IT Babble's Podcast

1) School’s back in session!

2) Goals for this year?

3) New tech for this year?

a)Amazon App Stream

b) https://aws.amazon.com/appstream2/

c) Make sure you have educational pricing -

d) contact Tony for support

e) Laser Printer - https://glowforge.com/

f) https://www.rolanddga.com/products/3d

4) Apple Event this week - anything we would like to see?

5) Windows Surface Go

a) https://bit.ly/2NWySj3

b) Lenovo YogaBook 2

c) https://www.theverge.com/circuitbreaker/2018/6/1/17416526/lenovo-yoga-book-2-pro

FYI:

They have a TEEN Program:

http://www.iub.edu/~iumakes/

https://www.fablabs.io/labs/acplgeorgetownmakerlab

1) World Cup Fever & 4th of July

2) Important High Sierra Changes for IT Admins by Adam Engst of TidBITS

a) https://tidbits.com/2017/09/11/important-high-sierra-changes-for-it-admins/

b) It is very hard to do

c) MDM Solutions - Why pay to push out a free image

d) Mac Migration Assistant - https://support.apple.com/en-us/ht204350

e) Mac OS Server - https://www.apple.com/macos/server/

f) Deploy Studio - http://www.deploystudio.com/

g) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YIV6Bt3L1ks

3) Tech Savvy, Are You Sure? By Tony DePrato

a) https://itbabble.com/2018/07/05/tech-savvy-are-your-sure/

b) Thinking long term

c) Making tactical decisions

4) Airtame

Wireless streaming for a mixed environment

a) www.airtame.com

b) Set up

c) Digital signage

d) Cloud management

e) $249-$299 USD

f) Who is this good for?

g) Barco - http://www.barco.com

5) Chromebook monitoring tools - GoGuardian vs Netop

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

b) https://www.goguardian.com/

c) What’s the same?

d) What’s different

e) What my school went with?

1) In 2018, Windows died at home and nobody cared by Jason Perlow of ZDNET

a) https://www.zdnet.com/article/in-2018-windows-died-at-home-and-nobody-cared/

b) K-12 and Higher education still uses laptops/desktops

2) Your Smartphone is the Best Computer You Own by David Pierce NO :)

a) https://www.wsj.com/articles/your-phone-is-the-best-computer-you-ownso-use-it-more-1527084001

b) Schools typically follow business

c) Should schools ditch laptops for “mobile” devices

3) iPads vs. Chromebooks: Part 2 by Patrick Cauley

a) https://itbabble.com/2018/06/04/ipads-vs-chromebooks-part-2-2018/

b) Chromebooks it is!

c) Interesting results of the student survey

4) The accidental BYOD solution by Tony DePrato

a) https://itbabble.com/2018/06/06/the-accidental-byod-solution/

b) Amazon Workspaces

c) Amazon Education - https://www.amazon.com/gp/feature.html/?&docId=1000412651

d) WINE for Ubuntu - https://wiki.winehq.org/Ubuntu

1) The best gadgets are the ones you know how to use by Dieter Bohn

a) https://www.theverge.com/2018/5/2/17302680/best-gadgets-tech-gear-liveblog-bag

b) This applies to schools: hardware, software, SIS, gradebooks, etc.

c) When is it good to make those changes?

2) Access Denied: Controlling What Students Can Access by Tony DePrato

a) http://itbabble.com/2018/05/05/controlling-what-students-can-access/

3) iPads vs. Chromebooks update

Student survey

a) Tony’s testing with Amazon Work Spaces

b)Tony tested Windows 10 with Amazon Work Spaces on a Chromebook

c) It works

4) End OF YEAR Process

1) Tony’s knee surgery

a) http://www.davincisurgery.com/da-vinci-surgery/da-vinci-surgical-system/

2) Apple’s MacBook Pro recall

a) Battery Recall

b) https://www.apple.com/support/13inch-macbookpro-battery-replacement/

c) Keyboard

d) https://apple.slashdot.org/story/17/10/18/1530202/maybe-its-a-piece-of-dust

3) Google Forms & Sheets - Olympic Scoring series - by Patrick Cauley

a) https://itbabble.com/olympic-scoring-with-google-forms-sheets/

b) Schools and spreadsheets - is this more important than coding?

c) A good starting point for programming

d) Spreadsheets have limits

e) Office 365 - Sharepoint - f) https://products.office.com/en-us/sharepoint/sharepoint-online-collaboration-software

4) How to Increase Pay - No More Summers Off! By Ronnie Burt

a) https://www.theedublogger.com/2018/04/30/how-to-increase-teacher-pay-no-more-summers-off/

b) Comments are good in the post

c) Pay vs Working Conditions

d) Is pay really the talking point or a distraction

1) Amazon WorkSpaces

a) https://aws.amazon.com/workspaces/

b) Pricing - https://aws.amazon.com/workspaces/pricing/

2) Don’t buy Nintendo Labo - by Patrick Cauley

a) https://itbabble.com/2018/04/19/dont-buy-nintendo-labo/

b) Too costly

c) One time use

d) Alternatives?

