Saturday, April 16, 2011

Technology Today 4 16 11

Network Hardware
·         Network Control- Microsoft, Novell, Red Hat
·         DNS
·         Virtual Servers- One large server that has sub areas or virtual areas and appears to be multiple servers.
·         (Hot Swap) gives the ability to quickly replace one drive or even server due to 2 servers that clone each other and constantly update each other in the event of one going down
·         Storage-servers you can use Novell to store itself as well.
·         Communications (voice mail and voice hardware, even phone system)
·         Video Conferencing
·         Learning Platforms/Assessment/Student Records (Skyward, Power School, Infinite Campus…)
·         Personnel Records/Accounting/Lunch Program (Meal Time)

Disaster Strategy
·         Power
·         Backups
·         Redundancy (Backing up backups and cloning each other for more accurate and fool/fault proof backup)
Enterprise Filtering
·         Email Filtering-prevents virus’s/porn, etc from coming in
·         Web Filtering allows or prevents things from going or coming into /from your computer (CIPA-Children’s Internet Protection Act)- no porn  Federal Funding tied to this to keep you compliant with this law.

·         Network Attacks
o   Denial of Service
o   Worms and other nasty stuff

Disrupting Class 2
·         Standardizing Teaching Versus Customizing Learning
·         The Future Classroom/Assessment
·         The System for Student-Centric Learning-Changing Values
·         Descriptive to Prescriptive Research
Parents as Teachers
·         Schools reaching out to young parents, ones who have non school-age children and informing them on learning concepts.  Giving them pointers on what to look for in your child for indicators of on-time or delays.  This is helping significantly in reducing special education services due to catching something while they’re young.  
Professional Development
·         Technology to Support Professional Development Activities
·         Professional Development for Technology
·         Professional Development through IVS, Discovery Education(United Streaming), both host webinar’s for professional development

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