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BYOT (Bring Your Own Technology)December 29, 2009
Each spring, Walled Lake (MI) Consolidated School District
kicks off its ten-year-old Anytime Anywhere Learning (AAL) Laptop
Program with an orientation meeting for parents of fifth graders. More..
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The Challenge of Coordinating District-wide CommunicationsDecember 21, 2009 The great American conductor and composer Leonard Bernstein once said that technique is communication; to conductors the two words are synonymous. For school executives and administrators who are orchestrating communications More..
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How to prevent, identify, and prosecute sexual misconductOctober 28, 2009 To help administrators prevent and prepare for possible crises, Lightspeed Systems Inc. , provider of network security and management software for schools, has released a new white paper, "Forensics: Identifying, Investigating, More..
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Highlights from Tech Forum Northeast, Palisades, NY October 23, 2009October 27, 2009 Welcome and Opening Keynote Chris LehmannBuilding School 2.0 Creating the Schools We NeedWhat is School 2.0? What are the pedagogical ideas that form it? Examine ideas of constructivist pedagogy and the use of 21st Century tools More..
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Safety Net: Web filtering that worksJuly 23, 2009 A district can take many steps to ensure that its students are protected from harmful, obscene, or otherwise unworthy websites. It can establish guidelines for appropriate Internet usage, create acceptable use policies, or More..
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11 crisis management tips for administrators: what to do if you have to shut downMay 20, 2009 CDW G offers the following checklist of topics and questions for non technology executives and administrators to review with their management teams and IT departments to prepare for significant facility shutdowns – regardless of More..
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Virtualization: A PrimerMay 18, 2009 While funding evaporates in these harsh economic times, virtualization benefits budgets, education, and the environment while improving security. Here are some ways to virtualize DesktopThe entire desktop environment, including More..
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Stop sexting: new game teaches students about Internet safetyMay 4, 2009 Web Wise Kids, WILL Interactive, Verizon and the ESA Foundation have created the game “It’s Your Call” for schools, law enforcement and community organizations to teach teens about “sexting,” cyber bullying, academic cheating and More..
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PC virtualization systems give schools a lot of computer learning for the buckMarch 22, 2009 Sometimes it was a challenge keeping students at Danville (IL) High School focused on interactive video lessons on the library computers. But not anymore.Now classes, like a group of eight special needs students recently, simply More..
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New toolkit helps make sense of mass notification systemsMarch 2, 2009 Americans send 1 billion text messages a day via wireless devices. Yet when it comes communicating with parents, many schools still rely on television, radio, and the Internet to push out critical information – meaning parents More..
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A whitepaper on Proxy AbuseJanuary 30, 2009 From SmoothWall's 2009 whitepaper Anonymous proxy servers that pass users' web requests onto other servers on the internet are becoming an increasingly pervasive problem in schools – and one that can only be prevented with More..
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Bytes and Books Inauguration Ball: Live ReportingJanuary 21, 2009 Managing editor Christine Weiser reports from Books & Bytes Ball in DC. More..
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Intrusion prevention in primary educationDecember 22, 2008 By David R. Bailey As an information systems consultant who has been working with educational technology and security for nearly two decades, I have seen a lot of security breaches. I have seen students change their own or other More..
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Data Privacy Trouble SpotsEric Svetcov, August 1, 2005 Concerned about FERPA and HIPAA? Start by closing the gap on some commonly overlooked vulnerabilities. More..
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