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Working in a modern day manufacturing facility, data was all around me. As the IT Manager at Quebecor World’s Merced Plant, my team was responsible for the plant dash board. A web based application that collected and showed the plant’s production performance in real time, pulling in data from hundreds of sensors throughout the production…
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Every school district I’ve ever worked with has done two things terribly in my opinion (at least prior to my arrival). The first is plan for technology in a sustainable and strategic way and the second is to provide adequate support for technology use in the classroom. I can attribute both to the lack of…
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Just a random thought exercise. By no means definitive. Internet Bandwidth – 100Mbps per 10,000 kids. (SBAC Tech Specs) School WAN connections to the District Office – 250Mbps-1Gbps (more is better) Campus Backbones – 1Gbps, 10Gbps if you can (again, more is better) Bandwidth Shaping at the Firewall A Wireless Access Point in every classroom.…
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What does a kid need to learn these days? If you believe as I do that access to the Internet is a fundamental requirement for learning and living in the 21st Century, then the next question to ask is what is the best device to achieve that? It’s a question I hear asked often. Everyone…
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So iOS 7 happened. Two months into the start of a new school year. Again. And right after we handed out iPads to teachers and students. All that UI training, gone. Poof. The number one question I get now; “Where did the airplay icon go?” Seriously. Maybe it’s a good thing people can’t find it,…
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I don’t know how else to say it. Mobile device carts pretty much suck as a way to increase student access to technology. Particularly when carts are shared between classrooms. Take a school with just one mobile device cart to share between all the 3rd-5th grade classrooms. The logistics of dividing up the days and…
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When I was a kid (back when TVs were square and 3 feet deep) and I had a question, I asked the adults in the room. I’m talking basic stuff like How tall is the empire state building? What’s the biggest animal on earth? How big is the biggest animal on earth? What happened to…
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Saturday I presented at the CAPCUE Tech Fest 2013 event. I plan to write a post about the event itself shortly but after sharing my slide deck on twitter I was asked if there was audio of the presentation as well. Um, no. But I did more or less the same presentation for the School Leadership…
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I was recently asked what my AppleID strategy is for teachers and iPads. It’s very simple and it stems from an issue we have, at least in California public schools known as “Gifting” public funds. When iPads first came out, the organization that advises schools on finance matters in California released a scary document that…
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