[![][]][] I’ve had the new iPad for 24 hours, and it has already ruined me for all other displays. I noticed it yesterday, as I was working on my 24″ 1920×1080 monitor at school. It just looks bad after using the new iPad. As an upgrade to the iPad 1, the new iPad is a no brainer upgrade. The speed… Read more →
Beyond Paperless
[][] Slides: Beyond Paperless – eTech 2012(pdf) Audio: Beyond Paperless – eTech 2012 []: https://ryancollins.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/2012-02-13-at-10.19.33.jpg Read more →
Can Insync dethrone Dropbox as a cloud storage service?
A couple of weeks ago I read a Techcrunch article about Insync. It is a service that works almost identically to Dropbox. Their differentiating feature is the fact that they use your Google Docs account for storage. A downside to this is that you only have 1GB of storage with normal accounts, but Google lets you add 20GB to that… Read more →
Beware of the echo chamber
As my school district was preparing for a building levy back in November (which did pass, yeah!!), I talked to community members what they felt the chances for a new building were. Most of them were enthusiastic, saying that they were hearing a lot of positive talk on Facebook. But when I pointed out that their friends on Facebook were… Read more →
The Wingstand: a stand for your iPhone or iPad and the Apple Bluetooth Keyboard
One of the first accessories I purchased with the original iPad was the Apple Bluetooth Keyboard. I had grand plans of replacing my laptop with the iPad. That didn’t happen, Apple introduced the MacBook Air and I was hooked, but I still held onto the BT keyboard. Lately, I’ve been using it with my iPhone when I’m out and don’t… Read more →
The Senior Experience – Student Blogging for School Pride and High School Credit
Madison Local School District Ohio School Public Relations Association AJ Huff – Coordinator of school community public relations The Senior Experience – class What – 21st century teaching and learning – language arts credit – students apply, 6 students in class – blog about their senior year. – Also go to the other buildings – They get a MacBook –… Read more →
Flipping the classroom with laptops
Pandora Gilboa Local Schools R. Todd Schmutz – Superintendent Dr. Gene Lloyrd – Director of Technology As part of the project the student get to keep the machine when they graduate from school. The netbooks weren’t powerful enough, so now they’ve moved to more robust laptops. How the idea was born – Textbook costs and weight in book bags –… Read more →
Jamie Vollmer Keynote OSBA 2011 Capital Conference
MY COMMENTARY IS IN ALL CAPS Author of “Schools can not do it alone” Talk about our power. A little bit about the need for change. Quote by Lincoln Mold public sentiment Others have done an excellent job of molding public sentiment against public schools. Governors think that private sectors know how to fix everything. Capitalism isn’t unlimited in its… Read more →
eDays, not calamity days
MY NOTES FROM EDAYS, NOT CALAMITY DAYS PRESENTATION AT THE OSBA 2011 CAPITAL CONFERENCE. MY EDITORIALS ARE IN ALL CAPS. 🙂 Mississinawa Valley Local school district – Pilot school for eDays Replace snow days with eDays? – ancedotes: take away sled time? 🙂 Big learning experience Background/History – Supt. brought in through a video – Learning can continue when the… Read more →
Speed up your website and get IPv6 compatibility for free!
Prerequisites This is going to be a pretty high tech article, but the benefits outweigh the work that it requires. I’m going to talk about using cloudflare.com to cache your website and offer IPv6 compatibility. For this to work you have to be using your own domain name and have access to change the namerservers for your domain. If you… Read more →