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 …
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 …
Redirecting IP traffic to a web cache
For ages, KY CIOs have been dealing with a state regulation relation to web filtering and caching and I’ve been on both sides of the fence at different times as …
Willful Destruction of Technology
This is my latest pet peeve. I’ve had several conversations in recent months with CIOs and technicians about this topic. It doesn’t happen everywhere, but willful destruction of technology seems …
SimScience
A tweet led me to this site. SimScience is a product of a National Science Federation project between departments at Cornell and Syracuse (and perhaps others). It isn’t a particularly …
More broadband talk…
I blogged months ago about the $7.2B in ARRA ‘stimulus’ funding to expand broadband connectivity around the country. I wanted to touch on another recent development. The FCC is asking …