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SIMS Discover – Must hav...

SIMS Discover – Must have tool for School Leadership & Management
Posted by on Mar 18, 2012
I have recently implemented SIMS Discover in my school and thought of sharing this great tool with all of you. Sims Discover is a very powerful piece of software that allow us to do ‘data mining’ and present the result in the form of venn diagrams, bar...

How Private Cloud can benefits...

How Private Cloud can benefits School Community?
Posted by on Mar 18, 2012
Today’s students grew up with technology, access to internet anytime, anywhere available. Marc Prensky coined this group of learners as “Digital Natives”. As soon as they were born, they have become familiar with smartphones, tablets, computer, digital...

Cloud Computing for Schools &#...

Cloud Computing for Schools – OVERVIEW
Posted by on Mar 7, 2012
Every education institution has distinct goals, standards and regulations, budget pressures, security concerns and technical legacies. No single approach addresses all technology challenges and solutions can rarely take a one-size-fits-all approach. Therefore, the...

Microsoft Private Cloud for Sc...

Microsoft Private Cloud for Schools
Posted by on Mar 7, 2012
Recently Microsoft published an article outlining benefits of working in the cloud for educational institutions. The article explained how private cloud solution from Microsoft can reduce costs, increase flexibility and simplify management of IT infrastructure in...

1-to-1 Program: 4 phases to su...

1-to-1 Program: 4 phases to success
Posted by on Feb 25, 2012
Phase 1: Planning Research, create vision, engage smt & parents, plan, develop proj. plan, prepare budget, select ownership & finance model Phase 2: Preparation make sure teachers have laptops first align teachers‘ professional development with the Smart...

Integrating Apple with Windows

Integrating Apple with Windows
Posted by on Feb 25, 2012
With the introduction of the Active Directory (AD) plug-in in Mac OS X v10.3, Apple made a concerted effort to enable IT administrators to integrate Mac OS X clients and servers easily into existing Active Directory infrastructures. While every Active Directory...

Recommended Apps for 1-to-1 iP...

Recommended Apps for 1-to-1 iPad Program
Posted by on Feb 18, 2012
iTunes apps are essential when using the iPad and the subsequent iOS environment. The following apps can be used by teachers and students throughout the 1-to-1 iPAD trial. A word game that requires you to build words of three letters or longer from a random collection...

Classroom projector tips…...

Classroom projector tips…
Posted by on Oct 21, 2011
Do you find yourself buying expensive bulbs frequently? Are your projectors fuzzy or unclear? What needs to be done? The Minimum: Every 3 months, remove and clean the air filters on the projector. This procedure is outlined in your Owners Manual. Service it: Perform...

How to keep track of your phon...

How to keep track of your phone or laptop at all times?
Posted by on Oct 13, 2011
Do you ever wonder if you lost your iPhone or laptop? Can you track them? Prey is a lightweight, open source software, and free for anyone to use. Prey lets you keep track of your phone or laptop at all times, and will help you find it if it ever gets lost or stolen....

How ‘Folder Redirection&...

How ‘Folder Redirection’ benefits our Teachers and Learners?
Posted by on May 23, 2011
In this post, I would like to discuss the ‘Folder Redirection’ feature in Windows 7 and how it could benefits our teachers and learners in school environment. As we may already aware, Windows Operating System such as XP, Vista and Windows 7 tend to allow...