"Financial Football"
I saw this featured in an eSchoolNews article. It’s an interesting partnership between the New York Comptroller, Visa and the NFL. All of the details are in this press release. …
OET webcast equipment
Each month, our staff travels to a different school district to conduct a webcast. They share information with school districts about any number of technology topics. I regularly get asked …
Science education – effective use of video!
One of the biggest challenges we have in the K-12 environment is to keep kids interested and on task. Depending on how it’s used, technology can be either a great …
Wallwisher
Sometimes the easiest tools are the most useful. I’m not sure if that’s the case here, but Wallwisher is an easy tool that some school districts might find useful. It’s …
Latest on the "internet filtering" conversation
I probably write about this too much. I hear from multiple school districts about issues they’re dealing with. Some district leaders are trying hard to filter as little as possible, …
Working with photos in Office 2007
At a regional meeting, we were recently shown some of the photo editing features included with Office 2007. The entire set isn’t available in ‘compatibility mode’, so you’d want to …
Kace
I had never heard of Kace or a “KBOX” deployment appliance before today. I haven’t seen one in person, but I watched the demo and talked to one district about …
NMap
A quick mention for NMap, which is a simple but powerful tool that can be used to scan a host or network. How would a CIO use it? * What …