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 …
More on copyrighting
I’ll elaborate a bit on Bryan’s KySTE presentation I previously mentioned. The session made me think about critical copyright concepts such as ‘public performance’ and ‘derivative work’. Granted, the copyright …
Creative Commons – copyrights, etc
I attended an interesting session at the KySTE conference this summer. Bryan Sweasy (CIO, Erlanger/Elsmere School District) discussed Creative Commons and several issues surrounding the legal use of copyrighted material. …
Protecting Children in the 21st Century Act
I’ve received questions from districts about federal legislation that passed last Fall regarding the requirement to educate minors about online safety, etc. This is based on the Protecting Children in …
Others who blog, Twitter, etc.
I saw a press release today that talked about the establishment of Kentucky Governor Steve Beshear’s blog. Of course, he has a Twitter account as well. It caused me to …