1) Back to School!

2) Goals for the year

3) A Positive Start Matters by Tony Departo

a) https://itbabble.com/2019/08/05/a-positive-start-matters/

4)PSA

a) PSA Flash is dying by Patrick Cauley

https://itbabble.com/2019/08/10/psa-flash-is-dying/

https://www.blog.google/products/chrome/saying-goodbye-flash-chrome/

b) Microsoft Office will die in 2025

https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/4506814/products-ending-support-in-2025

5) Brother T-Shirt Printer - The GTX

a) http://dtgprinters.brother.com/GTX_PPC?utm_source=google&utm_medium=cpc&utm_term=t%20shirt%20printer&utm_campaign=&utm_content=&gclid=CjwKCAjwqNnqBRATEiwAkHm2BJ7odQR68hdrgsyAe1mJed7YI156m8GDv-Luf0Ttz1pmhhmkuQ6exxoCW8AQAvD_BwE

1) Scheduling Online

a) Tony’s thoughts - Be organized and plan it out

b) Print them all out

-Normal pile

-OK pile

-No way pile

c) Talk to stake holders

2) Sim Card Swap Nightmare

a) https://www.zdnet.com/article/how-i-survived-a-sim-swap-attack-and-how-my-carrier-failed-me/

3) Ambient Privacy

a) https://idlewords.com/2019/06/the_new_wilderness.htm

4) Depressed Online

a) https://mashable.com/article/anxiety-depression-social-media-sad-online/

b) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buddha_Box

1) Apple kills a number of parenting apps

a) NY Times article by Jack Nicaus- https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/27/technology/apple-screen-time-trackers.html?utm_source=Mobicip+Newsletter&utm_campaign=40412b0160-newsletter_may_2019_01&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_d79046fb92-40412b0160-381664949&mc_cid=40412b0160&mc_eid=7241c605ec

b) Apple’s response - https://www.macrumors.com/2019/05/01/devs-urge-apple-to-release-screen-time-apis/

What this means for parents?

2) Projector Search

a) Laser vs Bulbed - LASER is the way to go

b) Cost of bulbs

c) Short throw vs Standard

3) Python Creator Quits:

a) https://developers.slashdot.org/story/19/05/05/0532257/python-creator-guido-van-rossum-blames-his-resignation-partly-on-social-media

1) Spring break stories

a) iPad apocalypse

2) Windows Lite

a) https://www.windowscentral.com/microsofts-windows-lite-project-gets-new-codename by Zac Bowden - Windows Central

b) Its own Chromebook like device

c) Very early reports - unsure if this will ever happen

d) Thoughts?

3)Steam/Stem Core Skills by Tony DePrato

a) https://itbabble.com/2019/03/19/steam-stem-core-skills/

b) Appropriate skills for grade levels

4) Self Checkout with a Chromebook! By Patrick Cauley

a) https://itbabble.com/2019/03/25/self-checkout-with-a-chromebook/

b) Reasons to do this?

c) Cost?

d) Implementation?

5) Make your own flashcards with Google Sheets by Patrick Cauley

a) https://itbabble.com/2019/04/12/make-your-own-flashcards-in-google-sheets/

b) Flippity - https://flippity.net/

c) Versatile for many different tasks

6) Tony and Patrick discuss movies/Game of Thrones

1) Tony’s travel tips

a) Carry ons - you know the size!

b) Fast Food on domestic flights - terrible smell

c) Headphones all the time - Bumbling bumblers

2) Linking Google Slides by Patrick Cauley

a) https://itbabble.com/2019/02/22/linking-google-slides/

b) Works with charts and graphs from Sheets

c) https://support.google.com/docs/answer/7009814?co=GENIE.Platform%3DDesktop&hl=en

3) HoloLens 2

a) For industry more than education or consumer

b) https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/hololens/hardware

4) Momo challenge

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Momo_Challenge

a) Streisand effect - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Streisand_effect

b) Why do schools feel they need to take action on these known hoaxes?

c) Slenderman - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slender_Man

d) 2016 Clown sightings - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2016_clown_sightings

e) Do a little research before acting

Watch out for real scams such as phishing emails and fake calls

1) Tony’s holiday

2) Finally - displays are moving in the right direction by Patrick

a) https://itbabble.com/2019/01/29/finally-displays-are-moving-in-the-right-direction/

b) Not overthinking it

3) CAPTCHAS suck

a) BUSES! FRICKING BUSES!!

