servers and made sure email flowed uninterrupted. I was an IT guy and I was pretty good at it. Then one day I became a classroom teacher and my simple life in IT, focused on up time and putting six computers in the back of every…
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Today I was in a Google Hangout on Air with Dr. Yong Zhao. Dr. Zhao is author of several books about education including his latest, “World Class Learners: Educating Creative and Entrepreneurial Students” and has keynoted all over the world. I saw his keynote at ISTE12 and was totally amazed. Today the power of the Internet…
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This is part 4 in a series of posts on my not so great experience inheriting a VDI infrastructure at a school district. We left off with the student virtual desktops running on repurposed non-redundant, redundant hardware at the secondary site and teachers and staff running on the DO hardware. Through the first few months of school, teacher and staff performance…
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In my previous VDI posts, I outlined the Virtual Desktop infrastructure I inherited and discussed the stability issues being faced. In this, part three, I will talk about redundancy or lack thereof and how I was able to use some over engineering to my advantage, if only for a little while. Summer was fast coming…
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This is the second post in a multi part series about my experience with VDI over the past 10 months. In the first post I laid out the VDI situation I inherited. To recap the situation, post VMWorld in August, I realized that I had a VDI system that was under spec’d, not well implemented…
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I sat down to write a post about storage solutions and my recent decision to purchase a Nimble Storage Array however I wanted to properly address why I was looking for new storage to begin with and didn’t want a simple post to turn into an 8,000 word greek tragedy. So let me set the stage with…
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In the continuing saga of my iPad mini v. Nexus 7 use, I’ve come up against another issue. Standby time. I’m using both devices daily now. The Nexus 7 is my breakfast table news reader. I spend about 25 minutes in the morning on Flipboard reading the headlines before I set it down for the…
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Today was day one of the California League of Schools (CLS) K-12 Common Core, English Learners & Technology Conference in Monterey, CA. This is my second year (maybe third, it’s late ok?) attending as a presenter and unlike other EdTech conferences, the focus here is not as “tech heavy” as others. Today’s Keynote by Dr. Kate…
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I don’t think the iPad mini likes me very much. This is an update regarding the picture quality of the iPad mini when used as a doc cam. Upon further research, it turns out the rear camera on the mini should be just as good as the iPad (3rd & 4th Gens) so I have…
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