Category Archives: edtech

Meet Your Future Employee

Posted on October 26, 2007 by Alvin Trusty

Here is an article in Computer World that should give us some insight about our future workforce. This article repeats many of the trends I have seen in other publications: 95% of graduates have solid basic technical skills, 50% are … Continue reading →

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Troubleshooting

Posted on October 25, 2007 by Alvin Trusty

I have had three “real-world” problems presented to me this week that are a good representation of problems present in the day-to-day life of a technical consultant.  I work with several schools as a consultant and  I end up getting a few … Continue reading →

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Microsoft Matters Less???

Posted on October 21, 2007 by Alvin Trusty

Christopher Dawson has an educational technology management blog on the ZDNet site.  In today’s post, he talks about how Microsoft is becoming less important as an operating system vendor.  Christopher is using Ubuntu in the lab in his school with great … Continue reading →

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More Than Cool Tools

Posted on October 20, 2007 by Alvin Trusty

One of the the keynote addresses from the the first regular week of the K12 Online Conference is by Alan Levine, Brian Lamb and D’arcy Norman. The three of them have put together a video that goes through many of … Continue reading →

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Voicethread

Posted on October 18, 2007 by Alvin Trusty

I just heard a presentation on Voicethread.  What’s a VoiceThread? A VoiceThread is an online media album that allows people to make comments, either audio or text, and share them with anyone they wish. A VoiceThread allows an entire group’s … Continue reading →

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