b) Filling in an online form for an event at school

c) CAPTCHAS - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CAPTCHA

4) Report Cards - Hell on Earth? Or Really Helpful Documents?

a) Long format unnecessary?

b) Standards vs Grades

1) Virtual Reality - I am hopeful for its future by Patrick Cauley

a) https://itbabble.com/2019/01/10/virtual-reality-i-am-hopeful-for-its-future/

b) PSVR - https://www.playstation.com/en-us/explore/playstation-vr/

2) Story Time with Uncle Tony -

Facebook copy and paste text to see posts from old friends

a) Afraid to copy and paste

b) Tony retyped it in TextEdit - instead of copy and paste

c) Facebook linking these accounts due to same content (hypothesis)

3) Consumer Electronics Show 2019

a) Samsung’s MicroLED - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MicroLED

b) LG rollable TV - https://www.theverge.com/circuitbreaker/2018/12/17/18145866/lg-rollable-tv-ces-2019-commercial-sale

c) New laptops

d) LG Gram

e) Cheaper Chromebooks

f) Lenovo Laptops

g) Apple Airplay on most TV’s

1) Good article or Facebook hit piece?

Beware Silicon Valley’s Gifts to Our Schools

https://www.nationalreview.com/2018/12/silicon-valley-school-programs-tech-toys-do-more-harm-than-good/

2) Tony loves the new Ubuntu, more arguments for a Chrome Based environment and App Stream- OR - just Ubuntu and Amazon without Google Overlords

a) https://www.ubuntu.com/

b) App Stream runs well - https://aws.amazon.com/appstream2/

3) Crisis plan for IT departments

You Need Power or You’re Gonna Have a Bad Time

a) https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1musexE29t1HkVZUDZp9jYgg-GgniSaZW4zQdkDcktxc/edit#gid=0

b)What happens in a bad day?

3) AI Still Sucks

Service that monitors G Suite and Office 365 schools.

a) It looks at email and Google Drive/OneDrive documents

b)Can read text in pictures

c) Looks for drug mentions, violence or gun use, self harm, profanity and cyber bullying

d) 91,661 issues reported - none that require any action from administration

Links:

https://www.eia.gov/electricity/data/eia861/

How to understand it:

http://data.ap.org/projects/2015/infrastructure/apme/power-grid/reliability-metrics.html

http://www.thegreenmechanics.com/2012/05/how-do-you-calculate-saidi.html

1) Apple’s New Hardware

a) MacBook Air - https://www.apple.com/macbook-air/

b) Mac Mini - https://www.apple.com/mac-mini/

c) iPad Pro - https://www.apple.com/ipad-pro/

2) VR Headset

My Hands On Experience

a) Lenovo Mirage Solo - https://www.lenovo.com/us/en/virtual-reality-and-smart-devices/virtual-and-augmented-reality/lenovo-mirage-solo/Mirage-Solo/p/ZZIRZRHVR01

b) Not ready for mainstream anything

3) Google and LDAP

a) https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/identity-security/simplifying-identity-and-access-management-for-more-businesses

b) Pricing - https://cloud.google.com/identity-cp/

c) LDAP - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lightweight_Directory_Access_Protocol

1) Apple, Microsoft and Amazon’s events

a) Apple - https://www.macrumors.com/2018/09/12/everything-apple-announced-2018-iphone-event/

b) Microsoft - 3) https://www.theverge.com/2018/10/2/17923080/microsoft-event-2018-announcements-news-surface-laptop-windows-10-updates

c) Amazon - https://www.theverge.com/2018/9/20/17882582/amazon-event-september-2018-echo-alexa-speaker-news

https://aws.amazon.com/deeplens/

d) https://www.samsung.com/global/galaxy/galaxy-tab-s4/

New Apple Event - October 30th

2)Ch

romebook

Project Streaming - a) https://projectstream.google.com/aco/invite

b) https://techcrunch.com/2018/10/01/google-gets-into-game-streaming-with-project-stream-and-assassins-creed-odyssey-in-chrome/

3) Predictions, Patience and Observations by Patrick

a) https://itbabble.com/2018/09/23/predictions-patience-and-observation/

b) Beware of predictions and getting “caught up” in the moment.

4) Tony topic: Scheduling - Don’t be a trendsetter.

a) Steve Jobs Lost Interview - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tBh5_j4a1yo

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b) Timetable: https://www.asctimetables.com/

https://www.pgatour.com/tournaments/the-cj-cup-at-nine-bridges.html