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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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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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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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Well, someone read my last post on backups and restores using the online cloud backup service Backupify. I reported a problem where I could not open my archived email files. Rob from Backupify replied to my post and suggested a possible cause: Hi Andrew, We can’t replicate this error, and haven’t had a single user…
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After my glowing review of Backupify last week, I’m ashamed to admit that I forgot the golden rule of backups, if you can’t restore, then you haven’t successfully backed up anything. In checking some of the services besides twitter in my Backupify cloud backup account yesterday, I noticed that while I’ve been receiving nice emails…
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Tool 22 from 30 Twitter Tools For Managing Followers is http://tweepdiff.com/ and I just used it to compare @iteachag (610 followers; my co-worker who started on twitter about the same time as me) to my twitter account @anotherschwab (447 followers). I then proceeded to tweet out the following breaking news flash: Hey @iteachag we have…
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Nice? Ok, so far Backupify is awesome. I looked at my Twitter archive today and what can I say but Wow! I mean, come on. It built an entire pdf book of my Twitter activity that I can download! I also have it backing up 2 personal gmail accounts, my google docs and delicious bookmarks. …
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