Blogs - STAT for PSW District

Saving Money

In these tough times I feel it is my duty to advise STAT members when there are opportunities to save money. If you look at the notes further below you will see one such offer from HP on switches. Another great offer from Sony is their trade in program for notebook computers. In fact it was just pointed out to me that while Dell's cheapest notebook runs about $399.00 Sony is offering $450 to trade in a Dell. On a final note we have some opportunities for schools to save money on Office that m… Continue

Added by elvis01 on May 18, 2009 at 11:26am — No Comments

Shuttle Launch Live

http://www.ustream.tv/channel/spacevidcast Continue

Added by DBurk on May 11, 2009 at 8:53am — 1 Comment

VAIO Trade Up and Go Pro 4

If you have ever considered a Sony Vaio but found price to be an issue please read the following information: With the Sony Trade Up and Go Pro 4 promotion, our customers can receive at least $300 back ($450 for a Dell Notebook) when they trade in any qualifying, working notebook and purchase a new VAIO Professional notebook from one of these series: Z, BZ, SR or TT. We can make the trade on behalf of our customers and STAT members. For full terms and conditions, and to get a free quote, visit… Continue

Added by elvis01 on May 8, 2009 at 11:02am — No Comments

It Pays to Trade ProCurve Networking Promotion

Effective November 1, 2008 thru October 31, 2009, trade-in any HP or competitor's hub, switch, router, or wireless device and receive cash back of 10% of the Internet List Price of the eligible ProCurve Networking by HP products. Please see Terms and Conditions for a complete list of eligible ProCurve Networking by HP purchase products. For qualifying trade-ins of Nortel equipment from Feb. 1, 2009 through October 31, 2009, receive 20% of the Internet List Price of eligible ProCurve Networking… Continue

Added by elvis01 on May 8, 2009 at 10:50am — No Comments

Still looking for Windows XP Professional?

If you are still requesting Windows® XP Professional, then take note of the below VAIO® notebooks that offer downgrade paths. Ship pre-downgraded to Windows® XP Professional BZ Series (select models) Z Series (select models) SR Series (select models) TT Series (select models) Ship with Windows® XP Professional downgrade media in box BZ Series Z Series SR Series (select models) TT Series (select models) CS Series (select models) NS Series (select models) Just some pass through information ;) Continue

Added by elvis01 on April 28, 2009 at 6:01pm — No Comments

Drobo for Education

Because this company was nice enough to put something together for us I wanted to make sure everyone could see it here. Jesse @ CAF TECH The World’s Best Storage Experience is now available to educators and students at a discounted price! Back up and protect your data with the easiest, safest and most cost effective storage array on the market. Your course materials, student projects and records will be guarded by Drobo and accessible to you with the click of a mouse. To see Drobo I action,… Continue

Added by elvis01 on March 11, 2009 at 9:51am — No Comments

Leap Frog

This is interesting because they advertise it as a non PC based product. JW @ CAF TECH LeapFrog School offers students engaging, effective, standards-based instruction. Our personal learning tools (PLTs) provide multisensory learning experiences that can be individualized to the pace and objectives of each student. Portable, affordable PLTs allow educators to easily implement classroom technology without depending on one-to-one computer access for every student. LeapFrog School focuses on pro… Continue

Added by elvis01 on March 7, 2009 at 11:59am — No Comments

HP Trade and Save

This is something that Alan made me aware of last month. HP sent me some addition details today which I can pass on to all of you: Preview Announcement - During these tough economic times HP will be offering its own “Stimulus Package” with a new Trade-In & Save Program for 2009! This is a perfect opportunity to tell customers about the benefits of trading in their equipment to achieve lower operating costs, greater productivity, improved image quality, environmental savings and all-around… Continue

Added by elvis01 on March 4, 2009 at 10:07am — No Comments

DROBO

Hello All, For some time we have been working on getting discounts that could apply to all our schools. I am happy to say we have found the first one. We have used this solution personally and have found this to be a great alternative to basic external hard drives. For more details on the product please read below. For questions about special pricing please forward any requests. JW @ CAF TECH * Multimedia is becoming a larger part of your school's course materials and student projects. *… Continue

Added by elvis01 on March 3, 2009 at 4:55pm — No Comments

Inside and Outside

For those of you that just recently joined the STAT group and for those of you we haven’t met yet, I wanted to explain how Alan, CAF TECH and other teachers are working together to help schools throughout the district. Alan has been the district contact for computers for several years. Having worked with and worked at many schools he has the ability to bring together members for our yearly STAT meeting as well as disseminate information through various means such as the NING site. CAF TECH has… Continue

Added by elvis01 on January 27, 2009 at 2:55pm — 1 Comment

Cell-Phones-In-Learning

http://www.edweek.org/ew/articles/2009/01/07/16cellphone.h28.html

New educational uses of cellphones are challenging the "turned off and out of sight" rules that many districts have adopted for student cellphones on campus.

