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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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After having jumped through all the required hoops, I finally submitted my completed Google Apps for Education Trainer Certification application back in March. I’ve been waiting ever so patiently for my the email congratulating me on becoming a Google Apps for Education Certified Trainer ever since. So imagine my surprise when late last night I received the following email: Hello, Thank…
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What follows is a post I wrote in one of my Administrative Services Credential classes on Educational Leadership. The discussion focused around Superintendent’s hiring practices related to Administrator candidates that had taken the test to become Administrators versus those that had gone through a program from an accredited institution of higher learning to attain their…
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I just got back from ETC! 2011. This was my second year attending the CC CUE event and just like last year it was well worth the Saturday. Of the three sessions I attended, the one that really stood out was Ramsey Musallam’s session on Tabcasting. He’s got a radically common sense idea about how…
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The stats helper monkeys at WordPress.com mulled over how this blog did in 2010, and here’s a high level summary of its overall blog health: The Blog-Health-o-Meter™ reads This blog is doing awesome!. Crunchy numbers A Boeing 747-400 passenger jet can hold 416 passengers. This blog was viewed about 1,900 times in 2010. That’s about…
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Earlier today I was engaged in a short discussion on twitter with @mguhlin and @cbell619 about disk optimization in Mac OS X. I recall back in late 2003 when I was supporting a few hundred Macbooks, defragging disks was not something I usually concerned myself with. But if you’ve had your Mac a while and…
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November was video month for me. I worked on a grant from the K12HSN with Danny Silva, Mike Magboo and our local County Office of Education creating professional development videos for teachers. The goal of the videos is to help teachers take their classes online using Calaxy and Moodle. Making the videos was a…
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I suck at writing. My English Teacher in college tried to convince me to become an English major. Perhaps if I had listened to her I would have spent the last 20 years writing. If I had done that then maybe I would suck less today which is when writing really seems to matter more…
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I just read Paul Yip‘s blog post “A Question of Vision” answering a question about how to keep Laptop Carts up and running. Two things struck home for me in Paul’s response. First, the honest conversations about how to use technology in the classroom are not happening enough. And Second, while my school has had…
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Wikipedia defines a SAN as: A storage area network (SAN) is an architecture to attach remote computer data storage devices (such as disk arrays, tape libraries, and optical jukeboxes) to servers so the devices appear as locally attached to the operating system. A SAN typically has its own network of storage devices that are generally…
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I passed six Google Apps tests and all I got was this lousy… No wait. I’m now officially Qualified in Google Apps. As an Individual I get the above colorful PDF file to print and post on my wall (or embed in my blog). If I’d like to take it a step further I can…
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