There is no box
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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School is a train. I don’t mean one of those long slow freight trains bogged down by a hundred tons of steal and cargo. No, school is a bullet train charging down the track, leaving the day 1 station on the lightning run to 180. Once the school train sets off, altering the course of…
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In part one I talked about the need to get students setup with their network accounts in the first days of school. I conveniently left out Teachers. We usually have teachers back two days before the “official” start of school with students. Those days are generally designated as professional development days when new concepts (sometimes…
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We just finished our first two weeks of school. It was quite literally a blur. My take aways though will hopefully help me to improve next year. So what are my take aways? Well, for starters it has become obvious to me that getting students setup with all their different accounts on week one is becoming more important than ever. We’ve…
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Assembling quotes for grants is kind of like making up a big list of toys you want for Christmas. You get all excited whilst making the list, asking for new bikes, Legos, GI Joe or Modern Warfare 13 and then come Christmas day you find that all you’ve gotten is a new pair of socks…
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I am knee deep in my LTSP-Cluster migration right now. It has taken me twice as long to get to where I am than I thought it would. That old saying that the best laid plan goes out the window as soon as there is contact with the enemy certainly applies. I decided to try…
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We have a computer lab that is due for an upgrade. I’ve been struggling with which direction to go because I really don’t want to buy desktops anymore. We are trying to move to a 1:1 but the budget is a big hurdle, especially here in CA right now. I was thinking about using the…
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I just got back from the Netbook Summit in Burlingame, CA. I was skeptical about attending at first. I mean seriously, a summit just to talk about netbooks? But after two days of meeting new people and listening to where vendors think these devices are going, I’m glad I did. I think the organizers of…
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A few weeks ago I wrote about Backupify.com, a cloud backup service that backs up data from your cloud apps into other parts of the cloud (or is it to different clouds all together?). To recap, I ran into a problem at work accessing my gmail backups. Backupify makes the backup of individual emails available…
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Melissa from IVS was nice enough to send me a Toshiba nb200 netbook for review last week. I’m comparing it to our Acer D150 and D250 netbooks currently in use on campus. The first thing that I did was install Jim Klein’s ubermix Linux for education since that is all we run on netbooks here. …
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Back from presenting small school, Big Tech at CVCUE on Saturday with Danny Silva (iteachag). It was a blast and I really enjoyed seeing all the twitter folks in person. We had some great questions afterward and I met some guys that are trying to bring Big Tech to their school so I hope they…
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