Cell Phones in School? The debate goes on…
I guess it’s a ‘feeling’ I have. Maybe it’s some articles I’ve read lately about recent updates to cell phone policies in Jessamine and Henderson counties. I see friends and …
Allway Sync: Free File Synchronization
Ever heard of this product? Allway Sync touts free file and folder synchronization for Windows. A district today was nice enough to show me this product and what seemed to …
Hyena – product mention
I have a school district using Hyena for systems management. It’s a little different than some other tools I’ve seen. In this case, the district uses the Hyena interface in …
Cooling the data center
This is a challenge for all school districts, particularly since many have upgraded their internal WAN links and are consolidating servers and services into a single data center. I see …
Broadband funding and ARRA
After several mentions by school districts and by our leadership on today’s webcast, I’ve decided to take a few minutes to sift through the details of a $7.2B program that …
Title IID, EETT, ARRA, etc.
I’m sure I’ve posted about this in the past, but I thought I’d take a fresh look at what’s being stated regarding EETT (Title II Part D) funding for Kentucky, …
Flip-ping out
Any reader who knows John would not be surprised if I said he “flipped out” at a regional CIO meeting. 🙂 On a few occasions recently, he’s mentioned the Flip …
TransACT
I don’t normally post anything about a fee-based service, but TransACT was brought up at our regional CIO meeting. They provide standard forms that have been reviewed from a legal …