Author: stacef

Doing a general search, downloading, and trying out the app works, but some teachers who are a little less tech-savvy feel overwhelmed with this approach and want some guidance starting off. Plus, the sheer volume of apps makes it tricky even for experienced users to really know what is available and worthwhile to their subject…

have had it with a particular Xserver. Crashing almost every day at the same time with absolutely no crashlog or any log of any kind. I am throwing in the towel in favor of a more easily administered NAS, and figure that since I am only providing file service for 30 – 40 concurrent users…

Had similar issues here. We had to re-enroll quite a few after upgrading to iOS6. We had to run the enrollment process several times on a couple of them. We could not pinpoint the cause of this. We even tried the problematic ones in different spots in our network to rule out Casper’s suggestion that…

I am wondering what the current consensus is on interactive white boards. Are they useful? Are they a distraction? Do teachers actually use them as more than a standard whiteboard? Do they improve student engagement after the newness wears off? Do 1:1 iPads with apps like ShowMe and NearPod make more sense? Are schools buying…

At the risk of being overly meta, I would love to see a draft copyright policy for schools get released under an open license. Ideally, this policy would emphasize how openly licensed materials can help reduce an organization’s risk. Anyone want to work on this at the meetup on the 9th?

As to student work, it should (IMO) belong to the student. In an ideal world (and this ideal is more likely when we have teachers who are informed about their rights under open licensing) students would also know how to license their work. But, the notion that a student should give up all of their…

This route makes sense from a PR perspective (as the name of the school will be distributed with the work) as well as from an employee retention place (talented people have options, and if a school tells them that they have no rights to their creative output, they will (and should) leave).