Data Quality and the Responsibility Parable
Our leadership and CIOs have been talking quite a bit lately about data quality. When talking to CIOs about it, the responses are all over the map. This is partially …
If it isn’t easy, it won’t get done (or used)
I had planned on making a blog entry describing how to map my SkyDrive to a local drive letter. As it turns out, there are many blog entries describing the …
EdTech & Managing the Super Hype
As EdTech leaders, more now than EVER, we need to help manage the hype and help our other leaders through decision making. Scott McLeod re-posted some 2008 thoughts on this, …
PBL ( _______ – Based Learning)
There’s been a ton of discussion and work recently on _____-Based Learning (pronounced “blank-based” learning). I say it that way because some folks are focused on one or more of …
What CIPA is NOT…
disclaimer blurb: 1st and foremost, nothing about this post would encourage any ideas of being ‘reckless’ leaders in terms of the Web and minors… Recently, there has been some big …
System Center Configuration Manager
We’ve had a good bit of discussion lately about Microsoft’s Enrollment for Education Solutions and the potential benefits a school district might experience if they were to choose to enroll. …
TeamViewer
I have a district that swears by TeamViewer for a remote desktop solution. I won’t say too much about it because I haven’t used it first-hand, but I’m told that …
If you leave tomorrow…
I didn’t begin this entry thinking of a way to link to Lynyrd Skynyrd’s “Free Bird” or this version being played on a ukelele – suffice to say you can …