Twitter and Engaging the Wallflower
For about 20 minutes last night, I was a participant in #kyedchat. This is a recent Twitter hashtag created with the idea of spawning some intelligent and relevant discussion on …
STLP Cinemania – thoughts on video creation
I was energized this week when I was contacted by a school STLP coordinator about a “Cinemania camp” that she is having next week with some of her students. For …
Random Wi-Fi Thoughts: Spatial Streams, 2×2, 3×3, etc
Have you ever found yourself beginning a task by looking up one little thing… realizing much later that one link led to another search and article, which led to another …
Notes After Visiting a Few New Schools
I thought I’d share some notes and thoughts from recent tours of three new schools opening in my area. * Science labs are cool! In all three of our …
Learning about Wi-Fi – What is Signal-to-Noise Ratio?
I had originally intended to create a blog entry about NetSpot. This week, one of my CIOs (John McMillen – @ujdmc) was using this tool to check out the wireless …
Three Quick Thoughts for the Struggling K-12 CIO
Budgets are as tight as anyone remembers. You’re the fortunate soul asked to occupy the chair of the Chief Information Officer, District Technology Coordinator, Director of Technology Services or whatever …
School wireless – how much (or how many APs) is enough?
While dusting off the blog, I thought for a minute about Bryan’s last post on “Expectations” (which is worth a read, BTW). Districts have been asked and expected to do …
Rapid-fire technology Q&A
Frankly, the blog needed to be dusted off just a bit. It’s been a big week with technology announcements, so I’ll take a moment to put together some quick thoughts …