The key for me is that I want this device to be a valuable tool in collecting data, staying in touch with my administrative team, unrestricted real-time access to my PLN, and as a form of motivation for my teachers to take more risks with technology to engage students in the learning process.
"In my last post I wrote about some iPad apps that I thought were must adds for administrators and educators alike. Since then I have received some great suggestions from my PLN and had the chance to check out other apps that I have found a use for as a High School Principal. "
"Just as some of us are last-minute shoppers, we also may be last-minute vacation planners as the holidays approach. For the network administrator, taking any vacation time can be a challenge. And if you are the only person in the IT shop, it can be a little daunting for your users. Here are a few tips that will help you plan effectively so you can get away!"
"I've decided to begin a test Google Chrome deployment for all users at the company where I'm currently employed. My main motivations are security and overall user browsing experience. Employees are not administrators on their machines and the only browser that is currently offered is Internet Explorer. When I found out that Google have released policy templates that can be deployed through group policy for the Chrome browser and that there is now a Google Chrome enterprise msi available I began to do some testing. "
"The creator of the short-lived but popular Harvard version of the Am I Hot or Not? website said he will not have to leave school after being called before the Administrative Board yesterday afternoon. Mark E. Zuckerberg '06 said he was accused of breaching security, violating copyrights and violating individual privacy by creating the website, www.facemash.com, about two weeks ago."
the government has set standards high for elementary and high school teachers, ensuring that only the very best candidates ever reach the classroom.
"Finland has one of the most competitive teacher-education systems in the world, and the teacher training program is more difficult to get into than the schools of law or medicine," Sahlberg said. "Many young people in Finland go on to study
law because they cannot get into the primary school education program."
We want to put our money not into administration, but into supporting those people who need it."
"We have to continue to learn from one another," Sahlberg said. "We must make a difference (in education), and learning from one another is our only hope.
Scheidt said. "Until we deal with a lot of social issues like equity, health and just being able to have enough food for our children to eat, our kids can't learn.
Quality assurance,
in its broadest sense, is any action taken to prevent quality problems
from occurring. In practice, this means devising systems for carrying
out tasks which directly affect product quality
To implement systems
for an organisation, you need to carry out three basic steps: first develop
the system; second, document it (this takes the form of policies, procedures,
and reference information); and third, inform, instruct, and train staff
to use it.
Quality assurance does not only apply to products.
Services, and even "non-production" activities such as administration
and sales, benefit from a quality assurance approach.
These
Standards exist because many large organisations will not buy from suppliers
who cannot give them assurance that they have systems which support quality.
These large organisations include Government Defense Departments, Health
Departments, car manufacturers such as Ford, Toyota, and General Motors,
and Aerospace companies such as Boeing and Lockheed.
Until the mid 1980's
these large organisations published their own standards or codes for suppliers
to follow, and their staff would audit supplier companies regularly to
make sure they followed the code. It was not unusual for a supplier to
be audited separately by a number of larger customers, all with their
own quality system codes. In some instances suppliers hosted 30 or 40
quality system audits a year from all their major customers. To reduce
the number of audits to which individual suppliers were subjected, the
International Organisation for Standards (ISO) published a series of standards
in 1987 known as ISO 9000. Most large purchasing organisations accepted
this worldwide standard and ceased to issue their own codes. They also
ceased carrying out their own audits and accepted the findings of independent
audit companies engaged by supplier companies to check their systems against
the ISO 9000 standards. This allowed supplier companies to reduce the
number of audits to two or three per yea