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Category Archives: Technical
Using device management to teach responsible use.
If you attend an educational technology conference, follow any of the Ed Tech listservs or are active on the Twitter hashtag #edtech you’re bound to find conversations on device management or deployment. The conversations will generally revolve around how to … Continue reading
Google is offering a $99 Chromebook! Wait…does cheap make it right?
This is a quick reactionary piece to two things I read today that have me scratching my head. Both related to Google and the Chromebook. As reported on Engadget “Google (is) offering $99 Samsung Series 5 Chromebooks to public schools” … Continue reading
Picking the right wireless for your school.
Prior to the deployment of our 1:1 Learning Initiative we spent over a year working on our infrastructure. Switches, firewalls, access points and other network devices/appliances were demoed and tested to handle DHCP, DNS, RADIUS, content filtering and connectivity. We … Continue reading
Posted in 1to1, EdTech, Technical
Tagged aerohive, Apple, aruba, cisco, content filtering, dhcp, dns, infoblox, let's think wireless, ltw, meru, open directory, precision consulting, radius, ruckus, trapeze, untangle, xirrus
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User data migration in our 1:1 scares me!
I am continually impressed by what we have achieved in our 1:1 Learning Initiative. We planned like no other school I know, we came out of the gates firing on all cylinders, all of our users — 4th-12th & faculty … Continue reading
iPad Layered Model more manageable with iOS 6
With the release of iOS 6 Apple no longer required the use of a password for the purchase of free apps from the App Store and more importantly for your institution, for the updating of apps. Why is this so important? In an … Continue reading
Onscreen Passcode and Configurator support for AppleTV Deployments
With the latest release of both AppleTV 5.1 and iOS 6 Apple takes steps to provide better enterprise support for the AppleTV. In an earlier post (Considerations for deploying the AppleTV in your school or enterprise) I pointed out that … Continue reading
Posted in 1to1, AppleTV, iPad, Technical
Tagged AirPlay, Apple, AppleTV, ios, management
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Making the case for a solid state drive (SSD) in your 1:1 Initiative
Let’s start this with a little game, name this sound… OK… back the sound in a bit. You have a lot of decisions to make when you are planning a 1:1 Learning Initiative, one of which has to do with the type … Continue reading
Cloud Computing in Education
[Originally posted elsewhere on 7/28/2009, but the topic came up again in a conversation and thought to move the post here.] Cloud computing is described by Wikipedia as: Cloud computing is a style of computing in which dynamically scalable and often virtualized resources are provided as a … Continue reading
Posted in EdTech, Evernote, Technical
Tagged cloud, cloud computing, google apps, prezi, virtualized
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Understanding Open Source
I am a big advocate of open source software. We’ve used it at our school for a number of years. Our firewall is an appliance called Untangle. We use open source software in the classroom including tools like Open Office … Continue reading
Posted in Administration & Management, Community, Moodle, Technical
Tagged AMP, andrea rennick, apache, Apple, Community, GPL, Moodle, MySQL, open office, open space, Percona, PHP, phpmyadmin, remote-learner, Sequel Pro, WebDevStudios, WordPress
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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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