Administrative Solutions

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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5 Internet Technologies That School Administrators Need To Know About

November 14, 2010

These technologies can enable educators to improve communications, enhance student learning, controls costs, manage Internet access in the classroom, and more. There are many systems and tools available in today’s marketplace that can help administrators and faculty to succeed with some of the many things they need to do in their roles. Some of the technologies I’ve listed [...]

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Managing Internet Access in the Classroom with the Right Technology

October 20, 2010

There are affordable tools out there that can let schools and teachers have more control. There are various ways to deal with controlling what students can access on hard wired Internet-enabled computers in classrooms. One way is to provide strict limits using content filtering tools, but these can occasionally lead to difficulties accessing legitimate sites. Another approach is to [...]

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Seeking Feedback on Parent Portals

October 6, 2010

Is anyone using a Parent Portal at their children’s school(s)? Please tell us a little about it. On Sunday, I published this post about Parent Portals. This post considered portals from somewhat of a technical perspective, discussing features and looking at the web sites of some applications that provide this kind of functionality. But I am [...]

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SchoolTool and other Parent Portals in K-12 Education

October 3, 2010

Parent Portals are gradually becoming an invaluable part of the K-12 education application environment. I’ve just had my first hands-on introduction to Parent Portals. I live in the Wappingers Falls school district in New York state, and they’ve just launched the SchoolTool parent portal. I love this idea and I’m delighted to see it taking root here. In today’s feature [...]

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Steven Laster’s 8 Factors for Successful IT Management

July 25, 2010

Harvard Business School’s CIO delivered an engaging keynote address at the Campus Technology 2010 Conference. It included this set of recommended practices that all IT shops should strive to incorporate. For this week’s post I’m taking off my Ed Tech hat, and swapping it for my ”IT Manager” hat. While I am undeniably an Education Technology enthusiast [...]

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Talisma – a premier CRM solution for Higher Education

April 25, 2010

The Constituent Relationship Management solution chosen by hundreds of colleges and universities. As Director of Institutional Information & Technology in an institution of Higher Education, much of my work day revolves around software applications used in administrative processes. While my primary focus here on EmergingEdTech will always be applications and tools for the classroom and instruction, occasionally I come across a solution [...]

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Portal Applications for Higher Education

August 24, 2009

This week and next I will be discussing two distinct approaches to implementing portal applications in a higher education environment. I am going to divert from the type of tools and resources I typically post about (free or low cost web based resources and apps for educators and the instructional process) to take a look a [...]

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