Tuesday, December 11th, 2007
We've been preparing to implement the ITIL standards in my district for about a year now. Now that five of us have achieved the foundation certification, I think we're poised to make some significant headway this year. This presentation from the TIES Conference is a description of some of the ...
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Thursday, March 1st, 2007
Here are links to all of the sites I'll be mentioning in my talk at IL-TCE on Thursday and Friday.
Blogging
The Savvy Technologist
Lewis Elementary School (Principal Tim Lauer)
Getting started with blogging: Wordpress.com, Blogger
Google Maps mashups
Housing Maps
Chicago Crime
Tag searching
IL-TCE postings
...
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Friday, February 23rd, 2007
Jimmy Wales joined Leo Laporte and Amber MacArthur on net@nite recently. It was a pretty standard conversation about Wikipedia that wouldn't surprise anyone who frequents the site. There were a couple quotes worth noting, however. I'll keep these handy when I do presentations that mention Wikipedia and the inevitable question ...
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Monday, December 4th, 2006
Here are links to all of the sites I'll be mentioning in my talk at TIES on Tuesday.
Blogging
Mabryonline.org with Dr. Tim Tyson
Lewis Elementary School (Principal Tim Lauer)
Google Maps mashups
Housing Maps
Chicago Crime
Google Sketchup examples
Technorati searching
TIES postings
Blog posts tagged "ties2006"
...
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Monday, December 4th, 2006
Here are the links for the open source tools that I mention in my talk at the TIES Conference.
Moodle, online learning management system
Audacity, audio editing
Inkscape, vector drawing
Scribus, desktop publishing
OpenOffice.org, office suite
NeoOffice, Mac version of OpenOffice.org
Linux, free Unix-like OS
Creative Commons
Open Source
Flickr, online photo sharing
Wikipedia, world's biggest encyclopedia
VLC, media player
Drupal, content management ...
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Sunday, October 8th, 2006
Doug Johnson is a maven of media here in Minnesota and elsewhere where he is known as an author, teacher, and presenter. His blog, The Blue Skunk Blog, has also become quite popular in the last year.
Doug's been in the business long enough to be able to reflect on the ...
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Friday, September 15th, 2006
We talked a lot about disaster recovery, monitoring system availability, and financial accounting for IT services on day #2.
Does your school district (or other organization) have a disaster recovery plan in place that lists each IT service and how fast you plan to recover back to full operation? Have ...
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Tuesday, September 12th, 2006
Virtualization is one of the hottest technology topics these days. Most people have probably heard about it in the context of Apple's switch to Intel processors and the release of Parallels Desktop for Mac. Parallels allows you to run Windows applications on an Intel Mac by starting up a full ...
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Monday, August 7th, 2006
What do you do when your technology isn't enough to set you apart? How about making questionable patent claims and suing your chief competitors? That seems to be Blackboard's new strategy.
In a nutshell, Blackboard has apparently received a broad patent that seems to cover almost all learning management system concepts ...
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Friday, July 28th, 2006
Seen on digg: Wikipedia has added a feature called "Cite This Article" to its site. The feature appears as a link in the Toolbox section of each page and provides key bibliographic information as well as citations pre-formatted in all of the major forms. Interestingly, they add the following note ...
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Friday, July 7th, 2006
I had a great time presenting at NECC on Wednesday. I captured the audio (albeit in a low-quality version) and attached my Keynote slides as an enhanced podcast. I'm also linking to a pure audio MP3 version in case your computer can't handle AAC-encoded media.
I posted the links for my ...
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Tuesday, July 4th, 2006
Here are links to all of the sites I'll be mentioning in my talk at NECC on Wednesday (and even some ones I probably won't have time to mention). I'll post more once I'm done.
Blogging
Mabryonline.org with Dr. Tim Tyson
Lewis Elementary School (Principal Tim Lauer)
Google Maps mashups
Tour de France live updates
Gmaps ...
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