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Year: 2012

  • Why IT Departments need a 12 year old on staff

    In the later part of the summer in 2012  Google replaced Gmail video chat with Google+ Hangouts. “Unlike the old video chat, which was based on peer-to-peer technology, Hangouts utilize the power of Google’s network to deliver higher reliability and enhanced quality,” explains Gmail team blog post.    At Casper College we have been using…

  • Lance Ford, Cisco’s Giant Digital Oak, was Planted by Oklahoma’s HB1815

    Cisco Systems top teacher training guru is Lance Ford from Howe Oklahoma.  Lance has done teacher technology training all over the country from the friendly confines of rural eastern Oklahoma.  Lance is what Cisco calls an educational advocate. He knows the ins and outs of video conferencing and he works with teachers across the nation…

  • Best Practices for Users to Organize Files in a Google Apps World

    We have completed the move to Google Apps at Casper College and are thus entering a new era of Digital Asset Creation. This is actually my second institution(the first was Western Oklahoma State College in 2007) to convert to Google Apps for education so I have a pretty good perspective how users can rapidly become overwhelmed when…

  • Are You Ready for the Digital Dark Age?

    Data Storage and the Digital Dark Age “Back when information was hard to copy people valued the copies and took care of them. Now, copies are so common as to be considered worthless, and very little attention is given to preserving them over the long term. “(Brandt, 2003) —-Danny Hillis It is a valid concern…

  • Are you Ready for the Zettabyte?

    NOTE:  I have really enjoyed discussing techy stuff with our new Casper College librarian Brad Matthies since he arrived at Casper College and asked him to add his 2 cents to this blog post.   He contributed some really great stuff related to the Digital Dark Age section of this post and greatly reduced the…

  • Ramping up Your Personal Engagement at Your Conference or Event 140 characters at a time.

    Background on Engaging a Conference The following tweet a few weeks ago spawned this discussion of a collision between my interest in social media, collaboration, peer conversation, gamification, and badges: So how do you engage people with these tools.   LinkedIn is still a tool I don’t use as much for engagement as I currently use…

  • What makes an Effective Technology Committee in Education

    NOTE:  I adapted this work from a Tech Planning Model from a Law Firm for use in an education setting.  The link broke where I referenced this and I haven’t yet found it again.  If someone sees something similar let me know as the core idea certainly isn’t mine.  Working as chair of the technology…