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Shipping today: Hot, Flat, and Crowded 2.0

November 24th, 2009

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

Google’s AWESOME offer to K12 Schools

October 24th, 2009

Google has been helping K12 Schools and Colleges save money by giving free access to their powerful tools in an enterprise setting. Google began offering Gmail and have continued to add more tools to their suite specifically tuned for schools. Known as Google Apps for Education (GAE) this collection provides an excellent solution for schools [...]

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Posted in Design • Education • Globalization • Google • Innovation • Milwaukee • Network • OpenSource • Rich media • Smartphone • Technology • Web2.0

Tagged anti virus protection, college, computing solution, docs, Education, educational cooperatives, firstclass, Google, google apps, information, k12, k12 school districts, message security, northwestern university, precious money, publishing web, school district, school technology, storage integration, storage space, Technology, technology budgets, university case study, video storage, virus solution

My latest read – The Age of Turbulance

August 19th, 2009

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?

June 1st, 2009

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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Posted in Design • Education • Globalization • Google • Innovation • Milwaukee • Network • OLPC • OpenSource • Reading • Rich media • Smartphone • Technology

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

March 10th, 2009

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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Posted in Design • Education • Google • HighRes • Innovation • Interactive • Milwaukee • Network • OLPC • OpenSource • Reading • Smartphone • Streaming • Technology • Web2.0 • WiscNet

Tagged brainstorm, computing, distance learning, hd video, john c. dvorak, k12, Technology, wisconsin dells

K12 Technology Plan: CIPA

February 13th, 2009

K12 Teachers and Administrators have questions about some of the finer points regarding CIPA and their school district. It appears there is a misunderstanding: not all CIPA products are created equal and more importantly your District may actually have the wrong CIPA product installed. From a technical point-of-view CIPA solutions range in flexibility like Tylenol: Extra [...]

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Tagged access, bandwidth, cipa, content filter, creative commons, district technology policy, Education, it, k12, school district, school technology, teachers, technology plan, technology specialist, web filter, webfilter, website

YouTube, K12 web filtering & CIPA

November 10th, 2008

I recently posted a tweet about my work with K12 school districts regarding web content filtering issues with YouTube and was very happy to receive a couple of DMs from Angela Maiers and Elizabeth Holmes, two education professionals who I consider to be leaders in knowledge sharing and teaching experiences they share on Twitter. –Follow Angela [...]

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Tagged 8e6, bandwidth, blocking, cipa, content, Education, filtering, k12, Rich media, teacher, Technology, twitter, WiscNet, youtube