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Category Archives: Tony DePrato
NASA, Still Pretty Cool and Open for High School
By: Tony DePrato | Follow me on LinkedIn NASA has a program for High School Students. Take a few minutes, and see if your students can participate. Be bothered. Be engaged. All details can be reviewed with this … Continue reading
Posted in Educational Technology, STEM/STEAM, Tony DePrato
Tagged HighSchool, NASA, Opportunity
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When TurnItIn Fails
Plagiarism is serious issue for most high schools. It is rare to find a school without a detailed plagiarism policy. Most of these policies have a few tiers, because it is common for students to commit plagiarism more than once in their academic career. Continue reading
Posted in Educational Technology, Helpful Tips, TIEONLINE, Tony DePrato
Tagged cheating, plagiarism, projectbased, Turnitin
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Scan Your School for Unsecured Public Documents
By: Tony DePrato | Follow me on LinkedIn How many documents do you have open to the public? When was the last time you checked to see what anyone with internet access could download from your school website, your PowerSchool … Continue reading
Posted in copright, cyber awareness, Educational Technology, Instructional Technology, Tony DePrato, Uncategorized
Tagged cloud, OnlineDocs, privacy, Scan, security
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A Positive Start Matters
By: Tony DePrato | Follow me on LinkedIn Stress at the start of the school year is normal. I firmly believe that a positive start leads to a positive year. Here are some suggestions I like to give to people … Continue reading
Posted in blog, Educational Technology, TIEONLINE, Tony DePrato, Uncategorized
Tagged BYOD, Community, NoTech, planning, StartUp, TechFree
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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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