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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..

The Challenge of Coordinating District-wide Communications
December 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..

How to prevent, identify, and prosecute sexual misconduct
October 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..

Highlights from Tech Forum Northeast, Palisades, NY October 23, 2009
October 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..

Safety Net: Web filtering that works
July 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..

11 crisis management tips for administrators: what to do if you have to shut down
May 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..

Virtualization: A Primer
May 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..


Stop sexting: new game teaches students about Internet safety
May 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..

PC virtualization systems give schools a lot of computer learning for the buck
March 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..

New toolkit helps make sense of mass notification systems
March 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..

A whitepaper on Proxy Abuse
January 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..

Bytes and Books Inauguration Ball: Live Reporting
January 21, 2009
 Managing editor Christine Weiser reports from Books & Bytes Ball in DC.  More..

Intrusion prevention in primary education
December 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..

Data Privacy Trouble Spots
Eric Svetcov, August 1, 2005
Concerned about FERPA and HIPAA? Start by closing the gap on some commonly overlooked vulnerabilities. More..

  
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