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IT Spotlight
"Writing a grant" today can mean anything from stating your case in a Word document to producing a video or making a direct pitch on a Web site. Whatever the medium, it's how you tell your story that sets you apart from the competition. MoreRyan Imbriale, the executive director of innovative learning for Baltimore County Public Schools, shares the secrets of his district's gradual and well-supported implementation of mobile devices. MoreOur expert explains some basic privacy issues that district leaders need to understand. More
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This year's top priorities among IT leadership in K-12 are assessment readiness, wireless access and mobile learning, in that order. Those are the same priorities as last year, with the difference that wireless beat out mobile learning. Those and a number of other findings surfaced during this year's K-12 IT Leadership Survey Report from the Consortium for School Networking (CoSN), a professional association for school and district IT leaders. MoreCloud solutions have matured enough to be a viable option for many IT projects, but few CIOs are giving them the consideration they may deserve, according to a new survey from Gartner. MoreThe focus on coming up with unusual passwords for getting into secure sites is probably misplaced, particularly when those passwords are accompanied by user names that are all too guessable. That's what a joint academic and industry research team has come up with after nearly a year of working together on the problem of authentication. MoreThe combined market for smartphones, tablets, 2-in-1s and PCs will grow from the 1.8 billion units shipped in 2014 to 2.5 billion units in 2019, with smartphones continuing to take the vast majority of market share by the end of the forecast period, according to a new report from market research firm IDC. MoreCurriculum publishers in K-12 have been shifting their product development to digital and away from print, according to new research. More
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Eurocom has launched a new mobile server, the Eurocom P5 Pro SE3, which is powered Intel Xeon E3-1200 v3 series processors. MoreIn consultation with the FCC and in response to a request from the country's largest school districts, the Universal Service Administration Company has extended the E-rate application window for this fiscal year by three weeks. MoreBarracuda Mobile Device Manager allows users to configure, manage and monitor Android devices from one centralized portal.
MoreAdobe is gearing up to release a major revision of its PDF tool for desktop and mobile, Acrobat, and to launch a new service called the Adobe Document Cloud, which will provide document management, control and electronic signing capabilities. MoreStonington Public Schools has adopted a mobile safety platform to replace its paper-based emergency response system. MoreSherpa Software has added an e-discovery module to its information governance platform, Altitude IG. MoreAtlanta-based StorTrends has released two new storage devices that feature all-flash storage area network (SAN) arrays. MoreHarris School Solutions has integrated an online payment portal for parents, eSchoolPayments, into its Activities Account Web platform for managing school funds and transactions. MoreLodi Unified School District in California has implemented a remote support system to help its service desk staff respond to requests from teachers in 48 schools across 350 square miles. More
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