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Meetings are a cornerstone of the shared decision making process in education. And yet, it has been my experience that meetings are often thrown together at the last minute. I am of the belief that EVERY meeting of any importance should have one or more goals, and a written agenda. With that in mind, here [...]

While visiting the Education World website, I happened upon this great School Culture Triage survey. The idea behind this survey is to quickly and accurately evaluate a school’s culture. According to the article containing the survey: “In every case, the higher the school culture score, the better the school was ranked. The lower the survey [...]

We have all run into CAPTCHAs (those little squiggly words we must type to access web services). You might also know there are multiple projects under way with the goal of scanning books and documents into digital form. Now imagine combining these two concepts! Enter reCAPTCHA, whose goal it is to provide login security AND [...]

Have you ever wished that your hard drive would just tell you why it’s so full, and what files are filling it up?  Well, now there is a free program called WinDirStat that does just that.  WinDirStat, gives you a graphical view of your hard drive with blocks representing files.  The beauty of this is, [...]

Two-factor authentication is a very popular term in security these days. Basically, the idea here is that, instead of providing just “something you know” such as your userid and password, it is much safer to also provide something else. That is, provide an additional FACTOR before you are allowed to enter a secure area, such [...]

The term MBWA is a “strategic management” term dating back decades. Apparently, it originated with the Hewlett Packard company, where HP Managers would seldom be at their desks. Instead, they would be found out with their employees, walking around the company. This idea of MBWA is having a revival of sorts in education, where managers [...]

One of the great worries I have regarding my computer science students is that they spend way too much time sitting at their computers indoors.  I always joke to them that their lack of tans and muscle tone is an obvious sign that they are computer geeks.  It turns out that studies have been done [...]

For a long time, a $100 laptop has been discussed as a possible solution to the Global Digital Divide. Basically, the “digital divide” refers to the fact that under-devleoped countries don’t have ready access to technology. This is especially true in areas like Africa, where Internet access is rare. Well, the XO-1 Computer is finally [...]

One of the major problems with the Internet in general is the number of logins each user must have to navigate the net. Currently, I have over 50 registrations or passwords to websites that I use in one way or another. There have been many attempts in the past to have one login/password for all [...]

Much has been made of the iPhone being the next big thing in consumer electronics. I think, however, that the iPhone itself (as a hardware device) will not be remembered. Rather, it will be the touch screen interface that will survive the test of history. The iPhone interface, I believe, suggests the future of user [...]

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