3) Computer Science, Programming, and Coding Standards by Grade Level by Tony DePrato

a) https://itbabble.com/2018/04/20/computer-science-programming-and-coding-standards-by-grade-level/

b) STE - NETS- https://www.iste.org/standards/for-students

4) iPads vs. Chromebooks: Part 1 - 2018 by Patrick

a) https://itbabble.com/2018/04/20/ipads-vs-chromebooks-part-1-2018/

b) Following the data

c) Discussing with stakeholders

5) Apple Classroom update

a) We are rolling the newer version next year

b) It’s nice

1) Apple’s education event

a) New iPad

b) New software

c) Does this make the iPad relevant in education again?

d) https://apple.slashdot.org/story/18/04/02/1825236/no-more-intel-inside-apple-plans-to-use-its-own-custom-built-chips-in-mac

2) Kaizena Chrome extension

a) https://kaizena.com/

b) https://itbabble.com/2018/03/28/kaizena-update-resolve-comments/

c) Feedback

3) Tech Support Problems, Apathy, & Solutions by Tony DePrato

a) https://itbabble.com/2018/04/02/tech-support-problems-apathy-solutions/

b) What is your system?

c) Google Script - https://docs.google.com/document/d/1bB21M4eiafO7g3ZHImhB37m58EYRWC8tuf2ByO-i3W4/edit?usp=sharing

4) Solutions vs. Support

a) Purchasing technology that you can service vs having to pay for service

b) Example: Sound solutions in a classroom

Wow! 150 episodes and going strong. Omar (cofounder of IT Babble) joins Patrick and Tony for this episode.

1) Social media in schools

a) Should it be used at all?

b) Instant messaging vs Social media

c) If yes, how should it be used?

d) Etiquette vs Ethics?

e) FOMO vs JOMO?

f) The Man Who Knew Too Littleby Sam Dolnick of the NY Times - https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/10/style/the-man-who-knew-too-little.html

g) Eduro Learning Discussion about social media - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MzCUtMDKhSY

h) Tony’s post - https://itbabble.com/2018/03/18/its-time-to-regulate-social-media-in-schools/

i) https://gizmodo.com/study-being-a-teen-sucks-now-1822305426

2) 1:1 Programs in schools - Mobile Devices vs Laptop

a) Is a Chromebook a mobile device or a laptop

b) Remix OS - http://www.jide.com/remixos-for-mobile

c) Samsung DEX - http://www.samsung.com/global/galaxy/apps/samsung-dex/

d) Omar’s prediction - modular design

3) Eye strain because we are so connected

Kids are being given iPads and numerous tasks on devices (screen time)

a) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Effects_of_blue_light_technology

b) F.Lux - https://justgetflux.com/

c) Reading mode on mobile device

4) Handwriting - Should we continue to focus on it?

a) Studies show a link between writing on paper and stronger “connections”

b) https://www.psychologicalscience.org/news/were-only-human/ink-on-paper-some-notes-on-note-taking.html

1) Where’s Omar?

2) The real reason we ban cell phones by Scott Mcleod of Dangerously Irrelevant

a) http://dangerouslyirrelevant.org/2018/02/the-real-reason-we-ban-cell-phones.html

b) Check out the comments

3)New Raspberry Pi B

a) Dual band WiFi

b) Faster processor

c) $35 - https://www.raspberrypi.org/blog/raspberry-pi-3-model-bplus-sale-now-35/

d) Tony’s issues with Arduino boards and MacBooks

1) Wikispaces is going away

a) https://blog.wikispaces.com/

b) Did you ever use Wikispace

2) Anchor - A review by Patrick

a) https://itbabble.com/2018/02/23/anchor-a-review/

b) Podcasting service

3) Useless technology

a) https://www.theverge.com/circuitbreaker/2018/2/21/17036762/tap-wearable-keyboard-mouse-price-availability

b) What useless technology does your school have?

4) Network monitoring

a) Jennifer Abrams - http://jenniferabrams.com/