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thinking out loud about technology, education and life
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Here’s what’s in the inventory presently, most recent first: iPad2 iPod Touch Nook Color CR-48 iPad iPhone 4 iMac 27″ iPhone 3GS Hackintosh Acer 1410 Dell GX520 SFF iPhone 3G HTPC Dell E520 Dell E521 Dell Inspiron 6400 Dell Inspiron 1504 I use the Hackintosh, iPad and the iPhone 4 daily. The wife uses the…
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What do a rooted nook color, a CR-48 and Le Grand High School’s new iMac lab all have in common? They all make an appearance in my Google Teacher Academy Application Video this time around.
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Today I received a response to my Google Apps for Education Certification email (see last post) and it reminded me of how new this whole Google Apps Certified Trainer thing is. The certification itself has been available for less than a year and the awesome web site for about the same. By the way, if…
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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 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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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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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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