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Why Did I Create Open Source Checklists
These three topic areas were developed originally because when we started moving our LMS from a commercial product to OSS in 2004-2005 (Moodle was our/my first enterprise OSS venture) there was a lot of skepticism (to say the least). Yep, I used to get hammered for suggesting such moves. In fact it was probably uglier…
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Don’t “Jenny” Your Personal Privacy with Poor Password Selection
There could be many titles for this post: “Don’t call the Helpdesk at 867-5309 when your account gets compromised!” or “Jenny Jenny Please Change your Number” but I settled on Don’t “Jenny” Your Personal Privacy with Poor Password Selection. This is an interesting story on all users lack of creativity in password creation and how…
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Getting to the Cloud Under the Tail of a T-Rex
Until recently I lived in a location serviced only by satellite based internet service which from my experience generally provides far less bandwidth than the advertised download speed and this was. When I have brought up this variation in services and cost between rural and urban areas over the years the response usually ranges…
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Is your Premise Equipment Vendor about to be “Twinkied” by the Cloud
The rush to the cloud is underway in both the public and private sector. Companies such as Vivantech ,a Higher Education ERP service and implementation provider, by introducing Cloud Centric software deployments are certainly changing the outlook for the traditional rack and stack server deployment. Although there are still concerns about security, regulatory compliance ,…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…