Hello World its Maxwell
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My TED favorites- The world’s oldest living things: Rachel Sussman on TED.com
- Fellows Friday with Bristol Baughan
- Keep your goals to yourself: Derek Sivers on TED.com
- The technology of the heart: His Holiness the Karmapa on TED.com
- Let the environment guide our development: Johan Rockstrom on TED.com
- Super foods superheroes
- The Happy Planet Index: Nic Marks on TED.com
- New Best of the Web talk: Jeremy Rifkin
- Animal instincts: Saturday TEDTalks playlist
- What physics taught me about marketing: Dan Cobley on TED.com
Tag Archives: k12
Google’s Learning Management System
Google has released their internal learning platform, CloudCourse under an open source license. Built entirely on Google’s own App Engine, CloudCourse is a new entry into a crowded LMS arena. CloudCourse provides calendaring, waitlist management and approval features.
To no surprise CloudCourse is fully integrated with Google Calendar. Google has also made [...]
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Tagged change, college, content, django, Education, Google, Innovation, k12, learning, learning management, learning management system, learning platform, LMS, open source, open source license, python, scheduling system, school profiles, site google, web application framework
Google providing migration tools for Microsoft Exchange
Google is making it easy to switch from Microsoft Exchange to Google Apps for email. Google is providing a migration tool for business and K12 Districts to move from Microsoft Exchange 2003 and 2007 to Google’s Apps suite. This follows their migration solution for Lotus Notes last summer.
Google migration from Exchange:
The process to migrate looks [...]
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Tagged anti virus, cost calculator, Education, email adresses, email services, firstclass, free anti spam, Google, google apps, k12, k12 schools, lotus, microsoft exchange user, migration solution, migration tool, novell, oregon school district, postini, tax payers, tight economic times, wisconsin
Penguin’s Upcoming Tablet books
Penguin Books shares a preview of their educational books on the Apple iPad:
Tags: Apple, Inc., design, iPad, Penguin, eBook, education, trends
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Tagged apple ipad, elearning, ipad, k12, learning, mobile, penguin books
Shipping today: Hot, Flat, and Crowded 2.0
Today Tom Friedman’s Hot, Flat, and Crowded 2.0: Why We Need a Green Revolution–and How It Can Renew America is available.
The 1.0 release was a very interesting read (my review here) and I’m looking forward to the update.
Check out Chapter 1 and Chapter 2 online in PDF format.
Tags: Tom Friedman, Hot, Flat and Crowded, environment, [...]
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Tagged america, bandwidth, china, crowd, flat, Green, green revolution, india, Innovation, k12, knowledge, the world is flat, toledo, tom friedman, trends
My latest read – The Age of Turbulance
I finished Alan Greenspan’s book The Age of Turbulence: Adventures in a New World and learned it was more than I expected from the former Chairman of The Federal Reserve. And with the recession still in high gear it was also good timing.
Beyond his sheer volume of knowledge regarding the economy, global markets and international [...]
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Tagged alan greenspan, chairman of the federal reserve, change, economic plans, economy, Education, educational reform, educational system, election campaign, fiber optic networks, global markets, Globalization, impact of globalization, impact of technology, income inequality, Innovation, international finance, k12, math, nixon, presidential administrations, Reading, recession, republican politics, rule of law, science, stan getz, Technology, turbulence
My latest read: Who Controls the Internet?
Think the internet is still the wild west? Think again. In a new update of Who Controls the Internet?: Illusions of a Borderless World law professors Jack Goldsmith and Tim Wu share how the long arm of foreign governments still can stretch the illusion that the internet (and thereby globalization) are shrinking the world.
On the [...]
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Tagged borderless world, china, cisco, content, dns, ebay, european union, filtering, Globalization, government control, hacker, icann, k12, knowledge, law professors, law schools, legal standpoint, microsoft, policy, Reading, rules of the internet, school district, Technology, tom friedman
Brainstorm 10.0
Attended Brainstorm 10.0 today and had a chance to hear PC industry pundit John C. Dvorak. Brainstorm had a great number of technology sessions for K12 Technology Directors.
The most surprising session was “HD video over IP for Distance Learning” because the original presenter did not show up….so I decided to try an Unconference session that [...]
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Tagged brainstorm, computing, distance learning, hd video, john c. dvorak, k12, Technology, wisconsin dells
A small school’s BIG cost
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Tagged annual technology, anti virus, apps for education, bandwidth, budget line, carbon footprint, change, cipa, client software, college, crt monitors, economy, Education, email solutions, energy, filtering, financial managers, firstclass, Google, google apps, Green, green energy, k12, k12 district, k12 school districts, microsoft, Network, organization, school district, smaller schools, software licensing, student enrollment, tax payer, Technology, technology budgets, tipping point, trends