Administrative Solutions

MyEdulife – Data Cleansing, Aggregation, and Improved Data Governance for Higher Education

January 1, 2012

Introducing MyEdulife … a new way to leverage data in Higher Education. Lasy year, Mark Mooney, John Principato, and Patrick Hidalgo met with me and shared their excitement about MyEdulife, a 2010 start up software and services firm focused on providing data governance, social networking, and life-long educational learning services to the education market. They discussed [...]

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iPad App Developer Seeks Teacher Input On New App (Plus, Win The App For Your School By Naming It!)

November 6, 2011

Please offer your observations and ideas for this fun productivity application for teachers, and take a shot at winning copies of the app for your school by suggesting a name for it. Mobile Simplified is an application development company working on an iPad app for teachers. The application is intended to make it easy for teachers [...]

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Which Education Technologies Do Educators Think Can Have The Biggest Impact (Survey)?

October 16, 2011

A different approach to the question of whether or not technology makes a difference in student learning and outcomes. We want to know what YOU think – if you are a teacher, or work closely with teachers in a supporting role, please take a few moments to answer these 6 brief questions about which technologies, or technologically-related [...]

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The Safe Webspaces Project Helps Introduce Kids to the Internet

August 14, 2011

KiwiCommons provides a space for young students to ease into web browsing with ‘Internet Immunity’. Guest Post by Tim Szeto The emergence of the digital generation means educators have had to change their teaching methods to include technology in the classroom to keep students engaged. With this emerging technology, however, we are also opening the [...]

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The Definitive Source for Information About IT Issues Effecting Higher Education

August 10, 2011

The Campus Computing Project. Several weeks ago, it was my sincere pleasure to attend a dinner hosted Casey Green, the man behind the Campus Computing Project. For those who may not be familiar with this 20+ year old effort, it is an exemplary data collection, analysis, and reporting project focused on the use of IT in Higher Ed. [...]

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Implementing School Management Systems: Smaller Schools vs Larger Schools

August 3, 2011

Guest Post by Aris Samad – Co founder and CEO, QuickSchools.com. Mr. Samad’s post provides a nice introduction to his company’s easy-to-get-started with tool that provides some course management functionality and some student information system functionality. If you like what you read, and you’re in the market for an easy, hosted tool like this, click on over to [...]

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Netsupport School provides teachers with easy centralized control of classroom computers

July 3, 2011

This “Classroom Management” app provides teachers the ability to instruct, monitor, and interact with students on classroom computers individually, in groups, or as an entire class. Instructors at my school have often asked if there was an easy way they could turn off Internet access on the computers in our computer lab classrooms. Last year we learned about Netsupport School, [...]

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Virtual Desktops – an Exciting Emerging Technology Platform for Academic Computing

May 15, 2011

This post was last modified on January 2 2012. With virtual server technology gradually becoming mainstream, the next big leap is the virtual desktop. Many academic institutions are getting on board with the use of virtual server technology, and I’m proud to say that The College of Westchester is no exception (more on that in a [...]

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KPIs to Drive Success Across the Student Lifecycle

April 27, 2011

Board identifies these key performance indicators as critical in shaping successful student and institutional performance at institutions of higher education. TopSchool is a provider of Student Lifecycle Management solutions for higher education, and they recently held a Product Advisory Board meeting where education experts and college leaders discussed which key performance indicators (KPIs) are critical in shaping success along [...]

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What Can Education Technology Do For You In 2011?

January 2, 2011

A simple but important question for teachers and technologists (and students too!) as we head into the new year … 2010 was a great year here on EmergingEdTech, but now it’s time to get ready for 2011! I really want to know what you’re looking for from Education Technology, and as with 2010, I’ll use [...]

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