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Managing laptop users in our oneTOone program with Puppet and Hiera
As we’re getting ready to roll out 300 laptops, we had to figure out how we were going to manage the individual users on the laptops. The laptops, running Ubuntu, are already going to be managed with Puppet. This allows us to take care of all the settings, applications, etc. on the laptops in a…
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Current level of technology integration, what is advanced?
Tonight on #OETchat the first question was: Q1: What do you believe is the current level or state of technology integration in schools & how effective is it? #OETchat I answered that most were beginners, and some were intermediate. Then I said that none were advanced. Do you know of any districts or schools in…
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Could BYOD Become a Job Requirement?
Could BYOD Become a Job Requirement: “Reliable transportation needed.” Anyone else remember want ads with that line? The jobs in question might not have required much of a resume, but they sure did require proof of a solid vehicle to get you to work on time. Was that fair? Maybe not, but it was the…
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Learning from the past: use a Mac Plus and Windows 3.0 machine online
James Friend has ported Hampa Hug’s PCE Emulator to Javascript, which means you can run it in a browser. He has a Mac Plus running System 7.0.1 and an emulated 186 IBM PC compatible running Windows 3.0. While those two things are very cool, it’s in his post Why port emulators to the browser? that…
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The Internet Archive has added the Historical Software Archive
Historical Software Collection This collection contains selected historically important software packages from the Internet Archive’s software archives. Through the use of in-browser emulators, it is possible to try out these items and experiment with using them, without the additional burdens of installing emulator software or tracking down the programs. Many of these software products were…
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iPads for all
A School’s iPad Initiative Brings Optimism And Skepticism One of California’s poorest school districts, the Coachella Valley Unified southeast of Los Angeles, is currently rolling out iPads to every student, pre-kindergarten through high school. It’s an ambitious effort that administrators and parents hope will transform how kids learn, boost achievement and narrow the digital divide…
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Tweetbot 3 is one step forward, two steps back
Tapbots this week released Tweetbot 3, their iOS 7 update to Tweetbot. Unfortunately, they changed one of the best features of Tweetbot. Lists were treated as a first class citizen. You could replace your Timeline with any of your lists with two taps. Now they have moved lists to one of the tabs at the…
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How I fixed my Chrome momentary freezing problem
For the past couple of months, my main Chrome profile has been frustrating me with its “freezing” everytime the Chrome window was activated. What I mean by this, is that when I clicked on the Chrome window with the troublesome profile, Chrome would freeze/pause for 5-10 seconds. This behavior persisted no matter what platform I…
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Apple just killed the hackintosh
Apple announced yesterday at their event that the newest version of OS X, version 10.9 (Mavericks), will be free to all Macintosh computers that can run it. This is pretty amazing, we can finally keep all of our Macs on the same OS instead of us currently supporting three different versions. But for hackintosh users,…