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Category Archives: EdTech
COPPA and Verifiable Parental Consent
If you’ve spent anytime talking about an iPad deployment, AppleIDs, social media – particularly Facebook, how you can use Evernote (or many other web-based services) with students under the age of 13 you’ve more than likely been confused by COPPA. … Continue reading
Posted in Administration & Management, COPPA, EdTech, Teaching & Learning
Tagged AppleID, COPPA, Danah Boyd, Evernote, Facebook
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Geeking out at the PSU MacAdmins Conference.
If you’re not pushing yourself you not growing. Finding good opportunities and ways to push yourself professionally are often hard to come by, so when my colleague came back from the PSU MacAdmins conference last year and said “WOW” I … Continue reading
Posted in 1to1, Administration & Management, AppleTV, Conferences, EdTech, Technical
Tagged absolute software, aelp, Apple, apple vo, AppleID, AppleTV, avlp, casper, command line, configurator, COPPA, deployment, ios, JAMF, psumacadmin, psumacconf, scripting, terminal
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The journey to a 1:1 Initiative.
What does a 1:1 Initiative look like and what did it take to achieve it? When you visit other school that have programs in place you often see the end result of what could have been a very long process … Continue reading
Posted in 1to1, Administration & Management, EdTech, Teaching & Learning
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My day at Educon 2012
This was the second year in a row that I attended Educon for the Saturday sessions. If you’ve never been to Educon before it is held at the Science Leadership Academy (SLA) in center city Philadelphia. If you have never been … Continue reading
Posted in 1to1, Conferences, EdTech, Teaching & Learning
Tagged 21st Century Skills, action research, Bud Hunt, constructivism, Don Buckley, educon, Franklin Institute, Gary Stager, Henry Jenkins, IBL, Jonathan Becker, Karen Blumberg, Meredith Stweart, new media literacies, PBL, Philadelphia, practitioner research, research, science leadership academy, Seymour Papert, simplicity, SLA, social media, teacher research, The School at Columbia, Will Richardson
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Dealing with COPPA: Compliance, the lies and the future.
I don’t know about you but I am struggling with the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA). As we look to use different online tools in the classroom we evaluate them on the service(s) they provide, whether they meet our … Continue reading
Rogue IT in Education and the BYOD, DIY model.
Chris Lehmann (@chrislehmann) of The Science Leadership Academy and founder of EduCon, said of technology: “Technology must be like Oxygen: ubiquitous, necessary, and invisible.” I couldn’t agree more with this statement, but, as a Director of Technology, I also need to … Continue reading
Posted in 1to1, EdTech, Schools, Teaching & Learning, Technical
Tagged Andrew Shelffo, Android, backward design, Bring your own device, BYOD, Chris Lehmann, DIY, Do it yourself, ipad, iPhone, iPod, rogue, rogue IT
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A conversation about Evernote and our 1:1 initiative.
In the Spring of 2011 I had the pleasure of joining two of my colleagues (Jenny Zagariello – @jennyz49 & Christian Ely – @christian67 ) in a conversation with Andrew Sinkov (@sinkov), VP of Marketing for Evernote in NYC to … Continue reading
Posted in 1to1, EdTech, Evernote, Teaching & Learning, Technical
Tagged 1to1, andrew sinkov, christian ely, Evernote, jenny zagariello
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Splitting Moodle Services to Multiple Servers
Early this year we moved our Moodle server from a Linux server to an Apple server (Moving to Moodle 2.0:Pt. 1 – The Decision) and upgraded from 1.9 to 2.1. In doing so we were concerned with a number of … Continue reading
Posted in EdTech, Moodle, Technical
Tagged apache, Moodle, Moodle 2.0, Moodle 2.1, MySQL, PHP
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The new OS wars… moving beyond the desktop. Are you ready?
It wasn’t to long ago that when you were talking about what technology to use in school the discussions — or arguments — were about whether you were a Mac or PC school. These same conversations happened as schools considered … Continue reading
Posted in EdTech, Teaching & Learning, Technical
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edSocialMedia: When it’s time to use Twitter in the Classroom
Over on the edSocialMedia site my latest blog post explores the question of when do you know if it’s the right time to use Twitter in the classroom. The post came after ready the CNN article “Twitter finds a place … Continue reading
Posted in EdTech, Schools, Social Media, Teaching & Learning
Tagged Distraction, Twitter
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