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Category Archives: Tony DePrato
Run Self Hosted Tech Without Your School Building
By: Tony DePrato | Follow me on Twitter @tdeprato Imagine you have had to evacuate your high school. Could you facilitate your classes and business processes without physically being in your building? If most of your infrastructure is in a … Continue reading
Posted in Instructional Technology, management, Tony DePrato
Tagged backup, data, Restore
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If You Don’t Have Electricity, You’re Gonna Have a Bad Time
By: Tony DePrato | Follow me on Twitter @tdeprato Many schools are still self-hosting the majority of their information systems instead of using cloud-based solutions, co-location solutions, or data centers offering more traditional hosting. The question has to be … Continue reading
Posted in management, Tony DePrato
Tagged backups, Power, Risk Management, Solutions
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I Did the Hour of Code, and then I Did Three More Hours of Coding
By: Tony DePrato | Follow me on Twitter @tdeprato Every year I take a few minutes to express slight annoyance at “The Hour of Code”. In my professional life, I will support any teacher wishing to participate. However, if anyone … Continue reading
Posted in Opinion, programming, Tony DePrato
Tagged Annual Rant, Building, coding, HourofCode, Making
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Scheduling , Why Wait?
By: Tony DePrato | Follow me on Twitter @tdeprato If your phone battery is not at 100%, would you still use it? Or, would you sit and wait for it to charge? If your water bottle … Continue reading
Posted in Educational Technology, Instructional Technology, Opinion, TIEONLINE, Tony DePrato
Tagged Percent Change, Schedule, Scheduling
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Tech Savvy, Are Your Sure?
By: Tony DePrato | Follow me on Twitter @tdeprato There are many uncomfortable situations people in technology leadership have to endure annually. Normally, uncomfortable situations are created because someone did not understand the far reaching ramifications of a single bad decision. Often, these … Continue reading
Posted in Educational Technology, Opinion, Tony DePrato
Tagged Leadership, learning, LifeLong, planning, TechSavvy
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Controlling What Students Can Access
By: Tony DePrato | Follow me on Twitter @tdeprato Recently I have been discussing multiple new security measures for academic networks. From these discussions with other schools, engineers, and suppliers, I have created set of goals to help keep the development of network … Continue reading
Posted in Educational Technology, Instructional Technology, TIEONLINE, Tony DePrato
Tagged BYOD, CISCO, Network, open dns, security, TIEONLINE, Webfilter
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Computer Science, Programming, and Coding Standards by Grade Level
By: Tony DePrato | Follow me on Twitter @tdeprato A while back I took the ISTE NETS Standards and decided to create a grade level based layout for what students should be able to do at different grade levels. As … Continue reading
Posted in Educational Technology, programming, STEM/STEAM, Tech Integration, Tony DePrato
Tagged coding, ISTE, NETS, programming, Standards
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Tech Support Problems, Apathy, & Solutions
By: Tony DePrato | Follow me on Twitter @tdeprato Recently I was reading a Technology Directors’ forum, and noticed that a few very well established schools were explicitly looking for people to assist them in improving their technology support system (Help Desk, Help … Continue reading
Posted in Google Apps, Helpful Tips, TIEONLINE, Tony DePrato
Tagged HelpDesk, support, TechSupport
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It’s Time to Regulate Social Media in Schools
By: Tony DePrato | Follow me on Twitter @tdeprato It is spring time, and once again I am planning a new network security plan for a school. The same issues as always, and the same questions. All questions usually have … Continue reading
Mobile Phone Shutdown
By: Tony DePrato | Follow me on Twitter @tdeprato During the first few weeks before my new campus opened, many people wanted to know what the mobile phone policy would be for students, especially those students living on-campus. A decision … Continue reading
Posted in Educational Technology, Helpful Tips, iPad, iPhone, iPhone Apps, TIEONLINE, Tony DePrato
Tagged MobileDevices, Policies, Procedures, SocialMedia
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