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| | A little humor.... | | | | | Thursday, April 4, 2013 7:04 AM -0700 | By: David Smith |
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| Video conferencing into classrooms |
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| Wednesday, March 13, 2013 7:17 AM -0700 | By: David Smith |
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| Am I the only one who thinks it is cool and educationally beneficial to support 1: A student out sick. 2: Wants to participate in a class debate project! 3: And wants to Facetime/Skype into a classroom!! my horn "Toot toot" /my horn |
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| Fading importance of blogging? |
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| Tuesday, February 12, 2013 1:00 PM -0800 | By: David Smith |
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| I am having to force myself to update this blog and am beginning to wonder the value of such a blog. If noone reads the blog - is there any benefit to updating it? Is the blog a one way communication tool - in my estimation it should be a communica |
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| New year - new focus... |
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| Friday, January 11, 2013 8:42 AM -0800 | By: David Smith |
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| Now that I feel we are settled into the Fox and the thin client deployment is in place - I am exploring ways to increase my presence in the classrooms. More to come.... |
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| My thoughts on Chromebooks... |
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| Tuesday, December 11, 2012 10:26 AM -0800 | By: David Smith |
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| A faculty member inquired about my thoughts on Chromebooks...here is what i sent in response. --------------------------------------------- I have done some research on them and overall they seem to be a nice product for individual users who have ubi |
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| Video conversion utility (FLV, MOV, ETC.) |
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| Tuesday, December 4, 2012 12:01 PM -0800 | By: David Smith |
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| http://flvcrunch.awardspace.us/ |
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| Obama is re-elected! |
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| Wednesday, November 7, 2012 11:35 AM -0800 | By: David Smith |
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| Amazing to watch the process last night and relieved to know we have four more years. D |
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| Did a walkthrough... |
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| Friday, October 12, 2012 2:09 PM -0700 | By: David Smith |
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| I just did one of my many walk-throughs which I stole from Doctor's who make their rounds. I check in on a few classrooms, explore the different art areas and see what is actually going on. I also have a self-interest in this where I look to see ho |
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| Listening to presentation from Steve Jobs in '83 |
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| Wednesday, October 3, 2012 3:34 PM -0700 | By: David Smith |
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| I am listening to a lost presentation from Steve Jobs in 1983. It is amazing an inspiring to listen to his predictions and beliefs about the future of computers - like a "computer in a book" for under $1000. Downloaded it from a website - |
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| The year is underway... |
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| Friday, September 21, 2012 3:57 PM -0700 | By: David Smith |
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| I am fairly certain nobody reads this blog but yet as a technology director it just seems wrong to have an out-of-date blog. I will then treat like facebook - post things that are of little interest to the community at large :-). Ok maybe not but s |
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| OSA through the years... |
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| Friday, September 7, 2012 8:58 AM -0700 | By: David Smith |
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| Back in the Spring of 2003 I began a slow but consistent process of archiving some shows, events, student, and location photos. My thought was that some day someone would ask for a 'photo montage' of the migration of OSA from Alice Street to the Fox |
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| WELCOME BACK STUDENTS! |
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| Wednesday, September 5, 2012 8:15 AM -0700 | By: David Smith |
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| It is nice to have that buzz in the halls again. Here's to cultivating excellence. |
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| WELCOME BACK FACULTY! |
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| Monday, August 13, 2012 7:47 AM -0700 | By: David Smith |
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| Excited to get another year underway! |
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| FirstClass upgraded this morning (6/21)! |
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| Thursday, June 21, 2012 8:07 AM -0700 | By: David Smith |
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| As scheduled our FirstClass server has been upgraded to the latest version. I am testing basic functionality at the moment but if you discover any peculiarities or issues then let me know. There are some important notes regarding the change. One i |
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| SAN is on its way |
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| Tuesday, May 22, 2012 11:23 AM -0700 | By: David Smith |
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| The main holdup for the new servers to be deployed is the SAN which was specified in the original quote does not have the features necessary to meet our needs. We went back to CDWG and selected the QNAP device as a replacement SAN. It shipped today |
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| New tclient servers in place |
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| Friday, May 4, 2012 10:07 AM -0700 | By: David Smith |
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| Now lets have some fun! |
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| Who is this Neil Degrasse Tyson? |
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| Friday, April 20, 2012 10:12 AM -0700 | By: David Smith |
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| How did I miss hearing about this very articulate and approachable 'astrophysicist'? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VBUVLBtxdj0 |
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| Grant purchases arriving... |
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| Tuesday, April 17, 2012 4:29 PM -0700 | By: David Smith |
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| My outer office is full of boxes - I am going to have a fun - busy next couple weeks! |
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| Anniversary! |
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| Tuesday, March 20, 2012 12:27 PM -0700 | By: David Smith |
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| If I remember correctly - today is my nine year anniversary of joining OSA! |
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| OSA is going fiber! |
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| Tuesday, March 6, 2012 2:02 PM -0800 | By: David Smith |
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| We are finally moving to a 10Mb fiber connection to the Info Superhighway :-)!! |
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| QLubb |
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| Tuesday, February 21, 2012 2:46 PM -0800 | By: David Smith |
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| For parent coordination... [ http://www.qlubb.com/qlubbs/new ]New Link |
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| For those data geeks... |
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| Thursday, February 9, 2012 12:15 PM -0800 | By: David Smith |
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| http://www.visualize.yahoo.com/ |
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| Fun article from 1911 on the world in 2011 |
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| Wednesday, February 1, 2012 7:15 AM -0800 | By: David Smith |
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| [ http://www.buzzfeed.com/burnred/predictions-of-what-2011-would-be-like-in-a-1911-n-281t ]New Link |
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| Useful resources |
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| Wednesday, January 18, 2012 7:16 AM -0800 | By: David Smith |
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| Great Idea Tracy. Some Blogs/sites I follow just about everyday to get us started: Forbes Leadership (http://www.forbes.com/leadership/) LinkedIn's Higher Education Today (http://www.linkedin.com/today/higher_education?trk=tod-ind-tnav-68) Harvard |
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| Known universe... |
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| Wednesday, January 18, 2012 7:15 AM -0800 | By: David Smith |
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| Cool video showing the known universe - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=17jymDn0W6U |
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