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Author: Andrew T Schwab
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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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I just got back from #edCampSV and once again it was a day well spent. I attended two sessions in the morning, both involved great conversations around teaching and learning. The first session revolved around the very real challenges of integrating technology into classroom instruction from the perspective of two willing (but under supported by…
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Google Classroom came a few years too late to rescue me from Moodle and Google Docs folder management nuclear winter but it’s out now and teachers are picking it up like wildfire. Early critics, myself included, criticized Classroom for all the things it didn’t do when in fact the simplicity of it is probably a big…
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Sadly it looks like InfuseLearning is shutting down. You can read their announcement here. I did not personally use InfuseLearning but I saw Jon Corippo (@jcorippo) demonstrate it’s learning power many times. Had I still been in the classroom, I’m sure I would have used it straight away. InfuseLearning is not the first education…
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