I remember when I was in grade school, no one had cell phones. Ok that was in the 80's and early 90's. Even when I was in high school (class of 97) no one had cell phones… Continue

Added by DBurk on January 12, 2009 at 12:46pm — No Comments

Merry Christmas!

Merry Christmas to everyone that I met in 2007 and 2008. Hoping to visit even more schools and meet more STAT members in 2009. All the Best from CAF TECH Continue

Added by elvis01 on December 26, 2008 at 4:24pm — No Comments

Blogathon

Hello All STAT Members, It’s exciting to see members that I know already here as well as the chance to meet new ones online. LEC and other events give us a chance to meet only once a year. Please contact me with any questions you may have (please check out our STAT page). In return I will try to pass along timely information about new products that schools are using. All The Best, JW @ CAF TECH Continue

Added by elvis01 on December 15, 2008 at 6:14pm — No Comments

PLN from CAPSO

This year at CAPSO there were so many good Technology sessions. I couldn't even go to all the ones I wanted to. Then there were all the other Sessions that I would love to attend, like Lucas Fitzgerald's (A member on here) session on Christian Apologetics. I then feel bad for the presenters like Alan who has two sessions and he misses out on some of his own learning time. I digress. I got to sit in on Alan's PLN session on Monday. There was maybe four individuals in there that understood what he… Continue

Added by DBurk on November 25, 2008 at 8:16am — 1 Comment

Google Training

Last Saturday I was able to attend the first of three training sessions on Google and Google Apps with several teachers from St. John's, Salem, & St. Paul's. Mark Wagner led the training as we learned some advanced Google search techniques and how to use the collaborative capabilities of Google Docs. The following week Nate Mercier, one of our 6th grade teachers, decided to put some of the training to use with his students. Here's a link to my blog po… Continue

Added by Dennis Grice on April 12, 2008 at 11:30am — 3 Comments

A Blog about my Other Blog

How many blogs should one have running at one time? I think the ideal number would be one. But Since I am on a discovery kick to find out as much as I can about Web.2.0 tools, I needed to try out Wordpress I had heard so many good things about. It was very easy to create a new, free blog there. So rather than spend a whole lot more time today on this blog, I'm linking you to read all about my "journey" on the Other Blog I started. Feel free to come ba… Continue

Added by Alan Lutz on April 10, 2008 at 6:03pm — No Comments

STAT News Post - Google Apps

STAT News Readers, I was at the Computer Using Educators Conference (CUE) in Palm Springs March 7-8 and when I stopped at the Google Booth, I picked up a flyer from a whole stack sitting there. It was printed in nice color on card stock and there at the top was a picture of our own Gary Nolan from Lutheran High School, Orange, CA. I have copied that flyer into a pdf file and if I could have, I would have attached it to this email. But instead I have a link here where you can go see it for yours… Continue

Added by Alan Lutz on April 3, 2008 at 6:00pm — No Comments

Latest social network I discovered today:

My StumbleUpon Page I was looking at Dave Black's (one of Dave Black's) pages and clicked on the Stumbleupon link. Next thing I know I am installing this and joining as a member. I found two people from my mailbox who are also Stumbleupon members. Leads to some way cool web sites and maybe new friendships or rekindling old ones. Continue

Added by Alan Lutz on March 19, 2008 at 8:34pm — 1 Comment

Update on Friday - 40 and growing - Great Free Tool from Google

Wow, Our online group has grown to 40 today! Some have pitched in this week and added some great teaching ideas and posed some questions we can all try and answer. I wanted to share ONE new thing I learned at CUE last week. Seems that whenever I go somewhere and share or listen with other tech teachers, someone is telling me at least one new thing I haven't heard of before. I remember a few years ago when it was Google Earth (originally Keyhole) I was blown away by the satellite images and flyo… Continue

Added by Alan Lutz on March 14, 2008 at 2:01pm — 1 Comment

A short video regarding Education

Here is a short video from you tube: Education Today and Tomorrow This video was created by Tom Woodward of Henrico County schools in Virginia (Added: September 20, 2006.) Tom used the work of Karl Fisch from Colorado who created a PPT using various quotes and statistics from "flat world" thinking. Used with permission Stimulates thinking and hopefully conversation about the topic of technology in education. (I don't endorse anything els… Continue

Added by Alan Lutz on March 12, 2008 at 11:30pm — 1 Comment

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