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Understand Assessment Strategies

whitepaper However, assessment today is very different from the assessment that happened in one-room schools on the prairie. Today, most educators would agree that assessment is, for better or worse, not only how students are measured but also how schools and...

Tags: training and certification

[13 May 2008]

School District Adopts New File Backup System, Expects to Save $100,000

whitepaper The district had used tape backups, which relied on schools to manually change tapes and check data. The San Francisco Unified School District needed a reliable method for backing up important files. But even when files were recorded properly...

Tags: monitoring systems

[11 May 2008]

School District Consolidates Backup Systems, Reduces IT Workload, and Lowers Costs

whitepaper The small IT staff spent an inordinate amount of time backing up e-mail messages and documents every day for the district's 22 schools and could spend days recovering accidentally deleted files or messages.

Tags: monitoring systems

[11 May 2008]

Bournemouth to be UK's first Fibrecity

News Uses of the network will include real-time traffic monitoring via CCTV, improved IT in schools and videoconferencing to help social workers carry out their jobs more effectively. The race to become the UK's first 'Fibrecity' has been won by the...

Tags: h2o, fibre, bournemouth

[08 May 2008]

Childnet helps parents get web savvy

Case Study The charity was commissioned by the Department for Children, Schools and Families (called the DfEE at the time) to build the resource in 2006, as part of the educational programme 'Computers for Pupils'.

Tags: parents, children, education

[08 May 2008]

Small School Districts Gain Big Buying Power With School Agreement for Consortium

whitepaper To train students to achieve technology proficiency, Rhode Island Public Schools must acquire the latest software. In response, smaller school districts in the state formed the Rhode Island Society of Technology Educators (RISTE) and, with the help...

Tags: application servers, volume, school, licenses

[03 May 2008]

Vendor Aims to Double Customer Base in Three Years With Software as a Service

whitepaper Kooijman software, an Independent Software Vendor (ISV) in the Netherlands, develops record management systems for schools and construction companies. It wanted to expand its market by helping schools to comply with Dutch government legislation for...

Tags: database management

[02 May 2008]

Developers claim Vista UAC 'bypass'

News Don't put Vista in schools, says education agency Software developers from NeoSmart, a not-for-profit technology-development organisation, claim they have successfully bypassed User Account Control, a security feature in Windows Vista.

Tags: hack, uac, vista

[29 Apr 2008]

Ballmer: Windows XP may live and breathe for longer

News Don't put Vista in schools, says education agency The death of Windows XP may have been greatly exaggerated. Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer said the company could re-evaluate its plans to phase out Windows XP by 30 June, if customers demand it stick...

Tags: vista, xp, windows, microsoft

[24 Apr 2008]

Tech to tackle India's poverty

News Among the 191 villages who have been adopted by the scheme, 141 have reached 100 per cent literacy, fuelled by e-learning for adults and children via telecommunication links and 263 new schools. Villagers in India are turning to technology to lift...

Tags: csr, india, outsourcing

[23 Apr 2008]

Upgrading to Exchange 2007 Server: A Real Life Experience

whitepaper Schools can be a highly demanding environment in terms of what is expected from Exchange and Active Directory. A school for the arts wants to upgrade its Exchange 2003 server to Exchange 2007. Users and groups change every semester, some users are...

Tags: application servers

[23 Apr 2008]

WEEE takes council computers to Africa

News The council has been giving its old computers and equipment to Computer Aid International which distributes them to schools and hospitals in Africa. Brent Council in London has hit on a way to comply with the European WEEE (Waste Electrical and...

Tags: weee, africa, computer aid, council

[21 Apr 2008]

Critics label Microsoft's OOXML a 'marketing tool'

News Don't put Vista in schools, says education agency The developer of XML and a former International Organization for Standardization (ISO) committee chair have both claimed Microsoft was interested in having Office Open XML (OOXML) accredited as an...

Tags: ooxml, iso, microsoft, vista

[21 Apr 2008]

Europe embracing speedy fat pipes

News In addition, around 60 per cent of public services are now fully available online, while two-thirds of schools make use of fast internet connections. Around three-quarters (77 per cent) of businesses in Europe are now using high speed broadband...

Tags: online, i2010, eu, broadband

[18 Apr 2008]

Windows XP SP3 a go this month?

News Don't put Vista in schools, says education agency The third and final service pack for Windows XP could be available by the end of April, according to a leaked Microsoft schedule. The alleged schedule for the release of XP Service Pack 3 (SP3...

Tags: vista, microsoft, sp3

[16 Apr 2008]

Email Archival and Retrieval: Every School District Needs It

whitepaper Consisting of nine schools and a total of 903 teachers and administrators who use email through the district's main server, the district's education professionals average 12,000-14,000 emails per day.

Tags: back-up

[16 Apr 2008]

Microsoft Windows 'collapsing' under own weight

News Don't put Vista in schools, says education agency Microsoft's Windows juggernaut is collapsing under its own weight, as it tries to support 20 years of applications and becomes more complicated by the minute, according to analyst firm Gartner.

Tags: vista, windows, microsoft, gartner

[11 Apr 2008]

ParentMail Builds Future On Scalable Check Point SVN Architecture

whitepaper Founded by three parents who know the frustration first-hand, ParentMail is a free Internet email service, financed by advertisers, that improves communication between schools and parents. The Check Point Secure Virtual Network architecture solves...

Tags: security applications, parents, network resources, schools

[10 Apr 2008]

Perspectives on Grid Computing

whitepaper The purpose of this paper is to summarize the various schools of thought related to grid computing, to describe the state of the art, and to provide some opinions on the useful contributions in this space that might be made by a small to mid-sized...

Tags: high performance computing, grid, art, decade

[10 Apr 2008]

Bill Gates: Windows 7 coming 'in the next year or so'

News Don't put Vista in schools, says education agency Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates said on Friday he expects the latest Windows operating system, code-named Windows 7, to be released "sometime in the next year or so".

Tags: microsoft, bill gates, windows, vista

[07 Apr 2008]

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