The move in education using computers is unquestionably towards co-operative and project-based learning. If you’re using computers as a teaching tool, you’re going to have to make some time to keep current with IT. In the words of another district administrator, “a one or two hour workshop is not enough training to accomplish real change [...]
An important step is for you, as a teacher, to understand where the IT person is coming from. They are certainly not coming at the issue of computers from the same perspective as you! For the IT people, those computers you want to use as teaching tools are all about funding and budgets, and time [...]
Technologists themselves admit they wish they could wave a magic wand, and reverse the proportion of time they spend on workstation support versus working with you. They’re ready to give you the attention they know you want: they simply don’t have the time yet! Now that you know these things, use that knowledge to your [...]
When most people think of an Internet content filter, they think of an application that blocks a list of known inappropriate websites. However, there’s a lot more your content filter could be doing for your school, business or organization—especially when working together with a bandwidth monitoring tool.
The Web content filter that works off of [...]
Recently we at KDI were doing some EDI setup work for a client. It was on the weekend because that’s when we’d minimize disruption. We were remotely logged into the client’s AS/400 server when a real disruption occurred: the warning came up that one of the hard drives that had been chugging [...]
A surprisingly large number of organizations are still using IBM AS/400 servers. However, the expertise to operate these tough old machines is fading away—people retire, the local IT rep closes down their shop, techs move on. And nobody is teaching this stuff in schools today.
We get many calls like this:
“We have an [...]
Existing and new clients come to us from time to time exclaiming: “A big customer of ours is insisting we need to get Electronic Data Interchange (EDI) going now if we want to keep their business!” Boy, are they motivated.
This obviously stands for big dollars, so naturally the fire is set and the client [...]
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