Free books and courseware
I’m continually amazed at everything that can be found on the Internet. We’ve had discussions in the K-12 environment about shrinking textbook funds and have rhetorically asked if textbooks are …
OnGuard Online – good educational resources
Just a quick note to make everyone aware of some good material available fron OnGuard Online. This is a partnership between many federal and commercial resources. One of the items …
Zenoss – Open Source IT Management
One things I’ve told DTC/CIOs at various times is that they need a dashboard. When I reference a “dashboard”, I’m thinking of some type of visual that indicates the health …
Humorous PSAs on texting, feat. James Lipton
I’ve been doing some work on Digital Citizenship lately and, along the way, I’ve been searching online for useful public service announcements related to technology topics. Some are very professionally …
Privacy and user rights – a few ‘horror stories’
As our group discussed Acceptable Use Policies last week, someone suggested that it might be useful to have a few of the ‘horror stories’ to share with others. Sadly, they’re …
Acceptable Use Policies – Broad or Specific
Our regional association of DTC/CIOs had an interesting discussion yesterday regarding Acceptable Use Policies. With the growing popularity of social networking sites such as Facebook and the increasing number of …
"The Class" – a parody of "The Office"
As a fan of “The Office” and someone who’s involved in education technology discussions, the video created by an Innovations in Mass Communications class at the University of Denver caught …
Prezi
A quick mention for Prezi, an online presentation tool that’s based on zooming in and out on text and pictures. Describing it doesn’t really do it justice. I’ve played with …