Tag Archives: Apple

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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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Pressing Pause on Lion

[UPDATED — 1/26/2012] There is doing some­thing and doing some­thing right. When you take on any project, par­tic­u­larly one effect­ing 1000+ peo­ple you bet­ter make sure you’re doing it as right as pos­si­ble. My school is a year and a half … Con­tinue read­ing

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The iPad is not considered an educational tool?!

Hi… I went to the apple store and asked for an educator’s dis­count on the iPad and they told me that they do not give a dis­count on iPads because they are not con­sid­ered an edu­ca­tional tool.  After you picked … Con­tinue read­ing

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Where’s iDVD? Apple’s move away from optical media.

It’s the day before Christ­mas and all the through the house not a crea­ture is stir­ring… except for my cousin who is try­ing to put together a DVD project on a brand new Lion iMac and couldn’t find iDVD. With … Con­tinue read­ing

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The AppleID in your 1:1 Program — COPPA

We have a great 1:1 pro­gram at my school. In grades 4–12 every stu­dent (and all fac­ulty) have a 13″ Mac­book Pro with a 500GB backup drive along with a suite of soft­ware we’ve installed for pro­duc­tiv­ity, con­tent cre­ation and … Con­tinue read­ing

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Interested in talking about Moodle? Moot anyone?

Are you inter­ested in talk­ing about Moo­dle? Would you like to come to a con­fer­ence devoted to Moo­dle? Would you be will­ing to present at a con­fer­ence devote to Moo­dle? Are you are curi­ous about how Moo­dle can be used in your school? Would you … Con­tinue read­ing

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