Google Apps – Round up

Well biggest decision of this year (at school!!) was what to do with a aging Mail Server and should we go Google School. Finally the decision was really made for me as: 1. Staff and students were already using personal gmail addresses to collaborate on work 2. Richard was pushing, pushing, pushing….. and 3. The [...]

PHPMotion Redux

Back in April 2008 I did a post on a YouTube clone called PHPMotion which was then in version 1.  The software is now in version 3 and we have just installed it on our school server.  The latest version is still a bit of a pain to install, it runs on PHP and MYSQL [...]

Moodle …the hidden cost of Ownership

The Hidden cost of Moodle use is more than other LMS providers in the New Zealand market ……….YEAH RIGHT!!
Recently the Ministry MLE roadshow visited Tauranga and I had some calls from local teachers who attended asking about the hidden cost of running Moodle in a school as it was indicated that running Moodle could be [...]

Will it Stick?

One of the things we all like to do here at TEK is throw stuff at the wall and see if it sticks and I have to say that most times in education you have to run up to the wall and push it on extra hard to make it stay.  This can get [...]

Katikati Goes Google School

As you can see from the Image below we have begun our transition to Google School. Our initial reason was we see no point in going to ms exchange and find squirrel mail inadequate so why not try google. But then of course this gives us the benefits of having each student seeing a unified [...]

Doing School: How We Are Creating a Generation of Stressed-Out, Materialistic, and Miseducated Students

Being a long weekend I have finished a few books and one of the ones I should have blogged about a while ago is “Doing School”. I brought this book from Amazon after having listened to the author on itunesU. The basic premise of the book is that the author followed five successful students [...]

Ipod touch

As I sit here waiting for an appointment I decide it is a good time to try writing a post on my new iPod touch. I have had it for two days now and it is an amazing device. I won’t go into the reasons why I chose it over the iPhone but I [...]

Laptops – What are the issues

Lots has been said re how education is changing with laptops as affordable as they are becoming. We at Katikati College have now had laptops available on a student by student basis for over a year and are now considering removing some of our specialist IT rooms in favour of continuing to increase the number [...]

inTouch – The Mobile Administrator

The purpose of this post is two fold – firstly it shows the new “press this” feature in wordpress 2.6 which brings up a post window whenever you click the link and wish to post about something you have found and secondly it’s another example of handheld use in schools. Have a look.
inTouch – The [...]

iTunes K-12

As I scanned my newsfeeds this week I noticed that the iTunes U section of the iTunes store now has a K-12 section.  So far only a handful of US schools are taking part but no doubt this will be a valuable and growing resource for us all.

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