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K-12 Superintendent, reformed IT guy, educator, 1:1 evangelist, life long learner, father, husband, geek, ex self-propelled field artillery turret mechanic, GCT, CCTO, INFP

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  • A Proven EdTech Recipe For K12 Success

    Building a sound computing environment that provides “enterprise class” services for schools on a California budget isn’t rocket science. It involves making smart choices and focusing on what’s important. Plant some cable. It’s the foundation for everything. Crap cable equals a crap network. Wifi like starbucks. Instant on and connected to the web. Buy the features…

  • I Love Google Hangouts

    Have I said this before? Hangouts make hanging out so easy and the ability to record conversations for posterity is awesome! Mike Vollmert and I had a great rambling discussion about the elephant in the room – the need the change Professional Development to meet the changing instructional paradigms in a 1:1 world. We also…

  • People Read This Thing?

    I usually write on topics that are under my skin at the present moment. Sometimes I lose interest or get sidetracked in the middle of a post and it never makes it to Publish. And sometimes the story just hasn’t fully developed yet in real life (reference the VDI Saga which is languishing at part 4). Through it all…

  • Space, The Final Frontier (But Why Is There A Chromebook Here?)

    If you didn’t already know, I co-host two podcast in my free time. In the latest episode of rebootED, Dr. Mike Vollmert and I talk about the effect spaces can have on culture and then we talk about the Milpitas Unified School District’s push into the future with Chromebooks and Google Apps.  

  • True HTML5 RDP Direct For Chrome, OMG!

    It’s finally happened! Someone (2x specifically) has made a true HTML5 RDP client for Chrome. No public gateways, no server side clients. Just an RDP client in the browser. I think I am in heaven. Now I really can use a Chromebook and get some Windows Admin work done too. Check it out – http://www.2x.com/rdp-client/chrome/?c=1

  • The Future Of EdTech Is Free (Mostly) #cue13 #schwab4CUE

    Think Differently About Your IT Spending:    

  • Caught Between Two Worlds – The Rogue Education Technology Wave Is Coming

    Things used to be simple. I architected networks, administered servers and made sure email flowed uninterrupted. I was an IT guy and I was pretty good at it. Then one day I became a classroom teacher and my simple life in IT, focused on up time and putting six computers in the back of every…

  • The Power Of The Internet – Hanging Out With Yong Zhao

    Today I was in a Google Hangout on Air with Dr. Yong Zhao. Dr. Zhao is author of several books about education including his latest, “World Class Learners: Educating Creative and Entrepreneurial Students” and has keynoted all over the world. I saw his keynote at ISTE12 and was totally amazed. Today the power of the Internet…

  • I Don't Think VDI Redundancy Means What You Think It Means

    In my previous VDI posts, I outlined the Virtual Desktop infrastructure I inherited and discussed the stability issues being faced. In this, part three, I will talk about redundancy or lack thereof and how I was able to use some over engineering to my advantage, if only for a little while. Summer was fast coming…

  • The Long March To VDI Stability

    This is the second post in a multi part series about my experience with VDI over the past 10 months. In the first post I laid out the VDI situation I inherited. To recap  the situation, post VMWorld in August, I realized that I had a VDI system that was under spec’d, not well implemented…