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Rich Kiker replied to John Patten's discussion What's you wireless design? Supporting High Density & Hundreds of Devices in the group 1:1 Sustainability and Feasibility
Darin King replied to John Patten's discussion What's you wireless design? Supporting High Density & Hundreds of Devices in the group 1:1 Sustainability and Feasibility"We are very similar and have deployed the Cisco solution in all 18 of our schools. We did this five years ago when we issued 800+ notebooks to all of our professional staff. Our initial design was coverage, not capacity. We are now in the process of…"
What's you wireless design? Supporting High Density & Hundreds of Devices
Hi All...I'm interested in what those of you that have implemented to address 500 + student wireless devices and classrooms where 35+ devices are pulling data from your wireless network? We currently have three sites, relatively new schools that we deployed a CISCO controllers and Access Points. In those schools we have APs connected to 1Gig, Power over ethernet (POE) ports. The design is, essentially, one wireless access point per classroom. Even with this set up we have seem some latency when…See More
"Hi Sonia....those are all good questions. Unfortunately, we have not gone down the Moodle upgrade with Mahara, so I don't know how Mahara behaves after an update to Moodle. I would think if your students keep their Moodle accounts from year,…"
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I am trying Mahara too and next September I would like to implement it in our highschool, inserted in our Moodle server as well. Any basic guidelines, John, to follow?
I am interested to know what happens to mahara, when, for example, you…"
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One E-Portfolio System - Mahara & Useful Web App - SimplyBox
Posted on January 10, 2009 at 6:30pm 3 Comments 0 Likes
We've been using Moodle for about four years now and this year we've added Mahara to the mix. Mahara is an opensource applications developed specifically for education but includes many of the social networking components found in many of the most popular web sites such as Facebook, MySpace, etc. etc. Because it's opensource it can be installed on your own server and used safely with in the confines of your own network...if you so choose...
I created a few introductory video… Continue
I created a few introductory video… Continue
Looking forward to NECC!
Posted on June 18, 2007 at 4:44pm 2 Comments 0 Likes
Hi All!
As many of you are, I'm looking forward to the NECC conference in Atlanta, GA. There seems to have been a flury of interesting posts on the blogsphere recently now that the schools year is wrapping up (more time). It will be interesting to see how some of those conversations continue through NECC and the rest of the summer.
...and in other happy news, my daughter just turned three and had one heck of a cool party with a few of her close…
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- At 7:15pm on January 31, 2009,
Jack said… - Hi John. I was wondering if you have students or educator friends who would be interested in participating in a nationwide SAT Vocab Video Contest @ MIT university. You can view contest details at BrainyFlix.com Please let me know. Thanks!
- At 9:41pm on January 9, 2009,
Mark Cruthers said… - Hi John,
With your work in Education Technology, I recommend you take a look at Wiziq's virtual classroom and authorstream's power point presentation platform. Both are web based platforms, have a bunch of features and free basic service.
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